Indents 1 st
\ith school
\sociation
United Press International
, come front the ranks of doc-
bankers, lawyers, teachers,
ymen, local business persons
dliomemakers.
■ im t w ere possible to be killed by
IHlhy meetings, they would have
1 a long ago. But they are dedi-
■ and survive.
ifley don t get paid for the work
raBdo during these meetings after
etegular day’s work.
MBey are the 95,000 members of
enation’s 16,000 school boards.
VYi lO. Davis, the Austin, Texas,
^yer who heads the National
ht l Boards Association, in an
IKview said: "All across this coun-
'• vlchool boiud members like iny-
lf have just one basic thing in
that is, to do our dead level
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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1977
Campus activities
Wednesday
Omega Phi Alpha, 6:30 p.m., 401 Rud
der
Pre-Law, 7:30 p.m.. Rudder
Student Senate, 7:30 p.m., 204 Har
rington Center
Aggie Players, “House of Bernarda
Alba, 8 p.m.. Rudder Forum
Bob Hope Talent Show, 8 p.m., Rudder
Theater
Abilene Area Hometown Club, 8 p.m.,
607 Rudder
Texas A&M Polo Club, 8 p.m., 215
Animal Industries Building
Thursday
Richardson Hometown Club, 7 p.m.,
504 Rudder
Resident Hall Association, 7 p.m,, 204
Harrington
Water Ski Club, 7 p.m., 301 Rudder
Aggie Players, House of Bernarda Alba,
8 p.m.. Rudder Forum
Cepheid Variable, "Zombies on Broad
way, 8 & 10 p.m., 701 Rudder
Town Hall Special, Preservation Hall
Jazz Band, 8:15 p.m.. Rudder Auditorium
F riday
Aggie Players, House of Bernarda Alba,
8 p.m.. Rudder Forum
Aggie Cinema, Blazing Saddles, 8 p.m..
Rudder Theater
Saturday
Aggie Players, House of Bernarda Alba,
8 p.m.. Rudder Forum
Aggie Cinema, Blazing Saddles, 8 p.m..
Rudder Theater
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to meet our responsibility to
youngsters.
|t’s the same basic thing teachers
Iministrators have in mind.”
[iblic schools have more troubles
private schools, not because
Ire inferior to private schools,
[for another reason, according to
|Ve take the children sent to
land straight out of the
Ironment of today’s America,”
laid.
Problem children bring with
i problems from their environ-
|t The schools must try and
trying to help them. There’s
lhance to send the “problems
vhere.
be job of American public edu-
pn,” Davis said, “is to under-
I these kids that come to us and
with them and to make them
iuctive citizens.
|Ve have different youngsters
id we need many different an-
s. All the families aren’t the
II the lifestyles aren’t the same,
education must reflect this di-
ity."
ledining scores on achievement
st do not mean the nation’s
fooo grade and high schools are
|ig youngsters.
P think to put this in focus you
i to understand the tests and
Iwwhat they are designed to in-
Ite," Davis said.
(Tests are helpful it you under-
[d their purpose. ”
ake the Scholastic Aptitude
—SAT. Falling scores have led
robes and suspicions that the
hers aren t teaching as hard and
lents aren t studying the way
did a generation ago.
Scholastic Aptitude Test is
gned to predict how well a high
wl graduate will do in college
WE
GIVE
and
riclud
takes
der
>:
ible
(hink, Davis said, “this con-
over declining scores has an
avion us, however.” “It is caus-
educators, school boards and
unistrators to see what we have
eover the last ten years,
fhere is a trend. We are going
^ to teaching skills that were
■tssiul for generations. But we
continue to apply new
hods.”
c.hool boards all over are having
keeping up with the re
required by the federal gov-
^ent, according to Davis, who
’ ls president of the Austin
ool Board.
b takes an enormous amount of
• to fill ou t these reports. We
w there is no way Washington
fcview, or make effective use of
mass of paper we must send in.”
; aV ‘ s . on behalf of school boards
he nation, also complained
congress—putting manda-
'cquirements out and not send-
grams^” t0 ^ ^ US start U P these
'I of these things, as he sees it,
K !?*n^°^ ars school dis-
s - dollars that should be di-
nrt, 0 ! in T >r ,? v f n 8 isntruction and
s ni les f°r the youngsters,
enca is the leading country in
or and the public schools
said^ 1 deal t0 410 With that ’”
lihli l* n , at ‘ on bas dared to try
school system like ours and
n I* would have
■ nt ervv ise if all across this
fdnp/ 0U t have school
ato ^ , sons > teachers and admin-
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