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Page 6/The Battalion/Tuesday, September 23, 1986
Proposal to limit
school paperwork
signed into law
AUSTIN (AP) — Saying the job
of teachers is to teach and not fill out
forms. Gov. Mark White signed into
law Monday a bill designed to re
duce classroom paperwork.
“Teaching must never be reduced
Crickets begin
mating frenzy
by thousands
AUSTIN (AP) — By the hun
dreds of thousands, perhaps mil
lions, the crickets crept out of
hiding about the first of Septem
ber and have begun their annual
mating frenzy.
Cousins of the lowly cockroach,
crickets will reproduce as many as
three times before the first frost,
and a female will lay 150 to 400
eggs, experts say.
While crickets are harmless to
humans, their numbers make
them a nuisance. And when they
die, there’s another problem.
Bob Jenkins, who directs main
tenance for the Capitol complex,
which annually is overwhelmed
with the insects, said,“We sweep
up thousands of them every
morning. The problem we’re
having this year is it’s humid and
wet, and they smell.”
to an exercise in paper-pushing,”
White said before putting his signa
ture on the measure. “It’s the paper
work that needs to be reduced.
That’s the victory we will achieve to
day.”
The bill, passed during the Legis
lature’s special session, takes effect
immediately.
It directs the State Board of Edu
cation to reduce its paperwork re
quirements and instructs school dis
tricts to reduce the amount of
paperwork required of teachers.
Under the legislation, teachers
would be required only to fill out pa
perwork relating to students’ grades,
textbooks, lesson plans and atten
dance, lawmakers said.
“I can’t tell you how many teach
ers I have heard from — up in the
thousands — who have said that the
paperwork burden is one of the
greatest daily frustrations in the pro
fession,” White said.
Lawmakers and officials of tea
cher organizations hailed the bill’s
signing.
Senate Education Committee
Chairman Carl Parker, D-Port Ar
thur, said one advantage of the new
law is that it prohibits unnecessary
paperwork from being imposed.
“The state does not require any
more paperwork than is absolutely
necessary to account for students
and deliver their grades and report
their progress,” Parker said.
John Cole, president of the Texas
Federation of Teachers, said the
new law will give teachers “the tools
to stem this flow of paper.”
Beaumont teacher
opposes drug testing
BEAUMONT (AP) — A pro
posed program calling for manda
tory drug testing of all Beaumont
Independent School District em
ployees and students is unconstitu
tional, those opposing the program
say.
“I don’t do drugs or like drugs,”
said Marie Easley, an eighth-grade
teacher. “I won’t agree to be tested.
If it ever came down to it, I would be
willing to become a test case to fight
it in court.”
“It’s not going to happen,” said
Easley, who is secretary of the Beau
mont Teachers Association.
“There’s no reason for teachers to
get upset, because it’s not legal,” she
said.
Last week, Superintendent Mike
Taylor proposed the program call
ing for periodic urine tests for
10,000 students in the sixth through
12th grades and 2,400 employees,
including himself, school trustees
and administrators.
In making the announcement,
Taylor said Beaumont’s schools have
no more of a drug problem than
other schools.
According to the program, those
who test positive for drugs will be re
tested and then put into special
counseling programs. Those not re
habilitated will be fired or expelled,
he said.
Leon Stertz, president of the
Beaumont chapter of the American
Civil Liberties Union, said his group
is prepared to challenge the pro
gram in court. He said mandatory
testing of people not suspected of
taking drugs violates the U.S. Con
stitution.
Drug-related arrests on rise
in Houston school districts
HOUSTON (AP) — The number
of drug-related arrests at Houston
schools more than doubled during
the first six months of the 1985-86
school year, Houston Independent
School District records show.
But Superintendent Joan Ray
mond said the increase is evidence of
the heightened public awareness of
the drug problem.
“In some ways this shows the dis
trict is taking a far more active, pro
tective role,” Raymond said. “We’re
more aware of it (the drug prob
lem).”
The superintendent said that a
more informed public has made it
easier for teachers and school offi
cials to recognize students who have
drug problems.
From September through Feb
ruary, 97 people were arrested by
school district security personnel for
drug- and alcohol-related offenses
— up from 38 arrests during the
previous year.
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