Salt Lake Tribune | 1975-07-06 | Page 12

I2 Tin Salt Lake Tribune, Sunday, July 6, V 1975 I f ii Rainbow School Provides Alternative in Education - 'Oracle ftggs, Wot Liniuren Ms Hoilibush he lievcs, to spend her years at Rainbow grappling with new Robin Ed1f t Note alternative school mowemsfit, bam In nte is jttll very tnurti !iv If minfil continue lor sys n exoerr, as a source of employ ment for teacher wtw can't find public vrttool jobs. TW '. By Timothy Kai jvi .Waxiated Press Writer than memorizing the Gettysburg Address or conquering the rudiments of algebra There have been no com prehensne studies of how students from alternative which elementarv schools meet education standards in most states if they have certified teachers and if students attend a certain number of days each year perform later in public high - MILWAUKEE, Wis Theres no 'ay of things at Rainbow reI Chris. Hoilibush, coordinator of Milwaukee s Rainbow School, is bemused as she recounts the eight frenetic weeks in 1972 when she and severa' other parents decided to start their own alternative school in an old apartment budding Its a process that keeps started throughout the United Slates by idealistic young Ohs have times Although 19-- y My ear-ol- upon - tri Mj f & i Jeff Md Sf uur cause is moti-vat.o- ." uft j to school is the worst organizing, geology there is individualized activity for students who prefer to curl up with a book Nohody," Ms Hoilibush says firmly, "is allowed to do nothing " But there are problems, she concedes particularly among children coming to Rainbow from other sc hools Hard Handle as unobtrusively as possible, says Ms Hoilibush who prefers that designation Reading a traffic sign is reading, anil measuring a (able is math We dont try to push anybody into anything The rest of the day is spent m uiformul classes, studying subjects selected by the teachers and students for that month Topics include war. pollution city living raphy astounds me It was more important for H that can happen here ' Most free school teachers are young and underpaid Many work only for room ni hoard in cooperative communities born as farm communes Some are drawn to alternative schools It cause they w ill be able to say and do what they want, others sun-plcouldn't find "real teaching jobs And skills Rubin started at a public high school last fall after two years at Rainbow, Ms Hoi Ubush says "She felt very ignorant She didnt know all the facts and figures the other kids did The amount she doesnt know about gang H union We try to work on basic public i im-- Our union is perfect interna! resuuces ate W oh one mind we re- - lived to die free men r than to li.e as SiilS t s at will ly daughter d Page last Our urea dre ruth During the school term, all 50 children ithe oldest 12i spend the first hour of the day on language or math Teac hors wander from room to room, occasionally lecturing to all, hut more often topping to help indiv iduals The child! rn sit, stand walk , hop wiggle, lie on the floor, talk and yell seeming Noticeably Different Some of the students are noiiceably different than con in c struc tured tlmn most their children The New Schools Exchange Clearing House in Pettigrew, Ark, lists 1,200 privately run ' alternative'' schools m com inunities around the United States They have 50,000 children enrolled, mostly in the grades pnor to high school schoools i, alternative schools now operating Its also more changed many parents behove that these alternative schools still are the best way to pass on their values to temporaries Dechu a., a. .f me Causes and r. A.n- - ' bi.ttallv written bv Thom is leffersont who took his seat irCong'ess June 29) the document is extensively r written by John Dickmson in ef an advocate of reconciliat'on The document We feet a declaration ot war agairst Brita.n It 'ays have counted the tost of this onte't and find nothing so Honor jjstict ard dreadful as voluntary 'lacpry humanity forbid us .ameiv to 'un under that freedom whic h we received from oar gallant untesiors and whu h our innoc ent posti nt. h nea r ght to rt t c ive from us W e t annul end ire the tnfarry a. id gulf of resigning sue (ceding generations to that wren hednes- - whuh ir evitahlv a ills peru if we uiselv entail heredit iry bon Congress adopts the p pvu .pc .,f Talons mation becaus their eager ness o leaqi allows them to ta'ch up to their classmates in traditional schools quickly Third Year Rainbow which rents the apartment building space it uses, fmished its third full academic year m June and is therefore older than most schools 1775: 6, July But alternative education s sup(rters say most of the graduates arc not handicap-jeby a lack of basic infer Every year we have more kid. but fewer desks and fewer chairs" Rainbow is one of the more successful people m the A Chronicle of America schools evolving " she shrugs counterculture We Hold These Truths... ideas and concepts n as the teaching job market is l.ght It might continue for several more years, says now a professor at Cheyney, Pa., State College, as teaching graduates find it increasingly difficult to obtain public school jobs and fird alternative schools that provide them with work, if not necessarily with money. Perhaps the most volatile fuel for the alternative movement is disdain for U S public education "Public schcxils teach peoMs ple to hate learning, Hollibash declares, and Scott director Davies, 21 year-ol- d of the Bay City Alternative School m Green Bay, agrees ' The students who do well here do so basically because they fetl they were being held bac k in traditional schools, Davies say8 Rainbow evaluates its students regularly in handwritten notes from teacher to parents A few alternative .schools grade with the usual ABCs, but more simply give students straight A's You grade eggs, not children." says Barbara Zwayer of the Marietta Johnson School for Organic Education in Fairhope .Ala Marietta is an alternative, but it was started m 1907 Everybody who signs up for the basketball team gets to play and if four students audition for the lead in a school play, the show is produced four times so each can take his bows. Public educations defenders, meanwhile, argue that alternative schools are too undisciplined and inject too much political bias into the young, on everything from Vietnam and the military to police and drugs. List Danger They say the danger is that the products of alternative schools will not be able to adapt their counterculture upbringing to the real world. 1 hope no kid from Rain bow ever does adjust to the Ms Hoilibush real world, grimly replies Like their public school Kids wouldn t be here if they alternative school parents are confident they're domg right by thur counterparts weren t involved The biggest problems have dollar signs in front. Monthly assessments ranging from $10 to $100 or more per family are barely enough to cover Rainbow s salaries, $120 monthly in rent and miscel laneous in the $12,000 annual budget children They w.ork hard at it. taking on various "volunteer projects ranging from cleaning up after a to potluck supper to helping build a jungle gy m "Everyone is involved, Ms Hoilibush says "Their J n H1 at r YOUR CHOICE OF 31 QUALITY y he public schools, this type of freedom is sometimes hard to handle." 'he say s few alternative schools nute out traditional spank mgs, some simply ignore those who misbehave .After 'll r yy 1 Rainoow s three teachers one fur preschoolers and two elementary age students, a month each earn Frank Lindenfeld a free school founder in the lCs a sociology when he wa professor at the I Diversity of California at Berkeley, says the alternative movement will continue to grow as long "The worst punishment at Rainbow is to be kept at home " Ms Hoilibush says Not being allowed to come OR AT A SUBSTANTIAL SAVINGS AT UNITED SAVINGS! HERES HOW TO GET YOUR FREE GIFT. . . 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