VOLUME 95. NUMBER 33
THURSDAY, AUGUST 12, 1982
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Teachers Can’t Introduce Slang Words
Temporary Sex Ed Policy Approved
By GARY STEWART
Editor
The Kings Mountain District
Schools Board of Education
adopted a temporary sex educa-
tion policy at its regular monthly
meeting Tuesday night at the
Administration Building.
The policy, proposed by a
special committee named in
June, discourages the use of
slang words by teachers, and en-
courages segregation of classes
“as much as possible.”
The board discussed the issue
at length and amended one sec-
tion of the policy before adop-
ting it unanimously.
The amended part of the
policy deals with the use of slang
words.
By a 3-1 vote-with board
member Jerry Ledford voting
against—the board amended one
section which states that slang
words must be initiated by the
student. Board Chairman June
Lee was absent.
The complete policy reads:
“The committee recognizes
the community sentiment and
sensitivity revolving around the
issue of sex education and the
teaching of the human reproduc-
tive system. In responding to this"
community sentiment, we must
realize that the schools must be
allowed the flexibility necessary
to insure that students questions
are answered, that a complete
educational program can be im-
plemented, and address all issues
in a professional and informative
“student,
manner.
The board appointed commit-
tee has responded to its charge
by submitting to the Kings
Mountain Board of Education
the following guidelines for deal-
ing with the issue of sex educa-
tion; more specifically, the slang
terms being used in the science-
health classes throughout the
school system.
1. The committee recom-
mends that the discussion of
slang terms for the purpose of
clarification should be dealt with
professionally and discretely by
the teacher when initiated by the
with emphasis being
placed on scientific terminology.
(“When initiated by the student”
is the amended phrase added
during the board meeting).
City Wants State
To Improve Streets
The Kings Mountain Board of
Commissioners Monday night
approved a resolution asking the
State Department of Transporta-
tion to make eight street im-
provements in the city.
Included in the resolution is a
request that the state make an
access to Highway 74 and I-85 at
Linwood Road. That intersec-
tion was closed off for the con-
struction of the Highway 74
yp and citizens of the Ai §
Cleveland Avenue and then to
King Street to travel east on 74
or north on I-85.
The citizens of that area
several months ago made the
same request at a public hearing
held at the community center,
but the DOT said the bypass pro-
ject was too advanced to change.
Completion of the: bypass is
scheduled for October of 1983.
Several of the requests approv-
ed Monday Bight, deal with
Ooirs Monday
The start of the 1982-83
school year for Kings Mountain
District Schools officially begins
Monday, when teachers report
for duty. ;
All teachers and ad-
- ministrators will kickoff the
"work week with a breakfast
Monday morning at Kings
Mountain High School.
Superintendent William Davis
will speak briefly.
Students will report on Mon.,
Aug. 23 for a full day schedule.
This year, all kindergarten
students will report on the first
day of school, rather than on a
staggered schedule which has
been the case in the past.
* However, kindergarten students
will be dismissed after lunch dur-
ing the first week of school.
Bus routes will be approx-
imately the same as last year.
Students are encouraged to be at
the designated bus stop so the
new drivers will be able to make
the stops with little confusion.
Students who will be atten-
ding Kings Mountain schools for
the first time this year are asked
to contact the school prior to the
opening day for registration in-
formation.
Lunch prices will be the same
as last year. Students in grades
K-5 will pay 80 cents and
students in grades 6-12 will pay
85 cents. Reduced priced meals
will be 40 cents in all schools.
School fees will be the same as
last year.
i Lines. That's an area of 200
City Road).
The city is Sei that the
DOT curb and gutter 800 feet of
Highway 161 on both the east
and west sides between the com-
~ munity center and King Street.
The city also is requesting that
the DOT curb and gutter and
widen Highway 161 from Lin-
wood Road to the city limits, or
4,800 feet.
The city is also asking that
161 south be widened and curb
feet on both the east and west
sides.
