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Show THE ZEPHYRJUNE 1993 Parents commit (and to the greatest degree possible are held to) coming into the classroom on a weekly basis, to act as teachers aides, for all the students. The parents come to see what most of them only dimly remember school can be painful and pleasurable, and frustrating and rewarding, all in the same day, sometimes all at the same moment. And discussions at dinner can be so much more rewarding when the topic isn't "what did you leam in school today, but instead "what did WE learn, what did WE share." Even the worst schools seldom hurt the best students. But it is the others, those not at the top but not necessarily at the bottom, who can fall through the cracks in a classroom of one With a core of active and concerned parents in the harried teacher and thirty those have a at chance students some individual attention to their partioilar problems, dassroom, be it math or grammer or just the need to know that someone cares enough to take the time to help, to encourage, and to praise them for working the problem through. And probably die greatest lesson that a youngster can leam is that school and learning must be important, if mom and dad are willing to put off other important grownup things to be part of it. (Reaudeaus "dream cafe ttt Bagel Bakery & Espresso 690 S. Main 259-BAK- E (in the Miller Shopping Center) Kerstetter Perspective The IMPORTANT TOPIC NUMBER POUR: MOSQUITO ABATEMENT The newly installed Moab Mosquito Abatement District Board should know that I want diem to kill those insects before they eat my ldd alive. And each and every time they spray the east side of town with malathion, they damn well better let the public know, or I'll see those mothers in court Artwork by Ms. Looter Kerstetter IMPORTANT TOPIC NUMBER FIVE: QUALITY OF LIFE I want a town where my son can walk to school, where he can cross streets without getting Where he can play old run down by semi's or jeeps driven by drunken ball in a park without fear of guns and knives, where he can talk to adults without thinking they want to kidnap him. Where he can swim in the natural pools of clean, fresh streams, where he can walk down the street without hearing obscenities on every comer, where he can listen to music in die park on soft, moonlit summer evenings, where he can leam that being polite to someone means that someone will be polite to him, where he can kiss his favorite girl and respect her as a person, where he can leam family values. I want my son to live in 1957. 19-ye- ar PAGE 25 I'd like 4 double spring-breaker- s. lattes, 2 soi milk mochas, 4 shots, and 2 tall amerlcanos de-c- af I'm having a bad foam dag. i .ii to go. And the list goes on. It's just some of die things I spend my days thinking about now. It's not that what happens to the special service road board doesn't matter, it's just that I don't happen to care any more. I'm sure the landfill district is important, but I'd rather listen to Cisco giggle and shriek when I lift him high in the air. So I apologize in advance to the local politicians who may notice my attention drifting while they hold forth on the need for a dty manager, I'm probably just thinking about how old he should be before I buy him his first baseball mitt. I hope you understand that when I start to chuckle during your presentation on the implications of RS 2477, I'm not laughing at what you are saying, but at the realization of the fun I'm going to have after you shut up and I can go home, where the real world is. well-rehears- ed 9(epn's Antiques & CotlectlBles I Just ordered 2 tall Americans Upstairs at the Grand Emporium Hundreds of magazines k covers 1000s of car ads, 1880 k up at 50 off Calendars 1904 k up About 100 Big Little Books Movie posters, lobby cards k ads of nearly every movie made since 1920 Signs in wood, metal, cardboard k paper "BUY, SELL, OR TRADE" think that man leaving. not You're not tall. to leave .1 A 5 N. Main m3 mzxm&BSsmamGMnrn Well, I'm Coming in June on: HBO BATMAN RETURN |