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French Student Enjoys Teaching, Living In KM
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The answer is yes.
She recently ate her first cat-
fish at Paul’s Seafood and en-
joyed it very much. “They call
them fishcats in France,” Hord
said.
“We don’t eat them there,”
she said. “When we catch one,
we throw it away. But I have to
admit it was very good.”
She loves all other seafoods
and live oysters sprinkled with
lemon juice.
“Im learning to eat many
fried foods,” she said. “We don’t
eat fried foods in France, except
for French fries. We eat a lot of
vegetables and meats. I'm going
to get fat here. Many people
have already told me that I've
come to the wrong place if I
want to lose weight.”
Catherine is anxiously
awaiting Kings Mountain’s first
“heavy” snowfall. She hopes to
take at least one trip to the
mountains and learn to ski.
“I hope it’s going to snow very
heavily,” ;she says. “We don’t
have much snow where I come
from. It’s rather hot in the sum-
mer and cool in the winter. We
have to go to the mountains to
see heavy snow.”
“If it snows, we're going to
take her out and roll her,” Mrs.
Hord joked.
Catherine’s visit here is as
much a learning experience for
her as it is for the junior and
senior high students she teaches.
In addition to different eating
customs, she’s learning about the
Board
Okays
Policy
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every year, is time-consuming
and its not uncommon for a prin-
cipal to spend a week evaluating
each teacher.
“A fair evaluation takes time,”
board member Kyle Smith said.
“In the past principals haven't
had time to do that. Under this
change, they will.”
Supterintendent Davis said
the new process will “allow the
principals to spend more time
with probationary teachers and’
will permit the principals a
chance to use their time more in-
tensely.”
In other matters Monday, the
board:
*Heard a report from West
Principal Jane Shields on pro-
grams at that school. Three West
students gave demonstrations on
the use of computers, which are
being included in the West in-
structional program this year.
Ms. Shields said West’s enroll-
ment was down to 274 at the
beginning of the year but a new
Head Start program which
began Monday increased enroll-
ment by 13.
*Was introduced to Catherine
Bacle, a French student who is
working at Kings Mountain
junior and senior highs this year
through the Amity Aide Pro-
gram. She assists in French
classes and is living with the Paul
Hord Jr. family.
* Approved a request by Davis
that the school system be a pilot
unit for a new state program for
evaluation of superintendents.
*Approved the transfer of
Pamela Diane Wilson to Gaston
County, Starla Darnell to Shelby
City Schools, and Lee Ann
Lineberger and Brenda Lee Con-
ner from Gaston County to
Kings Mountain.
* Accepted the resignations of
Evelyn Degree at North, Charles
Dye at West and Bill Little of
Grover and approved the
transfers of Pink Ware to West
and Eddie Lockhart to Grover.
*Approved the employment
of Craig Hawkins, North; and
Jeffrey L. Patterson, Central
Maintenance Department.
HOT DOG SUPPER
The choir of Eastside Baptist
Church of Kings Mountain will
sponsor a hot dog supper
November 19 in the church
fellowship building. Proceeds
will go toward the purchase of
choir robes. Hot dog plates will
sell for $2. Carry out orders will
also be available.
Photo by Gary Stewart
AT HOME WITH HORDS - Catherine Bacle of France, second from right, is' working as an
assistant French teacher at Kings Mountain junior and senior high schools this year. While
in Kings Mountain, she’s living with the Paul Hord Jr. family on York Road. She's pictured
here with her American family. Left to right are Joyce Hord, Paul Hord, Ms. Bacle and Kim
Hord.
arts, election process and the
Southern Baptist Church.
A Roman Catholic, she says
attending church services each
Sunday at Oak View Baptist
Church is “very different. But
it’s interesting.”
“She’ll understand it more
after she goes for a while,” says
Hord, a deacon at Oak View.
Catherine recently got a first-
hand look at the American
voting process during city and
school board electins at the
Kings Mountain Community
Center. Basically, she said, the
process is the same here as it is in
her homeland except that they
don’t have school boards there.
One of the biggest differences
she’s seen is in the schools. In
France the universities are own-
ed by the government. Her tui-
tion for a year is $100. “You can
see, we don’t pay as much
money as you do,” she said.
“Another thing is that we don’t
have sports.
“The high schools are really
different,” she went on. “The
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periods are an hour longer and
we go from 8 a.m. until 5S p.m. 10
months a year. We have a long
lunch break, usually an hour to
an hour and a half.
“We have just two hours of
sports a week,” she went on.
“We go to school on Wednesday
mornings and if anyone plays
sports they do it after school on
Wednesday.”
Foreign language is required
in junior high school and usually
by the time a student has reach-
ed high school, he’s taken at least
three years of foreign language.
After the fourth year of junior
high, a student chooses what he
thinks he would like his career to
be. His high school courses are
geared to prepare him for that
career.
“We get driving lessons when
we're 18 years old, instead of 16
as it is here,” she said. “You
never see a student going to
school in his own car.’
Students who want to learn a
trade often take vocational
courses in junior high and quit
school at age 14 or 15.
“We do not have graduation
as you know it here,” she said.
“We just have to pass a big exam
(called BAC) at the end of
school. Y ou’re required to pass it
if you want to go on to a univer-
sity. If you miss it, you try again.
If you miss it the second time,
you can take a home cor-
respondence course and then go
to the university.”
Although she sees a big dif-
ference in French and American
students, she finds her work at
Kings Mountain rewarding. Her
English is very good, and she has
no trouble at all understanding
Kings Mountians as long as they
talk slowly.
“My biggest problem so far
has been understanding Paul
Hord,” she joked. “He talks too
fast.”
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