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Show School and V5 Home j by Dr. Daryl J. McCarty m Executive Secretary 5 'm Utah Education Association W several in Utah that has raised dollars so that Bolivia can raise scholars. Such splendid deeds by young people may not be as rare as we think. Too often, other poeple just don't have time to notice and appreciate ap-preciate them. The point is: Give a teenager a chance to do a lofty deed, and he or she will usualy make it happen. I'd say that the huge majority of young people ignore the uglier side of life. For every kid who snatches a purse or steels a stereo out of a car, there are 99 others who wouldn't think of doing a thing like that. Want a chance to bring out the best in your child? Look for a cause such as Project Pichari, subtly let your child know about it, encourage any interest, then watch as the world becomes a better place. Today's kids are rotten rot-ten self-centered, lazy, indifferent and insensitive insen-sitive to the needs of others, right? Wrong. Today's kids are just as noble, selfless, compassionate com-passionate and concerned concer-ned as any who ever lived. They prove it every time they get an opportunity. Take the students at Clearfield High School, for instance. They heard that children in Pichari, Bolivia, were going to school in an ancient, unsafe house. They were told that if CHS students would raise $1,200 to pay for materials the townspeople town-speople of Pichari would build a school. That was all the Utah young people needed to hear. They staged stomps and dedicated the proceeds from ticket sales to Project Pichari. They scheduled a swim-a-thon, and CHS students studen-ts dug into their allowances to make pledges of contributions. con-tributions. The sophomores put on a formal dance at their modern school so that the kids of Pichari could have a school that wouldn't endanger them. Those and other fund-raising projects raised the needed $1,200. Clearfield High's studentbody is one of |