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Children from Mr. Norman's class at Boise Elementary School listen
to tapes Only Nat Charleston and Tyron Taylor noticed the camera
Making cider in Claude Dabritz Boise classroom: Todd Pratcher.
Jackie Taylor. Theresa Cunningham. Gregory Sly and Robin Durant”
The young man in the cap is not identified
no a p p o in tm e n t needed
School Board discusses desegregation plans
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education for the students. That is an
important question to raise, but he
was not hearing it raised in a helpful
way.
Buel repeated his belief that in
some instances Albina schools are
doing a worse job than others, that
they haven't attracted the best
teachers. And that needs to be im­
proved if the district is to offer the
same quality o f education in all o f its
schools.
Buel asked if the plans met the
com m itm ent made to the Black
United Front. McNamara said,
“ Probably n o t” , but Cawthorne
thought they do. In response to
Buel’s question about how the issue
o f equal burden was addressed, Mc­
Namara responsed that as much as
possible any given parent whould
have the same choices available as
any other parent.
Another serious issue addressed by
both the Black United Front and the
Coalition was that o f scattering o f
Black children throughtout a large
number o f schools. This scattering
not only isolates Black children by
placing them in situations where they
are alone in classrooms, but is
destructive to the com m unity
because neighbors attend different
schools.
I he plan presented by Superin­
tendent Blanchard would have
restricted assignment o f students
from any elementary school to an
assigned school and a limited num­
ber
of
options.
Cawthorne
disagreed, saying parents options
should not be limited.
Board member Priestley was
concerned about the scattering
saying that in his opinion children
need peer support as they go school.
going through the grades together.
He was troubled not only by children
being recruited out to m ultiple
schools, but by a magnet middle
school from which children would be
dispersed to several high schools.
Cawthorne said peer support
could be substituted by parent sup­
port and that scattering is only
destructive i f it is forced by the
district. The same scattering would
not be destructive if it were through
the parent’s choice.
Adams High School
The proposed plans would close
John Adams as a high school, trans­
fe rring students to Jefferson,
Grant, Madison and Roosevelt. The
current Coluinbia/Whitaker Middle
School, or some parts o f it, would be
housed at Adams. Since that would
create a middle school o f 1200 or
more students, a separate middle
school in the W hitaker b uilding
might be necessary.
Michael Grice, a teacher at Adams
High School, opposed the recom­
mendation that Adams High School
be closed. He said the school’ s
declining enrollm ent, the main
reason given for closing the school, is
caused by removal o f students from
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and to deal with them. Apparently
they can’t seem to call the shots. I
have a feeling that they are not in
control.”
The Black United Front will put
together a package o f proposals
dealing w ith all o f the issues
s u r r o u n d in g d e s e g r e g a tio n :
placement o f students, employment,
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making Ainsworth a K-5, Chapman
a PreK-5 and Hayhurst a m iddle
school. They suggested also the even­
tual use o f Lincoln High School as a
middle school.
The Board voted to present their
own two plans, with alternatives,
and the ESSA plan to the public for
discussion.
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curriculum, staff training, discipline,
which will be presented to the com­
munity and the Board at a later date.
A community meeting w ill be held
on Thursday, November 29th, at
7:00 p.m. at King Neighborhood
F a c ility to evaluate the school
d is tric t’ s perform ance since the
boycott was deferred and to discuss
the position that Blanchard should
resign.
“ Throughout the twelve weeks we
have received numerous complaints
from parents about racist practices
that their children suffer from in
Portland Public Schools,” Herndon
said. "These range from bus drivers
cursing at children to the same old
unfair disciplinary actions. There has
been little if any change in the man­
ner that Black children are treated in
Portland schools.
"W e have observed little commit­
ment to hire Black teachers or ad­
m in istrato rs, the d is tric t's a f f ir ­
mative action p olicy remains ex­
tremely weak.”
The public meeting will determine
a boycott should be called and
whether the S uperintendent’ s
resignation should be one o f the
boycott demands.
The boycott demands included:
creation o f one or more middle
schools; assignment o f no less than
40 per cent Blacks to receiving
schools; equitable d iscip lin e; in ­
creased hiring o f m inority teachers
and administrators and assignment
o f Blacks to schools where Black
student attend; upgrading o f
education in com m un ity schools.
The decision whether to resume
boycott plans w ill be le ft to the
community, according to Herndon.
“ We have always responded to what
the community wants. Our original
call for a boycott was in response to
community concerns.
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tionate number o f students to attend
Benson. “ Most o f the problems in
desegregation could be handled by
gerrymandering -- readjusting the
boundary lines to place Black
children in schools not far away.”
Grice said Adatns has a great
p otential as a high school in a
minority community - the potential
in a building like Adatns is “ un­
bounded” — with a foundry, fu ll
auto shops, a wood working shop, a
graphic arts plant, it has the poten­
tial to compliment a school like Ben­
son.
Assignment o f students from
Scoot and Sacajawea would not only
provide an adequate number o f
students but would im prove the
racial balance.
A l Jamison, chairm an o f the
Emergency School Aid Act advisory
committee, which monitors federal
desegregation grants, recommended
middle schools at Boise and Eliot
and the conversion o f Adatns to an
Early Childhood Education Center
and a magnet middle school. The
also recommended that the district
get on w ith reorganization by
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