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Show PTA Reflections planned . "What Sparks My Imagination" will be the theme of the annual PTA Reflections Contest which will be held during the month of January in Pleasant Grove. Karen Stueck told the Pleasant Grove PTA Council that she will give information sheets on the contest, listing the theme and rules, to each school so that each student can have one. The entries will be submitted to her by Feb. 8. She encouraged each school's PTA to promote the contest so that all children will have an opportunity to enter. Winners will be honored in each school and the city winners will be recognized at the Founders Day program on Feb. 21. Valley View School is holding a special PTA meeting on Jan. 9 at 6:30 p.m. on child abuse. Special speakers will be invited to discuss the subject with parents. Parents who have children in any of the schools are invited to attend. Linda Dodge reported to the council on the Family Violence Conference which was held in November in Provo. She said that the speakers at the conference noted that one in every eight children will be abused by the age 18. She added that 80 per cent of all abuse is done by people the child knows. Mrs. Dodge noted that there have been laws on the books to protect animals from being abused but none to protect children from being abused. , , ; , y Now public awareness has changed the laws and anyone who knows of abuse must report it, even if the knowledge was gained in a confidential setting such as with a doctor, lawyer, or clergy. She told the PTA leaders that if they know of any form of abuse to let the proper authorities know of it. . . Br A few questions were r,i rh regarding the gifted li,eSur 3 program .which is now being trj t some Alpine District School cludmg Valley View tn Pleasa", Some PTA leaders asked what was being done to avoid having Z ch.ldren who were excused L class to attend the special gjfJ program miss what is going on i their classroom. Others wonderd what would happen if the parent assigned to the gifted program did not show Up' With the crowding in the schools where was a room being found to usd for the gifted program, was another question asked. Fingerprinting was done at the Lindon School and the Lindon students had contributed a large sum to the Festival of Trees. Pleasant Grove Junior High School PTA had previewed a film on teenage pregnancy which they may r show to the students. r Valley View students had collected $156 for the Ethiopian : I Starvation Fund. Principal Tom Carlile of Pleasant: Grove High School said that testing ' showed that the students at the high school are above average. He was I impressed with the good conduct the students show. Manila School Principal John . Burton reported that the parents had ' been invited to lunch at the school, j one grade at a time, and record ' numbers of parents had par- ;8e . ticipated. , . Manila School also had an Ethiopian Starvation Fundraiser. ! Central School had the Nutcracker on Dec. 11. They had also raised money for the Ethiopians. The next Pleasant Grove PTA r Council meeting will be held Jan. 3 f at Lindon School, according to President Kathy Harrison. |