Page A2-The Chronicle, Thurada; 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 _ I w w w ?iW%? monitors so we can leave the driving to the drivers.*' i Ohio historic 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 * - 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 fatkor ? " ** ....... 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 / ft July 3, 1966 ^8 From PaQ6 A1 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. TtuM A?? ?-.?i F uwv *|?UI?9 U19IU1U 1UVA1 NAACP President Walter Marshall. Marshall said that the number of black teachers should reflect the number of-black students. 1 From Page A1 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. k? .m.G D of 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." An* - MUI * umiwn rspeawui/ wm* 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 . o ' I ' 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* age A1 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 u/acn't '' cV?? *'T,u. v MIVIV| JIIV 9(UU 1 I1CJ 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 BIS S SUBSCRIi I & PAY g j ONLY Pill Out & Mail witl CIRCULATION WINSTON-SALI P.O. BOX 3154 WINSTON-SALI 722-8624 > Enter my one-year subscript Chronicle. Enclosed Is my ci m<JMOunint Ih j* Name Address I City j : ; 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 . mmmmmmmmmmmmmumnmwmmuimmmmmmm dations for the child, the volunteer GAL will confer with different service agencies in the <v\mwm??U.? akj> ??! J wuiuiuiui;, a tic saiu. 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 ' I r 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. r's sojourn returned with several of his people. He produced $400 worth of gold dust and gave it to the captain. Please see page A12 TlUliM ? BE NOW K 18" | h Payment to: |r DEPARTMENT " | EM CHRONICLE it ETA* wr AO UP|f Mm / 1U? j I ion to the Winston-Salem I iec k/money order fer I State Zip 5 I I I ? ? 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. * 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. mWp mnnitnr tVi* oe " ?r VIKtWI UIV VWUV (M IVI15 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 P5T" I W Work foi W during th< W holiday v? I 2v Well be I M July 4th But while we're m . you to come do ^ SILENT SALESMA No-Hassle prices m< fck Plenty of timet* car or truck at y Great s 1 * ;r ?f Oadson said that the test also deals with the students' V* ' knowledge of current trends in . ' ' education as well as their understanding Of court cases ^ . dealing with education. '*ni t * 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" tunities elsewhere. ' . w ... i~ - # ? Brothers/Big Sisters of Forsyth \#4^' County Inc. - ; 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 AM r 1 ?> ?? - - ? * ? ioi <u 1 uniting my own opinion, all I have to deal with is what's in ' the child's best interest." ; ~ Grisard is working on his se- \.lk: cond case now. 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." 11 ( Another observation Grisard r* has made is that a significant number of the kids going through / / the court process are black. ' "We're dealing with kids in ' . * 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; + r I EffiS*' ' you . s July 4th /eekend! ! doted ? and 5th .. 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