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Show niack man's status 'dictated' today's society yet decent education is not provided for minority groups. Studies at the institute have shown a two-year academic gap between white and non-white children. Dr. demons continued on the subject of "Beyond Segregation" and outlined a program to achieve full integration. She would like to see an integrated PTA, staff and special programs to integrate the parent. Curriculum must be desegregated in all areas instead of the common practice of an occasional unit on a minority's history, he said. "Above all," said Dr. demons, "Children must have a positive self-attitude. They must believe that they can succeed in a desegregated environment." The same consensus was reached by black youth in a later discussion group. The young people felt that it was very important im-portant that they know the By JEAN JOHNSON and JOE KAPLENK Chronicle Staff ,We are here to carry on the fight for freedom and to gain new nspiration," said Leonard H. farter regional director of the Nat,onal Association for the Advancement of Colored People NAACP). His talk was part of the Lent West Coast Regional Conference for the NAACP in Salt Lake City. "Nixon in a television message to !he nation, March 17, said, 'My own position is well known. I am opposed to busing for the purpose pur-pose of achieving racial balance in our schools.' The fact is that only two percent of the students bused are bused to achieve racial integration," added Mr. Carter. "Almost two decades after Brown vs. Board of Education, while two-thirds two-thirds of Americans support the concept of desegregated public Education Act of 1965," Mr Carter said. Tuition grants, which could be cashed at the school where parents decided to enroll their children were rejected by Mr. Carter because he felt that the ghetto child needs more funding than an affluent child in order to offset the disadvantages of being raised in a poverty atmosphere. He also added that the grants would enable richer parents to offset these grants with their own money so they could send their children to private schools and thus avoid an integrated situation. Equalized school funding was rejected for the same reason. Mr. Carter felt that no court in the country would recognize the need for extra funding for the ghetto child as compared to the affluent child. Community control of the "Black children are harassed unmercifully by white students, suspended or expelled for little or no cause." - African heritage behind their culture. It is not enough to merely spout forth the term "Black Culture," black culture must have some meaing and this implies a knowledge of what it is. "Racial discrimination and regular disciplinary problems in the schools must be distinguished by the youth in order to obtain true progress," added Clarence Mitchell, director of the NAACP, Washington, DC, speaking before the group. He added that many of the black problems are brought on by blacks themselves. He urged that black parents get involved with their schools, and try to understand un-derstand students' problems, even though they may not understand what the children are learning. schools, 69 percent oppose busing as a means of achieving that long-sought goal," said Mr. Carter. Desegregation has been ordered in a number of northern cities as a result of the application of the Brown decision. "These decisions have excited passions in the Northern where school desegregation desegre-gation had been thought to be a 'Southern problem,' and brought renewed hope to the South." He stated that the relatively inferior social, economic and political status of blacks was dictated by the relative advantage ad-vantage it provided to whites. "The status of blacks cannot be substantiatively upgraded without threatening and sometimes causing whites to surrendered their superior social, economic and political status," he said. Compensatory education was mentioned as a possible alternative alter-native to busing. "This calls for the setting up of special programs ghetto schools, hiring extra teachers, utilizing the latest teaching aids, and generally committing additional resources to the target schools. Some of these programs have own financed under Title I of the tlementary and Secondary schools that seeks to have blacks controlling ghetto schools he felt would be opposed by many whites. He felt that it implies a change in racial policy and would retard desegregation. Free schools in the ghetto would meet a myriad of problems including in-cluding state and local educational requirements, health and safety standards, teacher certification and financial problems. "They require a degree of commitment, competence and courage which," he added, "would be difficult to mass produce for millions of black children whose schooling continues con-tinues to reflect a separate and highly unequal character." A workshop on education strongly denounced the Nixon moratorium on busing. San Francisco Attorney Benjamin lames spoke on "A Crisis in Education." George Williams, education field director from the national NAACP urged his listeners to "set up local education committees and don't say you don't have any problems." Director of the federally funded Desegregation Institute in Riverside, Calif., Dr. Lula Mae demons decried the fact that "Knowledge for the pursuit of knowledge" is prevalent in |