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Show , r r & itiM sy ttfemfeun t,A.iim,.;mSUi rsf'rijiii frf 4 J' '$rs- - Vyl s ukMm The Sd It Lake wm&m 5 Wednesday, August 1), I'tMi Tnhunt, Childs Cii cus Dream Becomes lNighlmare of Poverty, Illiteracy untinued From V4 4 a makeshift trjiler camp Outside the circus tram are the miles of track where the children play. Dogs prowl these yrds or, grounds littered w ith loose concrete and rusted metal. Trailer trucks and other heavy equipment move around in front of a sign, Caution. Children a Play." For 1U weeks, the longest stop on their tour, the circus people commute to Madison Square Garden by subway and call the railroad yards in Long Island City their home It is 9 a in on a schoolday, but the children will sleep until 10. Most of the children interviewed dont go to school and dont get schooling of any kind. They dont learn to read, add. or 11 subtract arent taugnt We are not the guardians of these children," he said. We have tutors who are hired by us to teach the children. Circus spokeswoman Debbie Linde said, and supply them with sumt thing w, don I have How many children are there on the circus train ' ' 1 m nut willing to itive it to you, said Bloom Adult per lurmcrs said there were about 25 It is 9 3U a m. on the circus tram, and some children are waking up Hector Kamos, 14, wakes up from his lied on the floor Next to him, two of Ins teen age cousins, Dswuldo. 15 and Kigubeitu, 13, share a bed. Do you go to school. Hector9 "No." t Other parents justify the lack ,d schooling believing that the childrens true education lies in learning the vocation they were born to acrobatics or tight rope walking or the rigors of the flying trapee Blouin was asked why children sleep on the flour on the circus train want to," said Bloom. 01 they have back trouble Or, he added, they have extra family members we are not aware of We hire an act. If they bring ex. tra family members with them, t1 s what they're doing We cannot supply-bedfor everybody in t! 1 n" d States of America " Bloom said children of circus performers get beds only "if its part of the contract. We can't be magicians "They he said. W hy not No high school on train." he said A few compartments dow n, Macar-cnKamos, 12, shares a bunk w ith her sister, Nadia, 9. Their brother, Edgar, 16, sleeps in the bunk below, a s i Allen Bloom, senior vice president of Ringhng Bros, and Barnum & Bailey Circus, was asked why the chil- dren i tor tilers in the 1 neus the him ht the lai k of s hording is a sad fad of urcus life they feel helpless to cor-re- i p, Last time I was in school I was 10 years old," said Edgar, an acrobat. We travel all the time. Ringling Brothers has a teacher, but the teacher have many things to do." tosever.il adult performers from oth er acts It she were enrolled in regular c lasses, she w ould be a fourth-gradeBut at 9, she stumbles through words r does She can the way a t not add or subtract tium bers. She cannot do long division Like the other Kamos children in c ar 86, she is caught in a trap as old as the circus. Born in the circus, raised in the circus, the children live in a system they see from without, with laws to protect them that never quite do so, like fruit out of reach on a tree These kids just fall through the cracks." said an official with the federal Department of Education, and state officials agreed "There is no national program that follows the child from state to state." said Richard Bove, an official at the State Department of Education "There is no core program that follows the kids, who are indeed, national, mobile kids " days her fai e wears a doleI I m said because ful expression dun t work," said she She gets no schooling at all. she Macorcno a pretiy child is an j robat too Adult acrobats boast abom her ability to double somersault and land on the shoulders of pyramided men For reasons that have not been plained to her or her family, the cir cus is not permitting her to work in New York, but she can continue working when the show arrives at its next city She is depi essed about tins Circus spokesmen give conflicting reasons for her not being in the show Linde said she is "too young But her name appears in the show's official program. One of her relatives speculated that insurance reasons have kept her out of the show. On her wall is a picture of Macarena in costume, with the family troupe, called Rodogell. Assistant performance director Peggy Williams said it was a "family-decisiothat Macarena not work The family denied this. TIk-m- r first-grade- ' I - School9" echoed Macarena like, yeah But the teacher don t have time to teach me when I working" Docs she attend classes now9 "No But I like to go to school " She has one-digi- dre-jm- ' If I get married." she mused, "if I (ind out how, I make my kids (go to Hhool" If she had a son, she would tell him the family does not need his work "Just stay In school she would tell him Only Nadia, 9, gets any schooling extremely bright and alert child, she acts as translator for her parents She loves to try to read, to sound out words. She doesnt own a single book An She is tutored only half an hour a day, according to her and according ft RICHARD PEKM SPECIAL ANDRUS Theyre privately tutored through high school. Do you get a diploma at the circus9 Yeah," said Linde But the children say no. The per former adults say no. age children interviewed had never heard of a program on the train. The only children tutored were some of the they only got half an hour a day, according to adult performers. For some of the childrens parents. lugh-scho- Zotog Perfect FOR Comb-O- ut JUSTICE High-scho- 895, Reg. $9.95 THKl' 23RD PRECINCT I WEST S.L. COUNTY high-scho- first-grader- A Child in Need RICHARD C. ANDRUS for COUNTY Of THE JUSTICE PEACE PRECINCT! trm (Vote tor Oni MIDVALE BOUNTIFUL SALT LAKE TAYLORSVILLE 273 West 500 South 3474 South 2300 East 5712 S. 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