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Kennedy students write essays for S.T.A.R.T. By YVETTE N. FREEMAN Chronicb Staff Writer Two students in Kennedy Middle School's in-school suspen sion program, recently won an . essay contest sponsored by the school's business partner, Ameri can Legion Post #220, and got the opportunity to represent the school on the Post's float in the Winston - Salem State Homecoming Parade* this past Saturday, Nov. 2. Dekora Miller and Joe Melton, seventh grade students at Kennedy, each wrote an essay on the given topic of "What I Would Change About the Government of the United States," while in the in school suspension program. The grand prize for the two winners was the chance to ride on the American Legion Post #220's float at the homecoming parade, as well as incentive awards in the form of school supplies. The contest was held in con junction with the program which is called "Success Through Accountable Responsible Think ing" (S.T.A.R.T.), after students in the program asked about riding on the float. According to Belinda Beard, the home school facilitator at Kennedy, "It's an opportunity for students to come in and work dur ing their in-school suspension days and complete classwork, but also to work on behavioral changes that will help them be successful when they return to class." The in-school suspension pro gram has been in operation on the middle school level for a number of years now, but Beard stated that this is the first year that the pro gram has taken on a different approach. "What we're trying to do this year is to provide an opportunity for them to do the work, but also to provide help on areas that inter fere with their learning whether it be behavior, self-esteem, other difficulties. So what we're trying* to do this year that's a little bit dif ferent than what we did in the past, is to incorporate not only the instruction, but parent involve ment, counseling and community resources." In her essay, Miller discussed the drug situation in America and how they are a negative influence Kennedy students Joe Melton and Dekora Miller got the opportunity to ride on the American Legion Post #220* s float in WSSU's homecoming parade this past Saturday, Nov. 2. The Post is Kennedy's business partner and offered the opportunity to students in the school's S.T.A.R.T. program who won an essay contest sponsored by the Post. on society. She explained the rea son why she chose that particular subject. "1 think the drug situation "is really bad with our youth and everyone. And I don't that it's right. It's a killer and whether you're dealing it or doing it, you're going to get killed in both ways. And I think it should be stopped somehow, " she said. . Mellon, who wrote his essay on the job opportunities and the plight of the homeless, stated his wrote it because there arc a lot of homeless people out there and there's a lot of young guys out there with babies and they can't get jobs. And there arc a lot of problem^ out there," he said. This is the second year that 3 the American Legion Post #220 has been the business partner for Kennedy Middle School, and Post Commander James McWillis, stat ed why it is important for mem bers M the community to become more involved in the education process. "It's something where kids at Kennedy School and other schools It s OK Continued from page A4 calling Anita Hill a heroine. But a^ heroine she is noL A pawn is more like it. A tool, and in an extreme sense, a traitor to her race is more accurate. A black woman who is obviously suffering from historical amnesia best describes her condi tion; a condition which made it easy for her to be used by bra-burning white girls who don't have the guts . to castrate the real sexual harassers. No. It's easier to let Yale-trained Anita do it to Yale-trained Clarence for all the world to see. "The tragedy of Professor Hill's decision to share her freakish accu sations with the nation is that she played into the pervasive stereotype of black male sexuality. And whether she realized it or not, black women as well." =*? .. Oro~nrair rn a letter to an extremely left New York black paper wanted to know where the black leaders hid after they threw Thomas to the lynching tree of white Democrats and feminists. "Clarence Thomas was lynched publicly and with blacks fashioning the noose. Only because he express es a view not popularly held!" he explained. Theodore Kirkland wrote in The Challenger. "While the. United State Senate's Judiciary Committee, composed of all white males, lynched Judge Clarence Thomas, president Bush's choice for the Supreme Court on national prime time television, the NAACP, the Congressional Black Caucus, Jesse Jackson and other black national leaders stood by trying to convince the black masses that what they were witnessing was not a racist lynching but politics." Now that the polls arc out and it's safe, Jesse Jackson and his ilk know what's safe to say. But when we needed integrity, we had to turn to those who stand for something. Wilcox and Banks were there. I'm glad I was there with my friends. Schools Continued from page A5 trapped in destructive racial atti tudes and by systems that label chil dren for administrative conve nience. A recent National Urban League study of tracking in middle schools concludes that minority youth are more likely to be placed in so-called "low ability" classes where they receive less information from teachers and more criticism of their behavior. Students in those "low" groups say they dislike math, don't care about what goes on in their math class, for ! 1c f* ont of classroom activities, and have poor relation ships with their classmates. The study also found that teachers often treat minority and white students differently, even within the same classroom. Such negative attitudes are compounded when they take place in a tracking system that slaps the low-ability label on minority youngsters and reinforces stereotypes. So it shouldn't come as a sur prise that minority test scores are often low and dropout rates high, or that fewer minorities take the advanced math and science courses required for college entrance. 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