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United Press International
The electronic schoolhouse is a
fact of education, a report from the
National School Boards Association
says.
Such a schoolhouse contains com
puters, videotape recorders, cable
television hookups, video discs and
other technology linking it to the
world of telecommunication.
Some schools even operate in-
house television stations and have
links that connect school computers
with home computers.
Few schools nave all these things,
but it would be hard to find one free
of minimal trappings of the compu-
terized-electrotncized era, the report
on a nationwide survey shows.
Use of computers for instruction
in public schools is spreading fast,
but policies and procedures to guide
the schools in their use lag behind,
said the report. It was conducted in
cooperation with the National Insti
tute of Education.
Of 236 local school board presi
dents responding, 96 percent said
their school districts use microcom
puters for instruction. But 86 per
cent had no board policy or
guideline in the selection of course
ware or software.
Nearly 80 percent said computers
are being used for math; 48 percent,
for spelling; 39 percent, for science;
25 percent, for writing.
Other survey Findings:
• 89 percent use local funding to
buy computer hardware; 74 percent
also use federal funding and 58 per
cent also use state funds. In 29 per
cent of the districts funding is sup
plemented by parent groups and in
14 percent, by other private sources.
• Among those cited as “strongly
encouraging” the use of computers
were superintendents, principals
and teachers, 92 percent; local
school boards, 66 percent; parents,
60 percent; computer manufactur
ers, 20 percent.
• 79 percent of the presidents
said computers have not changed
the methods or content of instruc
tion in their schools. But 17 percent
said computers have altered meth
ods or content in mathematics, busi
ness education, English or the sci
ences.
• 35 percent said computers have
enabled students to take advanced
or different courses not otherwise
available to them, such as computer
science and literacy, programming
and mathematics.
• 84 percent of the school dis
tricts use videotape recorders; 52
percent have cable television, and 20
percent use video discs and other
technology.
• half the board presidents re
ported school computers are avail
able for use after school hours to
families that do not own home com
puters. In 44 percent of the districts,
instruction is given to parents on the
home-education use of computers.
The report said 10 to 15 percent
of families have home computers,
used as follows; entertainment, 89
percent; education, 85 percent; busi
ness, 60 percent; family finances, 41
percent. The total is larger than 100
percent since most families reported
multiple uses.
Stars scared on
1st day of school
United Press International
LOS ANGELES — Despite the
confidence they display before
millions in their adult years, ce
lebrities asked to recall their first
day at school described the expe
rience as anxiety-filled and terri-
fying.
Olympic gold medal winner
Bruce Jenner said he was the
most terrified kid in town.
Catherine Bach, who stars in
the “Dukes of Hazzard,” said she
gussied up for her first big day of
school in Rapid City, S.D.
“My mother was a teacher in
the school and spent a lot of time
preparing me for school,” Bach
said. “I wore high heels and a new
dress made by my mother — red
and white polka dot.
“I got to the stairs and I knew I
was in for something and hid be
hind my mother and 1 almost
toppled over in those high heels
they wore in the ’50s. The teacher
came out to the front steps and
coaxed me in, ‘Oh, come in,
honey.’ And I said, ‘No. I’m not
going in.’
“I was kicking and screaming
and then, when I realized it was
inevitable, I straightened up be
cause I knew I was never going to
cry in front of the other kids. I
went into the classroom with the
teacher holding my hand. She sat
me down and by recess I was
making a few friends. We were all
pretty much in the same boat.
“I was scared to death of all
these big people and that big
building. I hadn’t been far from
my own home and our own block.
“By the second week, I couldn’t
wait to get to school.”
“I remember most that I was al
ways always afraid of falling
down the steps,” the comedian re
called. “But just in case, I always
wore clean underwear in case 1
had to go to the nurse after fall
ing down the steps.”
Sid Caesar also recalled his first
impression of the teacher.
“I remember the teacher had
long, curly hair, glasses and she
looked like somebody from the
‘Three Musketeers,”’ he said.
His first problem?
“I could never make a figure
eight,” he said. “1 couldn’t re
member whether it started right
to left or left to right so I put two
zeros on top of each other.”
