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Show pageA6 Tuesday, September 19, Davis County Clipper 1995 0 M ur pinion Parents should demand SEPs be i i used in elementaries The state mandated Student Education Plan, SEP, should be used in every elementary school In Utah as possibly the most important aspect of a students learning experience. For decades teachers have been lamenting the fact that parents are not involved in their childs education. The SEP is the answer to that problem. The need for a more individualized educational mode has also been around for years. The SEP solves that problem too, U understands that there are no cookie cutter children. Each child is an individual with individual needs and abilities. The SEP allows those differences to be addressed and met in a way which allows each child the opportunity to succeed. The need to increase children's self esteem is the watchcry of edus. cators throughout the state, The SEP is a celebration of a childs How can we better enhance a childs self esteem than by telling the child he is successful? If the SEP is such a strong tool why isnt it being used in every school? How important is parental support of students at school? asks Dr. Gary Lloyd, director of the Utah Center for Families in sue-ces- Education, The research is clear. Strong parental support can improve students academic achievement by up to 35 percent." With the talk of rising drop-orates and falling ACT and SAT scores, it would seem that something as simple and cost effective as involving parents would be welcomed by educators. SEPs work because they are positive. Unlike the ut old-scho- ol parent-- conferences where parents of bright children were applauded and parents of struggling children were reprimanded, SEP conferences begin with a celebration of the child and a discussion of teacher how well the child has accomplished specific tasks. It is only after the child and the parent have been rewarded for try-in- g, that a discussion is begun focusing on areas where improvement are needed. Once the parent understands that the school is a partner not an enemy, the entire education process takes on a new focus. The International Year of the Family was proclaimed by the United Nations in 1994. In his closing statement at the World conference of Cities, Local Government and Private Sector Partners on Families, Henryk J. Sokalski, coordinator for the event said Hie of the family has been a striking phenomenon that equals recent sweeping developments in other realms of human endeavor." He explained that a decade ago families would not even appear as a major concern in the social policy compass of the international community. A concern with families was sometimes seen as an anathema, and the antithesis of the concern over the individual. At the very least, families, their role and functions, were just taken for granted. Societies, governments and the myriads of policies assumed, though naively, that everything was well and fine with the basic unit of society. Since that conference, goals were set by those nations in attendance to bring the family to its rightful place in society. One way of doing that in Utah schools is by recognizing the important contribution families make and can make in a childs successful school experience. The goal of education should be to provide an education to a child. That goal can be achieved only if parents serve as partners in the education of their children. Parents who say Ill drop him off for Kindergarten and pick him their priorities just as do teachup at graduation, need to ers who say I am the professional. You just get your child ready for school and well do the rest. Neither attitude is going to work. Parents should insist that their childs school offer the SEP program. And then they should support it 100 percent. A parent should not be the reason for a childs failure at school. Overpaid, whining athletes hike ticket prices Now that it appears the NBA players want to shoot some hoops this winter, its time to look elsewhere for the Most Spoiled Child in sports. My vote this week would go to Deion Sanders. But wait, you say ...Deion doesnt have any connection with Utah. Why waste valuable newspaper space on a guy who has no impact on Utah fans? But he will have an impact. As a sports radio announcer has pointed out, professional sports (and, in some areas, even college sports) no longer caters to the average fan. The k who historproverbial Joe suffered fortunes of the the ically Browns and the Red Sox and, yes, the Jazz, is increasingly being priced out of the stadium and the arena. This should come as no shock to Six-Pac- Clothes need to send clear messages We send out messages. Those messages come in how we treat people. How we talk. The choices we make in a thousand matters. Clothes matter. games. Theyll come to breakfast with dirty shirts and holey jeans and shoes with dragging laces. Ill tell them to put the milk down and go back up and put on something clean, and then it starts. But I look fine!, theyll say. Gol, EVERY one dresses like this! theyll say. It doesnt matter what I wear. It doesnt matter how I look. It doesnt matter. Methinks my boys protest too much. Because it certainly seems to mat- You know it. Your kids know it. But my boys will play games with me. And Ive never been good with ter to them. It matters because how they look sends a message to everyone who sees them. 