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COMPARING GRADES Kuby C arter of Greensboro (center rear > and four of her five children compare grades posted on the front of their refrigerator. Mrs. Carter. a CNC-G student majoring in early child hood education, has used scholarships. loans and outside employment to finance her college education while raising her family. From left to right, Felecia, Rowena, Tahnya, Mrs. Carter and Jerrold. This Mother Knows What It Means To Earn A Degree Special To The Post GREENS BOKO - For most college students, find ing the money to get an education isn't an easy matter in these days of re duced financial air oppor tunities. However, imagine your self as a single parent working at two different jobs to give your five grow ing children a good home while also trying to earn your own college degree. While Ruby Carter of Greensboro sometimes wondered over the past five years how she would man age it all, she never lost faith in her abilities to do all of that. This semester, the slim, energetic mother of five will complete a bachelor of science degree in early childhood educa tion at the University of North Carolina at Greens boro. uver me years rve learned to plan and to* schedule,” Mrs. Carter said recently, laughing. "It’s a little hard, but you get used to it. I found that you can manage on a lot less than you think you can. -"Everyone in our house is on a set schedule and a set budget. But we’ve lived very comfortably. The children have been pleased. I don’t think they've had less than others," she added. Mrs. Carter has succeed ed in financing her college education through a com bination of outside employ —menl loans and srhp|pr ships, including a $1,000 Peterson Scholarship and a $750 Foust Scholarship from the UNC-G Office of Student Aid. That’s a for mula that student financial aid officials recognize as a key for many students during a period when tra ditional federal loans and scholarship sources are disappearing. "Ruby Carter's time and money management have been outstanding,” said Marlene B. Ingle, directoro of UNC-G’s Office of Stu dent Aid. "She recognizes Jhat in these days of the shrinking dollar a college education requires much more personal sacrifice and commitment. “And it shows that for non-traditionai students there are ways you can make it if you’re willing to plan and to sacrifice," she added. Part of Mrs. Carter’s accomplishments have come through her ability to budget and schedule activi ties with the help of her fiv children. The Carter youngsters include 12-year old Tahnya and 13-year old Rowena. Both students at Kiser Junior High School; Jerrold, 15, and Felecia, 16, both Grimsley High School students; and Jennifer, 18, a freshman at N.C. State University. i iic umuini reieici meir mother’s bubbling, out going personality and her commitment to good grades in school. On the family's refrigerator door are six sets of course grades - with the top set belonging to Mrs. Carter herself. The children not only concentrate on match ing their mother academic ally, but they’re also each involved ln~ athletics—at their respective schools. Jerrold and Felecia were even mentioned recently in a national sports magazine for their efforts in track and field activities. In addition to that joint effort, the Carter family has worked out schedules^ and budgets on everything from watching television to washing dishes and using the telephone. "Everyone pitches in and helps,” said Mrs. Carter. "If I come home tired and don’t feel up to cooking supper one night, they take over.” While trying to be a good mother to five children, Mrs. Carter has worked as a reading tutor and a teach er’s aide for the Greens boro City Schools in addi tion to studying at UNC-G at night. She also has held a part-time job as a sales person at a Greensboro _clothing store to bring in extra money. “But I still couldn't have made it without financial aid from UNC-G,” she ad mitted. "Last year all my courses were during the day and I couldn't com plete my degree without them.” During this, her final semester, Mrs. Carter is student-teaching at Brooks Elementary School. With the help of loans and several scholarships, she was able to cross the final hurdle leading to her grad uation. As a former high school dropout who worked in a Danville, Va., textile mille' while becoming a wife and mother, Mrs. carter Knows just now dif ficult earning a college education can be. “I want to work. Just having a job is. very im portant to me,” she said. “But without a combina tion of employment and financial aid, I just could't have made it.” Mrs. Carter's success in preparing to teach is satis fying for another, more hi storically important rea son, Mrs. Ingle noted. “The historic roots of (JNC-G were focused on training young women to teach. Here’s today’s version of that historic role. “Mrs. Carter has shown tremendous dedication,” she added. “And that’s been an advantage for her and as a role model for her children." —Richard Latiner ...32 DePaul Ct. ...A boy John W. Adams 630 Key St. ...A girl Ms. Gladys Johnson 827 E. 10th St. ...A boy Ms. Regina Mobley 724 Woodruff PI. ...A boy Richard Egleston 2704 Pitts Dr. ...A girl Ms. Patricia Horne 832 Rodney Ave. ...A boy Ms. Loretta Colbert 131 Grandin Rd. ...A boy Ms. Willie Jackson 1701 W. Blvd. ...A girl Ms. Ruby Smith 505 Sylvania Ave. ...A boy Ms. Yvonne Miller 35058 Faye St. ...A girl I 19X1 DODGE RAM 150 SPORT VAN. 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Dr. Maxwell helped the teachers evaluate their ap proach to teaching about blacks. "Too often," she says, "teachers don’t look at the total black experi ence. “In teaching a course on black women, you should start prior to 1619," Dr. Maxwell continued. "There's no way we should study the experience of -black women in this coun - try and not first under stand their role in African society. You get the total background, moving up then to indentured servi tude, slavery. Jim Crow and racism and sexism "Then , that progression must be looked at in light of the economic, political and social conditions of the time and how blacks re sponded to them," Dr. Maxwell explained, adding "Teachers have a tendency to just teach facts without the substance that comes from history and well rounded thoughts. They teach content like who, -what.—when—and_where What we are trying to do is move away from a very convergent way of teaching i to a more divergent way of thinking. 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