Page 10 University Daily Kansan, April 16, 1981
Open setting inspires students
By DEBBY FOSTER Staff Reporter
While attending first grade at a public school in *Lawrence*, Nicole Grabow was not learning to read and had no interest in reading.
"She had been essentially a non-reader," her mother said. "But within six weeks at the Open School she was reading at grade level and was enjoying
The Lawrence Open School was established in the fall of 1978 for 5-8-year-olds. It now has 40 students ranging from the kindergarten to fifth-grade levels. Next year it plans to include sixth-grade students also.
The school building is a crowded, split-level gray house at MONTERY Way and 14th Street that serves as a study area, office space and classrooms.
THE SCHOOL'S goal is to allow the students a great deal of freedom to develop their own interests, and yet to learn and understand that minimizes failure and boredom.
In an effort to educate the total child, the school focuses on three aspects of development simultaneously: physical, emotional and intellectual.
"I like their philosophy," Noel Szychowiak, mother of two LOS children, said "I like their approach to education in my children a love for learning."
The Open School concentrates on teaching the students to enjoy learning. THE LAWRENCE Open School was
THE LAWRENCE Open School was
established through the efforts of parents, educators and Michael Bryant, current instruction coordinator and teacher for the school. The school employs two certified teachers and several aides.
The students in the school have some freedom to choose their own classes and set their own pace, but they all must attend a math and a language class each day. The students make a schedule with daily and weekly goals and learn about math and language teachers must agree on the schedule. At the end of the week papers are sent home to the parents with comments and evaluations from the teachers.
Every six weeks the students may choose a "mini-course," ranging from academic subjects to sports.
In other classes the students may choose to sit in chairs. Some of them lie on the tables and listen to the teacher.
There usually are only a few students with one teacher at a time, except when they have what they call "centering." Other teachers participate in physical exercises.
"The students who are asleep can wake up, and those who are rather hyper can become more relaxed," an aside said.
THE CLASS is designed to help the students' concentration and help them focus their attention on school and learning, Bryant said.
He said it also helped with discipline problems because it set the stage for the kind of behavior expected by the students.
Many people think the school should be publicly funded and should be available to all students, not just to them. Students will likely able to attend the alternative school.
"Parents shouldn't have to pay taxes and then turn around and pay a high rate."
Last Monday the Lawrence Board of Education adopted a proposal to allow alternative programs, which differ significantly from already existing programs in their methodology, to be developed by the administration at the direction of and with the approval of the Board of Education.
THE OPEN SCHOOL does plan to keep working in hopes that it can be publicly funded in the future. But, for example, a school year, its privately funded.
There is a $200 membership fee required of all participating families and tuition is $200 a month for the academic year.
The school also has a limited number of community scholarships and has a "work credit" program in which the parents work in the school.
The decision-making body for the school is a steering committee, which consists of parents and professional educators who serve two-year terms and are elected yearly. It is this decision that sets the goals for the school.
"What usually alerts the bookmakers is not so much the amount as the nature of the bet," he said. "If a guy in a bingo game bets $10,000 and bets $10,000, they take notice."
Axythelm said that unusual betting could occur because of information on the physical condition of the team.
thinks whether the bet is out of sync with a pattern. They try to monitor their customers well."
"We believe that a child must be physically and emotionally balanced to succeed academically. The most academic potential," an LOSU information pamphlet said.
"I think it would be unprecedented for an indictment or conviction to be handed down over a film," Arxhelm said. "It a 'guy did it brazer, you could find it on the game film. But he would really have to be an idiot."
"The usual way these things are done is they turn somebody in, offer him immunity and then let them rat on somebody else," Arthhelm said. "The way they catch fixes is often sleazier than the fixes themselves."
THE FBI SAID its attention was drawn by bots of unusually large sums of money. Axthelm said it wasn't always the sum of money itself.
"Gambblers will get a manager or an assistant trainer, find out that three guys have the flu, that kind of thing," he said. "The usual pattern has been the gambblers approach the kid and the parents, just to win by less than the spread."
"If somebody went into Vegas—an unknown—and bet $10,000 to $100,000, that would draw attention.
"I think it's conceivable that the FBI could be looking at the losing teams since the point spreads were beaten.
Axthelm said he felt sure the FBI would have much more evidence than just the films.
Thursday, April 16
agreed with Harshman's assessment, although Arthelm stressed he had no real knowledge of this particular FBI investigation.
Gambling
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HARSBIMAN SAID HIS organization was working to cut down on the interference of gambling in college basketball.
After learning that Kansas had been named in a story out of Boulder, Colo., Harshman said, "It is a strange time for sports." The competition for people is hard.
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"Stories are circulated. Some coaches, and some supporters, unfortunately, will do that to put up a smoke screen."
"We were not appraised of any games we would see," Harshman said. "Twenty or 30 reporters have called me within the last few weeks, and this is the first I've heard about Kansas being involved."
SOMETHING ABOUT at least two Big Eight games was significant enough to catch the FBI's eye. Although the investigation was just made public this week, Harshman said he had been asked to view the game films at the NCAA tournament in Philadelphia at the end of March.
"There are gamblers who specialize in conferences. They know every sneeze in the bends. They might be up in the bends significantly and drawn attention."
Axthelm said that while fixing games was very possible, the method with which fix was uncovered could be unfair to the suspected fixers.
They start at 10c from 6-7 and increase one thin dime every hour until they're 50c from 10-12.
"I'm skeptical until they go before the court and present some hard evidence," he said. "There are so many different cases, including business think they are big shots.
"We try to educate the players and coaches," he said. "We tell them if somebody is asking questions in front of the game could be, you should report it.
"They'll say they know about a secret injury or something. The government tends to listen to these kind of guys, but they can't tell the local mob to think they're big shots."
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"The teams usually meet someone from the FBI every fall, and they are notified that they might be getting approached and what to do about it."
Reduced park tickets available
The Lawrence Park and Recreation Department is selling tickets to Worlds of Fun, a Kansas City, Mo., amusement park, at reduced prices. Regular admission this season is $11.50, but the discount tickets are $9.75 each.
The department received the tickets from the Kansas Recreation and Park Association, which makes 25 cents from the museum. A park and recreation employee, said,
any money from ticket sales," she said.
making them available to the public.
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"The Lawrence office is not making
Last year was the first time the Park and Recreation Department served as a ticket outlet, and it sold 470 tickets.
The discount tickets will be sold all summer. They can be purchased at the park and recreation office at City Hall.
Worlds of Fun sells discount tickets to area outlets to attract customers who normally would not drive to Kansas City to buy tickets.
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