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About Portland observer. (Portland, Or.) 1970-current | View Entire Issue (May 24, 1973)
Pag« 4 Portland/O bserver Thursday. May 24, 1973 City approves breaks to elderly The Salvation Arm y Rose Center fo r Senior Citizens, 1785 N, E . Sandy, became the 25th Loaves and Fishes operation in the metropolitan area this week. Shown signing the guest book is Pick Mastbrook, right, executive d ire c to r of Loaves and Fishes, with M rs . Shirley Hetherington, Rose Center adm inistrator and Morgan Dickerson, assistant adm inistrator of Multnomah County Retired Senior Volunteer Program, with which Rose Center also is cooperating. Most dropouts really pushouts According to the "pushout" premise, expulsion and drop ping out of school merely culminate a history of rejec tion of the students’ needs on the part of the schools. In other words, low academic achievement, acting up in class, disaffection from school, and severe behavioral prob lems do not generate each other. They are just stops on the way for a child being forced out of school. A National Education As sociation (NEA) conference held in Washington, D.C., earlier this year prompted the 'Race R elations R eporter to examine the “pushout" The Reporter found these major tenets about “push- outs”. • Most dropouts are in fact pushouts. DR. JEFFREY BRA D Y M O D ÍF N DENTAL PLATES a Most pushouts are minor ity students. a There is a common and predictable trend in each of the problems connoted by the term. For example, if there is a high suspension rate, one can also expect a high rate of absenteeism and low academ ic achievement. • The problems that consti tute the term "pushout" are a bundle of symptoms that do not cause each other. Low academic achievement does not cause a high suspension rate or vice versa. Rather, the Most school “dropouts" are in fact “pushouts" and most "pushouts" are minority stu dents. These are among the prin cipal tenets of educators pro bing the new problem of student "pushouts." Race Relations Reporter magazine reports in its May issue that educators have coined the new word “pushout” to de scribe the problem although the word and the problem still lack a precise definition. The term first described students excluded from school by administrative expulsion or suspension. Now, how ever, "pushout" has acquired additional meaning to include students prevented from achieveing their academic pa tential through a deliberate denial of opportunity. The Reporter study by Lawrence Wright found that a child does not have to be forced out of school and on to the streets to qualify as a “pushout." It can be the non-English-speaking child who flounders in class and repeatedly fails tests written in English. It can be the child who is denied relevant curric ula. It can be the Black or Chicano child whose needs are ignored or misunderstood by the teacher. Or it cap be any child terrified by the racial hostility in the classroom. 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The City will pick up the lab, up to $350, for City required sidewalk repair and construction on all home property of those ell gible. All sidewalk repair and construction coats have traditionally been the re sponsibility of the property owners. Discussing the programs. Commissioner Anderson said, “City charges, particularly sidewalk assessments, have often created real hardships on the elderly homeowner on a low, fixed income such as social security. While it is desirable, from the public's point of view, to have all sidewalks in good shape, the financial burden can result in deprivation of the necessities of life or the need to sell his home to raise the capital necessary to pay a sse ss menls. The sidewalk pro gram for the elderv will Marjorie A. Costa, Director of the National Center for Family Planning Services of the Department of Health. Education and Welfare, will be the keynote speaker for the last of our regional work shops on "Family Planning in Minority Communities". She will discuss the "Federal Role in Family Planning". The day-long regional work shop will be held in St. Louis. Missouri. June 1. 1973 at the Sheraton Jefferson Hotel. More than 300 dis cussants from Midwestern and Southwestern states will participate. The workshop series are funded by the National Center for Family Planning Services, and spon sored conjointly with the John Hale Medical Society of San Francisco, and co-spon sored by the National Medi cal Association; the Howard University Medical School. Washington. D.C.: and the M . COSTA Meharry Medical C ollege, Nashville, Tennessee. Workshop p a n elists and conferees will be represents live of all groups under dis cussion Indians, Blacks. Asians and Spanish speaking peoples. At least one third of the registrants will be low income consumers of ser vices. Others in attendance will include p rivate and public agency personnel in Sears S C U T IV ! Bastar« - He noted that it will be necessary for individuals to reapply for the reduced sewer user fee before July 1. 1973. Anderson said the City will soon mail notices to all now receiving the reduc tion and expressed hope that more persons, especially those who turned 65 in the last year, would apply for reduced rates. solved in family planning program s, stu d en ts and family planning volunteers. The workshop will deal with such family planning issues as the why of these services in minority com munities. the relationship to total health care, legal and legislative aspects, methods of financing such programs, and consumer involvement. Concerned minority group members will have the op portunity to consider and ex press their views on these and related topics. Arthur H. Coleman, M.D., [last president of the John Hale Medical Society, is Pro ject Director of the Work shop Series. Inquiries coneerning the w orkshop should be ad dressed to Family Planning Workshops. 5815 Third St.. 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The Reporter studied the schools in Boston. San Fran cisco, and Mobile. Many educators and ad ministrators attribute failure to the children served, not the schools themselves. Increas ingly, others who support the term "pushout” bealieve that “all to common progression” - frustration, unhappiness, dis like for school, discipline problems, and finally with drawal from school is symptomatic of an insensitiv ity that denies the needs of the students. These educat ors believe one solution to the problem is greater community control of education. Race Relations Reporter is published by Race Relations Information Center, P. O. Box 12156, Nashville, Tennessee 37212. Two programs proposed by City Commissioner Lloyd Anderson to expand the City's programs for reduced charges to low income senior citi zens were approved recently by the City Council. 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