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©*_ % & . w One thing for sure is that Michae}l Marien, résearch associate at the Educational Policy Research Centre of Syracuse University, hasn‘t been around Water}lgpo Counâ€" ty in the past year of two. i . *%: Had he been, taxpayers hembontl“‘ml& have straightened him out about a thing or two, like for inâ€" stance his notion that schools are dead. . Was that a whispered Amen we heard? Serry folks, but both your county achool boards were alive and well when we checked a little while ago, and the schools they govern have a long way to go yet before they have seen the last of your tax dollars. __On the other hand, Allen Tough, associate professor at the Ontaro Institute for Studies in Education, would seem to be thinking you‘re on the wrong track, too. "The idea that schools and colleges are a place for dispensing knowledge is dead," said the Syracuse man. He proposed they be replaced with open learning sysâ€" tems without teachers. According to him "the most deliberate, sustained efâ€" forts at learning go on outside of education institutions." And there you are with your backs to the wall trying to keep the youngsters in the best such buildings you ecould find and staffing them with the most expensive personnel you could afford. . The Oritario Institute professor and the Syracuse reâ€" searcher were both speakers in Toronto last week at a Festival of Alternatives in Education. Their ideas cerâ€" tainly make one wonder. ~ Instead, he would have a senior learner and a junior colleague (That one is what used to be known as a student). The best is yet to come. Student (junior eolâ€" league, that is) grading would be discontinued. But old eustoms die hard, so this would have to be replaced with something. Obviously, someone has to evaluate someone to keep things interesting. Yes, you guessed right. Poor old teacher just can‘t win. The junior colleagues lay it on the line. . . Published overy Thursday by Pairway a @visicn of Kiichener # .. Airammuicce o h a s prniginad en pdetens Afere 000 O The news report gives no hint at the speakers‘ ages but we can‘t help being a wee bit suspicious that they are 34mong the underâ€"30sâ€"you know, that group you can trust! 0. .590 _‘ Philemena Rutherford, edites Because we‘ve long held the conviction that today‘s youth will never spend their money giving the next generation ‘"a chance" the way this one has. They‘re too smart for that. _ _ And without schools and teachers they‘ll be saving themselves a penny or two each tax collection day. The Victoria Day holiday marks the first long weekâ€" end of the summer season and traditionally marks the start of the annual mass exodus to beach, park, cottage and holiday resort. summer. â€" All too t'rag'ically, it also marks an upswing in road deaths, which will continue for the remainder of the Safety experts predict that 65 Canadians will die in traffic accidents sometime between tomorrow night and midnight Monday. Their studies also enable them to point out that a large number of these fatalities will occur when the driver 18 within 25 miles of his own homeâ€"probably on the reâ€" turn® journey when fatigue from the holiday activities begins to set in. Many others will die because only five percent of passengers will bother to fasten their seat belts. And about 10 percent of the accidents will be caused by faulty vehicles. | In Canada: one year $8; in United Statesâ€" _ | and foreign countries: one year $10~ .. ‘ Member of the Canadian Weekly Newspaper Asseciation . _ find the Ontariq Weekly Newspaper AsSeciation Whatever the cause, 65 persons who are alive, well and happy at this moment will be dead through some facet of human carelessness before this holiday is over. All of them will have died needlesslyâ€"and all that it would take to prevent it would be a little more care on everyone‘s part. Tfle situ:;tion on our highways is such that we can no longer depend for our safety on our own skills and the perfect meehanical condition of our own vehicles. â€" We must keep in mind that other drivers and other vehicles may not be up to the same pitch and we must protect ourselves accordingly. â€" The extra effort may mean that someone else a little more careless than we are haslived to gee another holiâ€" day weekend roll around. Keep holiday happy Are schools dead? Estar"shed 1854 _ * £4 5¢ They say there‘s a special proâ€" vidence that watches over drunks and fools. An incident last Saâ€" turday seems to indicate the proâ€" tection is sometimes extended to amateur steeplejacks. If you‘ve been getting dizzy just watching the workmen movâ€" ing around on the Marsland Cenâ€" tre scaffolding, get this. Last Saturday, someone climbâ€" ed to the roof of the 190â€"foot structure and stole the flag, which was hoisted there a week How it was accomplished is a~ mystery, when one considers that the construction stairs only goes to the 10th floor. This left the intrepid climber to get up the next three storeys and then onto the roof on his wits alone. "Whoever the nimble characâ€" ter was, FPll~gladly buy him a flag, rather than have him risk his neck like that," commented retired industrialist Stanley Marsâ€" land, owner of the $3,000,000 ofâ€" fice building, at Erb and Albert The Waterloo man points out that the "steeplejack" may have been taking more risks than he The steel decking on the 12th and 13th floors hasn‘t even been welded yet, nor have guard rails been installed at that point.