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p x vvkknder saturday june211997 st school board teachers bury hatchet after bitter contract dispute mike adler staff reporter three months after the public school board and its elementary teachers were enemies ready to fight the hatchet has been officially buried teachers parents administrators and board officials on a special task force issued a report this week urging all sides to work together more closely establishing and strengthening positive relationships doing this and celebrating accomplish ments of teachers and students will counter negative publicity from this years bitter round of contract talks and build confidence in public education the task force concluded the group recommended setting rules on releasing information from the board or the two elementary teachers federations during negotiations and said a common understand ing should be reached on teachers responsi bility to volunteer for the extracurricular activities of students the whole process was one of full collabo ration and agreement said jaimini randev a board superintendent who chaired the group which was formed after teachers unions came within hours of a strike in march in the future task force members agreed negotiators should avoid a confrontational and adversarial bargaining mode and try a more collaborative style for contract talks the report says a variety of people told the group information they received during the talks seemed unreliable negative in tone or contained posturing and propaganda there was a great deal of misinformation during the talks there was a great deal of confusion said randev this week the report suggests setting an information protocol for use in negotiations we would like to work together on releasing informa tion said pam gillan a task force member and incoming president for local women teachers another group member stouffville trustee harry bowes said it isnt fair that teachers at some schools chose not to help with extracur ricular activities when those at other schools did even though they can legally do it it education hurts a lot of students he said the union representing the boards high school teachers in arbitration with the board this month after warn ing it may launch a strike in september was not involved in the project catholic school board gets new director york regions catholic school board has chosen one of its former superintendents to be its new chief executive susan larosa will take the direc tor of education post from frank bobesich on august 1 the board announced this week a human resources superinten dent with the lanark leeds and grenville separate board in eastern ontario larosa had a similar job at the york board from 1988 to 1990 the bilingual larosa runs the lanark boards french as a second language program and once served as a provincial vicepresident for the ontario english catholic teach ers association susan larosa is well qualified through academic and professional experience to assist this board to meet the challenges and issues which it will face york board chair tina molinari said in a release bobesich education director for nine years resigned six months ago the former principal of two markham catholic schools has said he will retire from the board in 1998 mike adler lawyer peter j lewarne matrimonial person injury legal aid accepted small business law bankruptcy real estate wills over 20 years experience low rates quality service 4701 highway no 7 at kennedy rd unionville ontario l3r 1m7 tel 4774381 fax 4777668 24 hour availability bankruptcy why face if alone call murray kideckelli trustee in bankruptcy personal business bankruptcies personal proposals richmond hil1 9058822436 30wertheimcrt downtown 4169716396 27corhonsl scarborough 4167577535 oshawa 9055761926 brampton 9054536881 barrie 7057226398 free initial consultation