| Show Migrant Student Records Save Girl's Life I How do you find a little old migrant child who is critically ill with You know she will die if she doesn't receive treatment Bui she and her parents have moved on to another harvest and there As no trace of where they THIS WAS a situation faced July 17 by Verl supervisor of the Migrant Summer School Program at- the Corinne Elementary when the results from a school wide TB were The routine skin test taken just a couple of days before revealed that one U-year old the daughter of a migrant had TB in its advanced Allred went immediately to the girl's classroom but she was not Her teacher said she had been absent for two Further checking revealed the girl and her family had left the But to No one at the migrant camp could even say which direction they had ALLRED telephoned Shannon a terminal operator at the Utah State Board of Education's Migrant Education office in Salt Lake From there a message was immediately put out over the Migrant Student Record Transfer a computerized network which keeps tabs on the school and health records of all migrant children in the U. S. For the sake of the little Allred hoped that she would have registered for school at the next migrant camp down the At on July 17 same day the results of the TB tests were an emergency message to locate the girl was transmitted over the computer Within sixteen minutes the message had been relayed to computer terminals in the United The search was If the girl's parents had registered her in any public school the Migrant Student Record Transfer System would pick it IT In a little over four hours the girl and her parents were located at a migrant camp just outside of She received immediate medical While the Migrant Student Record Transfer System has been in operation for several this was the first test of it under emergency THE SYSTEM was originally designed to provide teachers with the educational and health records of children whose parents follow the nomadic ways of migrant Prior to the establishment of the system and its network of computer terminals there was no way to tell what schooling or immunizations had been given to migrant Often they would just show up at a school and be placed in classrooms that were either too advanced or too elementary for their particular educational Also health that migrant children might be carriers of some would order immunizations before the children could attend thereby making these youngsters some of the most shot up kids in the United THE Migrant Student Record Transfer System has changed all Now teachers have the records on a child just a short time less than 48 after the youngster checks THE SYSTEM'S computer center is located at Little On file there are the records of more than children who roam the rural areas of the United States and following vests with their The system has W much to stabilize m improve the educating these no longer have to EUel what material the children have to in previous different As a M these kids are more personalized M complete education as travel across the |
