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By Russell CUrk
Post Staff Writer
Although It has been observed that
children have their own individual
study habits, Jerredith Shearin, 12,
employs a basic learning technique.
"I don’t mind coming home from
school and doing my homework
first,” she noted. "Getting a good
education is very important to me
and I think people in my age group
should value their education, too,”
added Shearin, a seventh grader at
Northwest Middle School.
How many of us can reflect back
on our school days aryl recall
making straight A’s year after
year?
Well, Jerredith has been making
A’s consistently. “I pay dose
attention in class and take good
notes to help me understand the
information. I think that baa been a
key to my success in the class
room,” mentioned Shearin, who has
brought home only two B*a in her
life.
At school, she is a member of the
Executive Council, and also plays
second base on the softball team, "l’
enjoy playing softball and other
sports, but my books come first,”
she pointed out.
Outside of school,_ |
member of the Charlotte Youth Club
and the McCrorey YMCA Teen Chib
“I'm active In these clubs because
we do service projects in the
tv and it civos me a chance
»my age ”
of Ms. Edith
th also has
far away places
, Florida.
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’’’set kf criticising the mistake
rather than the person who made
It.
New Jersey to visit relatives with
my mother. We went to Mexico last
summer, but next summer we plan
to go to London. I think everyone
should travel to other places be
cause it gives you a chance to see
how people live in different en
vironments, it Is very educational,”
she commented.
A 1985 graduate of Allenbrook
Elementary, Jerredith says, that
there is a lot of peer pressure'to do
things to’ impress people. "At
Northwest, there isn’t a lot of drug
abuse by students that I know of, but
there is a lot of pefcr pressure. Some
students dothings jus Mo be accept
ed by I group.”
When hot busy studying,
practicing the clarinet or other
school activities, the self-motivated
young beauty enjoys listening to
music. “I like the music of New
Edition, Whodinf and Run DMC
because most of their songs have a
positive message."
The Charlotte-Mecklenburg .
School System serves more than
72,000 students, but many never
reach their potential because they
don’t get enough support at home.
“I don’t push Jerredith, I guide
her,” says her mother, Edith
Shearin. “A child needs a good,
warm breakfast each .morning
before school* and" plenty of rest the
night beforfc school. Jerredith is in
the bed by 9:30 every night," she
explained.
"Northw&t is a good school over
all," Jerredith pointed out. "I like
my classes and my teachers. My
education is very valuable because I
plan to be successful in life.”
City, Convention Bureau
Announce New Grants Program
Help is on the way for organ
izations that sponsor special events
and programs. A new grants pro
gram, sponsored by the City of
Charlotte and the Charlotte
Convention k Visitors Bureau,
provides matching fund grants for
Charlotte area nonprofit organiza
tions which sponsor special events
nr projects. To qualify, the event or
program must have the short- or
long-term potential of attracting
visitors to Charlotte, and the
potential of improving the quality of
life for the citizens of Charlotte and
Mecklenburg County.
"This new grant program allows
the Bureau and the City to take the
lead in helping develop new events
and programs which have the
.1 for attracting visitors,"
>oug Stafford, president and
If the Convention Bureau. “It
In that it allows
t or programs
a portion of the
City matching that amount with
development-dedicated tax
revenues Since this “50-50 fund”
includes both promotion monies and
development monies, grand
recipients will be able to promote
their events or programs as well as
underwrite some of the operating
expenses.
There will be two periods for
reviewing applications each year
For fiscal year 198W7 the first
application deadline is October 31,
1906, and the second is March 31,
19*7. Grants for the first period must
be implemented no later than June
30, 19*7. For the second, the
implementation deadline is Decem
ber 31,19*7.
The Charlotte Convention k Visit
ors Bureau Underwriting Commit
tee will administer the Grant
Program.
Organizations must submit a
proposed budget with their grant
applications.
For more information and an
application form, contact the
Charlotte Convention k Visitors
Bureau, One Independence
Center, Suite 1290, Charlotte, NC
28236, attention Linda Bonine
NUL Launches National
Education Initiative vj
Declaring that “the future econo
mic survival of black Americans is
dependent on improving the school
ing our children get today,” John E.
Jacob, President of the National
Urban League, announced the
launching of a five-year national
education initiative designed to
improve black educational per
formance and involving the
league’s 113 affiliates.
Mr. Jacob asserted that despite
increasing concern over the state of
the nation’s public school systems
and the implementation of various
education reforms, the educational
needs of black and minority
children, for the most part, have
been ignored.
In addition, he maintained that
some reform efforts may make
these problems worse stating,
“Stricter graduation require
ments, without resources and pro
grams to ensure that every child can
meet them, may just raise the
dropout rate faster than they raise
the achievement rate.”
Mr. Jacob cited a national black
dropoyt rate almost double that of
whites, the decline In black college
enrollment and an overall lag in the
black achievement levels, as
evidence of the severity of the crisis.
State that the black community
has a major role to play in re
sponding to this crisis, he said, “Our
Education Initiative will mobilize
'he community to define key issues,
maximize use of existing re
sources, build coalitions and sup
port for change, and implement
concrete action plans.”
Jacob added: “The importance of
this Initiative is that it coordinates
those activities, focuses them to
have national impact, measures
results, and provides a framework
to make them more effective.
“Our Initiative is not an
exercise in confrontation, but, a
program that mobilizes citizens and
John E.Jacob
...Calls for action
institutions in a collaborative effort
to make the public schools work
better for our children.’
The NUL's Education Initiatives
will be implemented through its
network of affiliates in 113 cities
across the country, which includes
school districts that educate two
million hlack children • a third of all
black students in the nation.
Urban League affiliates, with
support and technical assistance
from the NUL. will develop pro
grams targeted to ''at-risk'’
students and assist the community
in devising concrete action plains to
respond to their needs These achhR.
plans will include several different
elements including mentoring and
•See National on page 2A
Of Service
Muhammed Honored For 40 Years
Growing concern over the failure
of blacks to start their own busi
nesses and thereby economically
develop the black community has
now become a hot issue Studies
have shown that only seven percent
of the $22 billion collectively
earned by blacks annually is spent
with hlack businesses
Statistics further indicate that the
advent of integration brought the
steady decline of expenditure of
black GNP with black business In
fact, from 1964-1964 the proportion of
black incomes spent with black
owned businesses dropped from 13.5
percent to only seven percent
Therefore, black people have divert
ed their economic resources away
from the areas that are in need of the
most help.
The Honorable Elijah Muhammad
was one of the foremost proponents
of black entrepreneurship in this
century During his 40 years of
service in the community,
Muhammad inspired thousands of
blacks to go into business, in addi
tion to the hundreds of enterprises
that hia follows initiated all over
America and in the Caribbean
Minister Louis Farrakhan, fol
lowing in the footsteps of his
mentor, is deeply concerned about
the exploitation of the black com
munity by external forcea. He has
started a campaign to stimulate an
upward spiral of business develop
ment In the black comimaiity as
initiated by the Honorable Elijah
Muhammad Toward that goal.
Minister Farrakhan has laimcfced a
new line of personal care products.
Clean N Fresh, the first of the
Louis Farrakhan
..Started campaign
promised POWER products
In an effort to promote these
products and the concept of Mack
business development, Minister
Farrkhan will be making several
appearances across the country
On October 7, one year from the
historic Madison Square Garden
appearance which attracted nearly
50.000, a major address was given in
Chicago, IL, at the Pavilion located
See Mohammed On pace !A