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Show Page ID North Edition Lakeside Review Wednesday, February 6, 1985 During Awareness Week Parents Hear About Abuse ruth Review malan Correspondent KAYSVILLE Officers from the Davis County Sheriffs department displayed types of drugs and drug paraphernalia at the recent student parent Drug and Alcohol Awareness Night at Davis High School. The purpose was to make parents aware of drug abuse. The Vectors of Davis County Mental Health presented a drama which is an educational tool that utilizes a combination of drama, art, music and movement to portray everyday human situations. After the drama, facilitators follow up with group processing. This involves drawing out the feelings of the audience and generating discuspsych- o-social sion. During this discussion, a mother in the audience stated that public officials, policeman and teachers, ignore the fact that Kaysville has a drug problem. She said her daughter started using drugs a year and a half ago as a student at the junior high school. The mother said that during last summer the daughter was being teated for mental and emotional problems related to drug and alcohol abuse. Only the first names of those giving personal experiences are used. I used to come to school stoned out of my mind, said Dave. The teachers didnt even know it. Dave told of his experience with drugs beginning at Davis High School. I got my first joint at the north door of the school from a friend. The more I smoked the more I liked it. He explained that an average day in his life began when he would walk to his friends house and raid his mothers liquor cabinet then catch the bus for school. They then met other students to smoke two or three joints before when they found she was a drug user. The daughter is now at the Adolescent DrugAlcohol Psychiatric Treatment Center (ADAPT) and the family is dealing with the problem. In an interview following the meeting a sister to the young abuser stated she knew her sister was on drugs but couldn't tell her parents because she didn't want to lose the trust of her sister. Besides, nobody would believe me, she said. This girl had seen drugs in the junior high and stated you could find drugs anyplace. Kids use drugs for a variety of reasons. Austin Chiles PHD of Davis County Mental Health discussed reasons for drug use. The number one reason for drug abuse is to change the way you feel. It's a way to deal with pressure. The second reason, said Chiles, is they just feel like trying it. Last reason is to reduce the pain of loneliness or because they are failing in school. Substance Abuse Volunteer Efforts Inc. (S.A.V.E.) is a private organization of trained volunteers who are a resource to theLDS family. They identify religion as a key factor in resolving problems school began. He began to skip classes and by his sophomore year he dropped out of school to get money to support his habit. He began selling marijuana to junior high students and people from Layton. At about 17 years of age he moved from Kaysville. He then began robbing places and living with junkies. My dad didnt even know I was on drugs, said Dave. drugs but all of it went back into my body. He explained that drug users are the best manipulators on earth-th- ey have to manipulate every moment of life. When her son was 6 years old, a mother from Huntsville, discovered he was on drugs. She began to hate her son and tried to remove him from her home. She tried to tell other mothers their children were users, but they wouldnt believe her. She began listening to her sons phone conversations and reporting to the police where he was I made a fortune on selling 1 meeting pushers. As a result, their garage was burned down. We suffered a lot of embarrassment, but we had to let our son ar hit bottom. at Davis High Drug Awareness Night School. sheriffs show the differ- ent uses of drug parapheri ilia during a DAVIS COUNTY Her family had to seek professional help. We have to educate parents, she concluded. Isnt it great to be parents, said Dennis Martinez, probation officer for juvenile court. The Parental role is very important. He explained that the use of alcohol is on the rise. Youths that are picked upon alcohol charges may choose to take a course on substance abuse from the Davis County Mental Health rather than to have the first offense on record. The parents must attend the classes with the offender. Some of the agencies in the area that help parents are: Alcoholics American Anonymous Davis Cancer Society, Mental Health, Layton County Bountiful Davis CounClearfield Sheriffs ty Department, Davis County School District, Kaysville Police 1 1, St. BeneDepartment, dict's Hospital ADAPT center, or SAVE 621 SAVE. 393-472- 8; 544-583- 6; 298-344- 773-706- 0; 776-418- 6; 8; 451-350- 451-111- 7; 3, 544-05- 773-687- -- 0; Chalk Line Lets Face the Dear Bonnie, JENNIFER HUNTER and Curtis Price will play the Gilbreths in Clearfield High Schools rendition of Cheaper By the Dozen. The