Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, it is interesting to find out that the schools, either the local boards or the regional education board, can identify what home economic programs they would like to carry out. I believe their choice is limited by the space they would have in the community school to put forward these programs. That is my specific point. I was amazed to come to this community; for instance, I have one of my boys going to school here, and the amount of programs available for him to enter the use of specific carpenter tools or mechanical tools that he has the ability to see and use, they are not even available in the small communities. I feel the small communities are greatly disadvantaged by the bigger centres. By having all this available in the bigger centres, those children have a big advantage over the children in the smaller communities. They do not have the ability to get introduced to this type of use of home economic tools such as carpentry or mechanical. Mr. Dent suggests all the carpenters we can use up here, I agree with him. First we have to introduce them to a hammer and a nail and go from there. My particular community cannot address these programs because there is no space in that school. They have been after the Minister now for a while to extend that school. My question is again, it is fine that the boards can decide they want all this, but where do they put them? All these grade 12 programs, how do they fit into a grade ten school?
Vince Steen on Item 19: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
In the Legislative Assembly on March 2nd, 1998. See this statement in context.
Item 19: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
Item 19: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
March 2nd, 1998
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