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Black teachei
and the social sciences, instead of
math and science, where they are
really needed.
Recruitment in the county is
handled by Ms. Epstein, Lee,
Josephine Walser, who handles
elementary teacher recruitment,
* and the principals.
Dr. Barbara K. Phillips, assistant
to the superintendent, said
that the system has a commitment
to hiring qualified teachers,
both black and white.
She said she hopes the present
black teacher ratio does not
decline.
Newprogran
"The most important thing we
do is protect and promote the
best interest of the child,'* Mrs.
Bennett said. "We just concentrate
on the child.'*
r Mrs. Bennett said that the program
averages about five cases
each month. T. i
"Although many more cases
are reported, we only become in- i
volved in those cases On which)
the Department of Social Services ]
feels it is necessary to petition the
Young bus dr
said that whether or not a child is
taught at home, he may act dif- <
ferently when he's away from his
parents and with his peers.
"We all did things behind our
parents' back," she said. "I
know I did."
Mrs. Bailey, along with her
grandson, helped in Farrell's
petition drive. She said she has an
idea of how she wants to solve the
issue of student bus drivers*
Mrs. Bailey said she believes
that adults should be driving the i
buses. But whether or not the j
system switches to having all <
adult drivers, Mrs. Bailey said
that she would like to see 1
monitors on the school buses. <
A similar sentiment has been
expressed by some school board i
members. ]
"It's a job to drive a bus,"
Mrs. Bailey said. "I'm 54 years \
old. and I can't dn It
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monitors so we can leave the driving
to the drivers.*' i
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The unveiling of the restored
Statue of Liberty is a celebration
of America's immigrant i
history, in this portrait, a
descendant of slaves traces & 1
forebear's path to the United
States and back to Africa.
By JERRY SCHWARTZ
Associated Prttt Writer ^
NEW YORK - Misfortune s
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Drought an African warrior nam* 1
ed Tamishan to the New World. <
He stayed only briefly but left t
behind a family in slavery. '
Now, almost 200 years later, a ?
descendant has rediscovered <
Tamishan. In doing so, John <
Fleming has recaptured his fami- t
ly's history from the slave traders \
and slaveowners who plucked his \
ancestors from Africa. {
Memories of his grandfather <
led Fleming, a historian and
organizer of the National AfroAmerican
Museum and Cultural ]
Center to be built in Wilberforce,
Ohio, to initiate his search for his 1
past in the early 1970s.
"I remembered my grand- s
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....... mumu| awui my iSUXllly i
and an African ancestor, and I i
had just kept it in the back of my i
mind," he said in a telephone in- i
terview. ?- i
He went to the Carolina* and i
interviewed older relatives. He
family iiMe,npf fey in cunt*. He :l>i
perused state, county and local '
records. 1
And at the University of North 1
Carolina at Chapel Hill, in the 1
papers of a family that once owned
his ancestors, he found the <
story of Tamishan. 1
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Susan Carson, the system's
school-community relations
Coordinator, said the total
number of teachers in the citycounty
schools last year was
2,713. '
Of that number, 666 were
black, and only 125 were black
males.
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NAACP President Walter Marshall.
Marshall said that the number
of black teachers should reflect
the number of-black students.
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court," she said,
Once the petition comes to her
attention, she assigns a volunteer
to the case. The volunteer has until
the hearing to gather his infor-'
nation.
The volunteer might begin his
investigation at the Department
of Social Services with a Protec- 3
tive Services worker.
Mrs. Bennett said this is a good
place to begin because this person
knows what has been alleged in
ivers p, p.
Both James and Teresa Henry
of 2046 Lash Road feel that
students shoukf not drive the bus.
The Henrys' 7-year-old son, James
Henry III, was injured in
the accident.
Mrs. Henry said that if
students are to drive school
buses, then they need intensive
training, not only in driving but
also in handling children.
She said that while the students
were rowdy that day, the driver
showed a lack of maturity in his
Actions. She said he lacked selfiiscipline.
