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The Jewish National Fund, Israel's only official afforestation
agency, has reserved space in the American Independence
Park outside Jerusalem to plant trees dedicated to our
American troops. JNF has been planting trees, honoring
Americans, since 1948.
Roundtable Of Humanity
At Detroit Open School
KIMBERLY LIFTON
Staff Writer
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hirteen-year-old
Jocelyn Smith, a black
student from Detroit,
was curious to know if Chal-
dean community leader
John Mackay had ever con-
fronted racism in his 20
years living in America.
And 12-year-old Carey
Sperl, who is white,
wondered if American Arab
and Jewish Friends founder
Arnold Michlin believed
Israel should be a home for
all Jewish people.
The questions were diverse
at Detroit Open School's
roundtable of humanity on
Tuesday, where Mr. Michlin,
Mr. Mackay and attorney
Sheldon Lutz lead a panel
discussion to help the sixth,
seventh and eighth grade
students gain a better
understanding of the Arab
and Jewish communities.
Whether they asked about
the war in the Persian Gulf
or the Holocaust, most of the
students' questions focused
on relationships — a topic
teachers at the Open School
say is crucial to survival in
the multi-cultural society of
the 1990s.
Children at Detroit Open
School, just south of Eight
Mile Road and east of Tele-
graph on Frisbee, are not the
traditional students found in
most schools. It is a unique
school within the public
school system where
educators teach children to
learn by exploring the real
world in all its richness and
variety.
The forum was the brain-
child of Dr. Sidney Lutz of
Lutz Data Systems Associ-
ates in Farmington Hills,
which sponsors the Open
school for the Detroit Corn-
pact program. Dr. Lutz's
company is a partner with
Detroit Compact, which is
committed to helping
Detroit middle and high
school students prepare for
the job market.
As part of the Compact
program, students who sign
contracts agreeing to main-
tain good grades and atten-
dance records are guar-
anteed jobs after high school.
As a business partner, Lutz
Data Systems is trying to br-
ing tutors, mentors and edu-
cational programs to the
school to help the students
improve their grades.
At Open School, there are
no standard textbooks. Stu-
dents progress at individual
paces.
"We take the active,
hands-on approach in which
the role of the teacher is diff-
erent," said principal Laura-
jean Milligan, who started
the school 19 years ago. "We
are the facilitators here to
help you reach the top. This
is integrated learning. You
learn to read not in reading
class. You learn to read
through science, math and
social studies."
Demand is so great for the
school that less than 10 per-
cent of those on its 350-
student waiting list ever get
into the K-8 school, Ms.
Milligan says.
Ms. Milligan says Open
students haven't always
fared as well as others on the
The Holocaust and
the Persian Gulf
war were central
themes.
standardized Michigan Edu-
cational Assessment Pro-
gram and the California
Achievement Test. But, she
says, these students are
more prepared for college
and the work place.
In social studies class this
year, Diana Kennedy taught
students about the Holo-
caust. Each was instructed
to go to the library and find
any book written on the
Holocaust.
Pupils were instructed to
design a book cover and
write a report. Then, for a
class field trip, Ms. Kennedy
took the racially integrated
students to the Holocaust
Memorial Center in West
Bloomfield.
So Takyesia Washington,
a 13-year-old black student,
was especially interested in
asking Mr. Michlin about
the Holocaust. She wanted
to know if religious groups
who have blamed Jews for
killing Jesus Christ have
haunted the Jewish people,
and whether this con-
tributed to the Holocaust.
People believe such talk
has haunted the Jewish peo-
ple, Mr. Michlin replied. He
explained that many experts
believe the Holocaust was
caused by Christian anti-
Semitism.
"Modern thinking is that
Jews were not responsible
for the killing of Jesus
Christ," Mr. Michlin said.
"The Romans thought he
was a rebel and a threat."