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st tribune january 81997p 9 teachers should give a li ttle to open a new way out of this mess they have their reasons for wanting to look like heroes the secondary school teachers who know they could lose the right to strike this year the school trusteeswho know this is the year their jobs might get the provincial axe and the minister of education who kept everyone busy in 1996 with suggestions that ontario school boards will no longer have to do certain things like exist or if they do they might not have to negotiate new contracts with those pesky teachers so these miserable contract talks with teachers in york region going nowhere until now could be the last ones this public school board ever does it would then be out of their hands but they could say by gosh they held the line i can see why the high school teachers under union president lynn johnston would now fight especially hard to protect their working conditions and charttop ping salaries and i can see why the board having already set an arbitrary number for a tax increase 184 per cent is just as determined to get its way if school taxes go up a smidgen more than that chair bjji crothers told anxious students two weeks ago the government and the tax payers of york region would be unhappy those are the fine fine principles which have brought the threat of a bitter strike to our high schools a reporters view mike adler the board seems to be asking teachers to choose between overcrowding their classrooms and a schedule in which they must teach seven and not the usual six of eight daily periods the board tried to force the seven of eight option on teachers simply announcing it last april so it could balance its budget then got slapped by the government and had to withdraw but it hasnt given up the governments expert observer of the contract talks called seven of eight the key issue and aim for the board and richard jackson in his factfinding report trashed the scheme as totally driven by shortterm eco nomics and not by any sense or even much real under standing of its likely impact and charged the board was after an easy and politically attractive solution to a very complex set of problems as an alternative jackson pointed out the board could raise the pupilteacher ratio putting more students in each class but as he reported neither the teachers nor the board want this well thats what the board had in its final offer to teachers the ptr this month will be 156 next septem- heart and stroke foundation of ontario quick get rich ontarios largest cash cars lottery ever has three 1000000 grand prizes and a 1 in 28 chance to win better odds than your brokers offering m u zdjl l a k for details 18885511111 luart amislnikc mulii million dollar lirtlrry 10 hox 258 toronto dominion centre toninto ontario m5k ij5 1 jcrmv ixvw79 kntries will i- hand drawn by krnsl youn knist youn tower 222 hay st toninto ontario msk ij7 6507 prizes will ik awanled three karly hinl draws will take place on feb 21 1997 filial draw will lake place manh 7lh 1997 should all tickets l- sold by midnight feb 14 1997 then all draws will be made on feb 21 1997 ber it would bel69 the difference is like a whole extra class for each teacher and the quality of education will deteriorate if teachers are spread that thin johnston told the student forum crothers response there will be an impact on stu dents he said and reducing teachers release time meaning their two preparation periods would be one way to deal with that virtually every single employee in canada has had to face changes in their work he added and in british columbia teachers teach seven of eight but dont do supervisory work jackson said the whole province is watching york region waiting for a result the seven of eight issue in particular he stated is an important symbol for those who want to reduce the cost of education in the province and believe that that can be done with no detrimental impact on the students in the classroom seven of eight is a bad idea its a change for the worse because students will get less attention from teachers and no one should want that the teachers must give a little to open another way out of this mess a boards proposal to replace school depart ment heads with a smaller number of deans would save money and teachers could take a serious cut in ben efits which jackson noted have increased 50 per cent in cost in five years but the board much as it wants to please the taxpay ers and provincial government cant continue to base its approach on an arbitrary number i dont believe the dif ference between a 184percent tax hike and say 25 per cent is worth disrupt ing thousands of yoiing lives i think most york region res idents would agree and will admire trustees who signed a contract with teachers peace fully more than those who could sign only after a war call the ddkt 8527699 c for updated info theatre 1 eavfc butt head aa i alaska family opens fri jan 10 opens sat jan 11 645 pm 830 pm i pm 315 pm eve 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