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She said, however, that all the
blame shouldn't fall '&6PVM bus
driver.
"He's no more at fault than
the school system that trained
him," she said.
Henry said that driving a bus is
too much responsibility for a
young person.
"As far as I'm concerned,
there is no difference between
(i retraces Af
The story starts somewhere in
West Africa. "He was captured
in battle and was enslaved. Then,
sometime in the 17805 or 1790s,
he was brought to Charleston and
purchased by a slave trader,"
Fleming said.
This entrepreneur brought
Tamishan to Burke County in
North Carolina. There he was
told to Waightill Avery - a
awyer, the first attorney general
>f North Carolina and the couny's
largest slaveowner.
North Carolina in-i79U had ibout
100,000 blacks, a quarter
)f the state's population and one
>f every eight blacks who lived in
he United States. They had been
wrought to the colonies to work
he fields; it was not a happy life,
ind Tamishan did not hide his
iispleasure.
'The story is Tamishan was
ftry unhappy, discontented, and
ie was viewed as a
roublemaker," Fleming said.
Tamishan apparently spoke
leveral languages, including
Arabic, and the townspeople
issumed he was a Moslem. Avery
*as intrigued; he wrote a paper
ibout this slave "descended of a
more noble race than the Guinea
Jegro."
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riained
'they agreed to send him back,
ind he agreed to exchange in his
Mace four other slaves," Fleming
mid. ^
He was taken back to
Charleston and placed on a ship
for Africa. The ship's captain .
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There is a correlation between
black student achievement and
the number of black teachers the
students have for role models, he
said.
Over the years, Marshall said,
the number of black teachers has
not kept up with the increase in
black students.
He said that the school
system's saying that there are not
enough blacks in teaching areas
such as math and science is an excuse.
Even in education fields where
there is an oversupply of blacks,
the case..
4 The worker could tell the
volunteer who he needs to contact/'
she said.
During an investigation, a
volunteer interviews many people,
including the child, parents,
school officials, friends, church
'members and neighbors.
The volunteer might also
review medical and school
records, Mrs. Bennett said.
In trying to make recommen*
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driving a school bus and driving, a
Greyhound," he said. 'They/
don't let 16-year-olds* drifre
Greyhounds." 1. A
Nineteen-year-old Burcftette
Williams of Route 1, Highway
65, said that she drove, a school
bus last school year.
"My bus was fine," she said.
"When bus drivers first start out
at the beginning of the year, they
should lay down their rules.
"My students had assigned
seats, and probably the only time
they didn't sit in them was when I
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talked, but not to the point where
I couldn't hear myself think."
Ms. Williams said, however,
that her bus was not free of trouble.
She said that during the year
she wrote several conduct slips
for misbehavior, such as sticking
an arm out the window or standing
up in the seat.
Ms. Williams said she feels that
there should be more training for
rican ancestoi
came to respect his intelligence
and to trust him; when they arrived,
the captain allowed him to go
ashore alone.
Days passed before Tamishan
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Marshall said, blacks are still
underrepresented.
Marshall said he believes the
system is not doing all it can to
recruit qualified blacks.
Ms. Epstein disagrees, saying
the numbers simply are not there.
This lack of black teachers can
be blamed not only on the attractiveness
of other fields, but on
the failure rate of blacks in the
state on the "professional
knowledge'* part of the National
Teachers Examination.
Figure? show that 60.7 percent
of the blacks taking the (est in the .
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dations for the child, the
volunteer GAL will confer with
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Mrs. Bennett said that any information
gathered is confiden
tial. All volunteers must take an
oath of confidentiality, she said.
iAfter the information is
gathered, Mrs. Bennett said she,
the GAL and one of the attorneys
will sit down two or three days
before the case comes to court to
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all - drivers of school buses
oecause driving a bus is a lot of
responsibility.
The parents interviewed said
that the accident continues to
have an effect on their children.
Mrs. Bailey said that her
grandson has expressed a great
deal of apprehension about
riding the bus.
