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Show Page In THE Z. LEADER-GARLAN- TIMES, November D 17. 1977 Our Opinion School Talk Involvement Is assess Stats Reveal Home Problem By Leslies. Dunn Director Adult and Community Education - hand-in-han- When our country was very young and the population was relatively small, true democracy was practical. Town hall meetings, neighborhood and cracker barrel debates in the general store gave everyone an opportunity to express his concerns and to receive personal feedback from local officials. As the country grew larger, offic- Counselors cont. from page one those same students get to college they grade higher than their ACT scores. One reason for the switch, Checketts theorizes, is the ability of valley students to work. "We have a good work ethic in this community," he ., said. While the two counselors explore ways to get in contact with a greater number of students, they also implore parents to get involved. Said Mrs. Hurd, "I would plead with parents to recognize this and call us because we'll come before school or after. If they have a student who is unhappy ials isolated themselves from the citizenry by setting up barriers which made it difficult for the average citizen to be heard. A few sensitive leaders have recognized this problem and have tried in various ways to eliminate the barriers, but they have been largely unsuccessful. A few years ago in Flint, Michigan, a plan was developed by a Community Edu- -- callus," Checketts urges parents to be aware of what courses their students are taking. Registration for next year gets under way in late January 1978 and "parents can come and get involved," Mrs. Hurd offered. Can school counselors really compensate for disinterested parents at home? "Yes", to a certain extent, Mrs. Hurd feels. "When parents don't care, there are other people who care," she said. Perhaps, surprisingly, Checketts said it isn't always the student who has the right to give up, who does. "A lot of students have every right to throw it in, but don't," he said. His biggest disappointment is the student a few years ago whose test scores put him "way out there." The male student flunked completely out of school. "Any time we leave a student out of school - that's frustrating," Mrs. Hurd agreed. "Our aim is to keep students in school..." Both counselors give teachers credit for some "very effective counseling." "We have an excellent relationship with our staff," Checketts said. "They're willing to come in and say cation Director whereby each and every citizen in the community was able to express his concerns to and local school and community officials. This bold return to grass roots democracy was given the name of the Block Plan Community Education I don't know what a witch hunt is, but I have a letter before me written to the executive director of our organization in behalf of President Spencer W. Kimball by Wendell J. Ashton, quoting several excerpts: "President Kimbal is most appreciative of all the excellent work you and your associates have done in fighting pornography, ofttimes in difficult circumstances. It is suggested that you give consideration to obtaining support and help of organizations such as the Utah PTA and other such groups. Members of our church, of course, are encouraged to give you support as citizens." I appreciate President Kimball's kind support $ . that is needed for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing," - Dante. i Generally, Mrs. Hurd said the majority of teachers on the staff are "very available to students.. .even at home." Counselors also get their share of calls at home during evenings and on weekends. The majority don't concern school directly, but are from teenagers seeking help about personal problems, a signal to the counselor that he or she has the ' " ' confideneeof the caller. - Counselors also spend their own time on the phone. "You make telephone calls to get kids up in the morning. ..to give encouragement," Mrs. Hurd said. TO Sincerely, PatBowen, Area Representative Citizens for True Freedom Tremonton Editor Writer Lauds Value Of Performance Objectives 1 Editor: The parent who recently wrote to you concerning the new superintendent certainly gave all of us much to ponder. There were, nevertheless, several points in the article which I seriously question. The parent indicated that writing out performance objectives might be harmful to the children because of the time factor involved in objective preparation. I have never found this to be true. Teaching with written objectives has, in fact, enhanced the quality of my teaching. When the student has some indication of what he is to learn, why he is to learn it, and what the teacher expects as evidence that the objective has been accomplished, the learning process is greatly accelerated; moreover, stating no objective may hamper learning. Allow me to cite a personal example to illustrate this point. Several months ago my daughter asked me to teach her to read. I was delighted and soon embarked on an extensive program of teaching the sounds of the alphabet. To my astonishment, my efforts were met with resistance. I questioned her further. "Daddy," she replied, "I