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ball gam here. " This' m
ho ," E id, "I don�
ant fol talki ng loud,
ing uncouth, in my house."
Giggl uddenly topped in
the uditorium nd tuden
hifted in their chai and t
upright Ii tening to Eve on tell
th m what h expected them to
do, right now. Everson id, "I
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aDSWEn' riod �Vl�II:'IU
go am mof ud n
Hatch urged t tud n
not to fight, to . t up th ir
complain nd giv th m to
their coo 10 nd ch
Sh mind the tuden t t
th role of all the adul to
. tth m.
Hatcher has
two ye and aid," re
triving to become an e em­
plary community chool. Th
are beautiful children and e
have to do ome things to make
them better. We are not tis­
fled with th behavio and at­
titud of thi years tudents
being late to cl and playing
in the halls - we're going to do
something about that."
Anita Dennis, vice chair of
the Parent Teachers Organiza­
tion at Post Middle School held
a cherry tart (baked by princi­
pal Robert Everson) and told
me why she thought her daugh­
ter Anita, a seventh grader, is
getting a good education: "Ba­
sically, th t chers here are
great, the parents are involved,
they get involved to help are
kids. They put up metal detec­
tors, to keep weapons out of the
school. I'll volunteer my time,
because I want the kids to have
the best education they can get."
Robert Giles, head of Con­
cerned Parents and Citizens of
Michigan, started an in-school
Suspension Program at Post
Middle School. Giles said "the
program will not be dependent
on funds from the district but
ran, no
troit poll fo
n cti int
1963 and id ·it
organi tion to
open ho ing, ur n rec:1,"'9
ment and the displa ent of
African Americans beca of
th exp ys.
Johnson aid there are
12,000 id n in the
"Since 1984, a volunt
home repair program has
paired 83 ho in the a ,
though,in 1992 17 hom had
been pro for repair, but
little work has been don" . d
J ohnson, "There' a holding
pattern with repairs, very Iittl
construction has b en done
from since 1991," said Johnson.
"The home repair program .
funded by the Neighborhood
portunity Fund (NOF) and
the Housing and Urban Devel­
opment program (BUD). The
wor is done by volunteer, but
the program lost volunteers af­
ter 1987", Johnson said.
Johnson said, "the FCC .
trying to get back to the baaics.
The FCC is trying to get ingle
parents involved with their
children's education." Johnson
says that since television domi­
nates society, he is determined
to try a new approach and wants
parents to take action, like pa­
trolling the neighborhood to­
gether on upcoming Devils
Night.
D OIT - Ro rt E rson,
principal of Post Middle School,
called n eighth grade mbly
to ttention in th auditorium
Friday afternoon, Octob r 15
nd told hi tuden , "nothing
that i wrong i made right be-
G
chil-
Robert Everson (I) confer with Rob rtGIl ofConc rn d Parents
and Citizens of Mchlgan at Post Middle School.
Rob rt Ever on, prlnclpalof Post Mlddl
Head Barbara Hatcher.
the Detroit school system.
Gil wants to start dealing
with students at an earlier age
tochan attitude and behaviors
before they are ingrained. He
wants parents to make it their
job to help the school and assist
them in doing that.
Mackie C. Johnson is the edi­
tor of the Fitzgerald Community
Council (FCC) newsletter and a
dren are suspended for more
than one day, we will contact
their parents or guardian and
have them sign a referral for
their child to be admitted to the
program. " Gil will request
academic work from the teach­
ers and the student will attend
class and eat lunch at the center.
The suspended student is re­
quired to spend one hour a day
do not want Post to ever have the
reputation that students act
wild and crazy ... we're going to,
teach the ones that are here, we
are not going to make the on
suffer that get here on time."
cause everybody d it,"
Everson referred to his stu­
dents "hollering and screaming
in the lunch room, food on the
floor, kids playing tag in the
hallway and going to class late ."
Everson addressed his stu­
dents' as ladies and gentlemen
and told them, "you'r too old,
too sophisticated to play tag.
Starting Monday, there is a new
MRS. BARBARA Hatcher,
the unit head took over the as­
sembly and told the students "to
come in, and get your education
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GOOD F'BI4:I4: FOOD!
anti-school violen e program
and
BY KILEY ARMSTRONG
NEW YORK (AP) - Stopping
crime by Blacks against Blacks
is the new frontier of the civil
righ struggle, and young peo­
ple are the key, the Rev. Jesse
Jackson ay ,
Jackson said Monday -that
he'll enlist parents in a nation­
wide program to quell school vio­
lence beginning in New York
and eventually including De­
troit. He said the goal was "stop­
ping crime in general,
Black-on-Black crime in par­
ticular. "
, The civil righ leader said
that "362 Blacks under the age
of 21 have been killed by other
Blacks in ew York City this
year; mor tha-i 300 in New Or­
leans."
He blamed dru ,guns nd
"perverse values."
The program is being devel­
oped through Black churches as
a national, interfaith model. It
has b en endorsed by city
school Chancellor Ramon
Cortines, who appeared at a
teachers and parents know each
other," Jackson said.
As for students surrounded
by guns and drugs, "those who
do it must stop. And those who
know about it must tell it," he
said. "Those most likely to be
killed must rise up and fight
back."
Clergy members will discu
school violence and other topics
at a Nov. 8 meeting in Detroit.
Jackson aid the program may
expand next to Washington,
D.C,
Harlem news conference with
Jackson.
HEAT:rH CARE
JACKSON SAID churches
will hand out pledge cards to
parents. They'll be asked to ex- .
change home phone numbers,
take their children to school,
meet teachers, pick up their
kids' report cards and turn off
their televisions at least three
hours a night.
"We know teachers can teach
children differently when they
know the parents, and children
tend to behave differently when
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PASO ROBLES, CaUf. (AP)-A
developer redesigned plans for a
shopping center anchored by a
Wal-Mart tore, after prot ts
by Native American actiyi ts
who feared it would disturb an­
cient Chumash Indian burial
sites. .
The National Congr of
American Indians last umm r
threatened to call a nationwide
boycott of Wal-Mart Stor s Inc.
if developer James Halferty kep
on with his original plans for the
40-acre nter in thi Centr I
California town.
In a statement Mond y,
Halferty, Wal-Mart Stor 'Inc.
and Chumash elder Pilulaw
Khus aid the new de ign will
preserye a 1.5 acre knoll wher
parts of a human skull and fin­
ger were found. It al 0 will put a
cap of new oil over a nd
area of th prop rty b for <
building b gins,
Khus and oth r India had
sued to top the proj I ch 1-
lenging wheth r nougn h d
n don und r t nviron­
m ntallaw 0 all viat po ntial
dama to a cultural r ource.
Th P 0 Robl City Council
has approv d th tIm nt
agr m n , cl aring h w y for
'Con truc ion to b gin a h
property, which includ h
last known undo turbed Indi n
it in th city.
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