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Show - WASATCH COUNTY COURIER _ Educators At Odds Over The Avalric O - Dodge Ball In PE Programs_ lawsuits over bloody noses, dodge ball sends an inappropriately aggressive message to children. “There can be head antl face. injuries, broken glasses,” said Frank Wojtech, who oversees physical education curriculum development for the Granite District. “The thing I really don’t like is you can have several Beople ganging up on one.” - The state’s largest district, Jordan, If you are athletic, it’s a rush; if you’re not, dodge ball can be a gym class hell. School districts in Maryland, Texas,School District’s Horizon Elementary New York, Virginia.and other states School. “If you are supervising your have either banned or limited the game, kids won’t get hurt. I’ve never game. had anyone get so much as a bloody Those moves toward eeinction of nose.” dodge ball have won praise from such _ Nava suggests the ere pen dufur” a groups as the Reston, Va.-based has swung too far from common _ National Association for Sport and sense. “Don’t all sports teach aggresPhysical Education, and California’s sion? What is Soccer, football or basConcerned Adults & Students for ketball?” she said. Physical Education Reform (CASPER) education Melinda specialist Colton, with Jordan Murray District spokeswoman, said, “We have never experienced any problems with it nor have we had any settiy issues. Countering the moves against dodge ball are groups like the conser- vative, Washington, D.C.-headquartered Family Research Council and the National Amateur Association. Dodge | Ball ? 4 Rick Hanetho, director of the Schaumburg. Park, Ill.-based dodge ball association, sees the controversy as “all kind of silly, especially when you look at other problems in our society with organized youth sports. You can’t open the paper these days without — reading about brawls at T ball =— and such. — | “This negative stuff, that it picks on the smaller and weaker kids — I don’t in Chico, Calif. CASPER contends dodge forces members are usually picked by more popular captains—to end, as clumsy students often are the first eliminated. low ‘self-esteem in ball reinunathletic - children from beginning — when team buy it. In fact, it’s the littler kids who are usually the best players, being able to avoid being hit easier and being | along with Weber and Murray district “It’s a school-by-school decision, and the majority—if not all of our schools—continue to play dodge ball,’ 5 she said. Wojtech said no amount of supervision changes the nature of dodge ball. ee addition to potential dodes bal Supporters of the game, in which youths throw rubber balls at each other, say it develops speed and evasion skills.— “The whole idea of a game like dodge ball is to teach hand-eye coordination,” said Shanna Nava, a physical Tea Lake school districts insist that in| schools, still sil TT - SALT LAKE CITY (NPY—_Dodee balli—a classic game in physical education classes for decades—is falling prey to calls for less aggressive play and sus Ne concern over injury liability.— The cane debate over r the game rages with no less intensity in Utah school districts. Both Granite and Salt Progress. Overall, states Bae sone a "beter job at improving math scores from 1990 to 1996 than they have.at raising reading scores. The average student. ‘readers dropped 12 points in Utah, from 183 to 171, while the top-performing readers kept their score of 254. The gap in Utah could widen in the future. In March, lawmakers approved spending $500,000 to improve the reading skills of gifted and talented achievement score improved in 28 out pupils, while declining to spend money of 32 states in eighth-grade mathematics, while only seven of 32 states to hire reading specialists across the IRRIGATE CONTINUED FROM AQ Eskelsen said Monday. The offer of 10 state — a priority for members of the RLY eee te NN PNET eR MEI SRA SNE TL RS 8 rable te the National Assessment of Education cents an hour was based on CEU in mid-March. Idaho regulators approved a similar electricity buyback for farmers last week. Under that program, farmers receive 15 cents a kilowatt hour from _ PacifiCorp for not irrigating. Hogan and others say Utah farmers out receive more than those in. Idaho. | Utah Power may be aia to increase the price, spokesman Pe Dave. | state Board of Education Proponents say the money for the “advanced readers at-risk” is necessary because those pupils get frustrated and bored and are at risk of dropping out. Utah was one of just six states where the gap in scores betweén white — and minority readers grew. ‘Barbara Lawrence, testing director for the state Office of Education, said MATHEMATICS ae very unique person, She is one of the few individuals who truly enjoys math. She definite creative streak. 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ACADEMIC PROFILE CORRINA MOTOLA “Based on conditions today, it may — be higher,” Eskelsen said. “We’d certainly be willing to discuss it.” Idaho also are taking Eskelsen said. the state has sre slow to stig io its increasingly diverse population. ee “The introduction of more diversity is also accompanied by a different set . of needs,” she said. | ! Teachers need to be rained] in gee ing with struggling readers and in new ways of instructing minority pupils and pupils who don’ t ee English, BINGGELI ROCK PRODUCTS Supporting a strong foundation for education in Wasatch County! . 654-2611-654-2233 Charleston, Utah | A a improved hee reading scores. Utah wasn’t one of those seven states. Utah, along with Wyoming and the District of Columbia, instead saw the average reading score drop. ‘The scores of the lowest performing nn SALT LAKE CITY (AP) —Utah’s average reading score in a test administered to-fourth ae declined between 1990 and 1996. The National daeiien Goals Panel, a bipartisan group of politicians, analyzed reading and math scores on 1990 and 1996 PT Ire Utah Reading Scores Declined Between |