don't want to learn the alphabet! Just teach me to read my books." Although my objectives and intentions were clear to me, they had not been adequately communicated to my child. After she understood the necessity of learning the alphabet, the learning proceeded smoothly. Writing objectives can be time consuming. Perhaps this is the reason the superintendent suggested that interested teachers write down the essential objectives as they are employed during the course of the year for one particular subject. I remain unconvinced that such Writer Will Speak Out Against Pornography Editor: I'd like to clarify for the public a couple of points c brought out in last week's editorial concerning literature in the school libraries. The editorial said that we had hurt our cause by making a human error in confusing the approved reading list of the American Library Association with the UEA which the editorial said constituted slander against the UEA. This argument is so insignificant to the whole issue. In the first place, this isn't our cause, it better be the cause of every decent Christian in this community and state or we are going to pay some horrible consequences for the folly of our apathy. And second, if the UEA were being fully responsible in its duty to uphold the code to teach morality to the young people of this state, they would have been on top of this situation many years ago and would have eliminated this type of trash. I shudder to think what damage has been done already to our young people, and every day that this stuff is left in our school libraries, many young spirits are going to be twisted and destroyed. Every type of sexual deviation and filthy language is written in these books. I, personally, don't want to stand before my Maker and be held accountable for this situation, and so I will speak out and do everything within my power to help solve it, let the consequences be what they may. porno-gnaphi- rv W L . W RIVER DRUG REG. PHARMACIST 1 STORM WINDOWS, T If PORCH ENCLOSURES 1 TOP QUALITY PLASTIC Hi I , actions are threatening to the best interest of any student. The parent also assumed that many teachers were writing new lists of objectives in order to please the new superintendent. This practice was questioned since many objectives were previously written and others could be obtained from commercial companies. The letter further noted that these commercially produced objectives could be given to inquiring parents. This assumption is factitious and actually borders on the ridiculous for several essential reasons. I seriously question whether the superintendent is actually "ing that objectives be written so that he might be -pleased; rather he sincerely believes his prograrti will enhance meaningful learning in the classroom. Any teacher who would write out a list of objectives with no other purpose in mind than to please the superintendent has missed the whole concept, intent, and purpose of the program Dr. Dalton is promoting. The feasibility of giving a commercially produced list of objectives to an inquiring parent is highly questionable. Although such objectives are generally well written and may be widely employed in classroom use, many of the objectives are not always applicable to a particular situation. From my experience as a teacher, I believe that most parents would have greater concern as to what actually transpires in the classroom, which objectives the child is presently mastering, and what goals remain to be reached. They would have less interest in what a company several thousand miles away might think important for a child to learn, cont. on page three fli tGte". WINDOW MATERIALS l FLEXIBLE! SHATTERPROOF! YOUR TUD5KEV ieys will be given away at 2 p.m. on Nov. J9th at center of town or in CommunityJCenter if weather is hadTW" You LONG LASTING! OV 1 1 UK HALL NORBEST or MANOR HOUSE HANDY HINT: Light sleepers can soften the ticking of -k niacins it ......... cnnnOP - nn a email p- f v..0 mm 76 So. 1 DRUG CENTER Tremonton, Utah t j 209 West Main Phone TREMONTON 257-71- 21 near youngest teacher. reading To tell you the truth, we're scared to death. It seems she's one of the teachers who expects her students to take a list of works home each night to learn-anparents are exd pected to help. Well, our son is one of those kids who files every-thin- k in his pocket, then promptly loses it. Needless to say, we were a bit chargined when we got a note from the teacher about our performance. Luckily he didn't lose that one. He's since managed to make it home with three out of four lists. And if you ever want to house throw the Star-Gazinto a panic just yell, "Junior can't find his word list." I hope you've read the proposed county ordinance licensing paid dancers in taversn. Star-Gazonly has one question. The ordinance says dancers have to have their license in their possession when they dance. er er back-to-scho- ol parent-teach- son's er Judging from the costumes some of those gals wear a county license in the hand might provide more cover than their attire. talks are scheduled at most area schools. Mrs. and I are frantically tryStar-Gaz-- er ing to think up excuses why neither of us can go see our Send one...Take one home. OurFTD Thanksgiver Bouquet. Order one for Thanksgiving Thursday, November 24! A harvest of fresh fall flowers in a woven basket, for your folks back home. Show them your thoughts are with them. .We send flowers, plants . . . almost anywhere, the FTP way. 