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Page 6 Portland Observer, November 5,1961 BLADE CH ■ POUND Gloria Richards won First Place In Bast Fa- Larry Warren was "Bast Mala" in costuma mala section at 69 Productions Hallowaan contest, dance. Bast Pair were Tony and Rosta Pagnotta who stole the show with these unique get- ups. Photo«: Richard J. Brown / Bits and Pieces by Ruth Spencer According to management infor mation the Portland Public School’s total Black enrollment is 7,626 stu dents; with a breakdown o f S, 176 el ementary, 2,127 secondary and 323 special students. The Black enroll ment in 1979 was 7,910 students. Recovering at home are Mmes. M arie A n thon y and M ary Scott-, Messrs. George Jordan and Thomas Vickers. The Reverend Jeff Sanders o f Vancouver Avenue Baptist Church is in Emanuel Hospital. Best wishes! Mmes. Zola Harris and Odessa Mangum will attend the Women’s Aglow Convention in Niagara Falls, N .Y ., representing Maranatha Church. Mayor Ivancie has designated Sue Keil as the City-Schools Liaison Of ficer. Together with representatives of City agencies such as the Bureaus o f Planning, Parks, Human Re sources and Community Develop ment, Metropolitan Youth Commis sion, Portland Development Com mission and the Office of Neighbor hood A ssociations, she provides support, information and staff as sistance to joint ventures of the City o f Portland and the Portland School District, and facilitates steady channels o f communication. She is a former school district em ployee. ***** Economists say there will be a slight increase in the price we pay for gas because the oil cartel has Fixed the base price at $34 a barrel. The Western Wood Products As sociation reports that 58 per cent of the employees in 756 Western saw mills were laid off or working short shifts this past week. The Black United Front will host a political convention for the Black Community, November 13, 14, and 15 at Jefferson High School—Be There! The Epsilon Zeta Lambda Chap ter o f Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. has reorganized in Portland. All Alpha men are requested to tele phone 283-5675 for details. Mrs. Ella Mae Gay has been se lected as Allen Temple’s representa tive for the NAACP's Grandmoth ers’ Christmas Seal Contest. Mrs. Lee Eunice Jones of Allen Temple is last year’s winner. The NAACP filed a suit Oct. I in U.S. District Court against the Con tra Costa County Sheriff (Rich mond, California) charging a failure to adequately protect three Black families from racial harassment last year. vices for the elderly by avoiding un necessary duplication o f services and promoting state-wide advocacy of programs for the elderly. Moore is the executive assistant to the president of the American Care Center. He is a graduate o f Wood bury University. Los Angeles, Cali fornia. Read the racing news from Port land Meadows in the Observer and get a free General Admissions Pass. Coming soon! Dr. Darrell Millner, Professor at Portland State University, said: “ The current waves of political con servatism and economic retrench ment that are flooding the country today can create an atmosphere of depression, even desperation in the hearts and minds o f Black people who care about the future o f the race.” ••••• Cletus B. Moore, Jr., is one ot the 21 members named by Governor Vic Atiyeh to his newly created Gover nor’s Commission on Senior Ser vices.. Duties of the 21-member commis sion include coordinating state ser- Ms. Lolita Darby, former Educa tion Director o f the Seattle Urban League has returned to Portland. Ms. Darby worked as a classroom teacher before moving to Seattle. She reports that: “ It’s good to be back.” How to help your students The Black United Front offers the following suggestions o f what we can do to help our children. Responsibilities o f Black parents to ward our children‘s schooling: 1. We must meet our children’s teacher, principal, and other school personnel at the beginning o f the school year and then periodically talk with them about our children’s progress either in person or by tele phone throughout the school year. A parent who takes time to go up to school and meet the teacher and principal makes an impression on that teacher and principal. Right or wrong, they will often give that per son’s children more attention. If it is difficult for us to make visits to the school because we are working, then we must arrange to make at least one visit at the beginning o f the school year. This is the most import ant time to go. It is the time when the school personnel are forming opinions of our children, including the determination o f which chil dren’s parents quote, “ care.” And shouldn’t we want to meet right away the people who will be in charge of our children’s minds and bodies six hours a day for an entire school year? Think about it! Anybody with whom our children spend 5 or 6 hours a day is going to have a strong influence on his or her development. 2. We should know what is in our child’s school records. We should find out from the Board o f Education offices what the procedure is for seeing our child’s record folder. This is the folder that follows the child from year to year, and from school to school. What is in that folder many times determines how our child’s teacher views our child. It may at times influence whether the teacher will have high or low expectations of our children. 