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Show School and .ijrVi Home 's 7 by Dr. Daryl J. McCarty "J' Executive Secretary Utah Education Association w V committee found that assaults on students had climbed 85.3 percent per-cent from 1970 to 1973-and that assaults on teachers were up 77.4 percent. ( This isn't Chicago. But a survey in Utah several years ago showed that vandalism and violence are no strangers to many of our schools. It would be nice to be able to report to you that educators have come up with a behavioral penicillin that cures this kind of ill. But it hasn't happened. The best suggestion I can offer is that denial of our problems is no answer. We may not have the wisdom to solve all our problems, but we must have the courage to try. m . Denying Bad News If we humans encounter some particularly bad news, we tend to derly it. 1 Tell a person his favorite basektball team lost, and you'll get this reply: "Oh, no!" Likewise, we deny other un-pleasantries un-pleasantries such as death, disaster and disease. In ancient times, the sensitive public sometimes stoned the , bearer of bad news. At the risk of a few bruises, I'd like to pass along a bit of bad news. It's this: Some young people do some rather rotten things. . Compact, the bimonthly magazine of the Education Commission of the States, noted in its February edition that school violence and vandalism is escalating across the land. The magazine noted that "debates already are raging in many areas over whether schools must divert money from education efforts to finance armed guards, security systems' and other 'hardware'." A survey by the National School Public Relations Association found that vandalism van-dalism is costing most of the school districts surveyed between bet-ween $1 and $13.50 per student-and student-and the tab in Chicago is a horrendous $18.50. "Last year a Senate sub- esssssssssssssssssssiss |