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Bilingual
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through television networks and WebCT, an
interactive web teaching model.
Teachers take 15-18 hours of course-
work, including studies in bilingual and
dual-language methodologies to be certi
fied, Lara-Alecio said.
A&M has partnerships with undergradu
ate programs in which students are admitted
to the master’s program while still taking
undergraduate classes at their college. This
year, 15 students are enrolled in the partner
ship program, and more than 200 students
have taken master’s classes through the
partnership since August 2000.
Bilingual education hurts students more
than it helps them, said former College
Station Independent School District elemen
tary teacher P. Smith.
Smith said bilingual programs can keep
students on different footing from their
peers. He said this builds the feeling of infe
riority that contributes to the increasing
dropout rates among Hispanic students.
“Before entering the public classrooms,
these students should learn English because
this would make the transition much easier,”
Smith said.
Lara-Alecio wrote a chapter in the book
The Administration and Supervision of
Special Programs in Education that
attacked myths in bilingual education. He
defined immersion in a language as teach
ing the target language, English, with the
child’s home language used to clarify and
reinforce meanings in English.
In submersion, Lara-Alecio said, students
are placed in English-only programs in a
sink-or-swim attitude that integrates them
with native English speakers. The students’
first language is not used for instruction,
Lara-Alecio said, and no special attempt is
made to help overcome language problems.
Smith said teachers should help the stu
dents who are behind by spending extra time
with them, but should not lose sight of using
English-based instruction.
“If we are going to institute bilingual
education programs, then we need to cater to
every child with all different backgrounds,”
Smith said.
Claudia Sanchez, a graduate assistant to
Lara-Alecio, said that using a student’s
native language is the best means of com
munication to introduce English as a second
language.
Lara-Alecio said research has proven that
bilingual education is necessary to make
ESL students successful.
The next steps for Lara-Alecio's bilin
gual education initiative includes increasing
coverage for undergraduate and master’s
degree candidates, assisting other universi
ties around the country and abroad with dis
tance education bilingual programs and
expanding professional development online.
Grievances
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need to be fixed,” Rooney said.
“For those weeks that I was rep
rimanded, I am contesting the
fact that we were told to sign in
and out from the route board. 1
signed up for three four-hour
shifts from (1 p.m.) to (5 p.m.)
— which is 12 hours.”
Mathis said schedules on
many of the routes were intended
to overlap to accommodate the
increased demand this semester
for bus drivers. Shifts at the
beginning of the semester were
designed so bus drivers would be
ready at a stop 30 minutes before
they actually started driving to
accommodate for additional con
struction and the changes made
for additional on- and off-cam
pus routes, Mathis said.
“This year, because we
weren’t sure of how much
additional ridership we would
have, we changed to overlap
ping shifts,” Mathis said. “The
overlapping shifts were
designed to help guide our
timeliness so the buses keep
rolling from stop to stop.”
Rooney said he understands
the overlapping shifts helped
accommodate the spacing of
buses between classes.
Bus Operations management
returned to scheduling drivers at
non-overlapping intervals, with
a return to the stricter interpreta
tion of the 12-hour-minimum
rule. The rule, initially imple
mented in 1987, has previously
served as a guide for scheduling
hours for bus drivers.
“The choice for 12 hours was
not an arbitrary number,”
Mathis said. “We made it to set
a minimum number of hours.
We have to have students work
at least 12 hours per week to
break even for the cost of train
ing, insurance and other services
for these student workers.”
Training for an individual
bus driver costs between $1,500
to $1,800, according to PTTS
officials.
Rooney said his concern stems
from revised scheduling and the
letters he has received from Bus
Operations management.
“I am also mad about them
having changed things mid
semester, which was out of our
control, and then us getting in
trouble for it,” Rooney said. “If
any of us had done this to our
selves, then I can understand
that we should be getting in
trouble. But none of us went to
management and asked them to
change our route times.”
The first letter Rooney
received from Bus Operations
management was for the pay
period between Sept. 9 and Sept.
12, which showed him as work
ing 10.75 hours. Identified as a
level-one consequence, the let
ter was a written warning that he
had fallen below the 12-hour
minimum. The second letter
Rooney received from manage
ment was for the week of Sept.
27 to Oct. 3, and again he was
clocked as working 10.75 hours.
The second letter, referred to as
a level-two consequence, again
warned Rooney about falling
below the 12-hour minimum.
Another bus driver, with
several years of experience dri
ving buses, said there are a
number of bus drivers upset but
afraid to voice their concerns to
management.
The bus driver said Bus
Operations management has
required students to drive three
shifts, but never adhered to
demanding that students drive
12 hours.
“In the past, you never had to
make up hours,” she said. “If
those rules were in effect, they
were not enforced. There is no
doubt that the shifts, even three
added together, never came out
to 12 hours. The 12-hour rule is
a way to get us to work more
routes and fill up some of those
available routes on the board.”
Since the start of the Fall
2001 semester. Bus Operations
Manager Gary Jackson said there
have been two “short course”
training sessions to train more
bus drivers to accommodate the
increased ridership and account
for those bus drivers who quit at
the beginning of the semester.
“This year we had several
drivers leave early in the semes
ter without warning, “ Jackson
said. “As far as I know, most
indicated problems with their
academics. Several left the first
week of school and others left
after the first round of tests.”
Mathis said Bus Operations
understands that school work is
a priority, but she expects stu
dent workers to be committed to
their jobs.
“We are aware that our stu
dents go to school and that is a
priority for them, but we ask
that we are a number-two prior
ity,” Mathis said. “We have
mandatory route substitutions in
place when students cannot be
there because they have major
tests or papers or something else
in their classes.”
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Tyler
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ran for a touchdown against
Notre Dame in his first colle
giate start.
“(Farmer) has some things
that you really don’t coach,”
Slocum said. “If you notice, he
always falls forward. You
almost never see him get
straightened up and knocked
back. Even when people have
good shots on him, he still push
es the pile a little bit.”
And behind every touchdown
that has been scored by Murphy
and Farmer, there is another
Tyler native. Sophomore kicker
and punter Cody Scales graduat
ed from Tyler Lee a year before
Farmer.
Scales leads the Aggies in
scoring with 45 points and
owns a 41.1 yard-per-punt
average.
After starting the season on a
shaky foot, Scales has not
missed a field goal since the
fourth quarter against Baylor, a
span of more than three games.
“I missed some (earlier in the
season),” said Scales. “Every
week I’m getting more comfort
able, and my performances are
getting better, so I should be on
top of things soon.”
The Aggies’ Tyler connection
would be even stronger if receiv
er Robert Ferguson, who trans
ferred to A&M from Tyler Junior
College, had not declared for the
NFL draft after his junior season.
But it has been new players
from the Tyler area that have
stepped in and filled the voids
left by Ferguson and others after
2000.
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You can almost
say they have been
go-toguys
for us. That is
something that
doesn't happen very
much in a league
like the Big 12. ”
— R.C. Slocum
A&M football head coach
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have been go-to guys for us,”
Slocum said. “That is something
that doesn’t happen very much
in a league like the Big 12.”
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