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Show A Noun is a Person, Place Continued from Page 3 are well-qualifi- to go on to college. ed math stuUtah's advanced-placemedents are rated first nationally in taking and passing AP calculus tests, he said. Bowers said more Utah students are in advanced-placemeprograms than 10 said Bowers Brighton now has years ago. advancedfour placement programs. Each year, more students are taking advantage of advanced-placemecourses, and they than are more prepared they used to be. According to Bowers, teachers tell him the quality of students skills in the lower math subjects has decreased. Because of this problem, Brighton is beginning an applied math program for students who are not college bound, which will help them nt nt nt skills. Janet Landerman teaches senior English at Cottonwood High School. She said she was stunned by students lack of skills when she returned to teaching after 17 develop their problem-solvin- g students are in some ways more mature in quite a few ways than they used to be. They are better in their critical thinking, better aware of issues, better debaters, have better judgment and can better back up their opinions with illustrations, she said. Landerman said she was able to give students more when she taught 17 years ago. Because teachers cannot require students to buy books, they are reading less at home. We are spending our time in class readingbecause we dont have enough books for each student to take home, she said. Malee Jergensen, a teacher offreshman mathematics at Wasatch Junior High or Uh ... Uh School said, Kids are under a lot of pressure from their parents to do well in school, and will do anything to get good grades, including cheating. But, they arent willing to work hard for good grades, she said. Jergensen said when kids work hard at school, they seem to be more willing to work hard at home. When they dont have to work for what they get, they expect things to be handed to them. Students who are unwilling to work, with quixotic dreams of college, coupled with teachers working in an overcrowded environment. The problems ofUtahs public school system are easily recognized, but the solutions are far from societys view. Utah Opera Presents FalstafF Continued from Page 5 Saetre has been a soloist with the San Francisco Symphony, the Oakland Symphony and the Carmel Bach Festival. years. students be to remedial It used only the Rounding out the cast will be three Utah who couldn't put sentences together. Only singers: Susan Deauvono, soprano (Nan-netta- ), James Miller, tenor (Fenton), and the remedial students didnt have a clue. Now it is the A' and B students who cant Greg Griffiths, tenor (Dr. Caius). Lucky Deauvono! (Nannettas last-aaria is one write, she said. Landerman said skills are lower now in of the most beautiful ones ever written by English mechanics than they were when Verdi or anyone.) FalstafF costumes will be created by she taught at Olympus 17 years ago. She said she had only 160 students a day to Susan Memmott Allred, and Maestro Lee teach. Now I teach 220 students every Schaenen will conduct the Utah Symphony. day, with 40-4-5 students in writing and Schaenen conducted Utah Operas 1990 literature classes. Often, I just end up production of Verdis Rigoletto. A respected conductor and pedagogue for more babysitting, she said. According to Landerman, todays than 30 years, he currently serves as the ct director of the Lyric Opera Center for American Artists, conductor at the Lyric Opera of Chicago, artistic director of Opera Columbus and conductor at Austrias Summer Music Festival. 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