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Box 267, Bountiful, Utah ISSN 1061-122- 3 149-180- ) semi-weekl- y seem to want to send might be: Im cool. Im bad. Im independent. Im not a wimp. Be afraid of me. Be impressed with my dangerous use of plaids AND stripes. Be shocked by me. Worry about me. They will work their little hair blowers until they blow a fuse on getting their pointy, moussed spikes to stick ever heavenward. They will wiggle around mirrors all morning to get the sags and bags of their pants just right and ensure that the XXL shirts hang mere molecules above the floor. It will take them hours each day to arrange their clothing in such a way that people will think what they want them to think and hours more to tell their mother that they really dont care what people think. Of course they care. And of course you care. Because the message you see in their clothes might be: Youre a slob. Youre a gang member. Youre color blind. Your family cant afford a washing machine. .Youre allergic to shampoo. You get your clothes handed down second hand from your uncle whos a Japanese Sumo wrestler. My boys are right. They say that what they wear has nothing to do with whats inside their little hearts and minds. That they can still be intelligent, loving, caring people and look little human DNA experiments for defective bad hair genes. Well, of course, they can. Thats not the point. The point is that many, many people we meet each day will form opinions of us based on the messages we send. And some of those people potential employers, friends parents, teachers, police officers, and neighbors will never have the chance to find out that we are intelligent, loving and caring because everything else about us is screaming the opposite. We send our messages. And over my childrens objections. I will continue to encourage them to concentrate on sending out the messages that tell the truth about who they are. local readers. If you want to attend a Jazz game and not wear binoculars, it helps to have a friend at the neighborhood bank! The cost this year for a family of four to attend an Oakland Raiders game is $286. The average NFL ticket this year is $33, an increase of nearly 10 percent three times the national inflation rate. Even worse, many owners are asking potential season ticket holders to fork over thousands of dollars for the privilege of buying a seat. These personal seat licenses sound like something out of Little Italy: you give me $2,500 for that seat but you cant sit in it unless you give me another $45 for each game you want to attend. k Joe cant come up with that kind of money. He used to come home from the foundry, grab the kids and head out to the stadium to root for dem Bears. Now the closest he comes to his team is sitting five feet from his Sylvania. And who has caused it? Jerks like Deion Sanders (and the equally jerky owner who has the class of a sand marsh). Six-Pac- For those who sports, Sanders is a dont follow pro who talks trashy and dresses flashy. two-spo- rt His wardrobe is Early American Pimp, something that hurts him when he tries to sound sincere. In switching to the Dallas Cowboys, this third pro football team in three years. Sanders couldnt understand why some folks didn't sympathize with his demand for a $13 million bonus (for a total pay of $35 million over seven years). A mans got to look out for his family, said Deion. (Thats okay, Deion...John Dillinger said the same thing.) My financial situation could have been greater if I had wanted to push it, said Deion. (Right, Deion.. .Im sure A1 Capone had similar thoughts.) I knew I wanted to be a Dallas Cowboy when I saw Dallas owner Jerry Jones eyes on the nightly news. I could tell Jones was sincere. (Sorry, Deion. it wasnt Jerrys eyes you were looking at. It was his wallet!) As long as egotistical owners like Jones give guys like Deion the keys to the bank vault, ticket prices will continue to soar. This is not to say Deion should receive the minimum wage. He commands a healthy paycheck because he can do things with a football that you and I cannot. But on the other hand, increasing Deions doesnt guarantee a team self-estee- champi- onship. As skillful as he is with the football, he wasn't able to