Commission
Questionnaire

‘On Tuesday, December 4, a nunber of
interested parents and teachers met in the
Cassiar Elementary-Junior Secondary School
to consider a variety of topics relevant
to local secondary school education. The
meeting was held at the request of British
Columbia's Minister of Education, the Hon.
Mrs., Eileen Dailly. Previously Mrs. Dailly
had requested all school boards in the
province to hold public meetings in their
secondary schools for the purpose of
providing information to the provincial
Commission on Education, headed by the
Commissioner on Education, John Bremer.
The meeting, conducted by the Official
Trustee for School District No. 87,

Mr. T. McBurney, dealt with the following
topics:

Commmity focus

Use of facilities
Administration
Student involyement
Curriculum

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A questionnaire on the above topics
was filled out by those in attendance at
the meeting. The results of the question-
naire are as follows:

1. Parents believe they should be more
involved.in school decisions.
Teachers believe the Parents should not
be involved in decisions.

2. Parents §& Teachers are both in favour
of utilizing the school facilites by
the Community.

3. The majority are of the opinion that
school administration should be
controlled by school staff.

4. The majority are of the opinion that
students should be involved to a degree
in decisions that directly affect them.

5. The majority are of the opinion that
more emphasis should be on academic and
technical vocational subjects, also on
citizenship and courses for personal
enrichment.

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There have been quite a number of

activities around the school which have
caused some excitement this month. The
Cassiar teams' trip to Watson Lake was one
of the highlights of November. After 3
grueling months of training, the teams
finally, after a false start, arrived in
Watson Lake. The first game on the roster
was Girls' Indoor Soccer. The teams were
quite evenly matched so it was an interest-
ing game. The game wound up with a 3-3 tie.
The tie was broken by goalie penalty kicks.
Our super-goalie Heather Joseph won the day
for our girls' by stopping a vicious kick
and keeping the ball out of the net. The
next game was Boys' Soccer and our boys
took quite a beating. Considering the
fact that Watson boys have been training
for 3-4 years in this game, and also con-
sidering that they were twice the size of
our boys, the Cassiar team put up a good
fight.

In Volleyball the Cassiar girls put a
licking on the Watson girls, while the
Watson boys cleaned up on the Cassiar boys.

The girls were again victorious in
Floor-Hockey. They made the Watson girls
look like begimers. Our boys also won
their hockey game with good, clean and
expert puck-handling.

Badminton has never been Cassiar's
strong point, but our badminton players
put up a close fight against Watson losing
out sometimes by only a point or two.

As -the long day came to a close a tired
but radiant Beverley Tomashewski accepted
the Grant Stewart Trophy for Cassiar. So,
finally, after a six month stay in Watson
Lake the trophy has come home, and by the
attitude of the athletes here in Cassiar,
it will stay in Cassiar!