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LETTERS St. Jude‘s director slams funding report The report from the commission on funding of Private Schools in Ontario has finally been published. _ ________ By the Report‘s own admission, ‘"private schools are more likely than their public counterparts to stress academic activities, school attendance, homework assignâ€" ments, and classroom discipline." "Priâ€" vate schools produce higher academic achievement than public schools with similar students not because these schools are private but because, as a matter of specific policy, they create higher rates of engagements in academic activities, enâ€" force stronger classroom discipline, asâ€" sign more homework, etc." As a result the Commission recommends that funding be made available to all private (indepenâ€" dent) schools. _ This is 7good news to all families presently struggling to meet the financial burden of tuition. But there are some If you feel you want and need aerobic exercise, yet find sports like jogging, running, skipping too hard on your body, or perhaps even dislike them;, race walking could be a suitable alterâ€" native. Though race walkers look similar to ducks while walking, they are strengthâ€" ening, stretching, pumping and most importantly smiling. They know they are doing a sport which has far less risk of injury than other aerobic sports, yet they are getting up to 90 per cent of the aerobic effectiveness of the other aeroâ€" bic sports, while working their upper bodies as well. Short of knocking a fellow runner over in passing, running races have few rules to follow. If, however, you intend to be a race walker, your style, or lack of it, could get you disqualified. The accepted style of race walking is to land the heel of the forward foot on the ground, drawing the ground toward you while rolling on the outside of the foot, and then pushing off the ball of the foot. With each forward stride, the knee must be straight. If the knee is judged to be bent, you would be disqualified as creeping. If in a mad rush to place well in the race you decided to spring off one foot to another you would also be disqualified as lifting. Runners push off the back leg while race walkers pull the ground forward as if on a treadmill. This motion will stretch and strengthen the front of the _fFeedback "I don‘t mind, personally. 1 think it‘s important for a wife to be with her husband. I always enjoy business trips I go on with my husâ€" band." Marilyn Pipher Kitchener Fitness Forum Kathy Hammond Fitness Instructor leg around the ankle. It will also help reduce the chance of knee injury. Because the knee is straightened with each forward stride, the whole leg absorbs the impact of the foot on the ground. Joggers use a bent knee style which puts most of the stress directly on the knee. The hips are girated and rotated with each leg thrust. Here‘s a chance for all the closet wigglers to come out in the open. Not only does this wiggling look fun, it provides flexibility for the entire pelvic area. The walker‘s arms pump furiously up and down in harmony with the wiggling hips. This will loosen the shoulders and upper back, as well as increase muscuâ€" lar strength and endurance of the entire upper body. c â€" . Though race walking is relatively free of injury, there are a few injuries that could occur. If the heel is not landed squarely on the ground, and the ankle is weak, a sprain could result. If the knee is locked and not just straightâ€" ened, the shin bone could turn inward causing shin and knee pain. If the hips are not rotated in harmony with the upper body, hip joint strain could reâ€" sult. The most noticeable stress will be on the front of the ankle due to the repeated flexing of the foot with each forward stride. _ Adequate stretching will eliminate these injuries. conditions that must be known first before you take that deep sigh of relief. The Commission in its wisdom has recomâ€" mended that private schools be considered in two categories: associated schools and Special Education schools. Briefly, assoâ€" ciated schools would be private (indepenâ€" dent) schools that reach a sharing agreeâ€" ment with a school board. Facilities, transportation and monies would be negoâ€" tiated and shared. ‘"The associated school and the local board would receive not less than 75% and 15% of the annual grants equal to the average perâ€"pupil operating costs experienced by the local board in the previous year multiplied by the enrolment of the associated school in the same year."‘ The major concern I have with this recommendation is that the commiission uses a ‘‘perâ€"pupil operating cost of $2,297.00 elementary and $3,140.00 seconâ€" dary.‘"‘ This is based on class sizes that you and I know do not exist in private schools, and is one of the reasons parents have chosen private education over public. An associated school would then receive, "No. But, maybe part of it (expense) but not all of it. My husband travelled and it‘s darn lonely so I wouldn‘t resent part of it (expense being paid)."