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Show . ' s " - - . f t' B Keetch stresses communicate : n, v t Gary Keetch, Alpine School District Administrator over Secondary Education, was the keynote speaker at the annual Pleasant Grove PTA Council Workshops held Friday at the Pleasant Grove Junior High School. Mr. Keetch is also the Administrator Ad-ministrator vice president for the Pleasant Grove PTA Council. He addressed the theme of "Communication," noting that teaching is three-fourths of the goal of education while communication must be the other fourth. He advised those PTA workers present that those who work in the PTA must be good listeners and . must communicate the concerns of the people to the principals. Mr. Keetch explained that the PTA has high credibility and they are listened to by the legislators and administrators. Now 97 percent of the students stay in school to complete the 12th grade. In 1910 the average person had only an eighth grade education, he added. He cited statistics that show that more than 99 percent of the students are not suspended from school, are not on drugs, are not getting into trouble, yet the kids we hear about are the ones with these problems. The administrator reminded the PTA people that two years ago there were two Pleasant Grove High School students selected as Kimball Scholars. Pleasant Grove from the school emp!V(e percent from family me. 8 percent from the newspa ci three percent from the PTA He. suggested that mo. formation about the schools s be placed in the school nej ki rather than just fund "Jil" projects and so forth be a." cc would like to see materiala. curriculum included, as well ' to He said that besides the sc; newspapers they should err, putting notices on KPGRfoJ" to the high school, sending p.- be service announcements to U fl radio stations and using co newspapers in the community. Another means of commit; " can be "Key Communicators' t 5)1 are people who meet with the tei regularly and can pass ate : portant information. k He suggested using the neat ne-at the high school more efe1 to announce events. I Mr. Keetch also noted i principals ought to expand Ec faculty meetings to include s K. PTA. the Friday meeting was :: ducted by Kathy Hani president of the Pleasant 5- m PTA Council. The flag cere: f was performed by Pack 383t,fc " den leader Liz Lemke. "; The membership kickoff ' under the direction of Pat k Membership Commissioner, r Kim Leathern and children fee: Valley View School perioral ; skit. Workshop sections were J ducted by the various i missioners on the council, j Gary Keetch High School students are being accepted at Harvard and other great schools of learning because they are being taught well, he reported. Yet, he stated, we hear all kinds of negative things about the high school: A major goal of the schools should be to deal with perceptions. They should take a look at peoples perceptions per-ceptions of what the school is and then do something about it, Mr. Keetch suggested. How do you communicate with people who do not have kids in school? Mr. Keetch explained that 40 to 60 percent of the people do not have children in school at the present time. You need to find ways to communicate with them, he cautioned. He said that studies showed that 22 percent of the information people get about the schools comes from the students; one percent comes |