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Winners can bring their turkey coupons to either check-up- s .iAlr an uianii ciw.iv didn't r Register at any participating business no purchase necessary. Hypertension or high blood pressure has been called the "silent disease" because there are no symptoms. One of every seven adults has it but only half of them realize it. It is a factor in over a million deaths each year. Star-Gaze- the North Park School this week. The reason was that someone informed us we goofed last week in reporting the Portage town council election results. It seems we were told a while back that Josh Hawks (He's the North Park principal) was a candidate. But when our gal called the night of the election, no mention was made of any votes for Mr. Hawks. We'd missed the fact that Mr. Hawks had taken his name off the ballot and so the gal just assumed he'd been skunked. We apoligized for the goof this week. And you can see why I wasn't exactly looking for Mr. Hawks during the past week. My sources tell me that he's been getting a lot of kidding from some of the studentbody about his vote total. I hope he's taking it good naturedly, I've got a photo assignment there tomorrow. Speaking of North Park, that reminds me that 72 Turkoys MAKE YOUR OWN LOW COST STORM DOORS. Keith Frczor BEAR By establishing Block Plans in our school communities, the true Democratic process can once again be returned to the American people, and agencies can again become agencies for and of the people. By the way, this week is National Education Week. If you haven't visited your school - PLEASE DO SO. Things are better than you think. receive information from 'help!" Letters In order to better serve our public the Box Elder District is in the process of implementing our adaptation of the Block Plan in the schools of Box Elder County. The organizational structure for this program works like this: Each block in the community elects a Block Leader who holds meetings with all the people on his or her block. At these block meetings citizens express their concerns, prioritize needs, develop solutions to problems and receive first hand information on community and school issues. The Block Leaders meet with Zone Representatives who head up groups of 8 - 12 Block Leaders. At the zone meetings problems and concerns from the block meetings are aired and solutions developed for problems best solved at this level. Information is also received from school and other officials which is processed and passed on to the individual citizens through the Block Leaders. Zone Representatives meet monthly with the Community School Council. This group may be composed of all Zone Representatives, the School Principal, the Community School Director (if the school has one), P.T.A. President, P.T.A. P.O.D. Director, a teacher, a student, a representative from the school classified staff, a city official, School Board Member, and special interest groups within the school community. Concerns and possible solutions from the zone meetings are presented to this council for action by appropriate agencies or individuals. Committees are established to work on various projects. These committees must coordinate with appropriate agencies, School Board, City Councils, etc., to accomplish their tasks. Information, surveys, census, etc ., needed by school or city officials can be organized and conducted through the Community School Councils. This two-wa- y communication system can prove to be a most valuable tool for both citizens at large and school and community officials. The citizens can now have a recognized vehicle whereby their concerns and needs can be heard and directed to the appropriate agency for action. Agencies, such as the school, can have a method where they can contact every citizen in the county for the dissemination and gathering of needed information. School - what most of us call reform Development Center evidence of what sociologists have been provide Troubled for saying teenagers very often come years. from broken homes. THE STATISTICS taken in July 1977 show, for instance, that of the 138 students at the center, 70 percent come from split homes with 30 percent coming from homes where the natural parents are married and living together. school 7v Model. Block leader, Zone representative, Block Plan, two-wa- y communication, Community School Council, strange new terms that are grass roots democracy rapidly becoming con ""nplace in the vocabulary of lic minded citizens of our school personnel and county. d with the concept that the schools Going two-wa- y belong to the people, is the belief that a communication system between the schools and the citizens of the community needs to be established. This communication system must be sensitive to the needs and wants of each and every citizen in our communities, regardless of age. gathered from the Ogden Youth SOME STATISTICS 8 All WDDrcrr or EMPIRE 4 3 3 2 2 2 2 4 2 2 2 |