WIIITBY FEE PRESS, WFDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER 1l, 1985, PAGE 11 Free Press editor says he wiJI seek pUblie sehool board seat on'Nov. 12 By JAN DODGE Knell said, '1'm not Free Press Staff sure one man can Michael Knell, Com- change a system that is munity Editor of the well-known for its Whitby Free Press, an- bureaucratic foot- nouned today lie will dragging and un- seek election as one of wilingness and inability Whitby's three trustees to change - but I want to the Durham Board of the chance to try." Education. Besides failing to AtrhaigOntario meet students' needs, lie Afutehearmiin said sdhools are also KounhD Cmmdssoerlth failing to meet parents' Ken rydCe tlofheand taxpayers' expec- Whity Cambe of tations. Commerce that only 12 "The majority of our Of every 20 students en- children are leaving the tering grade 9 would school system without a graduate, and of those sense of direction, Î 12 only two would without a goal or.pur- graduate from univer- pose and without the sity and one from com- sl-icpie ncs munity college, Knell sary to gain that goal, decided sdhools were evniteylai. failing to meet the needs e"In iDureham eion ofyongpeple.we are paying $150 "This means," Knell million a year for a said, "Ithat 85 per cent of system that lias a ail students are leaving measurable succes the public achool systemn rate of<15 per cent based without job akilla, or the on Dryden's researcl." incentive, or knowledge Knell said that the of how to acquire tliem. public sehool system in "With ti in < Durham Region ap- record the public scheo pears to operate in systemn cannot lie isolation and out of con- deemed successful. htrof dmtheDurham Police praise9qad by merchants fr quick action The owners of whit- been broken into, lie was by's Toucli of Clas8 making arrangements jewelery store had to pick up the recovered nothing but praise for goods. the Durham Region "The officers should Polie lst wek( be given a pat on the Tess and Dave Mat- back," lie said. tliews' store was broken into at 10 p.m., Sept. 2 by athief who fled frlm tlie Brock St. N. store on foot with $2,800 wortli of watclies, cliarms and i otlierjewellery. Officers from the P R Police Force were so fast in responding to the Matthews burgiar alarm, liowever, that tlie culprit hadn't gone more than Et block before lie was ap- prehended by tlie police. Arrested in connec- TH I tion with the incident is 38-year-old Phillip T AT S Williams of 15 Torence Dr. in Scarborougli. He AS O was cliarged witli break, enter and theft. Dave Matthewvs is still marvelling at the speed witli whicli the near- disaster was averted. Within haîf an hour of being inforrned by police that lis store lad Frost Dr. man ivins $259000 A Whitby resident lias become a $25,000 winner in tlie Aug. 29 Wintario draw. John Dale of Frost Dr. claimed one of the three $25,000 grand prizes offered in the draw. The draw also offered a top prize of $200,000 and tliousands of other prizes ranging from five free tickets to $100000. Board of Education. Drawing on lis ex- perience as a member of the Journalism Ad- visory Committee of Durliam College, Knell said eadh year a sub- "Because these students from the public education system can- not read and write, their chances of acqwiring job skllls are small. " Knell said that the 1 Michael LieU j1 stantial number of students are entering the programn witli sub- standard reading and writing skills. Each year at least one student la declared functionally illiterate and must be retrained before retur- ning to the mainstream college program. STEP UP -[O CHEQUING $1-$999 PERFORMANCE PLUS IS A DAILY INTEREST CHEQUING ACCOUNT. school board must be a committee of citizens wlio provide policy direction and guidance to the professional educators. Knell, a parent of two children, tlie older in grade one, said, "The scliool board must en- sure that our chldren be tauglit to read, write, and to master basic matliematics, for with these skills there is nothing that a child cannot become." He said the board must also ensure that children gain an ap- preciation for learning and a need to learn; that chuldren be made aware of' their rights, privileges, and respon- sibilities as citizens; and that they leave the system with the knowledge of how to acquire, as well as the motivation and the self- discipline to acquire job skills. Knell said the public school system must take stock of itself to provide those needs. To do that, the board would need leaders who know what must lie done and liow to do it. Knell said he believes lie could provide that kind of leadership. "For Our Children's Sake" is the theme of Knell's campaign, and lie said it was for their sake lie was seeking election. Knell, a graduate of Durham College, has been community editor at the Free Press for 1 ½,ý years. 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