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Ban the belt? Report urges rejection of strap Chronicle Staff Use of the strap could soon be prohibited in all Waterloo County separate school board facilities, if a recommendation from senior administration receives trustee approval. In a written report ‘to trustees, separate school board director of education George Flynn recomâ€" mended the ban, arguing that use of a strap for punishment is not only ineffective, but often is destructive as well. "In our society, which has become so conscious of and sensitive to human rights and the civil rights of the individual, the vision of a dominating, aggressive adult inflicting pain as a form of punishment through the use of the strap on a child seems totally inappropriate and unacceptable," he wrote. ScCeilS LDidily indA pDAUPAIONL ARMMME MEAMMO CRA C wrote. In May of 1985 the Waterloo County public board According to Flynn, a survey of Waterloo County approved a policy prohibiting the use of corporal separate board principals done in 1985 showed that â€" punishment in its schools. Chronicle Staff The Waterloo County Separate School Board is playing host this week to a delegation of 24 Japanese educators who are in the area to study the local educational system. The Waterloo board will be the only Canadian host for the group, which has also visited Sweden and Paris and will next travel to Seattle. During their fourâ€"day stay in this area, the delegation will tour several educational facilities in the area, including the board‘s schools, the University of Waterloo and teacher training facilities in London, Ont. w“According to Hiroshi Fumoto, leader of the group, the tour was organized by the Japanese Ministry of Education to expose participants to although most schools have a used." He noted that the Ontario Federation of Home and School Associations in May called for a ban on the use of the strap in schools and that under the 1984 Child and Family Services Act corporal punishment is not allowed. The ban was considered by the board‘s manageâ€" ment committee Tuesday, and will go before trustees for approval later this month. The move clearly has the support of Waterioo trustee Louise Ervin, who remarked: "I don‘t like corporal punishment at all. There are better ways of dealing with children. You hardly ever prove a point by hitting someone."‘ new ideas used in other educational systems. "It is a chance for us to look around at other educational systems in the world and learn new things... We‘ll be going back to Japan and using some of these new ideas in our own system," he said through a translator. Tuesday, the group‘s first day in Waterloo county, they met with school board administration and toured St. David Catholic high school in Waterloo. Although he‘s noticed many differences between the Japanese and Canadian educational systems, Fumoto stressed there‘s one great similarity between the twoâ€"the children. "The children are the same in Canada and Japan; they‘re bright, they‘re active, they‘re really all the same," he said strap it 18 rarely @' * # nax" k !1 T a | sxonesmemigmanatinn: "@t© 38 ores R Y F4 j § 2 ‘ % A » # iÂ¥ > Olka, e 00 > * # j*‘; macte" _’G ic ‘X:' &§ , ; E c saif . f Elizabeth Witmer (left) and Mayor Marjorie Carroll unveil the plaque that was donated by the Local Architectural Conservation Advisory Committee that designates Elizabeth Ziegier School on Moore St. in Waterloo a heritage landmark. WATERLOO CHRONICLE, WEDNESOAY, JUNE 11, 1986 â€" PAGE 13 PLAQUE UNVEILED ols e t R * 11oig P 3 ‘,j i. p Je * ie . > i x â€" + Rodney Gilchrist photo 49#