In that area, Mayor John
Henry Moss pointed out, the
highway is narrow and if it is
widened to the same width as the
highway north of Fredrickson, it
would help the traffic flow.
The city is asking that the
state also widen and curb and
gutter N.C. 216 from Wells
Street to the entrance to Park
Yarn Mills south of the city
limits. That’s an area of 8,800
feet on both sides of the road.
The city is asking that State
Road 2025 be curb and guttered
on both the east and west sides
from Barnette Street to Cher-
ryville Highway. That project
would be an area of 10,000 feet.
“That project would take
longer, in that the three inter-
changes would not have as much
direct effect on that road as it
would on others,” Mayor Moss
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City Board Okays
~ Clark’s Trailer Park
Kings Mountain City Com-
missioners Monday night
unanimously approved a request
from Charlie Clark that he be
allowed to put a mobile home
park on a tract of land he owns
west of the city and in the city’s
one-mile perimeter.
The request was tabled at the
last board meeting because: City
Attorney George Thomasson
was on vacation and the board
felt it needed legal advice on the
matter.
Monday’s action came over
the protest of Betty Sue Morris,
a resident of the area, who said
Clark already has six trailers, a
sawmill and a church on the pro-
perty illegally.
“I realize it’s his property, but
he purchased it after it was in the
mile perimeter and has put
trailers on it without a permit,”
Mrs. Morris said. “I want to see
some rules followed.”
Clark claimed the property
was not in the mile perimeter
when he purchased it and that
he obtained permits from
Cleveland County and the
Cleveland County Health
Department.
“I would like to comply with
the city ordinances,” Clark said.
“When I went to the county and
got the permits I knew nothing
of the mile perimeter. To my
knowledge the mile perimeter
just came about a year or So
ago.”
Ted Huffman, city codes
director, said Clark’s property
meets all the requiremens of a
trailer park and is already zoned
R-20, which allows for trailers.
“All he’s wanting is a permit
to move in two more trailers,”
Huffman ponted out. “At the
time he moved in the trailers
that are already there, the coun-
ty was not requiring a permit
from the city.”
Thomasson said the city board
had no choice but to act on
Clark’s request.
“He’s not coming in here with
a zoning request,” Thomasson
said. “He’s wanting a permit. It’s
already zoned R-20 and I unders-
tand that he has met all the re-
quirements.”
* Commissioner Norman King
asked Thomasson if it is “lawful
to deny him that right if he has
met the requirements. Can he
not sue us?”
“If you deny it, he can bring
action against the board,”
Thomasson replied.
In other action Monday, the
board:
*Received a request from
Henry R. Gilliland to rezone
from R-20 to GB property at
1200 Shelby Road. The request
was forwarded to the Zoning
and Planning Board.
*Was told by: mayor Moss
taht speed limit signs will be
erected in the area of East
School prior to the opening of
school. The speed limit will be 20
miles per hour from 7:30 until
8:30 a.m. and 2:30 until 3:30
p.m., he said.
Other recommendations:
The committee also recom-
mends that:
A. As much as possible, the
science-health classes be
segregated boy-girl for the study
of the human reproductive
system.
B. The Board of Education
pursue the development of a
comprehensive sex education
program with a prescribed
course of study.
The committee also recom-
mends that the guidelines above,
pertaining to slang terms and
recommendations dealing with |
segregation of sexes serve as
policy until such a time as
recommendation B dealing with
course of study is finalized.”
WELCOME ABOARD - Ruth Wilson, new
Coordinator for the Exceptional Children's
Program in the Kings Mountain District
Schools, is welcomed to the school system by
The persistence of board
members Harold Lineberger and
Kyle Smith resulted in the
amendment which states that
slang terms must be initiated by
the students.
“I think we ought to spell it
t,” Lineberger said. “I don’t ,
see any reason for using slang
terms and there’s no reason for a
teacher having to get up in front
of the class and use these terms.”
