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Show STAYING IN ‘Moondust’ falls short ‘Teachers Have it Easy: TheBig Sacrifices Frank D. Roylance THE GALTIMORE ‘SUN andSinall Salaries of ie America’s Teachers’ Daniel Moulthrop, Ninive itentetiac: Easy: The Big Sacrifices and Small Salaries of America’s Teachers” should be required reading for every state legisla- forespecaly fortosewto still view teaching as a “calling” iW, adil Wad |= a Ce ea \MOONDUST ‘SAREOF TakBQ RBELZO aN (LA ORG jy"Vaasa cMmcy Wo Muang a) SMa TTS tS aa Tela} eau signing bonus while yanking retirement benefits fromlongterm employees?) Rather than ranting on, let me “Teachers Have it Easy” asa _cogent, spot-on, highly readable account of how bad things are, but how good they could be if we were only willing toreally put first things first. Workable examples are given. Moulthrop, Calegari, and ESSE DAS the Me tp the SEHo- as punch when her beautiful, in_telligent daughter is accepted to Brown University— until Trina hens to behave aL and is with bipolar disorder. The nightmare of a formerly loving child who now physically and verbally attacks her, whoruns away from home, drugs and rarely sleeps and who refuses the medication that would help her be herself again drive Keri to blameless for this situation, as common local opinion that “we desperate measures. She even to reward excellence in seasoned teachers because inexperienced teachers are cheaper. (For instance, why did local school districts eliminate career ladderincentive programs in favorofflat-rate payouts to all teachers except those who weretrying to qualify for a raise by taking extra classes? And why give new teachers a clawed its wayinto ae] anecdotal pages ofthis book, weread of teachers who work twoor three extra jobs to make ends meet, who cannot live in the towns where they teach because atwo-bedroom condo goes for $200,000, who cannot spend time with their own families because they are i the possibility of a much larger income in order to educate our children and who, on aversge spend a shocking amount of their own meager incomes stocking their classrooms with extravagances like paper, pencil sharpeners and clips. As citizens, weare not and civil servant,” and to refuse 0 Discovery finally ye ats ratherthana profession.) this book points out, as we are all inclined to treat teachers as “a strange hybrid of baby sitter don't need your stinkin’ money. We know how to educate our kids.” Hogwash. ies her daughter into the shadowy path of an “underrailroad” type of group Apollo 11 and the Sea of Tranquillity, must wonder where the nation’s glorious manned ‘space program jumped the tracks. In Andrew Smith's bitter- ‘sweet book in search of the nine living Apollo spacemen who walked on the, moon, someone observes that the race to the moon seems now like “a decade from the 21st century transported to the 20th.” Incredibly, from today’s more risk-averse perspective, NASA between 1969 and 1972 landed 12 men.on the moon —on the moon! And they did it with landing radar that quit, Rssoa ‘72 Hour Hold’ Ttoverlay of the “escape Bebe Moore 'snew novel, “72 Hour Hold,”is also a polemic in its way, afictional rendering of the plight of the mentally ill in America. Keri, an upwardly mobile ownerof a second-hand designer clothing store, is proud from slavery” metaphor gives this narra_tive depth, while making plain the mostly insurmountable difficulties of caring for a loved one who has the legal right to destroy herself and those about her. D Laura Wadley is a librarian with the Provo City Library. E-mail her at lauraw@provo. lib.ut.us. bootprints, Bush's boldly stated lunar ambitions come with a — too much Smith, too little a British newspaperfeature writer,set out to ask the surviving lunar astronauts what it all meant. What did they think about as they looked ‘Power Tumbling & Trampoline ' Our classes enhance gymna: cheerleading, all individual and team sports. Develop power, control and self confidence on our State-of-the-Art equipment. 377-0027 * Adult Open Gym Inbound Customer Service Reps Support the United States Postal Service with Convergys Corporation,the globalleaderin customer care, human resources and billing services. 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Are they disappointed, or angry that their trail has gone cold, that NASA since Apollo has been stuck in low Earthorbit? Was it worth the risks, and the toll celebrity took on their lives? This is a very personal account of Smith's quest, a roadtrip book that he narrates as he buttonholes the former astronauts at business meetings and autograph tables at Star Trek conventions, or visits with them in their comfortable living rooms and plushoffices. Hestirs in the context of the 1960s that pro- that helps the mentally ill by CN mEmeCaeme ee Coes ER CRU oe Re ener e p D BOOK BUZZ 5 varawaver We hawe good news for you! 280 5 400 E in Orem rons the street from (G01) 225-3038 Orem High School Sunday Morning Worship at 10:45 This Week’s Message: Les Brooxs DDS D hela -VAl “A Morning of Worship” ‘Sunday School fr Children, Youth and Adults at 930 am |