THE BATTALION
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1977
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Mother, nurse, policeman, confessor. A
teacher often has to be many things to stu
dents. Beverly' Brown, a seventh grade teach
er at Anson Jones High School in Bryan, lec
tures her class.
Battalion photo by Frank Vasovski
Parents, pay attention
By FRANK K. VASOVSKI
Webster’s dictionary defines a
teacher as a “person who imparts in
formation or skill so that others may
earn, one who teaches.
“It would be nice il this was true.
In reality, however, an average
teacher is much more than that,”
graduate of Texas A&M University
with a bachelor of science degree in
ducational curriculum and instruc
tion.
Brown, a Bryan resident, is as
signed as a reading instructor to
Anson Jones School, a seventh
grade school on Palasota Drive,
Bryan, with an enrollment of about
00 students.
Before her graduation. Brown
participated in student-teaching at
Bryan High School (BHS) for four
months under the supervision of a
regular BHS teacher and an ob
server from Texas A&M.
"1 like teaching and 1 am eager to
be fully involved in it,” Brown said,
“but there are many instances when
I have to he a mother, a nurse, a
policeman or a confessor to the
pupils first and a teacher second.
She is one of the 79 new teachers
assigned to Bryan Independent
School District (BISD) in 1977, one
oi 13 Bryan residents. The remain
der includes 12 out-of-state candi
dates and 54 new teachers from
other towns in Texas.
C.B. McGown Jr., personnel di
rector with BISD, who supplied
these figures, said that no statistics
were available on how many of the
new teachers were Texas A&M
graduates.
Nobody can prepare you for the
experience,” Brown said.
“Each day brings new problems call
ing for prompt response and a total,
personal involvement on the part of
the teacher.”
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Brown blames the lack of parents’
interest for the failure of many
pupils to reach the required level of
knowledge.
"Only when the student becomes
delinquent or fails to successfully
pass the qualifying test is the paren
tal interest sufficiently aroused,”
Brown said.
She feels that a short discussion of
school activities between parents
and the pupil, each day upon return
from school, would improve stu
dents attitudes toward the learning
process.
“There is an urgent need to im
prove the reading ability of many
students and most of the remedial
reading should be accomplished
under parental control,” Brown
said.
Students, in most cases, behave
properly. But once during the
student-teaching period at BHS,
Brown was confronted with a
threatening gesture on the part
of a student, who immediately
apologized for his behavior.
Brown offered the following
suggestions for consideration by the
students and faculty of the educa
tional curriculum and instruction at
Texas A&M.
-Increasing the frequency and
duration of student s participation in
classroom experience with the local
school system.
-Giving more authority and re
sponsibility to the students involved
in the student-teaching at BHS.
Under the present setup, the BHS
students do not respond in the same
way to student-teachers as they re
spond to the regular BHS teachers,
knowing that student-teachers can
not enforce their orders.
-Decreasing the amount of train
ing in disciplines not directly re
lated to teaching proper and replace
such a training with additional class
room practice.
Brown also said she feels that the
appropriate state agency should se
riously consider an early pay raise to
prevent loss of dedicated hut
underpaid teachers.
“Last but not least, I believe that
the parents should do their fair
share in the upbringing of their
children, exspeeially in regard to
the behavior, appearance and study
habits, so that the teachers would
have more time to instruct and im
part information and skill’ instead of
being a surrogate mother or father,
Brown said.
By DONNA SCHLABACH
Robert Redford and Timothy
Leary are being considered by the
Great Issues Committee as possible
guest speakers at Texas A&M Uni
versity next semester.
Lany Rriggs, chairman of Great
Issues, said last week that next
semester s topic of discussion will
concern man s expending of the
environment, with emphasis on
space and the seas.
Redford, a member of the hoard
of directors of the 1 Environmental
Defense Fund, is a noted
environmentalist as well as an actor,
li he comes to A&M. Redlqrd will
speak on environmental issues,
Briggs said.
“We invited him (Redford) to
speak last year, hut he declined,
Briggs said, ‘‘He sent us a letter ex
plaining that he* didn t have time
due to movie commitments.
Leary, probably remembered
best for his LSD experiments in the
1960s, is being considered on the
basis of his recent involvement with
the L-5 project. L-5, a scientific
project concerns the colonization
and industrialization of.space.
“The names being mentioned
now are only possibilities, Briggs
said. “It doesn’t mean they will or
won t come to A&M. It doesn t even
mean they will he invited to speak
here.
No radiation leak
from nuclear test
in Nevada desert
United Press International
YUCCA FLATS, New — The
United States exploded an under
ground nuclear device Wednesday'
— the eighth announced test of the
year -r- hut shock waves were not
strong enough to he felt about 80
miles away in Las Vegas.
The device, dubbed “Bobstay
and packing a punch of nearly 20
kilotons — the equivalent of 20,000
tons of TNT — was detonated in a
shaft 1,250 feet below the desert
floor. No radiation was leaked into
the atmosphere, according to a
spokesman for the* Energy Research
and Development Administration,
It was the 480th nuclear device
exploded in Nevada since testing
began in the desert area in 1951.
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The Great Issues Committee
chooses speakers on the basis of
proposals made by their research
committee. Briggs said the commit
tee also considers results of student
polls, adding that a poll was taken
earlier this semester.
Dr. J ane Goodall and William
Colby were among those presented
by Great Issues last year, Briggs
said.
The committee operates mainly
on student services fees, hut admis
sion fees are collected at some
speaking engagements.
“Some speakers come to A&M at
their own expense,” Briggs said.
“Others require that we pay their
travel expenses, and sometimes an
honorary speaker’s fee is also re
quired.
Briggs, a senior nuclear engineer
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sues has about .50 members. Anyone
who wants to join is welcome, he
said. “‘We’re basically a student
committee,” he said. “We have one
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