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Chronicle Start Implementation ofjunior kindergarten and French immersion plus extension of core French programming all cleared major hurdles Monday night when they received approval in principle from the Waterloo County Board of Education: -- . . . Cost to the board'ol tiaiirrle programs is estimated to be $2 million over the next three years, which will be offset in part by reductions in family studies and technology programs, also approved Monday. . _ . I _ A - __ ”5,.-4 Each. "hiTi"i"ii'rGrirsi' sihrraiar, (sl/the final okay m April, when the board strikes its 1986 budget. ........, -...._.‘.. -..- “mum”; rt "rt--"" V .. Although trustees were unanimous in support of plans to extend core French to Grade I, junior kmdergarten and French immersion encountered opposition. One of three voting against junior kindergarten, Waterloo trustee Louise Ervin maintained French programming must be the number one priority in Waterloo. - i i -. . II .. . I I‘ __', .umL,._. IQL‘. Junior kindergarten, French immersion win approval in principle from separate board v..- ,.-.v..-., ___ ..----_-_. "My phone's been ringing off the wall," said Ervin. "They (the taxpayers) want French. They are not interested at this point in junior kindergarten." - . n n I L-,|.: AA.L-.‘_:J Ln w...“ .......-.,,-- .-... Also rejecting the program was trustee Ray Palubiski, who said he has "difficulty with a tttree-year-old, a tttree-and-a-half-year-old and a four-year-old leaving the household, even if it is optional." He argued that there are many taxpayers in this region who do not want junior kindergarten and urged his colleagues to wait until the Catholic full funding issue is resolved to approve the program. ""riiiTorri"rr"aTiiiri'niiiiaiG is" redrmmiriding thatburior kinder- garten be offered for four-year-olds in six schools this fall, at a cost of $160,700. Only $48,900 of that total would be paid by the Waterloo board. French immersion. which staff is recommending should be offered in eight classes for 240 students next fall and expanded to 40 classes of LEGO students by 1991, received approval in an 11-4 decision. Rejecting immersion were trustees Ray Voll, Betty Keager. Alf Dietrich and Palubiski. Voll argued that, because immersion will not be available to all students, the program will be "divisive, not all-encompassing and possibly viewed by some as elitist." ' "While JciGalaiaiGGedi for expanded French programming. Paluhiski was concerned that the development of French immersion centres will mean displacement of English students at those schools. It is estimated that immersion and the extension of core French (one period of French daily) to Grades 4 and 5 this year and Grades 1, 2, and 3 in the following three years will cost the Waterloo board $1.4 million by 1990. 'fiiiii"iiiiii-i I“: icJd'?lf,/s, Kilmannock School ANNUAL SCIENCE FAIR OPEN HQUSE, BOO-9:00 p.m. SCHOLARSHIP EXAMINATIONS (Grades 9-13) Saturday, March 1st 9:00 a.m.-12 noon Senior Campus SENIOR CAMPUS JUNIOR GAINS Waterloo Elam i 888-5723 8460022 Monday, April 7th, The Seagram Museum (Tickoh available at the school) W __ INTERVIEWS FOR 1986-87 PLACEMENT ARE IN PROGRESS AT BOTH CAMPUSES hronicle Iassifieds MONDAY, MARCH 3rd Senior Campus 415 Phillip Street, Waterloo FASHION SHOW Evgrxon'e Welcome St. John’s- T Kilmannock School 886-2830 K!" {in The University of Waterloo has called for an immediate amendment to the Canadian Copy- right Act to protect the creators of computer software. Waterloo is concerned that lack of Protec- tion might well be costing Canada hundreds - perhaps thousands - of high level software- related jobs at the moment. The risk of losing these jobs, which will go on as long as the needed amendment remains unpassed. will also mean Canada loses out in the race to keep abreast of the high tech innovation, The uw appeal follows an announcement in the House of Commons, Feb. 7, that the federal government intends to incorporate changes involving software into a broad revision of the Copyright Act. This has caused some concern on the Waterloo campus because, says Douglas Wright, UW president, the computer software issue is too urgent for that. In the normal parliamentary process, it is feared, revision of the entire Copyright Act might take years, because there are many issues concerning copyright of artistic works, and other cre- ations on which there is no consensus. Consensus does exist in the area of computer software, however. 7 - Waterloo, which has had a great involve- ment with the development of computer software, has been concerned about the problem of copyright protection for many years. Campus concern was particularly heightened with the publication of a white paper, From Gutenberg to Telidon, in 1983. The white paper proposed a continuation of JW urges fast action on computer-related copyright problems - a3?ao 1 Reg. 89.99 . V J a Higllphair, Neutr aI mkmowev panem iiiii' 'e/ut, W", 22.92 i,i,iiiillAlti; Maple Crib Graco 4 in , WAIERLOO CHRONICLE. WEDNESDAY. FEBRUARY 26, 1966 - PAGE: Jertrty L 1nd _ Styk, by GUND, WILEY Teddies Lovobk Hush -Waburtryttrrt traditional copyright for ordinary printed material but only five-year protection for computer software. _ _ According to Wright, the publication of that white paper may already have cost Canada "hundreds of high-level jobs"; he contends many companies are simply not prepared to undertake software development work in Canada if the copyright is to be of such limited duration. "They will simply have computer software developed in countries where better copyright protection is available," he warns. "To understand why this is so important, you have to realize that computer software lies at the very heart of most modern, high technology,“ Wright explains. "Computers are marvellous machines but they can't do anything until you've developed a system for using them - that is, until you have developed some software. Moreover, software isn't used just for data processing ... we need software so robots can do their tasks, so manufacturing processes and entire plants can be automated, and so forth." Canada as a nation has an excellent reputation for its computer software but Wright and many others at UW feel there is a great and increasing danger this excellence will be undermined unless the Canadian government takes quick action. Wright notes Michel Cote, Minister of Consumer and Corporate Affairs, has already distanced the government from the "Gutem berg to Telidon" white paper. My... our” sumo” Sleepefs a. 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