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basic instruction that they really"
have to have ... so we as a state
CaD prepare our youna people to
be competitors in the orld '
market" '
Ha ks said &Dottier needed
. improvement is in foreign lan
guages. Students not only need
to mo the languages of foreign _
countries, but also the cultures,
e said. "
"Culture is very UDportant," .
Hawks . d. "As you're dealing
with people in the orld
markets you have to understand
what the signals are that people
send."
McCauley s id he agree �
with H wks, but to cover the
foreign � well as he
would like more money, and
teachers would be needed.
McCauley said he would like
to see French and Spanish
started as early as the 7th or 8th -
grade.
Carlson aid Spanish is espe
cially important in his area be
cause of the large Hispanic
population in Almont.
Both Carlson and McCauley
said they ere interested in a
business-school partnership
program th t is supported by
Hawks.
"You have the business Com
munity orking with the school ..
people, II Hawks said.
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LANSING - Stu nts need
to be prepared to be competitM
in the orld, and there are
several ways this can be ac-
complished, " . ,
chief said. I
Gary D. Ha said early in-
tevention, forei 1 au CI
nd busine -school partner
ships are omt of the thiDp that
should be more fully developed
into the education em.
Ha interim ate super-
e intendent of public instruction,
said a recent visit to a prise in
the northern part of the La r
Peninsula convinced him that
early intevention in education .
necessity.
"In talking to some of the in
m tes getting into a little more
detail, you can't help but think if
omeone had taken an intere t
" them early on in their life, they
may have been able to coatrol
their life a little bit better," he
"d.
For examp e, H said be
old like to see" funds goiag
into preschool programs that
have a proven tr ck record.
Lapeer Superintendent J c
cCauley � d he a1so supports
preschool program , but he
d favor � ne
programs now.
"That' not our priority,
Cauley id. 'We have rio
problems with the programs
have so we're not supportive of
funding ne progr "
McC uley id there is no '-
se in sendiDg children to pre-
chool progams if they will ter
be going into classroom that
h too many studen to do
proper job in g neral education.
. cCaul y said the ver
cl ize in Lapeer's elemen
ta� schoo . lB, ·th the big-
. g t c1 aving 34 children.
The tate' ver, ealeu-
1 ted in 1 , 21.1 en
per teacher in elementary
chool .
� nt upermtendentJohn
C bon . d he recognized the
need for pre 001 programs in
his re also, but he ould
rather any mo ey coming in
go into the t ole educa '0 {I -
mula.
QDl, which recently a
bid for miDaF increase, can't
afford. to art ne prOD1UD1,
.• CarIsoD . d.
ere' been a ubst tiaI
incre e in property value,"
Carlson . d, People j do 't
. want to pay dditio taxes."
McCauley said the (ar�
property in Lapeer f eed a .
decrea e invalue, bile non-
f rm property value h in
ere d . it difficult to
raise more money for edu .
in his area also.
cCauley . d $3,000 is cur-
re tly pent on each udeet,
and that i belo the tate
CarlsOn said funds are not
. distributed equitably in the
state. .
Haw said he agrees that a
y to provide equal education
to all students in the e aeeds
to be found.
"There are few peo e if any
that YQu talk to that feel that the
preaent system of fUWl' our
chools i a good system,"
H said.
"In the old days. . . a of
people felt that one of the good
thinp about the ystem the
f ct that you have ucll heavy
reliance on your millages, re
lated to your property taxes,
which tradition Uy have been
tab e: H w said.
"That's not-true anymore
cause in a lot of rural com
munitie the valu of property
has go down, It he said. "The
stability of the property tax real
ly isn't what it use to be."
"Schools are being called
upon all the tim to do more and
more things. . . in many cases
with less resources," Hawks
said.
Ha . d -school districts
where thpy do have the money
are able to pr . de some of the
upport services that other
te can't ha'Ye beea of lac
ofmooey.
e're WlWIa bo main-
.. basic progr " Ha
id, "We're talking about trying
to find a , ay to provide
yo ter in some areas with
Conf r nc to
r unl form r civil
right ctlvl
HARTFORD, CO N -
Twenty years after the death of
Martin Luther King, Trinity
College will gather former civil
rigb activists to examine the
historical role of the Student
on- Violent Coordinating
Committee (S.N.C.C.).
'We Shall at Be MoVed':
The Life and Time of the
S.N.C.C., 1960-1966" will bring
together more thaD 25 former
ctivists - both S.N.C.C. worke
and local Ie ders - and a Dumber
of historians and journalists to
reflect on, and remini cence
bout the S.N.C.C.
The conference will be held
Thur day-Saturday, April 14-16,
in the W hington Room of
Tri· 5 Ma her Hall.
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