Cieorge Cnakiris, who won an
Academy Award for his role as
Bernardo in “West Side Story,”
also remember vividly that first
day of school in the Arizona de
sert of Tucson more than 40
years ago.
"What comes to mind first is 1 re
member sitting in class and there
was this kid next to me named
Edgar who was so very shy he wet
his pants,” Chakiris said. “I re
member I felt so embarrassed for
him. I saw this puddle develop
under this kid.
“I also remember that the older
kids teasing and scaring the new
kids with dead snakes they found
on the way to school. I learned to
stay away from the older ones.”
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United Press International
CHICAGO — Middle-income sin
gle parents and working couples
who need day care for children in
preschool years and primary grades
are finding they get little help from
schools, businesses or any kind of
government.
The choices are live with it or have
an income low enough to to be eligi
ble for state and federal subsidies.
“It is now more necessary for both
parents to work to raise a child,” said
Sue Howell, chief of the office for
child development at the Illinois De
partment of Children and Family
Services, but “as fhr as a state-subsi
dized program (for middle-income
parents), there really is nothing at
this point.”
Howell said the federal child care
tax credit does not offer much relief
at this point.
Lower-income families tend to fill
school and church sponsored day
care programs that are government-
endowed or tied to larger aid pro
gram for the parents themselves.
A few companies are exploring
the possibility of providing or subsi
dizing day care for their employees,
but most working parents are on
their own.
Parents “cope in as many individ
ual ways as they possibly can,” said
Karen Wellisch, executive director
of the Chicago chapter of the Na
tional Organization of Women.
“It’s a truism that there are never
enough services for women to be
full-time workers in the work place,”
she said. “The kinds of things we
need are both before and after
school programs.”
“They want something reliable,
something they can trust,” Howell
said. “It’s difficult to leave your child
in someone else’s care for eight, nine
hours a day.”
Some state and federal subsidies
are available for low-income parents.
In Illinois, the maximum subsidy is
$10.93 a day, with a dollar more for
infant care. Other states have similar
programs.
One program that has govern
ment financed slots is the St. Vincent
De Paul Day Care Center on Chi
cago’s North Side, which has been
serving the community since 1915 as
a day care center for working par
ents.
Day care “was a rare thing in those
days,” said Sister Patricia Finerty,
administrator of the St. Vincent De
Paul center. “We started by helping
immigrant mothers working in fac
tories.”
St. Vincent takes in 480 children,
ranging in age from four months to
11 years, and requires the parents ei
ther to be attending school or work
ing full time.
There are 800 children on the
waiting list, resulting in a wait of up
to two years for many families.
The public school system has no
special programs to aid working par
ents, such as after-school programs.
The problem is money, a plight
shared with other cities.
In New York City, for example,
the school system does not provide
any form of day care service for
working mothers.
The Denver school system also of
fers no day care for mothers with
school-age children, but some help is
provided with a free adult education
program that serves about 30,000
Denver residents.
One program pays the cost of
school, transportation and child care
for qualified low-income mothers
while they attend “fast track” classes
designed to give them basic job skills
in two to six months.
Some parochial schools, chiefly in about
disadvantaged areas, offer after
school programs, said Levert King,
program coordinator for early child-
nood programs for the Chicago Ro
man Catholic archdiocese.
“All of the programs are located
in parishes, and most of them are on
the (parochial) school premises,’’
King said. “Each parish has its own
number of (federally) funded slots
for low-income families who are
working.”
King said there are also parishes
that conduct their own day care pro
grams, without federal funds.
On the corporate front, Baxter-
Travenol Laboratories Inc. has a pi
lot program in which the company
partially subsidizes day care for the
children of employees working at its
corporate headquarters in Deerfield,
Ill., said Chuck Ebeling, director of
corporate communications for
Baxter-Travenol.
“We don’t operate our own cen
ter,” he said. “We provide a partial
subsidy to enable the working par
ents to drop their child off at the
(public) center,” which is located
about one mile from the offices.
I he year-old program has ser
5 parents and “enablei
number of our people to contii
working here,” Ebeling said. “Wi
still operating what essentially is a
lot program,” and a rare progran
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