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For these students, Store Front may be their last chance to get an education, at least until they find out what they want to do. Some see the two semesters they‘ll spend there as a stepping stone to returning to the mainstream, but the most predominate feeling is it may lead to a job. After teaching students "how to write the elegant essay" for 17 years, Yolanda Tucker is now teaching students how to assume responsibility for their actions, how to become a part of their communâ€" ity, and how to take control of their lives. At the same time they‘re getting an education, working on academic studies in the morning and job coâ€"op in the afternoon. We don‘t talk about marks or passing of failing here," said Mrs. Tucker, a dimunitive woman, who is sometimes affectionately called "mother". There is a fine line, she explained, between being Carol Ann Feldstein sits with her dog Polly in her Wat home. Feldsâ€" tein, a professional , is worried that taxing music lessons and supâ€" plies will make studying music too oxpondnfortholvongomnuy. STONEWALLED Located on the second floor of the King Centre, the Store Front school offers a unique approach to learning. It also has some unique students, who have found, for whatever reasons, they can‘t funcâ€" tion in the regular school system. This is the Store Front School â€" a program of the Waterloo Region Sepaâ€" rate school board. The furniture consists of individual tables and chairs, not lined up in straight rows across the room, but around the outside edge of partitions defining the parameter of the room. Here a maximum of 10 students study each term. Chronicle Staff It‘s a school like no other. Somewhat reminiscent of the old one room school house, this room is a bit larger and divided into two rooms â€" and there‘s a teacher and teacher aide here. Students work independently and at their own pace. Resident frustrated by run Last chance for kids who have given up on the system Store Front School TAX REVOLT lsobe! Lawson photo And she is not impressed. To her two issues are at stake: what‘s in store for musicians in the tax reform, and the lack of accountability of politicians to their constituents. Feldstein became aware of a proposal to tax music lessons from a petition by the Ontario Music Teachers‘ Association postâ€" ed at Wilfrid Laurier University, where she is a music therapy student. She decided she would offer her own comments and on music lessons and music supplies, Feldstein decided she had to take some action because, if the rumor were true, it would have an immense impact upon her life. Three months after writing finance miâ€" nister Michael Wilson, Feldstein is none the wiser about what the upcoming budget might contain, but a whole lot more aware of how the political machine works. commodity based tax reform. _ _ _ After hearing rumors that the change in ta.ntion_wou‘.lld result in an 18 per cent tax Chronicle Staff Carol Ann Feldstein‘s initiation as a civil rights activist has been less than satisfyâ€" ing. In fact she‘s found the experience to be frustrating. Feldstein, a professional singer, wanted Eofin.doufl‘wwmufiansmybenfl'ected government‘s proposed (Continued on page 4) tax on lessons and supplies) defined. I understand (he) is a busy man and that he is not going to tell me what he plans to include in his budget, however, I did think In the letter Feldstein mailed off to McLean, she wrote: "In my original letter to Mr. Wilson, I asked to have the previousâ€" ly mentioned rumors (about the 18 per cent Now the political process in which she thought she played a part, stonewalled her. Like others, she said, she will be listening to the announcement of the budget April 27, feeling she had no part to play in the decisions. line. It was at that point, Feldstein said she felt so naive to think she would have got a personal response. "Maybe I‘m naive," she said, adding that a personal call or note from Wilson, saying her concerns were noted, followed by unrelated information on imported goods and the loss of jobs. Three weeks later she received a photocopy of Wilson‘s letter from McLean. Students discuss their flndlnfi during a class field trip to a Hindu Temple in Kitchener. in the lower picture, teacher aide Caroline Howard heips Patrick with his course work. ins with political machine questions and mailed off a letter to the federal finance minister. She also called Waterloo MP Walter McLean to draw his attention to her concern. Though she never spoke with him, his staff said he would respond. A month later she received a form letter McLean wouldn‘t have been out of WATERLOO CHRONICLE, WEDNESDAY APRIL 19, 1989 â€" PAGE 3 Feldstein wonders who the government‘s target is if it puts a tax on music lessons. If it‘s upper or middle class families who are sending their children off to music lessons, the impact would not be so dramatic. What may happen is that parents scrapâ€" ing by to send their children to lessons will stop, and eventually the broad pool of Canadian talent will dry up as lesson costs grow out of reach. The fallout would spread to professional musicians who rely upon teaching music lessons to supplement their income. "I think they thought they were taxing middle and upper class people who were giving their kids a luxury. I don‘t think they thought they were taxing their arâ€" that he could dispel rumors and clarify what types of items were being considered at what general taxation level. Is this information too classified for a concerned taxpayer to access?" As a professional singer, Feldstein said, a tax placed on music lessons could have a direct effect upon her. Like any professionâ€" al athlete who has a trainer and coach, Feldstein said she will need a voice coach all her life. And at $50 an hour, the costs are already prohibitive in an industry where job security is elusive and income sporatic. Isobe! Lawson photos