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Monday, December 4, 1972
University Daily Kansan
Kansan Staff Photos by T. DEAN CAPLE
Child's Play Contagious
By ANN GARDNER
Kansan Writer
EDITORS' NOTE. This week has been proclaimed Kansai Head Start Week by the American Cancer Society.
When I walked into the Children's Hour Headstart Center, I intended to spend my morning observing the activities which took place there. I soon realized that one does not remain for long an observer at Children's Hour.
I wanted to get a first-hand look at the Headstart Center, and what I got was some first-hand experience in working with a lively bunch of four-year-olds.
Children's Hour is in what used to be Jolliffe Scholarship Hall. It is part of the government-funded Headstart program for low-income families for public school.
Guidelines, based on annual income, are set up by the federal government to determine which children may attend these programs and participate in the program free of charge.
THE DAY STARTS for the teachers at about 8:30 a.m. Monday through Friday mornings. This is when teachers get together and plan the day's activities. It is also important that a day care center, it is necessary to plan both creative and educational projects.
What the teachers classify as "free play" is the first order of the morning. The
wrote down the message dictated by the child for the card.
After about one-half of an hour of quiet, the classroom is suddenly filled with a dozen energetic children ready for a morning of fun.
children are allowed to participate in any one of several supervised activities.
The day I was there, one table was covered with paper. A mountain of molding clay was dumped in the middle and everyone was ready to work. The children were satisfied with what they kneeded until they were satisfied with what they then moved on to another lifeless chunk.
WHEN ASKED WHAT she wanted to tell her mother, one little girl said, with a couple of fingers in her mouth. "This is a pretty picture!" At least when her mother read the
THE CHILDREN fashioned a wide spectrum of imaginative figures ranging from a clay bowl to a character from "I lost in Space," complete with space helmet and jet-powered backpack. Although it had been quite some time since I had been challenged by the soft clay, I managed to keep up with them by making the longest snake on the table.
Snack time brought free play to an abrupt
end and everyone pitched in to help clean up the room so that they could have crackers and hot cocoa. While we were eating snacks, I overheard one little boy across the table mention something about himself and the Jackson Five.
Noticing that there was some resemblance, I innocently inquired if he was a member of the Jackson Five. An indignant man who had been a member and he declared, "I am the Jackson Five."
LUNCH WAS followed by a vigorous round of牙刷 brush, and the children returned to the room to divide into small groups. Each of the teachers, including myself, took a group of three children to work with in small groups.
One of the groups played a game of bingo using colors and I was given a bingo game that dealt with the alphabet. Here I suffered my first trauma as a Headstart teacher: as a patient, he wrote down markers, one little girl suddenly put her head down on the table and began to sob.
I was completely baffled about what caused this outburst until a little boy in my group told me in a very "dumb teacher" tone of voice that she "wants the colors."
After realizing the heart of the crisis, I was able to console my tearful friend and thank him for his help.
WE THEN JOINED another of the small groups to take a walk outside. Everyone ran to get his coat and, after what seemed like 45 seconds, he stepped back and tugged on gloves, we were off.
Unfortunately, because of the cold weather, only one chicken dared to show his face outside. This situation was short-lived, however. The lure of the children proved to be too great a temptation for the chickens and soon the pen was full of hens and roosters performing for their delighted audience.
The main attraction of the morning was a chicken pen not far from the center. We trooped through mud and slush and finally reached the place where the chickens were.
Family Unit Key in Aiding Juveniles, Panelists Say
When we returned to Children's Stair, the children dove into one final project to finish the morning. With scissors in hand, they cut out pictures from wallpaper samples and made greeting cards for their mothers. One of the teachers helped with the glue and
The application of family therapy to juvenile problems to "build commitment" within the family unit was one of several panel discussions among juvenile authorities Friday who were attending the second day of the tenth annual Kansas Seminar on Delinquency Prevention and Control at the University of Kansas
The discussion, entitled "Dealing with Juvenile Offender Families", included several examples of family therapy, a new approach to the rehabilitation of juvenile offenders.
Since most of the girls at the school are from low-income families, many parents could not afford the trip to Beloit, she said. The visitation program, which pays the participants for transportation, meals, one night's lodging and "token payment" for lost work time, has made parental visits possible now, she said.
The Girl's Industrial School in Beloit
began a parent visitation program in September which enabled the parents with limited salaries to visit the school, accredit their teacher Jessinger, a social worker at the school.
card, her workmanship was guaranteed a compliment.