“According to teachers:
throughout the system, students
introduce these terms,” said
Assistant Superintendent Larry
Allen, who served as chairman
of the committee and presented
the recommendations. “Are we
going to respond to them or say
they won’t be used?”
meeting.
AxexqTl TeTIowan Aaunep
Referring to a class at Central
School last year which prompted
the issue, Lineberger said it was
his understanding that “this list
of words originated with the
teacher.”
“I doubt if very many times
you’re going to have a question
asked like that by a student,”
Lineberger said. ‘Seventh
graders know Yip those words
mean.’
Connie Phifer, a third grade
teacher at North School, said
she’s heard third graders use
slang words. “I doubt if they
know what they mean, but
seventh graders know what they
mean,” she said.
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Photo by Gary Stewart
Superintendent William Davis, right, and Bill
McDaniel, vice-chairman of the Board of
Education, at Tuesday night's school board
East Over-Enrollment
Helped By Transfers
The over-enrollment problem
at East School this year has been
eased somewhat by some parents
volunteering to transfer their
children to other schools, but it .
may be necessary to re-draw
school boundaries in the future,
Superintendent William Davis
told the Board of Education
Tuesday night.
Davis said two new apartment
complexes in the East atten-
dance zone “ballooned our
population down there.” Most
classrooms at East are over-
crowded, he said.
Some parents of East students
in kindergarten through grade
three volunteered to transfer
their children to other schools.
. “That helped and I believe it
will take care of this year,” Davis
said. “But we may eventually
have to redraw the attendance
lines to take some of the East ter-
ritory into the North territory.”
Board member Kyle Smith
suggested that, if necessary, the
board re-transfer students who
attend East but live in another
school attendance area back to
their original school.
“The board always retains
that right when a transfer is
granted,” Davis said.
Several transfers were approv-
ed Tuesday night, including:
Brent Hawkins, to Bethware
from Grover; Mark Carpenter,
to Bethware from North; Niki
Moore, to Grover from West;
Scott Powers, to North from
East; Eric Bennix, to North from
East; Casey Wiggins, to North
from East; Jamie Gilbert, to
West from North; Kenny Black,
to West from North.
Transfer requests from the
parents of Scott Layton (to
Bethware from West) and David
L. Scruggs (to East from North)
were denied.
The board accepted the
following students: Heather Pat-
terson, Shaun Hurley, Clinton
Graham and Janie Graham from
Cleveland County; and Walter
Mack Wade III from Gaston
County.
The board granted maternity
leave to Gail Van Dyke and ac-
cepted the resignation of
Darlene Bailey, Rusty © Clon-
inger, Allen Dixon, Vivien Gold,
and Ada Bridges.
The employment of the
following teachers was approv-
ed: Joe Hopper, Bethware; Paula
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Farr Services Held
At Boyce Memorial
Memorial services for Mary
Somers Farr, 63, of 608 East
Ridge Street, Kings Mountain,
were conducted at 3 p.m.
Wednesday at Boyce Memorial
A.R.P. Church by the Rev.
William Tyson. Burial was in
Mountain Rest Cemetery.
Mrs. Farr, a nurse at McGill
Clinic in Kings Mountain, died
Monday afternoon at Kings
Mountain Hospital following
. several months illness.
A native of Iredell County,
she was the daughter of the late
Noah and Beulah Moore
Somers. She was a graduate of
the Shelby Hospital School of
Nursing and a member of Boyce
Memorial A.R.P. Church.
She is survived by her hus-
band, N.M. Farr of the home;
one daughter, Mrs. Bill (Norma)
Herndon of Kings Mountain;
three sisters, Mrs. Aileen Leagon
of Newton, Mrs. Jay Kennedy
of Mooresville and Mrs. R.E.
MRS. MARY FARR
Davis of Statesville; and two
grandchildren.
In lieu of flowers, memorials
may be made to Boyce Memorial
A.R.P. Church.
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