Feature Article September 5, 2001
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Location of credit program still unknownBy David BrisonDale Midwood, Principal of The Limestone School of Community Education, still doesnt know where his Boards credit program will be located.
On July 19, 2001, Midwood notified the North Frontenac Literacy Program, where the credit program had been located for a number of years, that the program was going to be removed from their building, but kept in Sharbot Lake. However, he apparently cannot find another location. Students are enrolled, but they dont know where to go.
The credit program is for students who want to get high school credits. Eleven students graduated from the program this spring, and others obtained credits towards degrees that were eventually awarded by high schools.
The Limestone Board also had a literacy-to-credit program in Sharbot Lake. The Board closed this program late in June, but, as reported elsewhere in this paper, it is now back at the North Frontenac Literacy Program because the Ministry of Training, Colleges, and Universities refused to let them close it. Literacy-to-credit is for students who need help with basic literacy/numeracy skills.
The reason for having the two programs together in one place, as they were last year, is that students can get help with some basic skills, often arithmetic and reading, through the literacy-to-credit program, and then go directly into credit programs.
The School of Community Education has said that the reason for moving the credit program out of North Frontenac Literacy was financial.
