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Show Review - Wednesday, April 23, 1986 - Page 8 f Spanish immersion program aids students ; parental support asked "This is not an experimental program. Its success is well established. The key is good teachers and a well thought out curriculum." said Dr. Ray Graham regarding the Spanish immersion program. Dr. Graham, a linguistics professor at BYU, addressed parents at the Manila Elementary School recently to inform and an-swer questions regarding bilingual education. According to Dr. Graham, all research previous to 1967 indicated that bilingual children did poorly on school tests, intelligence tests, etc. compared to their monolingual counterparts. That was until Wallace Lambert, a psychologist from Canada, con-ducted carefully controlled tests. He matched monolingual and bilingual children from the Quebec area according to their intelligence, socio-econom- backgrounds, age and other variables. His research, and the research of others since then, indicates that bilingual children do at least as well as their monolingual peers, and in many instances better. Wallace also discovered that the greater the education and wealth of the parents, the higher the achievement of their bilingual children. "We are almost arrogantly monolingual in this country, although currently there has been more interest in speaking a second language," said Graham. Graham cited that over .600,000 children in Canada are involved in bilingual immersion programs. These same immersion programs have sprung up across the United States offering education in Ger-man, Spanish, French and Chinese. Graham stated that he would have no qualms about enrolling his own children in such a program and is currently pushing for a Spanish immersion program in his daughter's elementary school. Graham related that research from all over indicates that upper middle class children who are bilingual are actually enhanced intellectually. According to Graham, the fourth grade students at Cherry Hills Elementary in Orem tested higher in their language skills than several third and fourth year students in the BYU Spanish program. Many of those BYU students had served Spanish-speakin- g missions. "A parent shouldn't think he can't help or support his child in such a program just because he himself doesn't know a second language," said Graham. He suggests that a parent read to his child, let his child read to him, and then talk about what they have read. Parents can also find resource material in the BYU library and support from community education classes. He also encourages parents to form support groups where they can lobby, outline unified curriculum goals, aid teachers and create floating textbook libraries between schools to help cut expense. Ac-cording to Graham, bilingual programs are only slightly more expensive than regular programs. Graham said that the success of the Spanish immersion program will depend on parents who are willing "to go to bat for it." And that it always make a difference "when parents are involved and pushing for education." Later in the meeting, Evelyn McNair, president of Parents for Spanish Immersion, introduced Carol Rawson, the new second grade teacher. Miss Rawson is from Wyoming and has served an LDS mission to Guatemala. She graduated from BYU last week. She expressed excitement to be involved in the bilingual immersion program at Manila Elementary. Diana Call, chairman of Parents for Spanish Immersion, announced that she and America Chumpitaz, the first grade teacher, are collaborating in putting together Spanish booklets and tapes for the children to use during the summer. The instructional material will help the children to retain their Spanish vocabulary during vacation and assist parents in working with their children. The charge for the materials will be kept to the cost of producing them. The booklets and tapes will also be available to parents whose children will be entering Spanish immersion next fall. Police investigate thefts, indecent exposure reports Darren Dunn, 88 S. 400 East, Lindon, told police that two Ken-wood Speakers had been taken from his vehicle while it was parked at Pleasant Grove High School. Officer Jim Taufer of the Pleasant Grove Police Dept. said there were no suspects at the present time. The speakers were valued at $90. Mark Nixon, 363 E. 200 North, reported on April 7 that tools had been taken from a shed at his residence. Taken were a Craftsman belt sander valued at $120, a Black and Decker router worth $60, a Craftsman drill valued at $70, and a Craftsman pad sander valued at $60. Officer Taufer said there are no suspects. Brenda Giles, 185 W. 1100 North, reported that a Schwinn Mongoose dirt bike had been taken from their property. Officer Jeff Wilson reported the bike was valued at $212. There are no suspects. Police are investigating two in-cidents of reported indecent ex-posure in Pleasant Grove. The first occurred on April 7 at 12:30 p.m. at the Pleasant Grove Junior High tennis courts. Officer John Lloyd said the suspect was described as being about 5' 11" with reddish-blond- , curly hair and about 29 years of age. The other incident occurred at 200 N. 100 West, on April 10 at 8:25 p.m. Officer Cody Cullimore said the man was described as being a white male approximately 38 years of age, thin build, about 5'10", with brown hair which was balding on top, and wearing a mustache. Officer Cullimore reported that he has a license plate number for a possible suspect. Bill Evans, 896 N. 500 West, reported the theft of a Schwinn Mongoose valued at $200. 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Published in the American Fork Citizen, Pleasant Grove Review, Lehi Free Press April 23, 1986. Planning Commission to meet The Pleasant Grove City Planning Com-mission will meet Thursday, April 24, 1986 at City Hall. Agenda for the meeting is as follows: 7:00 - Minutes of the previous meeting and discussion. 7:15 - Consider a request for preliminary approval of Bona Vista Subdivision at ap-proximately 1750 East 580 South. 7:30 - Consider a request for a preliminary approval for a minor subdivision at approximately 1300 North 380 East. 8:00 - Silverstone Condo . to Silverstone PUD. Consider recom-mendation to change section 10 of Chapter 8 of the Pleasant Grave Land Development Code which deals with extension of time in providing curb, gutter and sidewalk to section 14 of Chapter 11 which deals with the requirements of curb, gutter and sidewalk. All interested parties are invited to the meeting to express their opinions. Published in the Pleasant Grove Review April 23, 1986. Pleasant Grove Irrigation Co. delinquent assessment notice There are delinquent on the following primary stock on ac-count of assessments levied by the Board of Directors, the several amounts set opposite the names of the respective stock holders. Certificate No. 4723, ' share, M. Taylor Abegg, $92.52. Certificate No. 4333, .85 shares, Dick G. Prescott, $167.69. And in accordance with law as many shares of each parcel as may be necessary will be sold at the City Building, 41 E. 200 South, Pleasant Grove, Utah, on the 29th day of April, 1986, at 2 p.m. to pay the delinquent assessment thereon, together with the costs of advertising and expense of sale. By order of the Board of Directors. Harold H. Bullock Secretary . Published in the Pleasant Grove Review April 16 and 23, 1986. |