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ROGUE NEWS
Fri . May 19. 1972
Vondracek Discusses
Contraversial Issues
The fourth in a series of articles
in which teachers express their
personal opinion. In this issue
Mr. Don Vondracek, English
teacher, is featured.
Q: What is your opinion on sex
education in public schools?
A:' In an era of overpopulation
and venereal disease epi
demics, sex education would
seem to be vital.
in your
student-
Q: Describe what is.
opinion, the ideal
teacher relationship.
A: Ideally, students and teach
ers should see each other as
partners in learning with the
teacher's greater cxpericene
and background as the only
signifieant differentiating fac
tor. In fact, however, as long
as the teacher must take roll
and give grades, no such re
lationship is possible.
Q: Are you primarily interested
in helping college-bound stu
dents or in preparing students
for life in the non-academic
world?
A: I understand the attitudes
and assumptions of college
bound students in a way that
inclines me. unless I am very
careful, to favor them . . .
When I think about it, I know
that everyone should not go to
college, but at the gut-level I
want an academic, liberal arts
education for everyone. Mea
culpa, mea culpa, mea
mixama culpa.
Q: What do you think of today's
youth, their ability to cope
with world problems, their
sincerity and idealism?
A: They are slightly more social
ly conscious than my peers of .
the apathetic generation, but
the turning toward the occult
and the superstitions (Tarot
cards, astrology. Eastern re
ligions, drugs, "Jesus freak
ism," etc.) would seem to
make the present generation
less capable of handling the
problems they perceive.
Q: Would you like to teach in a
free or open school?
A: I think my ego would be
strong enough, but without
the support of the system and
its role-reinforcing aspects,
I'm not certain I would be
comfortable when I and my
efforts were ignored, de
meaned, insulted, etc. I would
like to try it, but I'd want the
security of a traditional school
to return to.
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English Department Chairman Don Vandracek contemplates
question posed by reporter Julie Harrison.
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