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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Oct. 18, 1974)
lo vor W. Ami ie Heam just aljff. n r M\ *' er tojoi,| 'Paign. ail road i it manyulj ts of M|] idemic ed yellow ook more! :aid died and down widi Jkeeptkei The y; most o(| at the di before ‘Worst thing that happens... ... cursing, standing on bus THE BATTALION FRIDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1974 Page 5 pulation lOO. The h until iS ie trafficdi m Navascc lican, n ■' Highwj traffic mol ants movd itions. he postal churches By VICKIE ASHWILL Special to the Batt g re closer to our kids — the kids closer to their parents — every- ly is closer to everybody else. —Jack Faulds October 3, 1974 uperintendent Jack Faulds thus sup his view of life in the Cald- Independent School District lose and concerned, aulds, a large jovial man, eer ily is close and concerned. He spent his entire “school life in district since graduating from asA&M University in 1950 with aster’s degree in education, e’s come up from 12 years as mty school superintendent over rural schools, through two years a science teacher, four years as ;hschool principal, to his present dtion since 1968 as superinten- t over the largest of the three iooI districts in Burleson County, aulds refers to “his schools” as id ones with minor disciplinary iblems. But then, Faulds said. small problems are basically true of most small rural schools. “I hate to brag on it for fear some thing will happen,” Faulds said, ad ding that everyone tends to look out for everyone else in Caldwell. You don’t have to be kinfolk to help out, Faulds said. Most people want to know what’s going on, espe cially with their kids. Of course, such a system can only work in a small town, he said. Faulds said people in Caldwell base their interest in what the kids are doing on the philosophy that if things are stopped at the proper time, maybe, just maybe, someone will be thankful later on in life. The worst things that have hap pened in recent years are things like cursing or not sitting down on the bus when told, Faulds said. Problems like those go directly to the principal, Faulds continued, and if the problem can’t be worked out with the child, then the princi pal contacts the parents who often come to see him. te Dance NOW r SEPT. Adults -JAZZ ited yiMOND 8626 Bai 9 R DOG Campus briefs ] Motorcycle club sponsors ride The Texas A&M Motorcylce Club is sponsoring a ride to rneron, Sunday. The ride will l>egin at the MSC at 10 a.m. and will return im Cameron after the motocross races there. Those planning to attend should bring a sack lunch, be sold by the club at cost. Drinks Marketing to hold Ad Seminar Corporate image campaigns, industrial products campaigns d consumer products promotional programs will be exhibited the advertising seminar on Tuesday. The seminar is sponsored by the Marketing Society and will held in Room 301 of the Rudder Tower. These speakers will esent prominent advertising campaigns. Movie features Oceanography sub ABC-TV’s Tuesday Movie of the Week October 22 will ature the Department of Oceanography’s submarine “Diaphus.” hree members of the faculty and staff. Dr. Thomas Bright, Ken ottom and Mike Cook participated in the making of the film. The movie is “Trapped Beneath the Sea,” formerly entitled UBMISS/SUBSUNK,” will be aired from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. ;dst). THE IILI DOG Rider course offered for beginners A beginning motorcycle rider course will be offered Oct. |2 - Nov. 2 to faculty, staff and family members age 18 or over. The classes are limited to the first 20 persons to sign up. Registration fee will be $15. The course is noncredit. In- iruction will be through the Safety Education Program. The first two classes are 7-10 p.m. on Tuesday Oct. 22, and hursday, Oct. 24, and cover an overview of the course and knowing the motorcycle. The following Saturday and Sunday (Oct. 26-27), the classes lover actual riding with class time either 8 a.m. to noon or 1-5 |.m. Oct. 28 - Nov. 2, on the next Monday through the following turday, the classes concentrate on individualized instruction traffic with course time to be announced. Registration or more information is available by contact- ng Curtis Goode at 845-3019, or Room 106 of the Mechanical ngineering Shops. “I back the principal 100 per cent, even if I feel he’s wrong,” Faulds said. But Faulds said he understands that a principal’s decision is often made on the spur of the moment and that as superintendent, he can more easily keep from becoming in volved. He encourages bringing parents into a situation, for “the quicker we bring the parents into it, the quicker we get it