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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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Open House
Villa St. Rose, 597 N.
Dekum, announces an Open
House from 3:00 to 5:00 p.m.,
Thursday, May 31, according
to Sister William, administra
tor.
During the past 60 years.
Villa has served Oregon as a
residential treatment center
for adolescent girls with emo
tional and behavioral prob
lems. Almost 10,000 girls of
all faiths have been counseled
and guided.
A four year
accredited high school has
been provided on the grounds.
Villa is administered by the
Good Shepherd Sisters and
lay staff. Staff members will
be available to answer any
questions during Open House.
walk program. 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
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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..
San Francisco, California
94124, or calls of inquiry may
be made to 1415) .'187 5440.
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walks without imposing an
additional hardship on the
senior citizen."
Anderson added. "We have
been generally pleased with
the response to the reduction
of sewer user fees for senior
citizen s.
Nine thousand
households in Portland now
receive this reduction. We
have raised the limits to
keep pace with the increase
in social security benefits
granted during the last year."
Family planning workshop set
ROY BURNETT'S 1973
• Partial Plates
• Dental Plates
SLEEP
root causes of pushouts are
societal in origin
racism,
alienation, etc.
• These problems are to
some extent ulterior to the
process of desegregation, and
yet one of the side effects of
desegregation seems to be a
rise in “pushouts".
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
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by the City Council.
The
Council action will increase
the income limits of «legi
bility for the City’s reduced
sewer user fee program and
remove the first $350 on
sidewalk construction and re
pair charges on the homes of
low income senior citizens.
To be eligible for a fifty
percent reduction of sewer
user rates, a single person
must be over 65 and receive
less that $3200 annually; for
two or more people with the
head of the household over
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