play, directed by Norman Maxfield and Brenda Brown, will be pres ented Feb. 13-1- set in tion is at 7:30 p.m. The producthe 1920s and involves the 6, activities and problems of the large family. Tickets are $1. Gil-bre- th Lunch Menus Set for District Secondary menus for Davis County: Wednesday, February 6: tacos whot salsa sauce, corn, rolls wbutter, applesauce, white cake wassorted icing, milk Choice High School: burger bar, salad bar Choice Junior High: hamburger Thursday, February 7: roast turkey, whipped potatoes wgravy, green beans, red jello wstrawberries & bananas & whipped topping, parkerhouse roll wbutter, glazed spudnuts, milk Choice High School: burger bar, salad line Choice Junior High: cheeseburger Friday, February 8: ' spaghetti wmeat sauce, combi- nation salad lettuce, com, rolls wbutter, mixed fruit, chocolate cake squares, milk Choice High School: burger bar Choice Junior High: stacked ham sandwich Tuesday, February 12: chicken patties, whipped potatoes wgravy, green beans, carrot sticks, rolls wbutter, applesauce, choice of cookies, milk Choice High School: burger bar Choice Junior fiigh: hamburger Wednesday, February 13: nacho supreme, cinnamon roll, milk Choice High School: burger bar, salad line Choice Junior High: Malibu sandwich wItalian dressing, rolls wbutter, pears, coconut oatmeal cookie, milk Choice High School: burger line salad bar, School lunches for elementary grades in Davis County: . Wednesday, February 6: vegetable soup, baked cheese Junior High: foot sandwich, Vi banana, sugar cookChoice ie, milk long hotdog 11: Kindergarten Snack: cookie, Monday, February homemade burritos, shredded milk Thursday, February 7: roast turkey, whipped potatoes wgravy, peas, parkerhouse roll whoney butter, apple crisp wtopping, milk Kindergarten Snack: bread stick, milk Friday, February 8: hamburger in a bun wIettuce leaf & dill slice, french fries wcatsup, orange sections, crazy cake brownie, milk Kindergarten Snack: cinnamon puff, milk Monday, February 11: stacked ham sandwich, cheese stick, hash browns, peas & carrots, glazed fruit bar, milk Kindergarten Snack: cheese & crackers, milk Tuesday, February 12: chicken fried beef patties, whipped potatoes wgravy, green beans, parkerhouse rolls wbutter, cherry tarts wtopping, milk Kindergarten Snack: crisp red apple piece, milk Wednesday, February 13: tacos, com, mixed fruit, cinnamon rolls, milk Kindergarten Snack: small cinnamon roll, milk At Roy Elementary . meeting any Students Read Toward Medal ROY Roy Elementary students, teachers and parents are in the midst of an all encompassing reading marathon. K-Every student, in grades 6 is in the eligible to participate reading activities, and earns points for accomplishing the daily assignments. Each day of the school week a fun and different reading related It seems that your questioneer dealt with what you perceived as the only answers to crowding i.e. double sessions, new schools, raising taxes, cutting career ladders, etc.. I do not see where any of these get to the real issues that we face with our education system. The quality of education has been dropping significantly in the past decade. SAT scores have been declining and the dropout rate is increasing. Utah schools are not exempt from these trends, in fact they may be leading them. Utah teachers are paid less and have more students per class than just about any schools in the nation. So, where are the teachers that want to do a quality job and receive one of their just rewards (a reasonable wage)? Somewhere other than Utah! What are the real issues? To understand them better let us look at what the function of the education system should be: To prepare the students to be productive, educated citizens that will have the options available to them to pursue a variety of occupational roles and be prepared mentally, socially, physically, emotionally and spiritually to enjoy life and contribute to society. The education system I speak of is not just the public school system. The home will have to play an ever increasing role in meeting the educational demands. Churches and private offerings also have a great deal to offer in the education area. What the public school system needs to do is provide quality education in the basics that currently make up their curriculum. They too need to be looking ahead and modify those curriculums to match the needs of a changing nation. The real issues that I see are (1) lack of quality teachers and administrators, (2) economic operation of our school system and (3) a course structure that allows competency advancement. I do not see double sessions, more schools, higher taxes or settling the debate over career ladders as task if listed on the student's card. If the activities for each week are completed by the student, checked by the parent and returned to the teacher, the student can earn points toward an 01mpian Reading Medal. Some examples of the reading activities include: reading to your family for 5 minutes, limiting TV viewing