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Show The Utah Foundation "didn't tell half the story in a news release on the cost and quality of school services," a Utah Education Association official declared Wednesday. Wed-nesday. Dr. Daryl J. McCarty, the UEA official, said the Utah Foundation used "a faulty yardstick" to measure the efficiency of schools and "failed to consider some obvious reasons for rising costs of schools." - The UEA leader noted 'that the Utah Foundation used scholastic aptitude test scores and related them to a "decline in public school achievement." "Those tests don't measure achievement, they measure aptitude--and there's a vast difference," dif-ference," McCarty said. He said that the Utah Foundation "seems to have a blind side when considering school costs." "Education doesn't cost, it pays," McCarty said. He pointed to a US Senate study in 1972 of undereducated persons which concluded that each dollar invested in education would have generated $6 of national income over the lifetime of those persons. At that date crime and welfare expenditures attributable to inadequate education were estimated at $6 billion a year and rising. McCarty said the Utah Foundation's statement ignored the fact that the state's schools are educating far more young people than ever before. In recent years the Utah State Legislature has provided additional funding for educating handicapped students, students from ethnic minorities, expanded school guidance cqun? i seling, special programs for gifted and talented students, expanded music programs, and reduced class size. The Legislature has appropriated funds to pay the full cost of school textbooks, the collection of taxes for schools and the skyrocketing costs of utilities, student t.an-spo-tation and Social Security. Many of those items did not improve students' test scores one point, because they were not intended to do so, McCarty Mc-Carty said. He said another half-told half-told part of the Utah Foundation's story was the matter of the dramatic social changes during the past decade. McCarty cfted the fact that one of every six students comes from a single-parent family; the "do-your-own-thing" attitudes att-itudes that prevailed during the years of the drug culture; that $600 million is spent each year on school vandalism; 20 million children live with an alcoholic parent; the growth of child abuse and neglect during recent years. "This did a lot of damage to education, and school teachers alone could not control any of those social phenomena," McCarty said. "Anyone who wants to hear a horror story about child abuse or child neglect should ask a teacher about these things, because teachers know about them," McCarty said. "In contrast to implications im-plications of the U'ah Foundation article, I'm thoroughly convinced that teachers are more dedicated now to the teaching and development develop-ment of kids than they ever have been," the UEA official said. "Teachers have to be that way today because the situation demands it," he said, adding: "The teachers of thirty years ago were largely concerned with academic excellence alone. The teachers of 1978 have to deal with each kid's heart as well as that kid's brain." McCarty pointed to what he called a misunderstanding of the teacher's role that was reflected in the Utah Foundation's statement on schools. The statement attributed at-tributed parent complaints com-plaints about trends in "open" and "progressive" educational educatio-nal methods that have shifted emphasis away from educational "basics." McCarty said: "It isn't teachers who decide the curriculum in schools. The people who decide such matters are school administrations and school boards. It's true that some administrations ad-ministrations and school boards give a few teachers some input, but this is only minimal." "Teachers who seek to change the curriculum to reflect needs they see in the schools are often told, 'you cannot change the curriculum because this is a prerogative of the district administration and Board of Education.'" McCarty raised questions about other aspects of the report. Many statements in the report were not attributed. at-tributed. Rather, they were linked to unnamed sources such as "critics," and concerned citizens. Much of the report was drawn from a magazine iarticte that, applied to the nation as a whole, not Utah. The research actually performed by the Utah Foundation, the so-called "cost-benefit analysis," is based on highly questionable premises, McCarty said. "There's no question that education requires an investment from taxpayers," McCarty said. "But that's just what it is-an investment. It's one that has paid off for centuries, and will continue to do so." He added, however, that he and other educators recognize that the schools have problems and shortcomings, short-comings, and that the public has an unquestioned right to complain about them. "We do ask that the complains be based on facts," he said. One office worker to another, about job-seeker: job-seeker: "Poor Willie. In order to get the job, they made him shave off his mustache, sideburns and beard. Then, when they got a look at his face, they wouldn't hire him." Shoppsrs Urged to Be Cautious It takes only a second to lock your car. And it also takes only about that long for a thief to steal your Christmas presents if you don't. Few people do all of their Christmas shopping at one store and, consequently, con-sequently, packages are often left sitting in plain view on car seats. 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