2 THE CHRONICLE - MOUNTAINEER, Tumbler Ridge, B.C., Wed., Dec. 7, 1983

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News - Glenda Radies 242-3830, Administration - Peggy Barry Marketing Consultant - Barbara Moorhead, News columnist Jim McLean

PRINCIPAL'S REPORT

(Continued from page 1) November 28th.

Families have moved to Tumbler Ridge from

several provinces in- cluding Newfoundland, Quebec, Ontario and Alberta. From _ within

British Columbia students have arrived from Chet- wynd, Dawson Creek, Fort St. John as well as other areas north and south.

For many of the students, moving is not unfamiliar to them. Some have moved as often as four or five. times in their elementary school years.

To give students a sense of belonging and to help them adjust more quickly to their new community an Intramural Program was initiated largely through the efforts of Ms. C. Southard and Mr. A Harrison.

Each student was assigned to a house team which they named, created

a team chant and logo. The intremural program operates five days a week at noon hour and provides opportunities for all students at each grade level including kin- dergarten, to participate.

Friday noonhours see whole school participation in the intramural events. The key word is ‘par- ticipation’ for the Aliens, Jedis, Vulcans and the E.T.‘s. Much support is given by the staff house sponsors and. staff in general.

The school professional including a_ teacher librarian, learning assistance teacher and a special programs teacher. We have now been able to avoid having split classes where more than one grade level occupies a classroom.

This has been a benefit to students and teachers in the first few months of

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school. While some classes are are now quite large it may be that split classes will be necessary later on. They do exist in most if not all. other’ District elementary schools.

Programs that have received speacial attention have been Physical Education, Elementary French and Learning Assistance-Special Edicat- ion ‘programmes. Throughout the year these programmes will continue to develop.

Tumbler Ridge Elementary School has a fine professional, hard working staff that have made ‘coming to Tumbler Ridge’ an _ enjoyable learning experience for students and staff.

Investigate

tourism ministry

VANCOUVER (CP) — Attorney General Brian Smith says an RCMP in- vestigation of alleged irregularities in the Tourism Ministry should be completed within a month.

Smith said the report will be made public and so will the government’s actions.

As part of its in- vestigation, the RCMP raided the offices of two Vancouver advertising agencies, Vriak. Robinson q and McKim Advertising. 4

The investigation started after Auditor General Erma Morrison reported in July that ‘‘a major breakdown in the exercise of controls’ over tax- payers’ money took place in the Tourism Ministry during the 1981-82 fiscal

year. More than $26,000 was spent in duplicate

payments and hundreds of dollars were paid out in unnecessary commissions and fees and inadmissible travel expenses, Morrison found.

Telethon raises $2.7 million

VANCOUVER (CP) — Timmy’s Christmas Telethon made $2.7 million for the Lions Society for Crippled Children this year, a spokesman said.

‘“‘Everything considered, that’s a pretty good effort,” the happy spokesman said following the 21-hour telephone canvass on CBC- TV Vancouver.

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School board report

The regular meeting of the board of school trustees for school district 59 was held at the Tumbler Ridge Elementary School on Monday, November 28th. Present were chairman, Elisabeth Haddow, trustees Charlene Dokken, Lenore Lawrence, Doug MacLennan, Glyn Rogers, and Joe Weingart. Also attending were superin- tendent Charlie Parslow, secretary-treasurer Dun- can Morgan, Sandy Mc- Dowell, principal of the Tumbler Ridge Elemen- tary School and Claude Galibois, director of planning.

On the agenda to be discussed at this meeting was: termination of em- ployment of teachers other than for incompetence or wrong doing. It was stated that when the board must release teachers from employment for causes other than incompetence or wrong doing, these decisions will be based on seniority and suitability of qualifications. Not withstanding the conditions of the regulations the board will entertain alternative solutions other than ter- minations. Solutions could include job sharing, early retirement or the granting of extended leaves. However, such alternatives would have to serve the educational needs of the school and the district as well as the economic needs of the teachers concerned.

Another of the subjects was the continuous sevivce recognition for teachers. the following procedures will apply in the deter-

-mination of length of

continuous teaching ser- vice: the name and star- ting date of each teacher employed by the district will be maintained on a service recogniton list. The list will be mrss

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service. Continuous oi is defined to include time on: loan or secondment, approved leaves of absence

including maternity leave,.

illnesses covered by the

B.C.T.F. salary- indemnity.

fund or P.R.S.T.A. long- term disability insurance, and the district’s layoff recall list. Starting date is to be defined as the date on which the earning of salary by the individual teachers commence. Continuous service recognition applies to all teachers and will be computed for the duration of uninterrupted em- ployment with the board excluding the months of July and August for all

teachers continuous ser- vice recognition list is to be maintained by the school district on an updated semi-annuallly: Where a disagreement exists with respect to continuous service, the matter will be referred to a review panel comprising a designate of the P.R.S.T.A. and a designate of the board other than the superin- tendent. The review panel’s recommendation will be submitted to the superintendent for a final decision. f

Layoff....Where the board determines that the staff within a teaching unit within a school or the district is to be reduced, the teacher with the least recognized seniority in that unit will be displaced. The teacher thus displaced will be transfered to the position of and displace the teacher with the least recognized seniority in that teaching unit and within the same geographic areas

Geographic areas of the school district will be defined as: Dawson Creek and area schools, Chet- wynd and area schools, Tumbler Ridge schools and Kelly Lake school.

Where a teacher is displaced through the application of the above layoff...and that teacher is senior to a teacher in the same unit, but in a dif- ferent geographic area of the district, the displaced teacher will be transfered to the position , of the teacher with the least

seniority in the remaining geographic areas.

Teachers displaced under the forgoing may, if they are qualified and senior in anotherteaching unit, cause the displacement of the teacher with the least recognized seniority in that teaching unit.

A teacher who has been displaced and is eligible to cause other district displacement may elect to take unpaid leave of ab- sence for up to three years.

Layoff of principals and vice principals..if and when the board of school trustees determines that the number of principals and or vice principals is surplus to the needs of the district, such action will be initiated by a_ specific resolution of the board. Such resolution will specify the position to be ter- minated and the person affected by the decision or in the case of transfers, the individual to be tranfered. In situations involving the termination of specific positions and or transfers, individuals deemed surplus to the ranks of teachers holding principal and vice principal positions will be transfered to the teaching unit that represents the primary area the in- dividual was previously supervising. Seniority provisigns will then apply to the trasnfered individual as per the regulations governing the layoff and recall of teachers.

Accept contract

VANCOUVER (CP) — British Columbia Gover- nment Employees’ Union members have _ over- whelmingly ratified a two- year contract worked out during a two-week strike in November.

A union spokesman said Monday that 25,315 of the 35,000 union members voted 81.2 per cent in favor of the deal, which provides for no wage increase in the first year, and staged in- creases of three per cent and one per cent in the second.

A key to the contract is an exemption from layoff provisions of the Public Sector Restraint Act, the cornerstone of the Social Credit government’s restraint legislation.

Under the agreement, layoffs now will be ac- cording to seniority, as the government proceeds with its plan to reduce the size of the civil service.

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