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Show Us Needed parents supervisors at work, who in turn strenuously urge employees to do a better job of child rearing. By the time of graduation, Soviet children have strong backgrounds in math, the sciences, history and can speak two languages other than their own native tongue. Yet only 20 percent of them go on to any degree of higher education. Governor Scott Matheson, while speaking at a state PTA convention at BYU said, "The way to a better education is at the elementary and secondary high school level." Ann Kahn, a national PTA consultant speaking at the same convention gave these statistics. "In 1920, 20 percent of the nations teenagers attended high school. This percentage was the cream of the crop. Today more than 90 percent of our teenagers attend nign scnooi. This increase has caused aj great deal of stress on our educational system." Another problem that comes into play is that good teachers quite often leave the classroom and seek employment employ-ment in private industry for higher wages. When they leave, those who must fill the void sometimes are not qualified to teach the subject ; the students lose. Sometimes a change is needed to help improve situations or to solve problems. With this situation of overcrowding, a change is inevitable. The question now is whether we as parents, teachers and administrators are ready and willing to make those changes in order to help our children towards a better education. The future of this school district, state and nation depends upon the minds and actions of trained and educated people. If we fail to offer our children every opportunity to improve their minds and their ability to make sound decisions, we will have failed to support our future generations. To be educated is to be prepared. "And mom and dad can hardly wait for school to start again." If these words from a ' popular holiday song are truly reflective of parents feelings after only a two week break in the middle of the school year, how do they feel after summer vacation? Well, as the song says . . . |