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Show 6 Page tHije 'CEirttes-foft- Wednesday, September 20, 1995 Nephi, Utah is 3d)oot Revs. . . NESPTA sets Home and School... Vital Links Back-to-scho- ol By Lilly Eskelsen, president Utah Education Association night And of course you care. BeWe send out messages. Those messages come in how we treat cause the message you see in school The Nephi Elementary people. How we talk. The choic- their clothes might be: Youre a PTA invites all parents and chil- es we make in a thousand mat- slob. Youre a gang member. dren to attend the ters. Clothes matter. You know Youre color blind. Your family cant afford a night, tonight Wednes- it. Your kids know it. But my boys will play games washing machine. Youre allergic day, September 20th. The meeting will start at 6:30 with me. And Ive never been to shampoo. You get your clothes p.m. and will be held in the Ele- good with games. Theyll come to handed down second hand from mentary lunch room. The PTA breakfast with dirty shirts and your uncle whos a Japanese will sponsor the event and will holey jeans and shoes with drag- Sumo wrestler. My boys are right. They say provide refreshments. ging laces. Ill tell them to put the Teachers will in attendance to milk down and go back up and that what they wear has nothing meet with parents and answer put on something clean, and then to do with whats inside their little hearts and minds. That they questions. Also, the new PTA if oforfo board will explain the goals of But I look fine!, theyll say. can still be intelligent, loving, the PTA Parents who wish to join Gol, EVERYone dresses like caring people and look; like huthe PTA can do so the meeting. this!, theyll say. It doesnt mat- man DNA experiments for defecter what I wear. It doesnt mat- tive bad hair genes. VOLUNTEERS These 9th grade students, Shanna Painter, Emily McKnight, Tiffany Shaw, how I look. It doesnt matter. Well, of course, they can. Thats ter Collette some heavy-dutDawn and Orme, Mary Krissy Hertz, put Sperry, Jenny Wilson, Jenifer Warner, too not the point. The point is that Methinks my boys protest clean-ueffort into the El Tonya Motel corner. much. many, many people we meet each Because it certainly seems to day will form opinions of us J-D- ay matter to them. It matters be- based on the messages we send. cause how they look sends a mes- - And some of those people po- Students at Juab High School or, cleaning up at the freeway new Jail, picking up litter at sage to everyone who sees them, tential employers, friends par-Th-e spent Friday of Homecoming interchange, picking up shells Burraston Ponds, clean up at the message they seem to want ents, teachers, police officers, Week volunteering in the com- and debris at the rifle range, do- city park, painting over the grafOctober is National Stamp Co- to send might be: Im cool. Im and neighbors will never have munity. ing general yard work for a few fiti at Red Cliffs Sports, and llecting Month. As part of this bad. Im independent. Im not a the chance to find out that we are was designated as an elderly citizens, clean up at the sprucing up at the Mona special event Nephi Elementary wimp. intelligent, loving and caring beopportunity for the high school golf course, pulling weeds at the School is organizing a Stamp CoBe afraid of me. Be impressed cause everything else about us is students to give back to the comllecting Club for students 2 with my dangerous use of plaids screaming the opposite. We send munity, by way of service AND stripes. Be shocked by me. our messages. And over my chilyears old. projects, for the communitys conThe club will meet Thursdays Worry about me. They will work drens objections, I will continue tinued support of high school acfrom 1:30 to 2:30 p.m. at the ele- their little hair blowers until to encourage them to concentrate tivities. mentary school. The Nephi Post they blow a fuse on getting their on sending out the messages that Several high school juniors and Master will be the guest speaker pointy, moussed spikes to stick tell the truth about who they are. seniors went to Nephi Elemenat the October meeting. ever heavenward. They will wigtary School to spend time listenwho enjoys new and gle around mirrors all morning Anyone ing to 2nd grade students read. used stamps from letters and to get the sags and bags of their The students are at Back-to-Scho- ol Y y NES p Juab High Students volunteer on organizing stamp collecting club J-D- ay 8-1- the younger point where reading skills are extremely important, and having someone listen makes it more fun. The more kids read; the better they read, said Dr. Mikkel-soNES Principal. In another part of town, community service found a group of freshmen mowing, raking, trimming and cleaning the property at the El Tonya Motel on Main Street. As part of High school students were busy all around the community and surrounding areas. Other projects included: visiting and reading to the residents at Canyon Hills Care Cen- - JHS VOLUNTEERS Aaron Mangelson listens to NES 2nd grade volunteer project. ter, painting at the Colonial Man- - student, Kyle Smith, read as part of the n, J-D- y, y post cards is welcome to join. Members will hear stories about stamps through the years, learn more about mounting stamps, and interesting ways to display stamp collections. Parent and public participation and support is welcome. For more information, call Di- ane Black at 623-592- SCHOOL PAPER MDVE MDG3)!D)LE Please bring your newspapers to the Middle School parking SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 30TH 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Phone books welcome No magazines please them to think and hours more to tell their mother that they real- ty dont care what people think, Of course they care. foreMore and more Americans are the annual Educathe educast are more and in more by prepared engaged back-to-scho- cation, according to the annual ol tion Departments National Cen- forecast issued ter for Education Statistics. today by U.S. Secretary of Education Richard W. Riley. The Information Age must also be the Education Age, Rid ley said. The two go and, increasingly, we see more students taking harder courses and staying in school longer. We also see parents going back to school, gaining new skills and increasing their potential for higher wages and more opportunities. If ever there was a time to focus on education, this is it. Ultimately, knowledge is a national security issue the enemy is ignorance and schools are our first line ofdefense. This fall, I hope every American will visit a school, learn whats going on and volunteer to help. Data projections contained in hand-in-han- lot on people will think what they want, . ; involved : Americans engaged in education, says Richard Riley back-to-scho- ol Support The Middle School!! 7. Support your schools! Get pants just right and ensure that the XXXL shirts hang mere molecules above the floor. It will take them hours each day to arrange their clothing in such a way that Enrollments Increase The nations preschool and kindergarten enrollment will rise by an estimated 250,000 this fall, up from 7.5 million in fall 1994 to more than 7.7 million in fall K-1- 2 1995. Elementary and secondary enrollment is expected to surpass the baby-boogenerations 1971 peak of 51 million students next year. The forecast is for 53 million students in 1997 and 55 milm lion by 2002. The nations secondary schools should see a signif(grades icant increase in enrollment this fall to more than 14 million, up from 13.6 million last year as the 9-1- 2) enrollment boom that hit mentary schools throughout ele- enrollment increases in grades are expected into the early part of the next century. The forecast says 32.8 percent of elementary and secondary school-ag- e children in 1995 are of minority background, up from 28.2 percent in 1985. White school-age- d children comprise 67.2 percent of enrollment, down from 71.8 percent in 1985. The most rapidly growing group continues to be Hispanics, which 9-- has an increased enrollment share from 9.5 percent to 13 percent during the same period. Postsecondary Enrollment Increases, Too Enrollments in public and private colleges and universities are expected to reach 14.4 million this fall, increasing slightly over last year. Of these students, almost 9 million will attend four-- the late 1980s moves into high schools. 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