The following text may have been generated by Optical Character Recognition, with varying degrees of accuracy. Reader beware!

Clara Piotrowski school principal Clara Piotrowski has been the Principal at Burkevale School in Penetanguishene since January, 1970. Burkevale School is the only Protestant Separate School in Ontario. The only other Protestant separate school in Ontario at the start of the last school year was in Gratton, Ontario, in the Ottawa Valley. That school had one teacher and seven pupils, in Grades 2,4,5,6,7 and 8. Burkevale in the school year just finished, had 160 students. It's 100th anniversary will be celebrated next July. The school in Gratton didn't finish the year. Piotrowski, who started teaching in 1962, the last 14 years at Burkevale, sees a difference in the students of then and the students of today. She thinks that changes in the family structure and in social values, have contributed to the changes in the students she sees today. Children today are not smarter, just more knowledgeable, she says. Television has had a lot to do with the changes. 'In some cases the teachers almost have to compete with the television. Here I am teacher, entertain me!". _ Teachers spent more time teaching their students how to listen. Piotrowski says that children are used to listening, or not listening, as they wish, to what is on the television, and that they are doing the same thing in school. More. activities today stress listening, a skill that comes only after much repetition on the part of the teacher and students, she said. In the day of the working mother, when the working mother has to work, the principal says, babysitters are apt to have more than the normal number of children in their care, perhaps five or six pre-schoolers. These babysit- ters can not spend the same amount of time as a mother might with two or three children. Not as much time is spent reading to the children, or making cut and paste projects. "This contributes to our problem,"' she said. On the other hand, children who spend time with a babysitter seem to settle in at school more easily than do children who are always with their mother. Nealry 100 years ago the ancestors of some of today's pupils went to school on the same property. The first school was torn down in 1965 and replaced by the present building. Burkevale is a separate school because the first school board in Penetanguishene was formed by Catholic parents, and, being first established, the local public school system was a catholic system. Even today, Piotrowishi noted, only the head of five families are needed to start a school. The present school can ac- commodate 180 students without overcrowding. The Friday Times Second Class Mail Registration Number 3194 and Friday Citizen Second Class Mail Registration Number 2327 Published by Douglas Parker Publishing Ltd at 309 King Street, Midland, Ontario. 526-2283 75 Main Street, Penetanguishene, Ontario/ 549-2012 Publisher: Douglas Parker Editor: J. D. (Doug) Reed The Friday Times and Friday Citizen are distributed free each Friday to heuseholds in Midland and Penetanguishene Parker Publishing Limited also publish The Midland Times, Penetanguishene Citizen and Elmvale Lance each Wednesday in the Huronia market. Page 4, Friday, June. 26, 1981 G&M Shoppe, Mid lan d Elm vale SUMMER SALE! NOW ON 20% . Summer Sy. : | Fashions Many more In-store Specials G&M Shoppe 305 King St., Watson's Ladies Wear Midland Queen St., Elmvale 526-5761 322-2151 Mastercard & Chargex accepted Watson's Ladies Wear, -- ati 2 cme is ap ae