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/l .. . ' ? First grader suspended Continued from page A1 The child's mother said her daughter has received E's (excel lerit) and S's (satisfactory) on her report card for her academic work, bat Ns (Unnecessary) in conduct. School officials said suspend ing a child, especially one so young, is 'done only as a last resort. "Any student regardless of g&de level can be suspended when ili behavior poses problems at the school, " said Eckard. "Suspending a child is the last thing we want to __ do1, but when a child is so disruptive th'at the teacher is kept from teach ing, that child has to be removed." Eckard said teachers try to be attentive to the individual needs of children but they also have a responsibility to the rest of the chil dren in their class. Eckard called the usfe of suspension as a disciplinary tool a "sad part of the job" which rVally should be handled in the home. Susan Carson, the school sys tem's program manager for public information, said it was very rare that a child in first grade is suspend ed! "Something like that happens only after other alternatives are tried, such as isolating the child in the classroom, or outside the class room in the hallway; spanking, and several consultations with the child's parents," Carson said. ; * Physically abusing other chil dren, continuously carrying on loud conversations, name calling, or being insubordinate are matters that if they occur often enough can" result in a child being suspended or jexpelled depending on the frequen cy of the occurrence and the sever wssu grads Continued from Page A1 communities," he said. He also pleaded with students to work toward eliminating what he ting influence of -Vi ?* time c6llcge^ppfts on higher Sfiication. He provided a number of examples of colleges and universi ties that on probation for violating the rules and regulations established by the national governing bodies of intercollegiate sports, the abuses of booster clubs and the high dollar salaries of coaches. Although he did not mention current investigation of Win -Salem Slate by the state audi feCs office and the NCAA, he said, Jrfaie professionalization of athletics must not take place at Winston Salem State University." > The focus of that probe is to determine whether or not officials jpjf^the university gave improper fif&ncial help to members of the Softool's football team three years Sgft. He called the nation's educa tional system a disaster area and asked that graduates make a "solemn vow" to improve condi JUons. the issue ^f? racism^ JjtJinklin noted that overt racism ^(reared to be on the rise. And he laid the blame for that condition on the administrations of both former President Ronald Reagan and Presi dent George Bush for undermining iyjil-rights efforts. Ijv In area of employment, the 'diss of '91 is looking at scarce job m&rket. However, the university has been able to maintain a fairly high employment rate for its graduates according to Sandy Sosnik, director of career services. "Wp atp usually able to place 65 to 70 percent of our seniors in ; full-time jobs by the end of the j summer/' Sosnik said. "A big help ; fpr us has been our involvement J4he cooperative education pro t gram. That's the best thing since [ sliced bread as far as we are con cerned. The corporations involved 3jv the program have invested in ijiiese young people and know their Capabilities. They are usually 3|M?d by that company after gradu ation." Chancellor Clcon F. Thomp Jr., conferred the degrees on graduates. And honorary doc <pfates of humane letters were Awarded to Franklin; and to Paul Fulton, president of Sara Lee Cor poration and a member ofvifee University's board of trustees; and to John G. Mcdlin Jr., president, dhair and CEO of First Wachovia. ity Carson said. So, while rare, the suspension of young children does occur she said. MI don't know how much more creative we (school system) can-be^ When we have to suspend a child that young we have reached our cre ative limit in terms of discipline. We have to be concerned with the impact this disruptive behavior is having on the other children in the classroom/' Carson explained. But in this instance, according to the child's mother, the disruptive behavior involved her daughter telling another child to stop bother ing her after the teacher (who hap pens to be white) had instructed the class to be quiet. _ The mother said she and her daughter's teacher wrote notes to each other prior to the suspension about her daughter's conduct progress. The mother had asked the teacher to inform her if there were any problems. She admitted that her daughter had been to the office before and had been paddled once by the prin cipal. But she said when she stopped receiving notes from the teacher, she assumed that things had gotten better until she received the call last Friday saying that her daughter had been suspended. "I really don't think they took the time to find out what the prob lem was with my daughter," she said. "She goes to church, and is very active in the children's choir, the Sunday school, the girl scout program. And nobody else seems to have any great degree of difficulty. She is no different than any other child. Sometimes you have to speak to children about the way they are acting." ; ? She said she had only one sit down conference with her daugh ter's teacher prior to the suspension. She said the teacher told her at that time her daughter would do the opposite of what she was asked to do and was disrupting her class. She described her daughter as a little "busybody" with a vivid imag ination who has to stay busy all the time. "I'm stunned and hurt that they would suspend my daughter for something like this. What worries roe is that I think she enjoyed being * suspended because she didn't have , to deal with her teacher.* Her daughter was scheduled to return to her regular class at school on Wednesday. She won't be behind in her work, her mother said,1 because she asked that her work assignments be taken to LIFT for ' completion. 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