3. We must insist on competent teachers for our children. If we feel that our child’s teacher is incompetent in his or her ability to teach the basic curriculum, then we must complain; we must not let our child waste a year o f their educa tion. We must demand that our child be placed in a competent teacher’s class. We need to be able to state clearly why we judge the teacher to be poor, and to organize other parents to complain as a group. If more parents complained often enough about poor, unmoti vating, uncaring, ineffective teach ers, we’d have less o f them in the schools harming our children. We must also recognize and sup port teachers that do a good job with our children. our children’s homework is com pleted. We can sign it or write a brief note on it so that the teacher knows that we are monitoring our children’s education. 6. We must really listen to our children when they tell us about their school day. We must show them that we are very interested in their school day. We must show them that we are in terested in their schooling. We can show our interest by asking serious questions about their day and really listening to their answers. Ask what happened in class, if the answer is 4. We must know the basic curric “ nothing,” you should call or visit ulum for the grade that our child is in the teacher as soon as possible. and we must demand that Black 7. We must make sure that our people’s correct history and culture children have good behavior and are be a part o f that curriculum for paying attention in class. every grade. We must constantly teach our We need to know what is expected children about the importance of of our child in the grade that he or education and we must continually she is in. We must know not only insist they have a serious attitude what our children’s grades are but about their schooling. We must understand how to interpret those make it clear to them that we expect grades. We must make sure that we the highest achievement from them and we must have consistent conse understand exactly where our quences for the disregard o f our child’s achievement is in relation to rules about their behavior in school. the rest of the class. 8. We must get our children to Sometimes we say, “ Oh Sammy is school every day unless they are ill. doing so well in school. He has One day’s lessons build on the learned how to do A .” What we previous day’s and on to the follow don’t know is that the children who ing day’s lessons. When our chil are really working on grade level are dren miss a day or more o f school, doing A, B and C! But we don’t they have missed part o f the se know the curriculum. We think that quence of lessons. Often the teacher A is just fine. We don't know what doesn’t have the time to individually to expect o f Sammy by the end of catch up students who are absent a the school year. Askt It is our right lot, and so the child falls behind and to know. We must ask to see all of has gaps in the sequence of the les the textbooks for that grade, and sons. make sure that we understand the 9. Proper nutrition. outline of the material in each sub Diet is very important. How chil ject that our children are expected to dren begin their day will affect how have learned by the end o f the they learn. Make sure they eat school year. breakfast. There are breakfast and We must organize parent groups hot lunch programs in some schools. to pressure the Board of Education Get that information from the prin to hire Black historians to write an cipal. accurate history and culture curricu 10. We must participate in school lum for grades kindergarten through related activities such as PTAs, Par highschool. ent Advisory Boards, School Boards, 5. We must ask tor homework for etc. our children. We must get other parents who We must check our children’s want to work for positive change in homework. We must make sure that the schools to join the parent group. We must identify areas in our spe cific schools which need change and work on these areas o f concern. Parent involvement is one o f the most powerful weapons that we have to get some positive reforms in the public schools. 11. Responsibility. Take time and read and respond to notices brought home from school. They may have information that is important for your child. 12. Encourage children to use and make use of the community library. Make sure their reading includes books about Black people. Black parents must make sure our children get a quality education. If we don’t fight for our children, no one else will. Listed are several steps that as a parent you should take to help your children in school. It’s worth the effort—your children’s future depends upon you. IT ? ■ENOW'S I 41 Lkà. SHOP FOR BRANDS you know V A R I I T I I S y o u lib e S IZ IS y o u w a n t Tk« Fraaa I« T« S»««« 11 Give me I beg you, a world where I can walk Tall and proud ( Train me, as Is your duty unto me, To love myself, my people, and to build and maintain a great nation. 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