All of the children received a hot lunch before they bundled up once again and make it to school.
Smiling broadly and grasping their mothers' cords tightly, they ran out to cars driven by volunteers which would take them home.
If that sounds like a pretty big morning, it was. The children didn't look tired at all, but then four-year-olds never do. Each of them would be scared, afraid, as if they had accomplished something.
According to Herb Williams, one of the Accreditors at Children's Hour, these children don't have a very good image of themselves when they first come to the center. This is because when they come, but when they leave they take a lot of confidence and love with them.
Report on Cramped County Jails To Be Released by KU Professor
A report describing current cramped conditions of the Douglas County jail system will be submitted to a Douglas County Committee on Correctional Services facilities at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday night in Lawrence Public Library auditorium.
By CHUCK POTTER
Kansan Staff Writer
The report is being made in conjunction with a statewide citizen jail survey initiated recently by the Kansas Association for Mental Health.
Forrest Swall, chairman of the committee and instructor in the School of Social Welfare, said Saturday the report would be presented by Bill Arnold, associate professor of sociology and committee member.
Arnold is also chairman of the Douglas county chapter of the Kansas Council of Counsel.
Swall said the purpose of the meeting would be to present a progress report on the survey of county correctional services and facilities begun by the committee in Max.
THE REPORT WILL be presented from a factual standpoint, Swall said, and will summarize data gathered by the committee to investigate and confined in Douglas County.
The committee was appointed by the Board of County Commissioners following an unsuccessful bond election for the construction of a new city-county governmental center last winter, Swall said. The center would have included a jail for 89 prisoners, serving both the city and the county. Currently two iails are being used.
"Present jail facilities are considered extremely inadequate for the number of prisoners confined, limited by physical inadequacies for needed human services, and totally without space for juvenile care," Swall said.
The 25-member committee has been gathering information by studying the records of local law enforcement agencies since May, Swall said.
"WE HAVE STUDIED sheriff's records, and also police, juvenile court, county court, and district court records," Swall and we have interviewed a lot of people.
The response has been one of total cooperation. The feeling we have generally agree on is that the business community
"The Board has received a great number of complaints about Kief's not giving a dislike to him."
The contract with Kief's states that class card holders can receive a 20 per cent discount on purchases from the store, according to Hackney.
"I felt that the CPA would be the people to clear up this misunderstanding. The board is certainly not pleased with the way Kief's has handled the situation."
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"For instance, if we recommend the release and recognition plan, in which a prisoner is released on his own recognizance (the understanding that he will return), then bail bondsmen will oppose it."
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SWALL SAID THE COMMITTEEH had worked to coordinate its programs with related state departments, including the State Department of Welfare, the State Department of Health and the Office of the Penal Director.
Two major recommendations will be involved services and facilities, SWA.
Committee members have attended several related conferences, Swall said, including a Seminar on juvenile Services and Facilitation to take place last week at the Kansas Union.
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"We have set March 1 as the target date for making our recommendations to the county commission and once we begin to start running in some differences, of course."
community can come up with will be welcome.
Kie's has not been giving a discount to class card holders as they agreed to do in a contract with the Board of Class Officers, Hackney said.
A complaint was filed Friday with the Consumer Protection Agency by John Hackney, Wichita senior and class instructor Klef's Record and Stereo, 711 W. 23, W.
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"As chairman I'm operating on the assumption that we have to be concerned with more than just a place to lock people up," he said.
In addition, the committee has met once a month to study present conditions in the wall emphasized that all committee meetings were open to interested citizens.
"One of our intentions is to maintain some visibility of the committee's work. Swall would have to come at time to submit a plan for a vote, the ideas already have had a substantial exposure."
SWALL SAID THAT in making the survey the committee had used a study guide premise for Clearing House on Correctional Prison Cleaning and Architecture in Urbana, IA.
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The statewide project to study local jails in Kansas originated at the Johnson County office of the Kansas Association for Mental Health. W. 80th, Overland Park. Joan Puttchoff, a community worker and school administrator, is the director of the program.
The survey is funded by a $20,428 grant
from Governor "Barnaby" Committee on
criminal Administration.
"Correctional arees are changing" Putthoff said. "It used to be that people behind bars wouldenders out of sight and behind bars. Now they are convicted, we should be serving prisoners.
Putoffhue last week that the project would attempt to accomplish three objectives: to educate citizens about local jails, to get citizens to work for better systems and to change the attitude of the community toward the system.
"THE ONLY WAY to get anything done in the penal reform is by making citizen judges."
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