Monday, November 19, 1984AThe Battalion/Page 7
Port to stay behind bars
until issue set for good
United Press International
| HOUSTON — Odette Port, jailed
two months ago for refusing to tes
tify before a grand jury that indicted
her son, wants to remain behind bars
until the issue of her confinement is
settled for good, her attorney says.
I Attorney Randy Schaffer said
even if Port is granted bail, she will
remain in jail. She does not want to
Bturn if other courts rule against
her, said Schaffer.
1 David Port, 17, remains free on
$20,000 bail. He is charged with the
slaving of Debora Sue Schatz, 23, a
female mail carrier.
Port’s husband, Bernard, was re
leased from Harris County Jail a
week ago after he spoke to the grand
jury for several hours. Mrs. Port re
fused to answer six questions that
might implicate Davie, her stepson.
Port could remain in jail until Jan.
31 if the Texas Court of Criminal
Appeals does not rule in her favor.
Port described his wife as an
American hero.
“She’s staying in there for the love
of a husband,” Port said. “All I can
find is beauty that there’s someone
who has done something for me. My
concern is my wife, and the sacrifice
she made for me. She was a hero. I
was the father. It was expected of
me.”
The Ports were jailed Sept. 12 af
ter refusing to testify, but they asked
that the grand jury be brought into
session earlier this month and spent
two days testifying before them.
The Ports claimed they had a
right not to testify against their son
because of a parent-child privilege
and on the grounds of religious be
liefs.
One-teacher schools exist
in isolated, farming areas
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1 LUBBOCK — Those one-teacher
■Tools that once dotted farming
■ommunities across the country have
yet to be erased.
■ Although few and far between,
there are still 837 public one-teacher
ischools operating in isolated areas
tco remote for busing or consolida
tion, a Texas Tech University re-
I searcher said.
I Texas has four one-teacher
■Tools: Allamoore Common in
Sierra Blana; Juno Common in Del
I Rio; Divide Common in Kerrville
Hnd Certa Valley Independent in
Kerta Valley. •
■ Bruce Barker of Texas Tech’s Na-
Bonal Center for Smaller Schools
i|aid the nostalgic institutions pro-
Ifide more than leadin’, writin’ and
Bithmetic. He said he believes they
Offer some teaching tips for smaller
hools in general.
“These small schools have some of
e desired qualities that education
Systems are working for today,” Bar
ker said. “By studying America’s re
aming one-teacher schools, we
lopeto gain insights that will benefit
iducation.”
More than one-third of the re
taining one-teacher schools exist in
Nebraska, which has 385 of them,
iccording to a recently completed
study that excluded speciality,
liurch and private schools.
Of the 29 states reporting at least
ne such school in 1984, there were
|9 in Montana; 87 in South Dakota;
41 in California; 28 in Alaska; 21 in
[daho; 15 in Oregon and eight in
Washington.
“Education in Nebraska from
what I can gather is decentralized,”
Barker said. “There’s a lot of local
control and the people don’t want to
give up their school. Nebraska is
very rural and very spread out.
“In Montana it’s chiefly because
they’re so isolated.”
Most of the one-teacher schools
involved grades 1-8 or 1-6 with an
average enrollment of 11 students.
Alaska’s one-teacher schools were
located by villages and provided an
education for grades K-12, Barker
said.
“They’re opening and closing,”
Barker said of the one-teacher
schools. “When you have a family
move there’s a drastic impact on a
one-room school. It might close but
would be opened again when an
other farm family moved in,” he
said.
Texas Tech’s 5-year-old Center
for Smaller Schools was created to
provide educational research and
also to improve the image and edu
cation of the small school in general.
“One of the most important fac
tors in effective schooling is the way
the teacher relates to the students,”
Barker said. “The teacher in those
one-room schools knew them inti
mately.”
He said a lower teacher-student
ratio enhances specialized teaching
programs for individual students.
“No one’s saying that we go back
to one-room schools,” Barker said.
“But there’s an attitude that small
schools are not good schools.
There’s no research that proves that
one way or another.”
The United States had 200,000
one-teacher schools in 1900, but that
number dropped to less than 75,000
by 1948 and to less than 24,000 by
1959.
Barker said education records in
dicated only 15,600 independent
school districts existed in 1980 com
pared to 127,000 school districts in
1932.
He said many districts were con
solidated following a 1959 book
“The American High School Today”
by James Conant in which Conant
suggested any high school having
fewer than 100 students should
merge with another school.
Students in a graduating class of
30 have a better chance of being
known and liked than students in a
graduating class of 350, Barker said.
“Students generally have more
pride in their community, their
school and in themselves,” Barker
said, adding they have greater op
portunities to participate in extra
curricular activites because there was
less competition.
Teachers in small schools told
Barker they believe 35 percent of
their students were high achievers,
51 percent were average achievers
and 14 percent were below average.
Barkers said he was considering
keeping track of some of the stu
dents to see how they perform in
secondary schools and colleges.
“Our nation’s few remaining one-
teacher schools are a reminder of a
public education system which has
made education available to virtually
any citizen who desires the opportu
nity to learn,” Barker said.
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DERRY, N.H. — A group of
seventh graders have formed
“Kids Against Child Abuse” after
hearing of a 4-year-old child
burned to death in an oven in Au
burn, Maine.
Lisa Guillemette, 12, said she
decided to form the group after
reading a news story about Sara
Palmer, killed Oct. 27 reported-
lyby her mother and a live-in
boyfriend.
“I was really upset,” Guille
mette said Sunday, recalling the
day she read about the death. “I
was crying. I couldn’t eat or any
thing, so I decided to do some
thing about it.”
First she wrote President Rea
gan, telling him, “I am only 12
years old and am very, very con
cerned about this. Everybody
thinks we’re too young to do any
thing about this but it’s time to
take some action.”
Since then, nine seventh grad
ers from Hood Junior High
School have met twice at Guille-
mette’s home in the suburban
town of 20,000 people outside
Boston.
They agreed to raise money
for Christmas gifts and write let
ters to abused children placed in
a nearby temporary residence by
the state.
“We want to let parents who
are abusing the children know
there’s help,” Guillemette said. “I
think there’s something called
Parent’s Anonymous.”
The group has made posters
urging parents to get help and
asking for donations. One said,
“Stop Before It’s Too Late.”
“I think parents don’t think
enough,” Daedra Worster, 12,
said about the causes of. child
abuse. “They have stress they
take out on their kids and they
can’t help it.”
Worster said one reason she
got involved with the club was
personal experience. “When I
lived in Florida, my friend’s par
ents used to come home with a lot
of stress and they couldn’t handle
it and they took it out on her and
I saw the way she looked some
times,” she said.
Ideas of meeting abused chil
dren and answering a hotline, so
kids could talk to abused children
were dashed during the group’s
second meeting Thursday when
they met with Susan Van Osdol, a
state welfare officer .
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