to one hour per day, 1 writing a story or poem and sharing it with the family. Students can get extra points for having a Weber County library card and for reading the comics in the newspaper. This reading project is targeted to improve basic communication skills, to bring families together and to improve communication between home and school. of these issues! One option that would allow us to tackle all of these issues, where the others mentioned Main Issues would not, is implementation of a full year school operation. This would consist of four nine week terms per year spaced twelve weeks apart (three week breaks) and running four staggered schedules concurrently. On this schedule only 75 percent of the 'students would be in school at any one time.Full year school would affect the issues spoken of in the follow- ing way: (1) Increase quality of teachers and administrators. The ability of the current school system to draw the top quality teachers and administrators is hampered by low salary and the crowded classroom. With the full year school schedule, and only teaching 75 percent of the students at one time, either the class size would be reduced or the number of teachers could be reduced with the result of increasing the remaining salaries by more than 30 percent for a full years job. With a slight increase in cost compared to either double sessions or new schools both objectives could be met. (2) Economic operation of our school system. Currently our schools are empty for the three months that would be least expensive to operate them - when there would be no heating costs. With the current class size the same schools could accommodate over 30 percent more students, the tradeoff of course being smaller classes. At any rate, the cost per student for school facilities is decreased or kept in check. At least the alternatives of constructing new, very costly schools or double sessions and doubling teacher costs are avoided. (3) A course structure that allows competency advancement. Currently we are stuck with yearly grades. Either the students are passed, which usually happens even though in individual subjects they fail, or they are held back for an entire year though they may be quite proficient in some subjects. There are those also that have competency levels and ability that are far above the norm and are held back and are not being challenged because they cannot skip ahead a whole grade. There is flexibility with the full year school schedule that would allow very easily the shifting of students from one schedule to another to meet their individual competency levels. There are many more benefits of full year school that I believe outweigh the perceived or real drawbacks and I only mention a few of interest. A level of flow of students employment as well. Private offerings in specialty areas (i.e. dance studios, etc.) would have a constant clientele with the students that are on their three week breaks. This, I believe, would open up new business opportunities that could not afford to operate on a seasonal three month schedule. Families, whos children are all on the same schedule (which may or may not be desirable - family preference) could take vacations at other times of the year, which now is not possible because of the nine month school schedule. Those families who have several children and need help at home could stagger the childrens schedules and have one at home on break continuously. This would also supply time for home centered education on an individual basis. Teachers would have a full time job at a reasonable wage. They would have a months vacation (two weeks at Christmas time and two weeks in the summer) and could have the opportunity of taking quarters off to update their education which could be part of their merit pay system. I would hope that you would consider more options than you have when you seek canned input and not lead the people into believing that either higher taxes or poor education are the only choices we have. There is a better answer! L. & J. C. Dear L. & J. C., Due to the amount of space required by this letter, I will comment on the three main points I will say I next week-bu- t got a tremendous amount of mail supd school! Great! porting Questions may be sent to Bonnie Smith at the Lakeside Review, 2146 N. Main, Layton, UT year-roun- 84041. Clinton Sets Teacher Appreciation Week Teacher AppreCLINTON ciation Week will be celebrated at Clinton Elementary School Feb. 1 1 through 1 5. , Members of the PTA have been planned something special for each day of the week, to give recognition to the education of the students. Teachers as well as cooks, custodians and bus drivers will be honored during the week. On Monday, doughnuts in lounge. Tuesday there will be the teachers will bring the dc- - liveryof happy grams. On VVednesday, teachers will receive small gifts from the children and on Thursday the room mothers have a surprise planned. The week of activities will 'culminate with a luncheon on |