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Cleanup Continues
The cleanup continues at Holden Reach and officials expect it to last several more weeks. During a special
meeting last Thursday, the town board voted to continue free pickup of storm-related debris through the
month or October. Property owners need to leave the debris in the street rignt-of-way at least five feet ofT
the pavement. In this photo taken earlier this month, Pete Singletary, right, and Chris Thompson unload a
trailer of debris at the regional parking lot under the Holden Beach Bridge.
Former Principal Dusts Off Paper After 1 1 Years
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just line up, pass through and re
ceive.
Eventually the standards were
eroded and the "social promotion"
or the "pass through" from grade to
grade, even for the pupil of high or
normai intelligence, becauic ihe
standard. Along with this came the
political takeover of the public
school system by the feds and any
special interest group lurking in the
shadows.
Discipline became almost non
existent. The lazy troublemakers of
all flavors quickly adopted civil
rights and renamed it student rights.
Marching under the banner of
student rights, they disrupted
classes at will, demanded crip
courses, demanded freedom to do
as they pleased ? no more firm
punishment, no more suspensions
and no more expelling from school.
Incompetent teachers saw the
success of student rights and
adapted it to their cause and re
named it teachers' rights. School
boards were forced to employ
incompetent teachers under various
guises. And to compound matters,
these incompetents could no longer
be dismissed, at least without a
court battle.
Incompetent administrative and
supervisory personnel followed
suit. This left us with two groups
with no rights ? the student who
wanted to learn and the competent
teachcr who wanted to teach.
Teachers and administrators at all
levels of competency were and still
are attacked, beaten and even killed
in their schools by students in the
misguided belief that their rights are
supreme over others.
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Lunch. Why not a Free Learning?
Not a good aura for ambitious
students who really want to learn.
But education is not like food
stamps. It cannot be donated, al
located or even legislated. It must
be personally acquired by the
individual through the pursuit of
understanding concepts and the
absorption of facts.
Like our senses we arc all bom
with levels of intellectual ability.
We can give love, food, clothing,
shelter, transportation, protection,
etc., but education comes as the
individual mind personally seeks
and acquires knowledge.
Government programs admin
istered so many times by ultra
liberal or politically motivated
administrators encourage less
incentive for the individual to
acquire sufficient knowledge to be
self-supporting and to rise above
the bare existence into a state of
self-sufficiency and self-respect.
Serious students hardly have a
chance in this atmosphere.
Children at home hear and lcam
the language of the welfare state
and become infected with the
contagious something-for-nothing
syndrome before they come to
school and the disease becomes
chronic as they mature, cspcciaiiy if
reinforcement is provided by the
public school personnel.
Free government services (free
housing, food stamps, etc.) and the
"Social. Promotion" or Social "C"
are one and the same to the welfare
mentality. In plain English, "I don't
have to earn one. Why should I
have to earn the other?"
This attitude toward work and
learning has created a new, un
disciplined dependent class of
adults and pupils. These misguided
people have lost their self respect
and respect for others, partly by
their own doings, but mostly by the
nonaction of the taxpaying citizens
who continue to allow the social
engineers to turn our schools into a
circus of disrespect for discipline
and authority wh;ch promotes a
poor atmosphere for serious stud
ents to learn.
Well intended programs when
improperly administered can
destroy those they were designed to
help and therefore cause deteri
oration of the total society.
Appropriate responsibility must
accompany rights and freedom.
Robert H. Sellers
Teacher, Principal, Retired
Shallotte
HIGHWAY PROJECTS ADVANCE
State To Award Construction
Bid For Segment Of U.S. 1 7
All six bids for construction of a
segment of U.S. 17 north of Supply
to be considered by the State Board
of Transportation Friday in Raleigh
are greater than the cost estimates
for the 1 .72-mile, project
The state had estimated the four
lane project would come in at a cost
of S2.324.872. But when the bids
were opened, the figures ranged
from 2.8 percent to 14.6 percent
above that figure.
The apparent low bidder is C.M.
Lindsay & Sons of Lumberton,
$2.39 million. Also biddinK arc
BMCO Construction Inc., Lumber
tun, 52.42 million; W.E. Blackmon
Construction Co., Smithfield, $2.58
million; Dickcrson Carolina Inc.,
Castle Hayne, $2.60 million; South
Carolina Division, APAC-Carolina,
Darlington, S.C., $2,603 million;
and Propst Construction Co.,
Concord, $2.66 million.
The bid to be awarded Friday is
for grading, drainage, paving, pave
ment marking and striping of U.S.
17 from N.C. 21 i to souuiwesi of
the lower end of S.R. 1401, Gallo
way Road N.E.
Work can begin as eariy as Nov.
13, with all work to be completed
by Sept. 1, 1991, except for the
"observation period". March 1,
1992 is the final completion date.
The bids are accompanied by the
formal request for the board to ap
prove the construction work. It
overall work is budgeted at $2.7
million, of which $2,026 million is
federal and $679,714 is state.
Other Brunswick County projects
on the board's agenda include the
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? A request for $4.1 million in
North Carolina Highway Trust
Fund-intrastate system money for
construction of U.S. 17 from exist
ing U.S. 17 at Bolivia north to
northeast of N.C. 87 south, a dis
tance of 4.5 miles. Like the Supply
project, this proposal relates to state
efforts to complete the four-laning
of U.S. 17 across Brunswick
County, with bypasses of Shallotte
and Bolivia.
? Replacing of a bridge on S.R.
1140, Oxpcn road, at a cost of
$10,193, in conjunction with other
improvements to the road.
? Approval of an additional
59,240 to pave in front of three ad
ditional bays constructed by Sunset
Beach Volunteer Fire Department.
Since iiic stale, in Aprii, approved
$7,000 for paving the entrance
apron to the fire station, the station
has been enlarged.
? A request to reduce funds for
grading, draining, basing and
paving of S.R. 1427, Hooper Road.
The new estimated cost is $30,000
for the 1.7-mile project.
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