Page 14 University Daily Kansan, May 1, 1981
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PIANO CLASSSES with Leon Fleesher will be at 9:30 a.m. and at 10:30 p.m. in the Swarthworth Recital Hall in Murphy Hall.
A MASTER'S PIANO RECITAL by Nancy Bacty will be performed at 8 p.m. in the Swarthout Recital Hall in Murphy.
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SENIOR SYMPOSIUM will sponsor a talk on "Toxic Waste" at 9 a.m. in the Apollo Room in Nicholas Hall.
Train conductor run over by freight car
THE SOCIETY FOR CREATIVE ANACHERISM will sponsor a demonstration of Medieval and Renaissance at 5 p.m. in front of Fraser Hall.
Jack R. Valcour, 60, lived a life that some people dream about—moving across the country on two iron rails and placing places that some people never see.
Valcour, 1400 New Jersey St., was a train conductor for Santa Fe Railroad for 45 years:
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He became a victim of those dangers on Wednesday afternoon when he was run over by a moving freight car.
Valcour was in the Santa Fe Railroad yard, Eighth and Pennsylvania streets,
working on an 11-car train, Briscoe said.
He unhooked two of the cars and sent them down a sidetrack. As they were rolling free, he got back on his train as they approached the track and passed the moving boxes.
Valcour got off the train to direct another switching operation but apparently forgot about the loose cars that were behind him, police said.
Valcour's arm was severed in the accident. He was pronounced dead at the hospital.
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By CORAL BEACH Staff Reporter
"Why can't Johnny read?" mothers ask.
"Johnny can't read because he doesn't know how to like himself, or work in a group with his peers," teachers reply. "And that's precisely why peer-involvement programs like TRIBES exist."
A debate between basic education advocates and progressive educators is at the root of a local controversy. The debate concerns TRIBES, an affective advocacy organization being used in the Lawrence Unified School District No. 497 this year.
Effective education programs are those designed to improve students' attitudes toward themselves and school. Improved group and interpersonal communication skills are also goals of affective education.
TRIBES, or Teaming for Responsibility, Identity and Belongingness Education System, is designed for kindergarten through the eighth grade. According to a TRIBES manual, teachers using the program divide their students into groups, or tribes, of six or seven children.
THE ACTIVITIES range from "getting-to-know-you" exercises to group decision-making activities. The groups can meet daily, or less frequently if the teacher thinks that would be more effective.
Barbara Willis, 1055, Delaware, whose fifth grade son John attends New York Elementary School, said that she and other parents began to ask questions about the program, but did not receive satisfactory answers.
Controversy over the use of the program in Lawrence schools began last fall, shortly after its introduction. Several Lawrence parents became concerned when their children described the program's activities.
"When I became aware of what was going on, I called the members of the school board to ask them about it," they said. "They didn't know about it either."
CHARLES H. OLDFATHER JR., chairman of the school board, said that the board had not been officially notified of the program's implementation and checked into the situation, he thought the complaints were "over emphasized."
"I took it upon myself to read the whole manual, and only found a couple of aspects that were questionable." Oldfather said. "I was told by the educators that those activities were not being used here, and I have enough confidence in our teachers to believe them."
Gibbs said that not all of the manual's activities were intended to be used by the students in their classes. Individual adaptation of the manual is expected when she wrote the manual.
After its start in 1976, schools in several states, including Colorado, Illinois, California, Minnesota and Ohio adopted the TRIBES programs as part of the curriculum. Gibbs said the only controversy of the program had been in Lawrence.
TRIBES has been very well received," she said. "There were never any problems until the criticisms in Lawrence. People have been open-minded to look at the program before they judged it."
"I feel much more comfortable with a school that teaches math, spelling, the basics," Wilkins said, "rather than them to figure out what's in my kid's head.
FOREMOST IN THE TRIBES controversy is the values clarification aspect of the program and the activities associated with it.
"Values clarification means if you can justify it to yourself, it's OK; that's basically no values. Values come from your life and that kind of kids need a family away from home."
Laurie Becker, principal of New York School, said that she didn't think the parents really understood what the TRIBES program was about.
*Values clarification allows the students to figure out what their beliefs come from the home, and that's where they come from. We are not attempting to
teach new or different values. TRIBES tries to teach the children to respect the beliefs of others, and to not be afraid to voice their own beliefs."
Gibbs agreed with Becker's interpretation of the program's goals in the area of values clarification.
IN RESPONSE to the concern about the use of the program at New York School, Becker said that she offered a three-evening program for parents to explain the TRIBES manual and its uses.
"We thought if they were concerned, they would want to learn all they could about the program," Becker said. "The first night, eight parents came. On the second night, three came and then one on the last night."
Wilms said that she did go to the first night of the program, but she didn't go back after that.
"They told us how great the program was, but didn't let us discuss it," Wilms said. "Then they had us do some of the TRIBES more none of the VALIDation clarifications one."
"Of course, no one would object to the 'getting-to-know' types of activities they had us do, but how many times can each cycle and circle and tie each other their names?"
Willis said that she was not concerned about many of the activities in the TRIBES manual, but objected to a few questions. She said that she did not trust the team and they had no instruction and that if the activities were in the manual, they would eventually be used.
She cited the "Lifeboot" exercise as an example. In the manual, "Lifeboot" is to be assigned to fourth-through eighth-graders. It outlines a situation where in a ship is sinking and there is no one on board. People on board. Each tribe must decide which of the passengers is to be allowed to use the lifeboot.
NONE OF THE THREE Lawrence schools using the TRIBES program are using the "Lifeboot" exercise. Besides the New York School, Wooddawn and Broken Arrow elementary schools use the "Sockeye" school those schools' principals said that they had agreed with teachers that several activities would not be used.
"I have instructed my teachers to determine the needs of their classes, and to use the program according to
those needs, *R*. John L. Rowther, principal at Broken Arrow said, "We don't use the TRIBES manual like a Bible, we use it more like an encyclopedia."
Gibbs said that this concern about the use of valuation activities in the 'TRUBES manual had resulted in a unfinished revision of the
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"I wouldn't object to some teachers' using some of the TRIBES activities for some of their children." Rytting said. "But I doubt that most of the elementary school children in Lawrence have a real need to be exposed to this type of structured, affective education program."
Becker defended the TRIBES program and the time allotted to it. She said that before a child could learn reading and math, he had to have a self-conception and be able to listen actively.
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J. Howard Rytting, KU professor of pharmacy, said that none of his nine children were enrolled at schools using the TRIBES program, but that he was still concerned that the program might be implemented and consequently waste some of his children's education time.
"The new manual will be aimed at a more diverse group of people, and will have suggested activities for different socio-economic classes," she said.
VALUES CLARIFICATION is not the only controversial aspect of the TRIBES program. Lawrence parents have also expressed concern about the ideas behind the program. Some of them say the TRIBES activities are taking too much time away from the regular school curriculum.
Gary Haworth, district director of elementary education, said that a decision about continued use of any part of the TRIBES program, in any sense, would be decided by the school board by June 1. He said that parental concern would be considered when educators would be considered where the program was evaluated. The results from a prand-post test of the effects of the program would also be considered.
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Besides an extensive evaluation, the TBRES controversy also resulted in a new school board policy concerning the future implementation of similar programs.
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