"He just got hit by a car last
year, and now this," she said.
Mrs. Henry said that her son's
fear carries over even when he's a
passenger in can. \ \o-u.o to
"He's always.-afraid heNty;tuff|o'
over,'' she said. *''He'll tell jafK&t
'Mama, don't go around that
curve too fast.' "
Farrell feels that something
positive will come out of the accident.
He said that next year he
thinks there will be some
changes, including a look at the
training of bus drivers and increased
emphasis on discipline.
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returned with several of his people.
He produced $400 worth of
gold dust and gave it to the captain.
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state last October failed that portion
of the test, while 9.4 percent
of the whites failed it.
Those who failed the professional
knowledge part of the test
did not make the minimum passing
score of 644 and were not
eligible to be certified to teach in
the state.
Dr. Melvin F. Gadson, director
of the Division of Education at
Winston-Salem State University,
said that the professional
knowledge part of the exam tests
students for their understanding
of theories and philosophies in
education.
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prepare a written report that will
be presented to the court. The
report contains the volunteer's
recommendations about what
should happen to the child.
These recommendations could
include whether to leave the child
in the home or remove him to
another environment and what
kind of services might be needed
for the child.
Although the GAL appears in
the courtroom, he does not have
to prove whether any allegations
are true or not, Mrs. Bennett
said.
After a case is decided, the program's
involvement does not end.
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as it's, still an open case," she
said. "We monitor it until the
child is adopted, returned to the
parents or until some other permanent
plan is enacted."
Before volunteers are allowed
to work on a case, they must go
through 16 hours of , training,
Mrs. Bennett said.
The volunteers are trained to
research and gather information,
she said. They also get some
gaining in interviewing techniques.'^
1 Xnother. training session ? is
scheduled for September*
"One of the things I feel is unique
about the program is (that) it
gives volunteers the opportunity
to make a difference in a child's
life.
"This is not for everybody,"
she said. "It takes a special person
to do this."
Volunteers in the program
have to be at least 21 years old.
"I'm real proud of my
volunteers," Mrs. Bennett said.
"I have old and young, men and
women, blacks and whites. Some
are housewives, and some are
retired."
One Volunteer is Bert Grisard,
executive director of Big
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deals with the students' V* '
knowledge of current trends in . ' '
education as well as their
understanding Of court cases ^ .
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Ms. Epstein said that colleges . ^
are improving teacher-education
programs, which should improve
test scores. But she said that the
black failure rate on the test is, . .
again, part of the larger problem ' /'
that not many high-achieving ' . '
blacks are going into the teaching
field because of better oppor- i"
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Investigation into child abuse /\ cases
is not new to Grisard, who ^
said that he worked with the child ,t
custody unit of the Department
of Social Services before it had a
Protective Services Division.
"I did a large percentage of the % A
child abuse investigations,*' he
said. Grisard said that there were , ,
not that many reported cases of ^
child abuse in the county then.
Grisard, who. is married and
has a daughter and a stepson,-' *'
said that he has always been con- ?
cerned about children. r.-,,
Describing the GAL process 4"'*
from his point of view, Grisard ' * 4
said, "I get to know the kids, the V'
parents, the relatives and the # .
other people involved. I reach my
own conclusions about what's in ' *'
the best interest of the child. As
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all I have to deal with is what's in '
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Grisard is working on his se- \.lk:
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One thing he has observed so
far is that parents tend to see him Vv '
as an ally and a resource for <
them. The ffunily is generally % ^
hostile at the Department of
Social Services, he said/0 ^
"So you start out with an ad- *'t-' 1
vantage," he said. "The tricky ]
part is to maintain it."
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has made is that a significant
number of the kids going through / /
the court process are black.
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crisis period,'* he said. "We are _
going to make decisions that will ^ *
affect them the rest of their lives. ,
I think it is imperative that if ,
placement is made and it is not
the right one, the guardian is on
top of it.
'These kids need advocates or
somebody who will see them as {8
individuals/' Grisard said. 3;
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