‘Even workmen on the lower floors wear safety belts while on the job. The flagâ€"thief took all these risks, including possibility of beâ€" ing heaved right over the edge by the wind, which any hillâ€" elimber knows gets more powerâ€" ful the higher one climbs, until it can be blowing a real squall 13 storeys up. And talking about the Marsâ€" land Centre, Waterloo people who s OF ‘ have been watching its progress (and what member of the comâ€" 40 YEARS AGO munity hasn‘t, because the strucâ€" May 15. More than 150 students ture dominates the city?) will be from\, Alexandra and Central interested to learn that work is schook'presented\theil" eight anâ€" beginning this week on the cast nual concert at Kâ€"W collegiate. stone and marble facing. They were directed by Harry Hill. The owner is confident this A large number of parents was part of the project will be comâ€" _ present for the event. pleted by midâ€"August. * * ® * "It was frustrating in the beâ€" Lincoln Stroh, a prominent Waâ€" ginning with labor strikes and terloo contractor, is building a everything, materials were slow $15,000 fourâ€"suite apartment on in coming in but now it‘s startt the new John Street. Boulevard ing to go," he notes. between Victoria and Earl Streets. The older I get, the more I realize why it is the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. We have geared our world toâ€" ward giving the man with a fat pocket book a better deal on everything, while those with slenâ€" der wallets pay through the nose for anything that comes their way. Food purchasing is one examâ€" Contending it was a problem ple. The family which can afford _ which might only be dealt with to buy in bulk and has the fa by the government, â€" Waterloo cilities for storage can eat far â€" Town Council placed on file a letâ€" Rutherford‘s | more cheaply than can one subâ€" sisting at the poverty line or below and which can only afford to buy the bare necessities at And so it goes in every other area. While one family blessed with eomfort to begin with can save and add to that state, anâ€" other will always be living handâ€" toâ€"mouth because its entire inâ€" come is absorbed keeping body and soul together. â€" And the story is the same even when one enters the area of luxuries. If you‘re already getâ€" ting a fair whack of the better life, you can buy your luxuries cheaper than the chap who is nibbling at the edge. Just look at the way airline companies and charter flight orâ€" ample. * & One might hope they‘d spare a thought for the ordinary Joe with an annual twoâ€"week vaca tion, which is what most Cana dians enjoy. But do they? Not at all. Specâ€" ial rates are offered for 2lâ€"day flights and they get better the longer the duration of the trip. There‘s: noâ€" reduction for anyâ€" thing under 21 days, which sort of suggests the better rates are designed to give the betterâ€"heelâ€" ed a better deal. FILES OF YESTERYEAR Which was what reminded me in the first place how the rich get richer and the not so rich stay home. Adults® ways aren‘t â€" always speedy enough for the young Lincoln Stroh, a prominent Wa terloo contractor, is building a $15,000 fourâ€"suite apartment on the new John Street. Boulevard between Victoria and Earl Streets. 30 YEARS AGO May 10. Indicative of the markâ€" ed improvement in conditions generally in Waterloo was the anâ€" nouncement of Tax Collector Wil liam Uffelman that collections to date this year are approximately $23,000 higher than at the same time last year. s BITS AND PIECES ‘uns and a group of youngsters in Maple Hill Acres are doing their bit to get some of the‘ acâ€" tion these days. ‘ They want some place to play and they want it soon. About 60 of them got together early this week, produced a peâ€" tition and added their signatures. As this is being written the brief no doubt is speeding on its way to the community services board. (At least we‘re assuming it‘s speeding on its way, since the post office doesn‘t know the meaning of the word slow.) Parents of the children askâ€" ed the community services board last fall to provide a playground. About 80 youngsters are limited to romping in backyards or whooping it up on the streets or sidewalks. _ _ aesa _ This doesn‘t sit too well with traffic nor with policemen whe see the children in danger and have no choice but to whooesh them off the street. So Ahe mites themselives are out to see what mountains they can move. Board administrator Ken Pflug (we reached him before the peâ€" tition did‘) said there is a proâ€" posed park area off Warrington Drive. But no date has been set yet for its development. Howâ€" ever, there is a possibility it will be graded and turfed later this year. Waterloo Rotary Club has unâ€" dertaken to develop a park area for children in Lakeshore Village. Maybe some other club would like to do the same for the young fry of Maple Hill Acres. ter from the Women‘s Christian Temperance Union, asking that beverage rooms be closed at 10 p.m. nightly, instead of midnight, 20 YEARS AGO May 12. With a loudspeaker blaring the Anvil Chorus in the background, scores of volunteer workers wielded paint brushes, shovels and rakes during a beauty blitz on six Union Street East Earl Doerfler of 27 Roslin Ave. has been named a delegate to repâ€" resent Waterloo at the United School Safety Patrol conference to be held this weekend at Wash ington, D.C. 10 YEARS AGO The rapidly increasing publie school population of Waterloo has prompted the public school board to seek a superintendent to asâ€" sume the administrative duties of the present department of edu cation inspector.