solved.” On problem areas such as drugs, race and dress codes, Faulds had little to say. “I’m not going to be naive enough to say there’s no drug problem, but we see no evidence of it in the schools,” Faulds said. He said the school system is aware that such a problem could exist and recently had a teacher’s in-service day on how to recognize and help students using drugs. Faulds referred to racial prob lems in much the same way as the drug problem. He’s sure they exist but they don’t surface. Problems related to dress do sur face. But even then, the Caldwell ISD had followed the national trend and says little about what their stu dents wear to class. Students are asked to dress neatly, but why, Faulds asks, spell out a dress code when you know someone will just try to violate it? Dress in the Caldwell schools is handled on an individual basis when needed, Faulds said, granting that there are some modes of dress con sidered out of bounds. “You just don’t tell kids what to do anymore,” Faulds continued. “You don’t make all of their decisions for them.” For example, besides accepting liberal dressing standards, ISD pol led the students to find out if they wanted cafeteria facilities in the new high school built in 1971. The ma jority said no and the district saved some money on the deal. High school students now wishing to eat in a cafeteria can catch a noon bus to the junior high lunchroom. Other students are allowed to leave cam pus or do as they please. Besides “lunchroom” busing re sponsibilities, Faulds is responsible for the entire district transportation system. That, along with mainte nance, occupies most of Fauld’s time because the ISD cannot afford a person to handle these jobs as would a larger school district, Faulds said. Faulds keeps track of the 20 buses which support 13 routes. In order for students to get on one of the 13 route buses, they are all brought to the high school at five minute intervals in the afternoon. The youngest ones arrive first, Faulds said, in order to keep from getting trampled by the big kids. With all the bus students at one location, buses can easily load in an off-the-street situation and leave when everyone is on the right bus. Parents can find bus students easier after classes if need be, Faulds said, and in addition the sys tem allows a change of plans in routes in emergencies. Morning buses go to the closest schools first so students can begin their day with one of the 64 teachers in the system. may be involved in vocational, spe cial education, or remedial reading or math programs. The Caldwell ISD is stressing vo cational programs more and more, Faulds said. They are avenues which enable and encourage some students to stay in school who otherwise wouldn’t, he said. Vocational programs such as ag riculture, landscape, farm imple ments and home economics cur rently are offered. Students in special education are now under state plan “A” adopted for Caldwell’s 1974-75 school year. Under this plan the child is no longer in a self-contained clas sroom, but is piit into the main stream of classes and goes to re source classes for extra help. Remedial reading or math courses are offered to those students who by law are defined as culturally disadvantaged or come from low economic backgrounds and need extra help in these areas. This prog ram is government funded under Title I. One of Fauld’s jobs is the re cruitment and selection of person nel for these programs along with personnel for the other jobs in the system. All personnel is ultimately approved by the seven member school board as in any school dis trict. Faulds said teachers tend to stay on longer in the junior high and high school with the main faculty tur nover in the elementary school. He doesn’t understand why that is, Faulds said, but, no matter, there’s a good supply of teachers always av ailable from A&M. All faculty and staff within the school district are paid out of the approximately $1,300,000 school budget. Based on an economic index set up by the state, about 80 per cent of the budget comes from state funds. The remaining comes from a local ad valorem property tax of $1.75 per $100 of 40 per cent of market value. A portion of the budget goes to athletic events, especially football. Caldwell is football dominated, as is almost every other school in Texas, Faulds said, but “I don’t think we are as far over-balanced in athletic funding as some.” Neither football nor the football coach rule the school system here, Faulds said, acknowledging that some places allow football to domi nate everything. The coach — “ours is black and very good ’ — works under the principal as part of the faculty. 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