PHOTO CONTRIBUTED
A Gift Of Reassurance
Local S.C. Highway Patrol troopers accept armloads of teddy hears provided by State Farm Insurance.
Fach trooper keeps a couple of the stuffed toys in their patrol cars to give to children for reassurance
in frightening situations such as motor vehicle accidents. Pictured are Trooper Roy Murray, Trooper
,/?//? Kerr, Dwight Flanagan of the local State Farm office, and Trooper Jerry Dove.
PUBLIC HEARING TONIGHT
Leland Town Council To Consider
Transportation Plan Thursday
I .eland Town Council will begin use may be transferred to a new ?monthly tax collector's report
its meeting tonight (Jan. 20) with a owner as long as there has not been by Joyce Bragg;
public hearing on the Greater a lapse of use for one year;" Wax releases;
Wilmington Urban Area Transpor- ?speed limit ordinance; ?scheduling a work session with
Cation Plan. ?discussion of building inspector Inland Volunteer Fire Department
Following the hearing, council is for the town; Hoard of Directors.
expected to consider a resolution to
approve and adopt the plan. i
Also on (he agenda are:
?report from Police Chief
Charles Cliff;
?ihscussion by the town attorney
concerning scheduling and notices
of public hearings;
?scheduling of a public hearing
on rezon i ng property at 207 Old
Fayettcvillc Rd. from residential
manufactured home (RMII) to mul
ti-family (Ml);
?scheduling of a public hearing
on an amendment to the Leland zon
ing ordinance concerning mobile/
manufactured homes;
?scheduling of a public hearing
to amend the Leland zoning ordi
nance concerning garages/accessory
buildings;
?scheduling of a public hearing
to amend to the zoning ordinance
concerning ' that a non-conforming
Rosemobile
Visits Planned
The mobile office of Congress
man Charlie Rose will make four
stops in Brunswick County as the
"Rosemobile starts the 1994 sched
ule of curbside service for 7th Con
gressional District residents.
A representative of Rose's office
will be available for conferences at
the following post offices:
?Wednesday, Jan. 26, Southport,
9-11 a.m.; Supply, noon until 2 p.m.
?Wednesday, Feb. 2, Shallolte, 9
11 a.m.; South Brunswick, noon un
til 2 p.m.
Those who have a problem with a
federal agency are invited to visit
the mobile office. Opinions on fed
eral legislation are also welcomed,
according to Rose spokesman
Wayne Jackson.
Appointments are not necessary.
The offices operate on a first-come,
first-served basis, Jackson said.
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checks Lagging
Attendance
With
Policy
Change
BY SUSAN USHER
West Brunswick High School
took steps last week to shore up slip
ping attendance rates by reducing
the number of allowed student ab
sences and getting tougher on
Saturday school make-up days
With the start of the spring semes
ter on Jan. 24. students will be al
lowed three absences during each
nine-week grading period instead of
four.
That means that after the third ab
sence. a student must attend "Sat
ji lay school"?a special half-day
session held on Saturday?on the
day assigned. 01 leccivc an automat
ic grade of 68 in each class missed.
The grade will continue to drop five
points for each additional absence
that has not been made up at the end
of the grading period.
The salvage effort became neces
sary when a policy instituted in the
fall didn't work as planned.
West Brunswick started the
school year allowing students up to
four absences during each nine
week grading period, or a total of 16
absences over the year that a student
is not required to make up. said spe
cial services teacher Mary Medlin. a
member of the school attendance
committee.
Students have an opportunity to
make up absences above that limit,
and work missed as a result, by at
tending Saturday make-up sessions.
A student who doesn't make up the
extra absences risks failing his
grade, or it a senior, not receiving a
diploma, though an appeals process
is available.
At West it changed a I 992-93 pol
icy that had cut allowed absences to
It) accumulated over the entire year.
The absences were not rationed
across grading periods and students
had until the end of the year to make
up excessive absences.
"What we think happened (this
year) is that they saw 16 days and
thought they could accumulate them
over the course of the year again."
said Medlin.
This year students cannot wait un
til April or May to make up missed
school days. They are expected to
make up absences each grading peri
od, as part of an effort to make
Saturday school more "educational
ly sound."
When assigned to Saturday
school each student receives assign
ments from their teachers relating to
classwork missed the day the ab
sence occurred, with the idea of
helping the student not fall behind.
Wait too long to make up the missed
work and the benefit is lost.
"If there's a backlog of students
needing to attend Saturday school to
eradicate absences then you're just
going through the motions and we
don't want that." said Lemon, noting
that this was what happened near the
end of the 1992-93 school year.
"We want good attendance at
school and when absences are eradi
cated, we want it to be educationally
sound."
Because so many students have
put off attending Saturday school
this year, as of spring semester stu
dents who miss their assigned date
will no longer have the option of
making it up on a later Saturday
"That has been eliminated." said
Principal l:d Lemon. "We had a
school attendance problem and then
we had a Saturday attendance prob
lem. Now when it's time to do it.
you've just got to do it."
During the first three months of
the 1993-94 school term, student at
tendance fell from 95.2 percent the
first month to 93.3 percent the sec
ond month and then 91.5 percent the
third month?which meant that in
November nearly one in every 1(1
students enrolled was absent on an
average day.
In contrast attendance during the
first three months of 1992-93 ranged
from 99.5 percent the first month to
94.S percent the second month, and
94. i percent the third month.
School board members approved
the change at their Jan. 10 meeting,
with member Polly Russ praised
West Brunswick for taking steps to
change the attendance policy "be
fore it was too late."
Attendance is one of the factors
considered by the N.C. Department
of Public Instruction in its annual
"report card" issued on the the
school. Attendance is one of the few
areas in which Brunswick County
exceeds the state's average.
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