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Preschool:"
The author Is the executive
director of the North
Carolina Child Advocacy Institute.
If a persistent, contagious
disease afflicted North Carolina's
children, and we could prevent
the illness with a vaccine, surely
we would see to it that our
children were inoculated.
In fact, there are a number of
persistent problems plaguing our
young people, and a remarkably
Jiigh proportion could be
prevented. Yet^ they linger like a
contagious disease.
Consider these statistics:
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, Nearly 8,000 children in North
Carolina fail first grade annually,
180,000 other children are in
special education programs, and
143,000 are in remedial education
programs.
About .22,000 of the state's
children drop out of school each
year.
More than 10,000 North
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which, as I've said before, is
reflected by the fact that French
youth mature faster.
That's especially the case in
Paris, which is one of the world's
largest cities. Paris is an international
city and the cultural,
social, political and industrial
center of France. It has become
such a vital part of that country
that efforts arc being made to
create new cities and relieve the
pressure on it.
But Paris wasn't always such a
prominent city. It was called
Lutece during the Roman invasion,
and its importance then was
solely commercial. The irrelevant
town became a capital only when
the French kings established their
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Their first goal, of course, is to
save Cindy's life, a life she has
devoted to caring about other
people. At Howard High, Cindy
"was more settled and mature than
tnost.
"She was known as a leader
and is still a leader. She was involved
in community affairs and
a took care of people's children.
She is an advocate in the community
as well as in her church
and even now volunteers at the
-Wilmington United Neighbors
for Progress. She is always helping
and never asks for help," Ms.
S&frens said in moving, emo
tional tones.
I also share these emotions.
After investigating the circumstances
and people (Margaret
Scrivens, it turns out, helped us
organize first Black College
Day in 1980), I've signed on as
the speaker and honorary chairman
for a fund-raising dinner on
the first Wednesday in
November.
My time will be donated as well
as my expenses. Moreover, my
TV series will air Cindy's story,
and my magazine will feature her
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By JOHN S. NIBLOCK
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Carolina . youths under age 16
come before the courts charged
with committing a crime, and
about 700 are sent to training
schools.
Each year, 25,000 teen-age
girls in the state become preg-.
nant.
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cine'* that can ensure a better life _
for many of our children.
It can enable young people to
succeed in school, reducing the
number of children failing a
grade and costly remedial or
special education needed by 50
percent. It can lower school
dropout rates by one-third. And
it can cut juvenile delinquency
and teen-age pregnancy almost in
half.
Moreover, this cure is
remarkably cost-effective,
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administrations on the banks of
the Seine River. Even then, the
supremacy of the growing city
often was challenged.
It isn't today. The variety of
people who coexist in Paris,
despite the problems, make it a
rich place to live. The French are
open in this way and exposed to
new horizons and different
outlooks on life.
But the French still have their
share of misconceptions concerning
Americans and our customs.
For example, did you know that
Americans eat jelly on their eggs
for breakfast? Well, the French
know that. Too bad they didn't
tell us about it.
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plight. I will continue to use this
column to save her life, and when
I talk to thousands in audiences
each week, I will ask them to join
us in getting a kidney for Cindy.
I will also appeal to some of
my educated "elitist" friends and
big corporations to donate
money to this foundation to save
Cindy's life and the lives of other
black victims of kidney disease.
God has not given me these
resources for my glorification,
but for his works. As I understand
his will, you and I have the
power to save Cindy's life. He
has also given us the power to
refuse.
I've elected to use what I have
to do his will. Will vou tain me?
If so, send money to the Lucille
Swing Foundation, 215 W. 20th
St., Wilmington, Del. 19801, or
call (302) 654-1498.
Tony Brown is syndicated
columnist and tslsvision
host, whoss series, "Tony
Brown's Journal," can be
seen Sundays at 1:30 locally
on channels 4 and 26. I.
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yielding a much greater return
than the best business investment.
Each dollar spent on the
medicine reduces the cost to
society by $7 in medical care to
pregnant teens, special and
remedial education programs and
court costs for juvenile delinquents.
This 4'vaccine" has been
evaluated in numerous settings
across the country during the past
20 years. It has proven itself in
one research . project in North
Carolina during the past 14 years.
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works.
What is this miraculous
preventive medicine? It is quality
preschool education for 4-yearold
children - a half-day or fullday
child development program
operating five days a week.
, The key word is "quality." For
a number of years iir North
Carolina, upwards of half of our
4-year-olds have been in some
sort of child-care program, but
most are not in quality programs.
On the polit
W. LAFAYETTE, Ind. - A
recent newspaper column by
black conservative economist
Walter E. Williams criticized
what he termed the use of "racial
quotas for the purposes of
redressing historical grievances."
Williams also urged
unemployed blocks to accept
"dead-end" jobs as a means of
upward mobility. His right-wing
arguments symbolized the
political poverty of Black
Reaganism, the Neo-Uncle
Tomism ^f the 1980s.
In the May issue of Christian
Century magazine, Professor
Olenn Loury of Harvard,
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A quality program requires
that the teacher-to-child ratio be
kept to about one to eight (our
state day-care licensing laws
allow one adult to 22 4-year-olds,
although a national study concluded
that centers with ratios
above 20 to one could be harmful
to young children).
Quality preschool requires that
teachers and caregivers have
specific training in child developical
poverty
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another prominent black conservative,
argued: "It is time for the
Negro middle class to rise up
from its stool of indifference, to
retreat from its flight into
unreality and to bring its full
resources - its heart, its mind and
its checkbook - to the aid of the
less fortunate brother. ... Our
work today is not to Change the
minds of white people, but to involve
ourselves in the lives of
black people."
One must admit that Loury is
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It requires supportive leadership,
good on-the-job training, a
well-defined curriculum, daily
staff planning and strong parental
involvement.
More than a quarter of the
states are spending their own
money on prekindergarten programs,
and the number is growing.
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particularly acute in North
Carolina, which has the highest
proportion of working mothers
of any state and one of the lowest
average family incomes.
The first priority for a state
prekindergarten program should
be to serve the 43,000 4-year-olds
not now enrolled in a preschool
program.
This would cost about $3,500
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servatives
unemployment, hunger and
black*on-black crime. There are,
of course, exceptions to this rule,
but all too often, individual successes
have meant the abandonment
of our collective problems.
But the essential common sense
of Loyry*s appeal comes from
the fact that we have also heard
this kind of appeal before.
Loury's recent popularity
among some blacks comes from
his rhetoric - black self-help,
racial pride, self-sufficiency. A
small part of this political legacy
can be traced to the ideas of black
nationalism, as expressed
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