‘ Shirley Strassburger Waterioo Should taxpayers pay for the spouses of city employees to attend conferences? Asked at Waterloo Town Square according to the percentages, a maximum of $1,952.45 for each elementary student and $2,669.00 for each secondary student. In the public system, one elementary class with 32 students would receive $73,504.00 while one elementary class in an associatâ€" ed school with 15 students would receive a maximum of $29,286.75 to provide the same education. If a class of 15 students were to exist in the public system then it would receive $34,455.00. But the only 15 student classrooms that exist by design in the public system are Special Education classes. All special education classrooms receive grants in addition to this basic perâ€"pupil grant. These grants can amount to double, triple, or even quadruple the basic perâ€"pupil grant. Both of these classes need a teacher and a room. Which classroom will get and keep the better teacher? How many private schools will be able to afford to accept funding and still survive? 1 overheard part of a newsroom conversation the other day which went like this: ‘"What happened to the Canadians who were living in Japan during the war? Were there any? Were they arrested?"‘ It wasn‘t in our newsroom, I‘m glad to say, because the fragment of conversation I have just quoted illustrates how the old apples and oranges argument about the internâ€" ment of Japanese Canadians during the Second World War continues to discourâ€" age reason 40 years later. _ Special Education prigate schools on the other hand appear to have an advantage from a funding point of view. The Everytime the issue is raised, someâ€" one reminds me of what befell the Hong Kong regiment, or the atrocities that the Imperial Japanese forces commitâ€" ted against innocent civilians. They remind me of the vulnerability of the West Coast of this continent after Pearl Harbour; about the inherent dangers of having an enemy within. These are facts to remember, of course, but they have little to do with the internment of Japanese Canadians and the seizure of their property. Freed of wartime fears and emotions which gripped decisionâ€" makers at the time, the Canadian government has come to realize that the internment was wrong, for at least two reasons. In the first place, the wartime government thought of the internees as Japanese. In fact they were Canadians, most of them citizens, no more Japaâ€" nese, when you discount race, than the ‘"No. When my husband goes on business trips, he doesn‘t get paid to take me along. It‘s a holiday for them (spouses)." WATERLOO CHRONICLE, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1986 â€" PAGE 7 | Laucy Tbbotson Waterioo Guest column Peter Trueman Englishâ€"Canadians of that time were English. And in the second place, the Japanese Canadians who were treated as potential spies had never been, and never became threats to this country‘s security. That is simple histori¢al fact. So to assign them the characteristics of the Japanese national who fought against us, and to assign guilt to the Japanese Canadians for the atrocities Tokyo ordered is ridiculous. Recognizâ€" ing that fact, the Mulroney Tories promised to make formal amends. Now, after considerable bickering, the government wants to settle it quickly, for some reason I can‘t fathom, unless it has to do with the size of the compensation package. I suspect the Tories are thinking in terms of someâ€" thing less than 10 million dollars, as a symbolic payment to the whole commuâ€" nity. But the National Association of Japanese Canadians has commissioned a study by Price Waterhouse to assess the community‘s actual losses of more than 40 years ago in terms of 1986. There is little doubt that their losses, when you consider inflation and interâ€" est, will eventually prove out in the hundreds of millions. The Mulroney government‘s anxiety to settle quickly can only have to do with the fact that what they‘re proposing will look pretty niggardly when Price Waterhouse reâ€" ports in April. Commission recommends that public school boards be allowed to purchase services directly from private Special Education schools with "the costs of any special education programme placement in an approved independent school (being) shared equally between the school board and the Ministry of Education."‘ This means that a private (independent) speâ€" cial Education school will be able to levy a tuition that will meet its financial needs to educate exceptional students, and the board will then pay the entire tuition. There are two catches to this recomâ€" mendation. First, the parents would have to proceed through an Identification Placement, and Review Committee meetâ€" ing and then most possibly an Appeal Board before the board would consent to the purchase of this service. Second, the Commission recommends an amendment to subsection 8(2) of the Education Act "to specify that appropriate special education programs and services are those that, within the limits of a board‘s resources (Continued on page 8) "I definitely don‘t feel the taxpayer should pay for any city official‘s spouse. I don‘t feel it‘s right to have to pay for a holiday. I‘m politically involved and would never consider asking for money for my spouse." Nadine Oberle