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     A TYPIEAIJ RuNARuND ‘ 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     last Monday evening at 
     
     Col. Gray High School 
     
     Premier Campbell, Educa- 
     
     tion Minister Gordon, 
     
     Bennett and Finance 
     
     Minister T. Earle Hickey, 
     
     met with approximately 
     
     600 people representing 
     
     the citizens and School 
     
     Boards of Charlottetown, 
     
     to discuss the new gover- 
     
     ment bills on tax reform 
     
     and Education. 
     
    

    
     Premier Campbell open-~ 
     
     ed the speeches by sayé 
     
     ing that he hoped that 
     
     the meeting would not 
     
     be one of confrontation 
     
     but instead one of dis- 
     
     cussion on matters of 
     
     concern regarding the 
     
     new tax act and school 
     
     act. concerning the 
     
     controversial Founda- 
     
     tion Education Program. 
     
     The Premier stated that 
     
     the Government was en- 
     
     deavoring to bring about 
     
     equality among students 
     
     no matter where they 
     
     were located on the 
     
     Island. 
     
    

    
     Messers Bennet and 
     
     Hockey both addressed to 
     
     the meeting after Premier 
     
     Campbell was finished. 
     
     Mr. Heckey gave a lot of 
     
     technical figures on the 
     
     new tax act and ended 
     
     by saying that he 
     
     thought that the new act 
     
     was very simple and he 
     
     .could see no problems 
     
     to it. Education Minister 
     
     .Bennett on the other 
     
     hand gave a very "warm" 
     
     homey talk in which he 
     
     ‘congratulated the people 
     
     _for attending the neat- 
     
     ing, something which he 
     
     ‘considered unique in 
     
     this province, and stat- 
     
     ved that never in the past 
     
     have we had such an opp- 
     
     ortunity_to get the 
     
     opiniong of the public. 
     
    
   
   
    
     One of the Iemale speak- 
     
     ers brought up the point 
     
     that many of the people 
     
     of Charlottetown felt that 
     
    
   
   
    
     .their school system would 
     
    
   
   
    
     be held back by the sovern~ 
     
     ment Plan to equalize all 
     
     school systems by 1976. 
     
     They felt that, while the 
     
     rest of the Island is 
     
     catching.up. they will _ 
     
     be forced to stand still. 
     
     They seemed to shock 
     
     the government represent— 
     
     ative who had been in- 
     
     formed of this opinion 
     
     before. 
     
    

    
     However, Mr. Bennett 
     
     said that the City School 
     
     System would not suffer 
     
    
   
   
    
     "and would probably improve. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Mr. Bennett stated the 
     
     Island school System 
     
     would be composed of 5 
     
     boards. each composing 
     
     of 15 members to admin- 
     
     'ister a school system. 
     
     of only 30,000 students 
     
     .and the idea of spliting 
     
     it down even further is 
     
     ‘unrealistic as there is 
     
     an added expense of 
     
     $50,000 for each Board, 
     
     and he knew of places 
     
     where this was 15 man 
     
     board for a population 
     
     of 160,000 students. 
     
     Thus administration 
     
     costs is the main reason' 
     
     for Charlottetown not 
     
     having its own board. 
     
    

    
     Concerning the matter 
     
     of Supplementary Program 
     
     Mr. Bennett said that 
     
     that there were provis- 
     
     ions in the Act for this, 
     
     however. all the people 
     
     inthe district would have 
     
     to vote for it. Premier 
     
     Campbell asked, "What 
     
     did Charlottetown really 
     
     want, their cake and eat 
     
     it too?" It seemed to 
     
     him that they wanted the 
     
     lbenifits of the found- 
     
     ation program plus extea 
     
    
   
   
    
     benifits unionfifi the 
     
     long run must come out 
     
     of the pockets of the 
     
     rest of the people on 
     
    
   
   
    
     th Islam 
     
     The meeging lasted alt. 
     
    
   
   
    
     most three hours and gave 
     
     its overwhelming approval 
     
     to a resolution submit- 
     
     tied by Karl Winter of 
     
     the West Kent Home and 
     
     School Association. 
     
    

    
     This resolution called 
     
     ;for Premier Campbell and 
     
     government officials to 
     
     meet with-representatives 
     
     of the City Council. the 
     
     City Schobl Board and 
     
    
   
   
    
     ’Hbme and School Assoc- 
     
    
   
   
    
     iations to study all 
     
     matters regarding the 
     
     establishment of a 
     
     seperate regional admis- 
     
     tration of a seperate 
     
     regional administrative 
     
    
   
   
    
     :school unit for Charlo- 
     
    
   
   
    
     tistpsnt- . 
     
    

    
     We are open to sugges- 
     
     tions. meaningful sug— 
     
     gestions, and as there 
     
     are 28 sets of regulati 
     
     tions in the SchOol 
     
     Act still to be worked 
     
     out, we look to bodies 
     
     such as this for views 
     
     and suggestions. Gover- 
     
     nment authorities should 
     
     -be listeding as well as 
     
     talking. 
     
    

    
     Poor Mr. Bennett, the 
     
     representatives of the 
     
     School Boards led by 
     
     Dr. Gordon Lea. Chairman 
     
     of the City School 
     
     Board.came so well pre- 
     
     pared to back their 
     
    
   
   
    
     'demands for a seperate 
     
     .school system for Char- 
     
     .1ottetown that it seem-* 
     
    
   
   
    
     ed as if Mr. Bennett had 
     
     not done his homework 
     
    
   
   
    
     ’for the meeting. 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     .' 5.“.