stop one of his former teams, the Atlanta Falcons, from losing game after game. Granted, he played great and got a Super Bcwl ring last year but he joined a team that w'as already great before he donned a uniform. Deion is hardly a good role model for Joe family. But then again, Joes kids might lose interest in Neon Deion when they are unable to enter the stadium. Six-Pac- They hopefully will find other forms of entertainment. Deion wont be a hero. To them, Deion Sanders will just be that old geezer who wears the gold chains on TV. in Your pinion i copies for all interested descendants of C. B. Panorama of early Mormon settlers missing Hancock, his five wives and the rest of the Hancock and other family lines. By preserving our heritage (i.e. gathering of documents, journals, diaries, pictures) we might be able to pass on to future generations a history full of real people who lived, loved and died for this country we call America. origi-nalcopi- Editor, I was privileged to attend the On Aug. first family reunion of the Charles Brent Hancock Senior and his five wives family organization in Honeyville, Utah. He was born Dec. 23, 1823 in Columbia, Cuyahoga, Ohio to Solomon Hancock and his first wife Alta Adams (Pheobe Adams second wife). His wives were (1) Samantha Priscilla Rawson, (2) Melinda Melissa Crockett, (3) Chloie Ann Rawson, (4) Rachel Melinda Moore and (5) Mrs. Susannah Edwards. He was a member of The Church of Jesus Christ Saints and had practiced polygamy. of Latter-daHe was a member of The Mormon Battalion and settled and helped start the townships of Payson and OgdenHarrisville areas. He also has many descendants in the Davis County area. While there I met several members from C. B. Hancocks line. We shared information on two of the wives and on Solomon Hancock and his two wives (Births, marriages, deaths, etc.). It was all extremely interesting but left many of us wondering about him and his other wives. We did all agree on finding his panorama. it is about 270 feet long includes approx. 26 paintings each being 15 12 feet by 7 12 feet and rolled into affair. The paintings depict early pioa scroll-lik- e neer life, his home scenes of the Mormons in Nauvoo and elsewhere and the martyrdom of the Prophet Joseph Smith. We have photo copies of some of the paintings but no one has seen the original panorama or all 26 paintings (pictures). (LDS Church archives has copies of 15 paintings.) We have information that said he built his home in Harrisville, Utah to accommodate the panorama. He traveled all over Utah and Idaho on lecture tours taking his panorama of paintings with him. We are hoping these are others interested parties who might be able to shed some light on this and other puzzling dilemmas. We also hope there are other people who have 17-1- 9, Hollis Ann Hancock Cabaness 268 W. 1500 N. Bountiful POWs deserve honor, praise recognition y records, journals, andor stories about C.B. Hancock Senior and his five wives and children who would be willing to share them with us. We have many confusing and conflicting dates and would like to clear up the confusion. On Aug. 19 we formed a committee to gather all pertinent information and submit it to the societies of Salt Lake City and make genealog-icalhistoric- al Editor, On September 15, 1995, throughout our nation, recognition ceremonies were held in honor of Americas former prisoners of war, and our n. . No group is more deserving of America's admiration and gratitude than its former prisoners of war, and the brave families of those who remain listed as missing in action. Its a cruel irony that so many of our best men and women were imprisoned while they were fighting in defense of the very freedom they lost. They have lived through experiences that most of us could not begin to imagine. Some 60,000 American former POWs are alive today - less than half of all the Americans held prisoner in this century. It is estimated that nearly 300 are living today in Utah. In all, 142,250 Americans, including 83 women, were captured and interned during the two World Wars, the Korean Conflict, the Vietnam War and the Persian Gulf War. In the VA, weve seen the impact on the health of those who have been POWs and we have shared the sadness felt by the families of those who remain missing. But our world also has shown us a more positive feature: as our POWs returned from each of the wars they fought in, they provided stirring examples of endurance in the face of extraordinary hardship. We have come to realize through them the great strength that love of family and country gives us all. We owe these special people a tremendous debt of gratitude, not only for having served America and suffering on our behalf, but for showing us how hope can triumph over bleak despair. Douglas Wadsworth Director. VA Regional Office Salt Lake City |