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Kocher also said although the bend on Keats Way near her house is particularly bad, she believes Keats Way is a dangerous road near Keatsway public school to the east as well. She said she "I‘ve seen two other cars in the same situation without hitting the tree in the last two years," Kocher said last Friday. "They‘ve "And it really doesn‘t matter which way you‘re coming from People just don‘t seem to be able to negotiate that bend very well They go too fast." f 5 "People going over the curb, it happens fairly regularly," Reynolds said last Saturday. "I‘d say I‘ve heard or seen that probaâ€" bly three or four times a year." _ . behind Kocher‘s backyard Three 15â€"yearâ€"old Waterloo girls were killed in a singleâ€"vehicle accident in the early morning hours of Nov. 22 when the westâ€" bound car they were in mounted a curb on the bend then struck a tree and a bus sign. The tree the car struck that night is located immediately behind Reynolds® backyard. The car ended up stopping immediately Michelle Kocher and Jim Reynolds, who both live on Sandy Ridge Place, said in interviews last week that cars have regularly spun out of control on Keats Way while trying to negotiate a bend between the southern and northern entrances of Sandford Flemâ€" ing Drive onto the street. Two Waterloo residents believe Keats Way, particularly in the area of Sandlord Fleming Drive, is a dangerous road. = Lexingion public school principal, Chard, looks nhvy.-oI‘An&cwMy'ud:l-yw«H-thflaym Bill 160 could cost education system "good principals", parent says Pigk 3 Chronicle Staff Wns amaipr e 429 Ctirmit iez ic snn t eeenement" OOReienmr sn ener PC CCC CCCE SAVE ON THE #1 CHOICE in comFrort: THE LAâ€"Zâ€"BOY*® SENSATIONAL SEAT SALE! Bob Vrbanac photo "It‘s no different than any other city street as far as speeds go," Koehler said. "We have consistent speeding everywhere." Staff Sgt. Bill Chipman of the Waterloo regional police, agreed with Koehler‘s assessment in an interview last Friday. "We have been up on the (west) side of Fischerâ€"Hallman Road North operating radar there and vehicles do tend to travel quite Koehler also said the city had done a traffic study on Keats Way between Amos Avenue and McDougall Road, near Keatsway pubâ€" lic school, in October, 1996. At that time, the average speed of vehicles was found to be 54 kph, she said. "We actually did traffic volume and speed counts in August, she said. "Basically the average speed of the vehicles was 55 kph That is in the area between Erbsville Road and Leighland Drive That‘s fairly close. That‘s the closest we have to where the collisior occurred." man Road North and Erbsville Road Christine Koehler, a traffic operations coordinator with the City of Waterloo, said last Friday although the city has not recently done traffic studies along the entire length of Keats Way, between University Avenue West in the east and Erbsville Road in the west, it has done some recent studies on the road between Fischerâ€"Hallâ€" North," Kocher said, when asked what makes Keats Way so dan "And it‘s windy," she said. "You can lose control easily when you‘re going fast on a winding road." S C should know because she travels the road all the time "Changing that system means that 1 won‘t be as effective as a curriculum and instructional leader," he said. "My eflectiveness can and will be lessened if 1 am more of an evaluator and manâ€" "It‘s like taking the head of the family away," he said. "It‘s like 2 divorce or a family splitting apart." Becoming more of a manger also takes away his most important roles as a principal â€" to be the curriculum and instructional leader of the school. He described the current system as more collegial, where prinâ€" cipals came from the classroom. Since principals and teachers are par of the same association, they are betier able to coâ€"operate on changes to curriculum and training, "The relationships have to be mutually respectable," said Chard. "As a principal I‘m trying to mobilize all these people into a collaborative approach to help these kids." Chard said if he had to explain the changes to kids in his school, he‘d tell them it would be like losing their mother or father Gary Chard, the principal of Lexingion Public School in Waterâ€" loo, said the plan to take principals and viceâ€"principals out of teachers associations will lead to an adversarial system. He quesâ€" ww-wmm' the coâ€"operation he has traditionally "I won‘t be the leader 1 have to be to affect these changes (Bill 160)," he said, "When I try 10 allect these changes Ill run into the (teachers) contract. We (principals) are now management, our relationship will change." A local principal might have w give up the job he‘s held for 27 years because Bill 160 will take away his ability to promote change in his school. "There‘s only one set of stop lights at Fischerâ€"Hallman Road Chronicle Staff recliner the most Zâ€"Boy® gam for less! _ on Diane Walker and her twoâ€"yearâ€"old daughter, Echo, had a opening of the fourth annual Wonders of Winter Festival of Lights in Waterioo Park. ‘ Taw Gartuer ghons Chard siill hasn‘t decided whether 10 keep is job. or go back 1: reaching, He‘d like some more information belore making 2 decs sion on April 1, the deadline 10 declare If he goes back 10 eaching he loses his ability 10 aflect charige If he stays in the union he could be out on the simets with m semonity, facing the dim prospects of having 10 reapply lor a jb I he stays on as principal l aflecs the relationsiup he ha enjoyed with his teachers. 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