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Head Start Applications Now Being Accepted
Operation Head Start
begins the 1976>77 year In
the Kings Mountain
schools on Sept. 7.
Applications are now
being accepted at the KM
District Schools Office on
Parker St. or parents may
call 789-8816 or write
Cleveland County Head
Start, PO Box 163, for
further Infoimatlon.
Children will ride the
school bus and for each
child enrolled the school
officials must have his or
her birth certificate.
Immunisation record, and
verification of family
Income.
The Head Start program
serves a total of 126
children county-wide with
18 to 30 In a class and a
teacher and assistant In
each class.
Two classrooms are
located at Cleveland
School In Shelby serving
four year olds; two classes
are In Kings Mountain, one
for five year olds at Orover
School and another for five
year olds at North School
and three classes are
located In the county
schools, one at Lattlmore
for four year olds, one at
PolkvUle school for four
year olds and one at
Elisabeth School for four
year olds.
Twenty people make up
the Head Start staff.
Cleveland County Head
Start Is sponswed by KM
District Schools and Supt.
Donald Jones Is executive
director and Director Is
Anganette Homsley.
Organised In 1866, Head
Start Is concerned with the
whole child and hla family.
Admission to the program
Is not based on race,
religion, national origin, or
color. The program Is
designed to meet the needs
of the less fortunate ones,
using Income as the main
means for eligibility.
To overcome the han
dicaps which hamper
families. It was neceasary
that all programs Imple
ment the following broad
goals.
1) Improving the child’s
health
2) Improving and ex
panding the child’s ability
to think, reason, and speak
clearly.
8) Helping the child’s
emotional and social de
velopment by encouraging
self-confidence, self-
expression, self-dlsclpllne,
and curiosity.
4) Helping children to
get wider and more varied
experience which will
broaden their horizons.
Increase their ease of
conversation, and Imirove
their understanding of the
world In which they live
6) Giving the child fre
quent chances to success.
Such chances may thus
erase patterns of
frustrations, and failure,
and especially the fear of
failure.
6) Developing a climate
of confidence for the child
which will make him want
to learn.
7) Increasing the child’s
ability to get along with
others In his family and,
at the same time, helping
the family to understand
him and his problems —
thus strengthlng family
ties.
8) Devel(9lng In the
child and his family a
responsible attitude
toward society, and
fostering feelings of
belonging to the com
munity.
9) Planning activities
which allow groups from
every social, ethnic, and
economic level In the
MRS. MILDRED PLATT
Funeral services for
Mrs. Mildred Platt, 68,
were held Monday In Mel
bourne, Fla,
Surviving are her
husband, Giles Platt; three
sons and three dau^ters.
Including Mrs. Carl Cham
pion of Kings Mountain.
community to Join with the
poor In solving problenu.
10) Offering a chance for
the child to meet and see
teachers, policemen,
health, and welfare of
ficers — all figures of
authority In situations
which will bring respect
and not fear.
11) Giving a child a
chance to meet with older
children, teenagers, and
adults who will serve as
’’models” In manners,
behavior, and speech
13) Helping both the
child and his family to
greater confidence, self-
respect, and dignity.
18) Mainstreaming the
handicapped child In
regular classroom setting
and teaching the child,
parents and other children
that these children can
function In this setting with
aU our help.
DEAN
WESTMORELAND
DEMOCRAT ^
FOR
STATE SENATE
25th DISTRICT
Pd. for by Westmoreland For N.
C. Senate campaign, Jamaa
Scruggs, ’Treasurer
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