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He still remembers When a student is bullied, the the bully's name 34 years later. first person a victim will typically go Bullying is not only hurtful, it can to is a friend, Brown said. But he affect performance in school. encouraged both victims and their Brown estimates 160,000 students friends to communicate the bullying nationwide stay home from school to-an adult. Brown said administrators, teachers, coaches and school each day to avoid bullies. Bullying is pervasive in schools. guards arc excellent confidants. In a recent Reader's Digest poll, 70 While parents could top the list percent of parents said their chil- of confidants, some parents dismiss dren had been bullied. •bullying as "a right of passage," or Brown drew from students' with the adage "boys will be boys." They don't see that bullying "can experiences with bullies. "Stand up if you can think of leave scars and crush self-esteem," even one student who's been hurt by Brown said. another persons words," he said. Brown realizes adolescents can All but a few students stood. have difficulty communicating with Brown referred to the "plastic their parents, but he has a solution. smile" of victims, saying they smile "The best tool a parent could buy on the outside but cry on the inside. in raising children is a kitchen Brown then addressed the bul- table," he said, adding that it's an lies, saying, "How do you want peo- excellent venue for communication. ple to feel about you years from now Jim Markosian, St. John's assiswhen they hear your name or see tant principal, started the WAG • Lender Membm F0!C EDGEWATER. Colo. (AP) Jefferson High Schools security chief has found that by having kids clown around, he can keep them in school. Three years ago Tim Martinez created a clown club. It meets three times a week after school. "This is where I laugh," said Ana Castrejon, 16, a junior whose clown nom de plume is Chubbics. Castrejon and Iwo dozen other club members don makeup, attach clown noses and walk around in oversized shoes as" they learn some magic as well as how to twist balloons into various shapes. "One of my friends, she was telling me it was cool," Edward Camargo, 15, said of the clown club. "I love it. I'm learning new things. I'm kind of a clown anyway." The students probably would be watching TV, hanging and generally being bored without the club, they concede. Martinez had no clown experience until he took it up seven years ago. Initially he bought supplies with his own money but now he has a grant from 21st Century Community Center. "What a blessing for me. I hope that by doing this they are not involved in drugs and gangs and other stuff," Martinez said. For two hours a day on Monday, Tuesday and Thursday, their class chore is learning how to make people laugh. "1 tell them: 'The shortest distance between two people is a smile. If you smile at someone, they will smile back,1" Martinez said. A group from the club won the peoples choice award at this summer's Edge water Days Parade. Club members carry their smiles to nursing homes, school assemblies, rallies and community events like Cinco de Mayo. "This gives them a sense of celebrity," said principal Jose Martinez. "I wonder if we didn't have this program, what some of these kids would do. It just connects them." S GRAYSON WEST/PARK RECORD Closing racial gaps in schools SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - A group established to address the testing achievement gap between Utah's white and minority students has narrowed 60 possible recommendations to five points, which will go to the public in a series of open houses. The draft report recommends that the state create a permanent commission on student achievement, and it calls on educators to analyze student statistics. It asks lawmakers to enforce accountability standards, create programs for at-risk students, such as access to all-day kindergarten, and then fund those programs. The final report goes to the Legislature on Nov. 9. The group was organized by Gov. Jon Huntsman in May and is made up of legislators, processors, community activists and parents representing the state's ethnic populations. Some members contended their views were not represented in the report and they question why four of six open houses are scheduled after the group's final report already has been delivered. "To me, the point of having forums and public meetings is so you can engage different communities ... and ask what needs to be done better," said Enrique Aleman, an assistant professor of educational leadership and policy at the University of Utah. "It's been done backwards, and that doesn't make sense to me." Yvette Diaz, chairwoman of the working group, said that although most of the town-hall meetings will be held after the final draft of the group's proposal is presented to lawmakers, the working group's meetings were open to the public. 4 *m &r\ k*<\ -V-.if ' '&K£* ,'RfcSGRT VIEWS A PRIVATE MEADOW !Absolutely immaculate 3 bedrm, 2.5 Ski into this picturesque Colony lot. [bath apprpit. 3401 sq. a, custoni yfafy^ ji$8.acre bonjc site witl1 lar^c Aspens ; home. Office, sunroom, family ro&m\-'fy%*Q4 Everg"^ 1 " surround a gdndc , . w e l l d e s i g n e d k i t c h e n w i t h g r a m f ' •'•••*•>• ~i«:«-. ~ . - . J - . . -ru:_ i STOPPING BULLIES Mark Brown suggests bullied children do the following: • Walk away. Confrontation is not the answer. • Remember that there's safety in numbers: Bullies are less likely to antagonize children in groups. • Humor can be used to defuse a situation. • Don't show yourself as an easy mark. Stand tail. Carry yourself with pride and confidence. • Don't be afraid to talk to adults, who can be a bullied child's best resource. McPolin Elementary School third-grade teacher Kim Jenson combines science and reading on Halloween as kids construct their own spider web. !SF& >^ (words, actions and gestures) program at the school, which aims to curb bullying in the halls, lunchroom and outdoors where it is most likely to occur. "We have doubled the supervision in those places," Markosian said. Not only do the adults act as a visible deterrent to bullies, but they also are available as problem solvers. Students Spinning a web of learning clowning around Residential 8O1-48-RAISE 801-487-2473 Commercial CONCRETE RAISING By FRANK FISCHER MediaNews Group Wire Service Draper, Utah - Eighth-grader Mac Baird knows bullying. He had his share of it as a sixthgrader two years ago. "A kid and his friends were tormenting me. One time the kid tripped me when I was running. He made me fall, then he laughed," Baird said. Over three months, his grades fell. "I almost flunked out of school. Then I started bullying others. I saw a lot of kids doing it," he said. "Apparently I was a bully, but I didn't know I was doing it until teachers talked to me about it." Baird was among about 500 St. John the Baptist Middle School students whose attention turned to bullying last week when youth speaker Mark Brown visited their school. Brown is a spokesman for Quality School Program, a school fundraising subsidiary of .The Reader's Digest Association Inc. .:r..i ' TbwWH^^Wih:RksQ.. IVJust see town home with 5bfcfeoms •• and2.75 baths approximately^12 sq. ft/ in excellent condition: Living room wit :_:.. , _ L . .._ n-L.v--- ___-t. i •«• m • counters, Spacious open floor plai -L E T T Diaz, executive director of the Utah Department of Community and Culture, maintains that the process was as democratic as possible, and included opinions from all communities. 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