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Show innnnQas onnQannannnnez The View From Here THE Roth By Ruth From the desk of the Superintendent We have received several anonymous letters in the past week. Anonymous letters are always interesting and sometimes disturbing, however, in this case one letter from California was of a complimentary nature and the other was in the form of a letter relative to parent participation in the education process. The article was a remarkable article from Womens Day, September 1964 entitled, A Vital Resource in the Education Crisis: Parents. It mentioned, among other things, the need for parents to create an atmosphere of educational excitement. It mentioned another insight stating that, ...the bright side to the emergency in education; parents are being handed a precious opportunity to become once more the most important persons in the lives of their growing children. In addition to supporting the use of parent aides, tutors, etc., they indicated that parents know each child better than most educators, that in todays world children are crying for attention and acceptance from their parents and that the home has an opportunity to provide motivation and incentives which the school can probably never offer. It even mentioned that parents opportunities at home can be on a completely flexible schedule based on a childs need. The article went on to mention specific ideas and tips for parents; educational games, interesting discus- - j is over and some folks results and some are sad. Everyone couldnt win thats what elections are really for, to separate those to be elected and those to go back into their former employment or other ways of life. Many folks were just too busy, or too disinterested, or too discouraged to go out and get interested and educated and involved with the political activities before the election and many of them were equally unavailable when election day came along. But, most of them are really verbal when it comes to expressing how they feel about how the election went this year or any year. The 'election campaigning reminded me of the wayGrandpa used to be about politics. He was a true blue member of the Republican party. He was also a newspaper editor and this often put him in quite a spot. His acquaintances used to say of him that the only time he willingly put anything about Democrats in his paper was when it became necessary to run an obituary for a Democrat. He was like so many of the folks of his era, they felt that there was only one sions centered around newspaper articles, increasing vocabulary, short trips and many others too numerous to mention. As you know, in Nebo School District we are trying to place increased emphasis We are trying on parent involvement. many different ways of getting parent support. We have programs involving parent aides and tutors. We have developed the educational visitation tours to several outstanding school programs. We hope to mold the PTA into a strong voice for parents and we also hope that you, the parents, sense the crisis that we are faced with in education, and in fact in America, and assume the rightful role by becoming a partner in the design of your childs destiny. P.S. I would surely enjoy discussing this further with the person who mailed the article. Pay your 1 970 Property Taxes at I CENTRAL BANK j TRUST COMPANY & j i Authorized Deputy Collector Give Us A Chance To Say CHRONICLE 3 Remove posters iDaaaaaaaaunaaaaaaaaaai Well the election are happy with the PAYSON Thursday, November 12, 1970 YES CENTRAL BANK that the hustle and bustle of the ar election is history, there is one final bit of campaign business that needs urgent attention from both the winners and the losers of the elections. All campaign signs and posters erected by candidates or supporters without permits from the Utah State Department of Highways, must be removed from the highway areas on or before November 27th or the sign owners and landowners will be subject to prosecution. The law states that signs on controlled highways must have a permit for their erection from the Utah State Department of Highways. It is the responsibility of the landowner to see that unlawful signs are not erected or allowed to remain on their land. Cooperation is requested of the candidates, their supporters and the landowners to clean up the areas of the campaign advertisement. WE GIVE off-ye- party that really counted at all, and that was of course their party. Grudges went on for years over political issues, candidates or incidents connected with either of them. Grandpa would always try to get grandma so busy on election day that she didnt go to the polls because she didnt share his Republican views and he couldnt see any need for her to just go and rub out his vote. Grandma should have known the trick Aunt Polly used. Aunt Polly was married to Uncle Daniel and Dan was even more devoted to politics than Grandpa was. For weeks ahead of the election he tried to convince everyone just how they should vote, for his party of Aunt Polly used to do a lot of course. arguing about this because she had likes and dislikes about certain candidates, but Uncle Dan was so dedicated he couldnt fathom anyone voting for the other party, especially his own relatives. Aunt Folly tried arguing, tried convincing, trieo demanding that her husband use reason, but to no avail. It got to the point that she hated to see an election year come around. She feared that she would have an ulcer and that Dan would have a heart attack over the matter, but finally she came up with the perfect solution. Early in the campaign each year she let Dan think that she had been convinced in his judgement on the candidates and issues. She just went about making her own decisions after that and he went about trying to convince other folks about his party ideas. They both lived a more relaxed life and they both were happier. 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