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IN LAST YEAR'S PARENT FOLLOW
GRAM, namnt-adueatori tuch is Ms.
' (left) and Ms. Dorothy Nelson (right) worked
THROUGH PRO- elementary school youngsters to help them improve their . middle school. As the teacher, Mrs. Helen Burgess looks This year, both parent-educators have been promoted
Chartene Ryals school work. Ms. Ryals Is shown working with Cedric ; on, Ms. Nelson is shown providing special attention to a to primary reading aides,
rked closely with Thompson, a sixth grader last year. He is now attending small group of students. ,
Followthrough Program Begins. In October
By Psmela Banks 1
Jeffery Funderburg, a
nine-year-old 4th grader
at Holloway Street
School, now reads and
does math much better
since spending eight
months working with
Ms. Charlene Ryals.
, Ms. Ryals is not a
school teacher. She's a
tutor with the Parent
Followthrough Program
sponsored by the Com
munity Education
Department of the
Durham City Schools.
The program jn which
specially trained parents
work with students both
in the . classroom and
their parents also in the
home gets underway:
again October I for the
current school term. Last
year the program ran
from January until
August during its first
eight months of opera
tion. The program works
this way.
A parent volunteers
for the program, and is
trained to be a parent
educator. , In the
classroom, the parent
The cooperative effort, companies have
is apparently .working, employees that are will-
For example, Ms. ing to train as parent
Ryals worked with four educators and to
students including Jef- ; volunteer their services.
fery, and his mother can' if enough employees
see the difference. participate and enough
"I'have one little boy
in it (the program) and it
helped him a lot," said
Mrs. Barbara Jean
Funderburg. "I could
see improvement in his
school work after going
through the program."
N According to Mrs.
Funderburg, her son is
slated to be enrolled in
the program again this
year, r ,
Though the parent
followthrough program
is only eight months old,
the genesis of its idea
' goes back two years, ac
cording to Huey, when a
city school study showed
that parents are quite
concerned about the high
dropout rate in the city
schools, and called for
programs to help solve
that problem.
But a solution would
not be easy to implement
mainly because the city's
schools had no money
funding is available the
program could be
established at other
schools.
Funds cover the cost
of materials, training ex
penses and stipends of an
average $80 per week to
each parent-educator.
Mrs. Burton said
parents chosen to serve
in these special positions
do not have to hold a
high school diploma.
They are tested to
determine their profi
ciency in the basic skills.
If weaknesses are
diagnosed, efforts are
made to strengthen skills
. in biweekly training ses
sions at the center.
"Basically, we look
for parents who are ac
tive in the community,"
said Mrs. Burton. "We
ook for parents who are
r 'tducatr!iks,vciosely;:f;fof'sucift program, The
willing to give time."
In October, parent--f
educators, teachers, and f.
school administration "
representatives will go to 1
Richmond again for
another training session.
Mrs. Brown, who
serves as training adviser -to
the program, said a
summer program involv-
ing the same children as
during the school session
was held this summer, .
July 6-August 13, at the
Edgemont Community "
Center. " ?$
"This was in a desire
to help them to retain
more Of the material and 5
improve their skills,"
said Mrs. Brown, Vplus '
there were field trips."
' Ms. Ryals, who work
ed with the summer pro- ,
gram as well said they,
visited the Life and r
Science Museum; the ;
computer center . at
North Carolina Central
University, the airport
and ; the Math and
Science School.
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. with. .the. 4eacher-and-in
dividually with students
to help them with troubl
ing subjects.
Then the parent
educator contacts ; the
youngster's parents, and
works with them so they
,staieijjdmrnunity,.
education program was
then financed by the
state, on a county-wide
basis. According to
Huey, many issues iden
tified by city schools
parents were not being
are better able to help , addressed by the county
their child at home with program.
school work ,- ,
"What we have with
this program is an exten
sion of the classroom to
he home," said Thomas
Taylor, Holloway Street.
rincipal. "This pro
gram helps us to take
chool into the home."
Taylor observed the
;xtra interest parents
ook in the school after
he program started and
lopes more parents in
he attendance area will
;et ' involved this year,
"he principle targets are
tudents and parents in
he Edgemont-Few
hardens neighborhoods.
Mrs. Judy Stevenson,
me of the teachers work
ng with , the parent
ducators, believes the
irogram has helped im
trove student conduct as
ell as academics
ecause parent:'
ducators are from their
ommunities and know
heir parents,
"Our effort in com
nunity education is to
brm a partnership
Ktwen the community '
ind the school," said At
Huey, director of Com- ,
munity Education.
"And this program is an
excellent example of
reaching out to deter
mine what the communi
ty's needs are and how
we can fulfill them.".
Mrs. Joan Burton,
director of the Edgemont
Community Center,
coordinates recruitment
and training of the
parent-educators.
; The parents come
from the Edgemont and
Few Gardens com
munities which are part
of the Holloway School
attendance area, a i :
. "One thing that gives
me much satisfaction is
seeing the school system .
as an institution, and
parents 'working
together," said Mrs.
Burton. "This is the first
time the ,Edgemont;
Center has been actively?
cooperating in a school
.project." ' '
So city , schools of
ficials got a state grant to
establish a community
education division in the
City schools. The state
. gave the schools a
' $25,000 grant, and after
Huey was, appointed
director, the? city schools
began developing pro
grams for the system,
,- The Parent
Followthrough idea
came from a workshop ,
attended by Durham
teachers and conducted
by personnel from the
Richmond (Va.J Parent
Followthrough Pro
gram. Durham teachers
like the idea.
Finally, the city
, schools got a $9,000 one
itime federal grant
"through . the State
Department of Public
, Instruction. The grant
stipulated that the school
system must pay for the
program in subsequent
years This year, the pro
gram got $5,000 from ci
ty schools, but has hired
f but five parent-,
' educators.
Huey explains the
drop in parent-educators ,
is not due entirely to
budget cuts. Two of the
parents are now full-time
parent educators for the
city schools.
Ms. Ryals, one of
those , hired by the '
system, is stationed at
.Holloway Street School
and the other is at Club
Boulevard School. I
Two other parent
educators dropped out
of the program leaving
the total by the end of
last school year at five.
, 'We also will be' get
: ting in contact with com
panies to see about get
ting them to adopt this '
particular program to
come up with the addi
. tional funding we need'
said Huey; "Based, on
our projections, we will
need someone to adopt
us in the amount of !
$3,400."
Also,", the program')
leaders are hoping the '
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