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Coble: Clearinghouse could help mend racial fences By TONYA V SMITH Chronicle Stall Writer . A clearinghouse with a mission of identifying resources, volunteers, businesses and involving parents contd solve a myriad of problems between the Winston-Salem/Forsyth County school system and the Afro American community, said superin tendent Larry D. Coble. Dr. Coble's sentiments were echoed by central office personnel, parents and volunteers in the city county system during a Human Rela tions/Cultural Diversity Parent Semi nar earlier this week. The seminars, or alienating another group that hap pens to be white." Within the Winston-Sale m/Forsyth County Schools there are 4,550 employees and a deep tradition that is far beyond the control of any one man, Dr. Coble added. "Our concern is the children," Ms.-Hall responded. "We!re not think ing about getting into politics or going to get the entire community together. We are diverse just as the white com munity is diverse. 1 don't think we should have to have the white commu nity on our side for us to say what we want in our schools for our children." "That's right," Dr. Coble inserted, low income areas. The program was a success - students' grades improved and so did their attendance, said Ms. White. The national PTA then gave the schools a $500 grant to sponsor par enting workshops in Fayetteville's project areas. The parents met with PTA officials once a month, and their meetings covered such topics as build? ing self esteem in children, substance abuse and other topics. "Do you want to know how we got the parents out?" asked the mother of six. "We bought door prizes. For the children we bought socks, puzzles and coloring books. And for the ladies they shared with us the types of pro grams they would like to see." A true volunteer, Ms. White said she serves as an example of what peo ple who really want to volunteer can do. ^"People say mothers can't volun teer,H she said. "Well I'm a mother with two school-aged children, and 1 woTk full time as a teaclici's assistant at Alma 0. Easom Elementary School." Dr. Coble suggested that Ms. Mountjoy and other interested parlies form a planning Committee involving "possibly businesses, possibly volun teers and let the planning committee work on this thing. I believe if there needs jo be a budget, the corporate sector would be so ready that they would fund anything, within reason, to help this come about." r There are also several other pro jects in the works to better respond to the needs of minority children, Dr. Coble said. They include: ?a workshop on Cultural Diversi ty and Human Rights for counselors on Dec. 11-12 provided by the Divi sion of Desegregation Assistance of the State Department of Public Instruction. ?Geneva Brown, , who will become director of minority affairs Jan. 1, and a committee are making plans to increase student motivation and achievement. ?a study committee to analyze the extent of the problem of student fail ures and retention and to devise alter natives. ?a study committee to make rec ommendations to the board as to how to improve Scholastic Aptitude Scores and the reasons behind low scores. ?staff is preparing recommenda tions on how to eliminate tracking by levels for all students. ?A new procedure for making sure all students referred to CDC - in school suspension - receive proper follow-up counseling to prevent those students from being suspending a sec ond time. ?the PTA is working on sugges tions to bring PTA meetings to the community and/or provide transporta tion for parents to schools. 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During the first seminar, all of which were held in one of the city's four public housing projects, about 10 parents were present at the Kimberly Park Community Center. Parent attendance didn't improve in subsequent seminars despite the efforts of Lee Faye Mack, chair of the CHR/CDC, and Valorie Hall, vice president of the Concerned Mothers of Forsyth County, who went from door to-door last weekend inviting commu nity residents to the eve^t. The lack of interest by parents prompted Mrs. Mack, who also is president of Con deemed Mothers, to ask those involved "to evaluate the effectiveness of the ^seminars. * * "We want to look at where we're lat and maybe make some decisions on ^things," Mrs. Mack said. "Maybe this ;kind of session in certain areas where Iwe're not having a lot of participation liiecds onc-on-one sessions or some ;typc of special outreach to parents in : those areas. * - "We need to sec if these seminars ;arc really worth the while. In order to -fcelp parents, children, this communi ty, administrators and staff, we're - going to have to be honest." After a lengthy discussion between school officials and the Con cerned Mothers about what programs - (he local system should offer teachers to make them more racially sensitive, * Dr. Coble said he and his staff are - Often put in a difficult situation when responding to the requests of special interest groups. HI think it's truly ridiculous to Suggest that the schools are immune to the political arena," he said. "Anytime When there appears to be a division - either in the white community or in the black community - it makes it more difficult for us. Let's maybe not deal with the Concerned Mothers. Let's get the black community togeth ; - er as an initial step, then we can v* respond in a much better way than by alienating another group that's black "but I have to keep the balance. We've got to create an army of people - like you Minister Mack - to help us do things, get things done. We can do a better job if we can train some of the concerned mothers and others to go out and do those home visitations for us. "In my judgment, this community has more resources than any other community I've ever lived or worked in, but it's missing two key things. I'm not sure there has been a pervasive social consciousness to help all chil dren in the community. The second missing ingredient is that we have a collage of resources, but there is not a clear agency, so people like you expect the schools or someone to take on and orchestrate some changes. "If we can get our business part ners, parents and volunteers together to serve as a clearinghouse agency which can facilitate this, act as an air traffic control tower to organize and send business partners and volunteers where they're needed." Such a clearinghouse could be modeled after a project sponsored by a Parent-Teacher's Association in the Fayetteville City Schools, said Judy Mountjoy, a volunteer at Reynolds High School and vice president of the state PTA. "They do something like this in Fayetteville through the PTA and they got a grant to do it," said Ms. Moun tjoy. "It's a situation in which parents from the area teach people in their areas. So we do have a model for this. They have a video on this if we want to have some type of parent involve ment council and we can use the (Wake Forest) university club, parents in the area, Wmston-Salem State and other volunteers." Ms. Mountjoy singled out the Wake Forest University Club, a group of women who are/were faculty mem bers at the college or who are married to WFU professors, because it is try ing io teach parents how they can bet ter prepare their preschool aged chil dren for kindergarten. Clarie Y. White, the PTA's pro ject coordinator in Fayetteville, said the schools' program began with an "at-risk" grant from the PTA Southern Region Council in Atlanta. That money enabled the PTA to hire tutors from Fayetteville State University to assist students who lived in the city's wc bought panty hose, bracelets and a number of things they needed. No junk. That was the key. We gave everybody a door prize and each month we grew." But isn't that paying parents to be interested in their children? "I say anything you can use to get parents involved you should do iU" Ms. White said. "Once wc got them to the center, they were interested and The Winston-Salem Chronica is published every Thursday by the Winston-Salem Chronicle Publishing Co. Inc., 617 N. Liberty St. Mailing address: Post Office Box 3154, Winston-Salem, N.C. 27102. Phone: 722-8624. FAX: (919) 723-9173. Second-class postage paid at Winston Salem, N.C. 27102. 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