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from the superintendent's desk . . .
SCANNING THE
SCHOOL SCENE
Dear Readers:
Now that financing education
is not our total cause at the
school, we can look at education
as it relates totally to us and our
community. Historically; educa-
. tion has always been one of man's
most important activities because
society very much depends upon
it, Government, family Hfe, reli-
gion and our livelihood all depend
Upon education. Vc'hile at our
schools over severity adults are
cloSely involved with nearly 900
students in a process we could
call the "formal schooling" pro-
cess, other aspects of our society
are also involved, the home, the
church and the newly developed
see-talking box, better described
as T.V.
Our news media has indicated
that we have now entered the
era of the swinging seventies.
Just as past decades were tabbed
and society adjusted to it, society
must be ready to adjust to the
evils of the new swinging decade.
The home, the church and the
school must a~l do the homework
necessary for adjustment to meet
the needs of a society far differ-
ent from the one of several de-
cades ago. Times have changed,
no ~nger can a boy on his way
home from school lay down his
books and stop to watch a bee on
a flower or an ant carry ten times
his own weight across the side-
walk. He is now rushed, or he
rushes himself, from one activity
to another, and very. much in-
cluded is the T.V. set. Does he
ever have a cl~ance to be a boy
as we adults once knew a boy to
be?
The educational system must,
it ,d~d in. pa~t,~!~a~rect
its emphasis. Other than the ba-
sic ~bjects, ,schools must help
st u~den~s develop values, ideas, un-
derstanding and logic. The tan-
glem'ent of trying to teach and
learn everything is too fantastic-
~1'lY great. With a prime back-
ground in-critiCal thinking, stu-
dents will have the necessary
tools needed to continue their ed-
P~OI o~ pu~ uol~(:I moaj uoB~an
fuller and' richer lives, more
meardngful to thems~tves and to
others.
Our students are crying out for
relevancy, not to the gay nine-
ties or the roaring twenties, but
relevancies to a decade that we
created for them, the swinging
seventies. They want to know
that the time they speand in school
will someday be of benefit to
them. Students feel cramped by
a college preparatory program of
study they may never use. This
year the district budget commit-
tee has come closer to a balanced
budget, than ever before by trying
to channel more effort toward vo-
cational courses. 2~ne ratio be-
tween academic and vocational
courses offered in our school in
the past was conSiderably unbal-
anced. There are many students
who for one reason or another
cannot go to college. A geniscs of
vocational training wou~d be a
great benefit to them and this is
a strong directi