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wednesday september 28 1983 sa3 unique welcome for grade 9 students at spss grade 9 students were welcomed into the fraternity and sorority of stouffville dist secon dary school friday while their apparel was somewhat unique there was nothing fearful con cerning the ordeal rather each seemed to enjoy it including left to rightsarah winger new market paul sinclair and lisa zeck both of stouffville board bans strap it school trustees pass motion in 126 vote use of the strap as a form of dis cipline in york region schools is now a thing of the past during monday nights board meeting trustees voted 126 in favor of banning corporal punish ment the motion made by markham trustee john myers amends a board policy on discipline in the schools deleting the sections on corporal punishment strapping in presenting his argument against the strap trustee myers stressed that this form of discipline is outdated and the argument that it should be kept because it works is weak tminot saying that it doesnt work but because it works doesnt make it right he said its a punishment of the past using the analogy that in some countries shoplifters get their hands cutoff trusteemyers pointed out that although a punish- mentmay work it doesnt neces- i hali sarily make it the thing to do separate school representative glenn macalpine supported the motion to ban the strap but said he would have preferred to see it die a natural death he noted that use of the strap was on a definite decline a staff report recently submit ted to the board indicated there were 31 strappings in 15 schools all elementary last year this figure is down from the 19811982 school year when there were 42 strap pings in 17 schools trustee myers explained that although there were only 31 counts of corporal punishment last year this figure doesnt include the threats which he said are just as damaging by using this form of discipline what were really telling the stu dents is that might is right and thats not he message we want to leave said trustee macalpine in light of a report from the york region elementary principals and viceprincipals association requesting that the discipline poli cy not be changed trustee ken taylor motioned that the item be deferred until novembers meet ing of the board these are the fellows who know where its at and were making a decision against their wishes he said i think we should get a little more input before deciding the motion to defer lost in a 99 vote with board chairman mike neill voting to create the tie under the boards procedural policy a tie vote means that a motion is lost one concern with banning the corporal punishment policy raised by markham trustee earl rowe was that it would be viewed as too lenient a move by the board trustee myers agreed and stressed that it isnt so this is not a lessoning of disci pline in york region heisaid itsastrengtheningwe do sup port firm discipline mrs harold tomlinson longtime resident dies stouffville mrs harold tom linson the former alta tomlinson was taken home to be with the lord sept 15 bonvaug 8 1903 she was the daugh ter mr and mrs wil liam a fockler lot 14 cone 9 whitch urch township alta was a life long member of the bloomington christ ian associated gos pel church where she served as deaco ness many years she was a member of the womens fel lowship group the box and visitation committee and the social committee she was also a mem- ber of the stouffville womens institute prior to her mar- riage to harold tomlinson august 1955 she was em- ployed as a hostess on the staff of lake view house jack sons point her husband was a school teacher and they resided in wes ton on his retire ment they purch ased a home in bloomington where they lived until harolds death in 1975 for the past eight years alta had re sided in testa villa apartments albert street south stouff ville surviving are two sisters merle mccormack of north bay aleta leask of green- bank one sister-in- law four nieces and three nephews altas father wm a fockler was wellknown in the area he passed away in may 1970 in his 101st year alta will be sadly missed by her many friends and rela tives regional briefs york regional council last week approved a job re classification in its social services department following a staff recom mendation coun cil agreed to eli minate the cur rent director of budgets and prog- rams position and replace it with that of depu ty commissioner of social services the deputy commissioner will handle all the responsibilities entailed in the previous position and will also look after line control involving all so cial service bran ches appoint- ments regional coun cillors arc unhap py with the means of appointing gov ernors for seneca college which has a major cam pus at king city chairman bob forhan noted that york region could formerly directly appoint three governors but now can only nominate three regional council agreed to seek an explanation of the change clarence jes- sop mayor of king 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