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Show Pape 4 THE UTAH INDEPENDENT March 12, 1971 (Continued from Page 1) futation of both H.E.W. replies. the Western cityV where it had The matter now rests in the hands run a political action campaign, of H.E.W. Secretary Elliott Richardson. and a failure in the Southern comradiHe should not be allowed to munity where it had avoided cals and tried to help cildren. ignore the matter. Mrs. Barnes sworn statement On January 6, 1970, classes for a special Head Start Leadership deposes that on January 9, 1970, Development program began at just three days after the classes in the University of Kansas in Head Start Leadership DevelopLawrence. The great majority of ment began, the trainees were the trainee teachers, like so many taken at public expense to Kansas Head Start teachers throughout Gty to join in a riotous demonthe nation, were themselves wel- stration against a local radio stafare recipients. Presumably they tion which had played a song crit-icwere carefully selected from of welfare chiselers. On commuongoing programs of the February 3, 1970, the trainees nity-changing type favored in were directed to attend a lecture the Head Start objectives already by Saul Alinsky entitled American Revolution, Act Two, at quoted. But whoever was selecting the radical trainees for this which Mr. Alinsky declared: WHat we need is anew society. . particular course made a bad mistake. He included Mrs. Dean .the Establishment is the enemy. Barnes, a teacher in the Head Once you leave the radical movement you are gone. You might get Start program at Malta, Idaho. It seems the revolution had not a job. Conflict is a way of life. . . yet reached Malta, Idaho. Mrs. .You have to organize to break Barnes had not yet heard that she down the middle class. was supposed to be working for The next day, February fourth, relevant changes in community all the Head Start trainees were institutions and the transformaagain taken by bus to Kansas City tion of the Republic. In fact, to hear a speech by Dr. George nobody had even told her why Wiley, executive director of the she was supposed to hate her National Welfare Rights Organization, who proclaimed: If you country. Equally unfortunate for the don't want to riot right in your Head Start organizers was that own community, fine, but you Mrs. Barnes proved a keen obserstill have the power because you are part of a powerful organizaver, utterly honest and straightforward, unafraid to take a stand tion. You can use the threat of a for her convictions, impossible to riot right in your own communsilence, and unwilling to accept ity, because there are riots going evasions and excuses. The lady on elsewhere. . . .Being a subverattended the lectures, the revolusive is the best way to help get tionary speeches, and the demonpower. Later that day the class strations. She took notes. When it heard Dick Gregory on The was all over, she prepared an Black Revolution," a affidavit sworn on April 7, 1970, speech interspersed of the sent to mindless and with such rant as Baby, Secretary and Welfare, we are going to burn America Health, Education to other highly placed officals in down. He was succeeded by the Nixon Administration, and to Father James Groppi from Miselected Members of Congress. lwaukee, who roared: Bobby The lady shook the H.E.W. Seale i3 a political prisoner. What Department hard enough to force they did to him was like Nazi two separate investigations of Germany. her charges. These produced two On February fifth, more elaborate whitewashes. Un- revolutionary lectures in Kansas daunted, Mrs. Barnes prepared a Gty were scheduled forthe Head re- Start trainees. 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He told her she was brainwashed. She replied: I love Amrerica. Even with all its faults, I still love America. I came here to learn about children. Children are my love. But Project Head Start, despite its name and phony reputation, is not interested in children. Even wont understand when you get home. Then we had the Ill tell on you sessions, which made me think of ugly things I have read in history. Child Development There was very little taught about children. We had a textbook on the subject, We didnt use it in class. Most lectures were tirades on racism and the Establishment. We were told by Phyllis Connelly how wonderful the Hippie movement was for the country. Mrs. Connelly told us the Establishment was not letting the one of II.E.W.s whitewash poor children have a better life. investigations admitted the truth But even as she mouthed these of Mrs. Barnes charge that the words, right there on the campus were children enrolled in Head Head Start Leadership Development course lacked even a basic Start who were being denied the program in kindergarten training. things the Congress wants them Jule M. Sugarman of the H.E.W. to have. And the money that should Office of Child Development tried to explain this away, declar- have been spent for books, finger ing: This was not a teacher trainpaint, paper and scouringpowder ing program for kindergarten. It for the toilets, was being used to d was a program for demean our government. Highly Head Start staff with leadership paid teachers and trainers were potential in the areas of child racing around but the children development, social services and had almost no supplies. The toilets were foul, their classrooms human relations. Mrs. Barnes crushing reply to that deserves to were exceedingly dirty. Their books were ragged, torn and very be quoted in full: Yes, thats true. The program unsuitable. Social Services all heated , had three prongs In a required lecture, Feb. 4, tempered and honed to very sharp points. The first point Mr. 1970, Dr. Wiley told us that we the poor were only a step away Sugarman mentions is: Human Relations from welfare, and ifwesepamted This one came on strong. In ourselves from welfare and didnt one class we were to shu t our eyes identify we not only hurt them, and feel each others bodies. In but hurt ourselves and cut ouranother class we were to get up in selves off from power. I have always believed that one class close, nose to nose, and look at each other tfeyeball to of the purposes of Head Start was to try to raise up a better new eyeball But that wasnt all, as the text- generation, better educated and book explained: In the most better able to lead a prideful life close phase (maximum contact), without welfare. But that isnt the muscles communicate. Pelvis , what we were taught. " Welfare thighs and head can be brought needs more people , said Dr. into play , arms can encircle. Our Wiley. Mrs. Barnes also mentioned instructor, Ed Skaggs, said: " Here in this class we are in our own asking a teacher of the Head Start little world. No one will know children at Lawrence why he what we are doing. And he wore the same dirty sweat shirt to added: The folk back home all of his classes for an entire three-pronge- - week. In reply, site said, he told us that it was more comfortable to dress the way he did, and anyway the children were in poverty and would never get out, and what difference did it make anyway, they didnt expect anything else. When Mrs. Barnes persisted in her criticisms, the second H.E.W. white-was- h team visited her in Idaho after making a token visit to the University of Kansas. They admitted to her at her home in Bridge, Idaho, on July 22, 1970, that when they visited the building where the Head Start classes at the University of Kansas were conducted, the building was locked up and we couldnt get in. But, they assured her, the playground looked fine. Here is Mrs. Barnes reply: Not being able to go into the place where. the Head Start children were housed, the team missed a lot. . . .The facilites at Jolliffee Hall smell. To put it plainly, when I was there they stank as only stale urine and extremely dirty toilets can smell of human excretion. The miasma was dreadful, but the team was spared this. . . . And the team didnt get to see the kids squeeze the slimy ten oclock bowl of cold oatmeal mush through their fingers, because they couldn't eat d over-cooke- ttm m m Nor did the "team get to talk or work with the children, who were so pathetically eager to play games and make things, but were simply allowed lo run and scream, and hit the teacher. the playground However, looked fine. Mrs. Barnes has now learned, as some of us with more experience with Big Government learned long ago, that this is the sort of muck in which nearly all of the great idealistic projects of the federal government end. As for the Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, his response to tliis final indictment from Mrs. Barnes has been dead silence. I Continued on Page 10 -- |