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FRIDAY, NOV. 20, 1987
10-5 Sat. 12-5 Sun.
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Certification
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Hills readily admit several of
their teachers are not cer-
tified but maintain they are
presently working towards
certification.
The state office for Teacher
Preparation and Certification
exhort that these schools are
in violation of state certifica-
tion rules but will follow
through with little more than
a letter and perhaps a slap on
the hand.
"There is relatively little
the state can do about it," said
state certification supervisor
Robert Trezise. "Private
schools refusing to conform
are in violation. But the state
hasn't resolved what to do
about that refusal."
With little or no repurcus-
sions to contend with, the
private schools continue to
hire uncertified teachers.
"All the best schools have
uncertified teachers," said
Rep. David Honigman, (R-
West Bloomfield), a strong
supporter of the bill. "Even
without certified teachers,
private school students are
measuring better than the
public schools with certified
teachers:' Honigman makes a
distinction between the needs
of public schools and private
schools. "Public school
teachers need desparately to
be certified but private
schools don't need such
bureaucratic guarantees.
Kids are more highly
motivated. There's already
more discipline, more
creativity and more flexibili-
ty. The teachers are uncer-
tified but qualified.
The Jewish Community
Council strongly disagrees.
"At a time when educa-
tional standards are coming
under close scrutiny," says the
Council, we cannot afford to
risk a drop in qualifications
by removing the state's abili-
ty to require that teachers
demonstrate a certain level of
preparedness and proficien-
cy? ,
Long demanded by fun-
damentalist organizations
nationwide, Bill 116, spon-
sored by Senator Harmon
Cropsy, (D-Decatur), already
passed in the Senate and is
presently caught in the
House Education Committee.
Last week, Christian fun-
damentalists jammed the 18
phone lines in the Capitol of-
fice of Rep. William Keith,
vowing to keep dialing until
the Education Committee,
which Keith chairs, approves
the bill.
Keith claims the bill does
not have sufficient support
within the 22-member com-
mittee to bring it up for a
vote. He said he opposes the
bill and favors the closing of
schools that won't hire cer-
tified teachers.
Should the bill make it to
the House, Rep. Honigman
said the House is so divided it
is difficult to predict the out-
come. "It's got a 50/50 shot,"
he said.
Genocide Video
To be Distributed
The Children of Holocaust-
survivors Association in
Michigan (CHAIM) has rais-
ed $11,000 to distribute 160
copies of the videotape
Genocide to educational and
religious institutions around
the state.
A teachers' guide to accom-
pany the tape has been
prepared by the Simon
Wiesenthal Center. CHAIM
donated 728 guides to the
recipients of the video and to
all public high schools in
Michigan. The group paid
$1,800 of its own funds for the
guides.
Collaborator
Is Dead
Amsterdam (JTA) — Pieter
Menten, a Dutch Nazi col-
laborator convicted of com-
plicity in the murders of Jews
and others in the Polish
village of Podhorodze while
serving the SS in July 1941,
died . Saturday in a nursing
home at the age of 88.
He is said to have been in
poor health for some time and
senile.
The Menten case captured
international attention
because he had managed to
evade full justice after World
War II and his arrest many
years later came about only
by chance.
Although found guilty of
collaboration with the Nazis
after the war, he received a
very light sentence. The
Dutch media attributed this
to his extreme wealth, his
cunning and his powerful con-
nections in Parliament.
Menten drew attention to
himself in June 1976 when he
decided to auction off part of
his famous art collection.
Movement Gains
Jerusalem — "Red Greens"
is the name that might be us-
ed to describe a growing
movement of pro-
environmentalists in the
Soviet Union.
Protection of the environ-
ment has recently become a
real social issue in the Soviet
bloc, according to a new jour-
nal published by the Hebrew
University of Jerusalem's
Marjorie Mayrock Center for
Soviet and East European
Research.