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Winston-Salem Chronicle
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MARCH 17,1988
'Schools that help troubled youth
WASHINGTON - Millions of
troubled teens arc now drifting
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away from school and their main MARIAN W. EDELMAN
chance at a decent future.
Some turn up in class every day
drunk or stoned. Some become par-
ents before they arc ready.
^ Others vent their frustrations on
other students or teachers.
"’*1 In too many cases, these prob
lem youths end up as dropout siaiis-
^^,”'tics. But a growing number of
schools are now creating new ways
to both keep these teens in school
and help them address their prob
lems, according to the National
Education Association, or NEA.
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Three schools that have made espe-
daily praiseworthy efforts arc high-
lighted in the November 1987 issue
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In Wyoming’s Natrona County
High School, problem behavior is
spotted by school staff, who are spe-
cially trained to recognize the signs
of trouble in a student’s life. The
student is referred to a counselor,
^ school nurse or teacher, who in turn
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invites him or her to join a group of
peers who arc coping with the same
problem.
These peer groups focus on
tough issues ranging from drug
abuse to growing up in an alcoholic
family. The groups try to get to the
root of the icon’s behavior - which
often is pain or anger caused by
serious problem at home.
Every year, a group of students
at the Hornwood-Flossmoor High
School in Illinois leaves the class
room for a camp in the woods.
There, for a weekend, the teens
meet in a large group to discuss
such major issues in their lives as
self-esteem, race relations, AIDS
and peer pressure. The retreat gives
every student the right to speak out
and to have his or her opinion
respected.
At San Antonio's Magnet
School, 14- and 15-ycar-olds who
have fallen behind in school get a
second chance to succeed. The
classes arc small - 10 to 11 stu
dents - and focus on the reading
and math skills the students will
necti to get a good job.
Since many of lhc.se students
come from poor families that often
cannot give these youths the sup
port they need, the school takes
extra care to give the students indi
vidual attention, encouraging them
to keep journals about their day-to-
day lives.
Every young person needs
.someone who cares enough to try
to confront and address troubled
behavior that can hurt his or her
future. We need more caring
schools like these.
Marian Wright Edelman is a
National Newspaper Publishers
Association columnist who is
president of the Children’s
Defense Fund, a national voice
for youth.
'Jacob
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young people for jobs and provide
pre-school learning experiences
for disadvantaged kids.
' While some low-income pro
grams are slated to get small
increases, they’re nowhere near
the levels necessary. And adding
to their budgets was accomplished needy people off the rolls and
by robbing other programs of dcs- increase hardship.
pcraiely needed funds.
For example, the administra
tion wants to cut Medicaid again -
- this time, by S413 million - a
step that will push more medically the National Urban League.
So I sec very little "modera
tion” in this "moderate" budget.
John E. Jacob is president of
Chavis
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* Jackson has succeeded in a mag-
* nificent display which has unified
'' Airo-ftmcrican voters with Latino
' voters'with progressive white vot-
i ers with Native American and
Asian-American voters.
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^ It is now the hope of many
* across the nation that this revived
' spirit of solidarity and action will
f extend to the remaining state pri
maries, particularly in Illinois,
Michigan, Ohio, New York, Penn
sylvania, New Jersey and Califor
nia. ■
Twenty years after the tragic
assassination of Martin Luther
King Jr., it now appears that a res
urrection of the spirit of the Civil
Rights Movement is taking place.
In fact, Jesse Jackson's victories
have taken the spirit of that move
ment to new political heights.
Finally the media and other politi
cal pundits have stopped asking
the question; Can Jesse Jackson
win? Jackson is already winning -
- and as he wins, we ail win.
Benjamin F. Chavis Jr. is exec
utive director of the Commis
sion for Racial Justice of the
United Church of Christ.
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tit*' coverer of the AIDS virus: "We
don't need to panic about hetero-
r sexual transmission. It’s not going
to run rampant."
levtl: 'pfjc jg predicted
h ft. AIDS epidemic should already be
iBi spreading among heterosexuals,
especially in a hot spot like New
ihC York, if the projections on hetcro-
thJH sexual transmission are accurate.
iS'*^"The truth is that the widespread
IS W plague we are awaiting in fear and
id If anguish is not going to happen,"
says Bakos.
and ' Among 40,051 AIDS cases in
)bC^ the United States, only 174 cases
ul(j are attributed to heterosexual men,
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and it is suspected that many of
them arc bisexuals or homosexu
als who are not telling the truth,
according to Bakos.
However, they are not the
only ones who arc lying. Even the
media, instead of focusing on
drug abusers as the primary AIDS
threat among heterosexuals and to
avoid having sex with them, is
telling heterosexual men and
women to be afraid of one anoth
er.
"According to the Centers for
Disease Coiiuol, 70 percent of the
sources of infection for heterosex
uals have been dntg users. These
users have infected their lovers or
their babies.
'’Forty percent of the new
cases in New York City are not IV
drug users. Eighty percent of the
female cases in that city arc IV
drug users; and 80 percent of the
children with AIDS arc the chil
dren of IV drug users."
Tony Brown is a syndicated
columnist and television host,
whose program, "Tony Brown’s
Journal," appears at 7:30 p.m.
on Wednesday, on channels 4
and 26.
NCBEMO holds scholarship banquet
CHRONICLE MAILBAG
To The Editor:
The North Carolina Black
Elected Municipal Officials, or
NCBEMO, organization, which is
made up of more than 250 members
and is an affiliate of the North Car
olina League of Municipalities, held
I its first scholarship fund-raising
i banquet Feb. 20 at the Benton Con-
I veniion Center.
I would like to extend many
j thanks to all of our citizens who
joined us and participated with ihcir
, conlnbutions, support and services
in making our program a success.
Guest speakers were Mayor
hnny Ford of Tuskegee, Ala., and
ayor Marion Barry of Washing-
Our Readers Speak Out
ton; other guests included Gov.
James G. Martin, Lt. Gov. Robert
B. Jordan, Rep. Stephen L. Neal of
the 5ih District and Mayor Wayne
A. Corpening.
We are hoping that this will be
the first of many succeeding annual
occasions initiated to financially
supplement and support deserving
young students to further their edu
cational training.
Wc only had one jxirson receive
an award this year, but it is the
objective goal of NCBEMO in the
not too distant future to become
fully endowed in granting more
academic scholarships.
With the growing unccriainiy of
the economic structure in our coun
try, wc can no longer depend on the
traditional avenues of financial
assistance. It is imperative that we
construct and create new resources
to help make it possible for academ
ically inclined students to enhance
and broaden their educational
opportunities.
May wc continue to strive to
improve the future of our world
tomorrow by nourishing, through
education, the young minds of our
youth today.
Alderman Larry W. Womble
President, NCBEMO
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