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Show A-10 rfte Park Record Saturday, August 13, 1997 PCHS attendance and drug policies are revised JJ Superintendent DeFord now has greater control over student suspensions j At the Park City Board of . Education meeting on Tuesday, JSept. 9, the board fine-tuned iPark City High School's attendance atten-dance and drug and alcohol policies. poli-cies. Consequently, the high school rwill have a different attendance .policy this year. Students will be permitted to miss three block periods per class for each quarter. A student is required to make-up any missed classwork upon returning the next day. However, if a student misses more than those three days, no make-up work will be allowed. School related absences, medical excuses, a death in the family, documented doc-umented college visitations, competitions, com-petitions, or some other extraordinary extraor-dinary circumstance are not counted as absences. This policy, "has gone through an entire year of approval," by committees of legal experts and board officials, said Park City High School Principal Hal Smith. "This year the policy is closer to the one the high school had two or three years ago." The extremely rigid policy of last year, which authorized the loss of credit if a student was absence more than three times, was so unpopular that the school decided decid-ed to revise it. Smith said that so far this year he has heard no complaints about the new policy. Zero Tolerance Another policy that is currently current-ly undergoing revision is the "Zero Tolerance" policy, which concerns drug, alcohol, and tobacco use by minors. Two major changes were approved at the Board of Education meeting. First, the safe schools policy was clarified and made consistent with the drug-free drug-free workplace policy. Secondly, Superintendent DeFord was given the freedom to direct the course of suspended students. She may now advocate alternative alterna-tive measures to assist students in trouble. , Hal Smith, Principal fet PCHS, will also gain greater control over the number of days a student is suspended. Also, the school, board would be allowed1, greater flexibility in readmitting a stu-' dent after his offense. . While the ' policy, remains staunch on its forbiddance of drugs at the school, these, revU sions will allow for more oyerall flexibility. it;.;? i ! Wetlands prove to be an instructive environment ' "tar SCOTT SINERAWC RECORD Students sketched and took notes on the sights and sounds. Continued from A-9 Andrew said, "It's pretty stinky here." He also didnt think that people should live near wetlands without a big fence to protect them, "All the animals would come into the house. We always go in our house when we see moose," he sa i Mckencie Donoghue saw a, "two-foot duck." While Brynne Parry saw, "Frogs and ducks. We saw the duck on the nest," she said. Carleigh Lake added, "It's very beautiful here because of the flowers." And, Zack Taylor said, "It's pretty good and a snake was right by me." .- ' - v ' Sept. 14-21 is Community Health Center Week Community health centers throughout the nation will celebrate cele-brate Community Health Center Week September 14-21. The theme of the week "America's Health Centers: Making the Community Connection for Health Prevention," embraces the dynamic role health centers play in connecting all segments of the community neighborhoods and people, businesses, schools, religious and civic organizations, and governments in the greater effort to make health services available. Utah's 13 health-center sites are dedicated to serving the medically med-ically underserved men, women and families who may not have access to care for complex financial, finan-cial, geographical or cultural reasons. rea-sons. They are part of a national network of 940 health centers which serve one out of six low-income low-income children and one out of eight low-income Americans. Locally, these federally-funded centers served almost 52,000 individuals for 160,000 visits throughout rural and urban Utah during 1996. Community health centers serve the most vulnerable. More than half of all clients seen in Utah's health centers are uninsured. unin-sured. Many of the clients come from "ordinary families" who do not have health insurance but do not qualify for public assistance. In many communities, Utah County as one example, the community com-munity health center is the only provider of care on an ability to pay basis. All community health centers provide services on a sliding slid-ing fee schedule. In some communities, the health center is the only available health care provider. For example, exam-ple, Wayne County Medical Clinic in Bicknell, Utah provides both primary and emergency care. The clinic has literally been the life saver for many people such as the gentleman who came in with "gas pain", collapsed with myocardial infarction, revived and lived for many years. Clinic staff have even delivered a baby. Community Health Centers have merged with other services t o insure access to care. Midtown Community Health Center in Ogden was instrumental instrumen-tal in establishing a school-based clinic to serve elementary school children who had no other health care. In Salt Lake, the Fourth Street Clinic served nearly near-ly 6,000 homeless individuals during 1996. Fourth Street Clinic has partnered with other organizations organi-zations to provide vital dental and mental health services. Reports show that health centers cen-ters provide care in a highly cost-effective fashion including lower hospital admission rates, higher childhood immunization rates, and better use of preven tive services resulting in lowered rates of preventable illness. .The childhood immunization program pro-gram facilitated through the community health centers is one of the most successful in the state. ! ; Community health centers provide a vital service. For many rural and urban Utahns, they provide the only accessible care. Clinics are established in East Carbon, Salt Lake, Enterprise!, Green River, Ogden, Provo and Bicknell. i Utah's health centers are helping build stronger and healthier communities.:They are invaluable community , assets', improving health, providing jobs, strengthening schools, sta-bilizing sta-bilizing neighborhoods and, importantly, encouraging individual indi-vidual responsibility for health. All Utahns benefit from their service and commitment to the medically underserved. t m Results indicate many favorable trends Continued from A-9 never easy. We are lucky to have the financial backing and the will of the parents," she said. Martha Crook, of Parley's Park reiterated Murphy's comments. She said that the schools would look at the findings and work to fix problem areas and continue using the methods that seem to be working. She said, "Parley's scores have generally been going up over the last years, but we have been looking at areas where we can improve. We are meeting with grade level teams to discuss the tests." , , .To account, in. part, for the improvement in math scores, Crook said that in the 80s, math teachers from around the country developed standards and directed the focus that math should take. "There has been a shift in the way math is being taught," she said. "It's more hands on." Lessons are related to real life situations, rather than just computations. com-putations. She said that as of yet the same type of standards have not been set in reading. Still overall, Park City elementary elemen-tary students' reading scores improved or remained consistent. In another study, the Utah Taxpayers Association completed complet-ed its yearly evaluation of Utah school, district?. The Park (City Pistrict,was;awarded a B, plus,,;. The study, which used the Stanford Achievement Test (SAT) to grade school districts' performances, uses three equally weighted measurements: yearly overall performance, expected performance for the year and improvement from last year. A yearly GPA is then calculated by averaging the three indices. North Summit garnered an overall grade of a B-. While South Summit received an overall over-all C plus. Rich, Daggett, Kane, Piute, and Wayne districts ranked highest. 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