Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - November 21, 1993, Winnipeg, Manitoba Inside Story Winnipeg free press november Johnny cant gets As parents give up on education system As the basics Wane Ybaldo Santish education reporter johnnys report card says Hes doing Well in school and gets along with his but johnnys parents Are worried cant do simple addition and he cant schools have teachers have known about it for a Long some parents Are just beginning to a lot of the problems in school were evaded 50 years ago not because the schools were better but because there was a Strong consensus about what education should Edward a math professor at the University of Toronto who is committed to improving the teaching of math in the Public said classrooms Are being pulled apart by the very forces determined to make them q education departments pass along new curriculum guidelines without adequate support or q business leaders lament the absence of High school graduates with q dissatisfied parents measure today schools against their own idealized Barbeau said that with All the competing the children and their parents and teachers Are often left to their own and More and More of the parents Are opting for private tutors or education one of the things we should worry about is that parents Are giving up on the education system for whatever Barbeau the Contact that should exist Between students and teachers within the school system that been shut Barbeau said that 50 years the Public school system was rigidly managed by the provincial departments of education they controlled what was How it was taught and even the textbooks in the he All that began to education was left More to the discretion of individual school schools and their new philosophies of teaching sprang up and curriculum guidelines went by the Barbeau said that two developments have further undermined learning in the emphasis on self esteem and the ability to make decisions in the absence of in recent there has been a trend to teach not Only the basics but also the role understanding plays in Barbeau teaching students How to make Independent teaching them the ability to make some teachers forget that technical skills Are also necessary to make those judgments and those skills Are not being with the self esteem the system is afraid of traumatizing students by giving them Low grades or failing students Marks Are artificially inflated but All they Learned was that they dont have to anything to get a Good they parents see their children getting Good Marks but they Lack the Basic skills to string three sentences together or Are unable to manipulate Basic free pres photo Franco Bruni studies at tutoring Many fed up with Public get private help for their students sidestep free tutoring Bald Santin education reporter Gene Walker is a lonely As head of the math department at Dakota Walker spends an hour each morning before at lunch and after giving extra but on most Walker Only a handful of students come for extra i have a lot of kids failing in my class yet i dont see them for extra Walker Ashley Kehler Hopes to go to University next fall but is worried about her math Marks there rather than ask her teacher for extra and her opted for a professional i probably have gone to my math teacher for extra a Grade 12 student at mennonite Brethren collegiate inst he goes very i cant always keep up with with my 1 work at my own there Are several Hundred students across the City like Kehler enrolled with one of the 14 professional tutors and education Walker and other educators in the Public school system were unable to explain Why Stu dents and their parents bypass the tutoring help that is freely available at most City Walker said his Best guess for the growth in professional tutors is that and their Are too Quick to blame the teacher for failing especially if those students dont ask for its always someone else the teacher gets the Walker the student says he cant learn from the teacher but usually its they dont have the work theres a flaw in the Armor of they pass the Buck onto someone else and their parents accept so that Why they have to look for outside Kerry Woolard said students have been com ing to his learning Centre for the past 11 years because there worried about their childrens parents see certain weaknesses in their children for Many when they see those same weaknesses year in and year that can be All of a they realize they have to do As much As Possi a former math teacher who opened the cites first professional learning Centre 11 years Woolard said Public schools and their teach ers offer tremendous support to struggling Stu dents but adds it int always there is a certain amount of support the teacher and school can give and the parents sense their child needs a certain amount of sup sometimes it matches and sometimes it Hospital wants its role recognized by Doug Nairne and Bob Lowery Thompson Hospital officials want special consideration under healthcare re saying their location and role demand they not be held to the same restrictions As other Murray executive director of the Thompson general Hospi said placing his facility in the same category As those in towns such As Portage la Prairie is unfair due to the regional nature of the ser vices offered in weve got to be recognized for our differences from other facile he a Hospital like por Tage la Prairie is Only one hour away from larger facilities in Winnipeg but for us the distance can be eight under the Rural staffing guide lines put Forth by the government this Rural hospitals of Simi Lar size Are Given similar staff Bud but Halkett said Thompsons Remote location requires that it maintain More so More staff is Thompson has the potential to expand its services to All Northern Resi said David the hospitals chief of the Hospi Tal is especially sympathetic to the needs of first nation people and would like to work with them to improve their Quality of health Loretta health Liaison for Manitoba Keewatin now Oki Makinak representing 25 Northern native bands said health care is a univer Sal right for All Manitoban and the same should be True for Quality of the system imposed has been one of further deprivation for first particularly for isolated and Remote com she Clifton said red tape causes a lot of for he said that three years Gastro copy equip ment for stomach problems was or dered at a Cost of it never things drag on so Long and eventually the equipment was donated by healthcare Reform should not depend on charitable do nations to provide regional Servic health minister Jim Mccrae said he is willing to consider the Hospi tals i can see the Thompson like clearly has a regional i dont know what it Means in terms of extra i do know that i have no doubt it serves the the Thompson Hospital serves a vast Region that includes 12 re it also includes four Urban and five Remote acting Federal medical services director Jim Mair said that during october residents of Northern native 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