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gram was developed in a joint effort by the Los Angeles police department and public schools.
The students have the opportunity to anonymously submit questions to Brown in a DARE box. Yesterday in Brown's session at East Heights, the questions ranged from "What harm does cocaine do to your brain cells?" to "Are you married and do you have any kids?"
"It gives them a chance to ask a question that they don't want to raise their hand and ask in class," Brown said.
Shaere Harker, sixth grade teacher at East Heights, said she hoped that saying no to drugs in class would help prevent students from drugs outside the classroom setting.
"It has to have some benefit when they see their own friends doing it," Harker said. "I think that will help them when they're with their friends."
Part of the instructors' obligation to the program is spending at least half a day in each school every week eating lunch and going to recess with the students so they can build a good rapport. Anderson said.
it's already made some impact here," he said. "A number of times officers have come to me and said, 'A young man said he knew officer so-and-so because he came to his school in the DARE program.' There's a bond there that wouldn't be there otherwise."
Brown said spending extra time with the students helped him gain their trust and made it easier for
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Billy Freeman says no to drugs during a role-playing exercise with his classmate Katie Withears.
them to share their feelings with him.
makes the life of the hero.
have in their feelings with him.
"That is really one of the keys to the success of the program — that you don't just jump in the classroom,
spend 15 minutes with them on the playground playground ball, and you get back to class and they're your best buddy."
By Wes Denton
Kansan staff writer
Kathi Firns-Hubert's students range from children whose parents are KU professors or graduate students to children from refugee fami-
Firms-Hubert is in her fourth year of teaching English as a second language at Hillcrest Elementary School, 1045 Hilltop Drive.
The children, some who speak little or no English, are from Poland, China, Taiwan, Iceland, Japan, South Korea and other countries.
none of the language.
This year, Hillcrest has 81 foreign students. Students are divided into two groups — those who know some English, and those who know little or
Students in the latter group go through an intense introductory program. During the first week of class, they are led throughout the school curriculum by both projects and told how to pronounce them in English, Firms-Hurst said.
Students then spend four weeks in a program that teaches them the English words for different colors, body shapes of objects and school supplies.
Students who know some English attend regular classes and are tutored in English during their last reading courses. Firms-Huertt said.
teach the children if the program's three teachers knew students' languages, but with students from 21 and up, they will be expensive to hire interpreters.
She said that it would be easier to
"We do a lot of acting out when we teach." Firns-Hubert said.
She said teachers did not use sign language because signs might have different meanings in other countries.
well in math, P.E., art and music classes, but they have trouble in classes that require reading for understanding. Firns-Hurst said.
Foreign children do not spend any more time in school than their U.S. classmates, Firms-Hubert said. The children attend regular classes such as math, physical education, art, music and history studies, language-reading and science.
"In those courses, we don't usually grade the children's work the first semester or year," she said. "We don't feel it's appropriate to assign a grade because a student doesn't understand the language."
The children generally perform
Jon Kay Murphy, an ESL teacher, said the children differed from their U.S. classmates.
"They act more like the American children of the '40s and '50s before television," Murphy said. "These children enjoy reading books and art work."
Downtown sale invites children to participate
By Wes Denton
Kansan staff writer
Students from Lawrence elementary and high schools will be selling items found in their attics, basements and closets Saturday on the downtown sidewalks of Massachusetts Street.
John Wakarus, coordinator for the Kids and Teens Giantic ABC sale, sell all students in fifth through eighth grade whose evidence could participate in the sale.
"We expect 6,000 children to participate," he said.
Wakarausa said that the ABC sale would be a learning experience for the children and that he hoped it would be an annual event.
Robert Eales, director of vocational and continuing education of Lawrence public schools, said the new curriculum is designed for merchants and students together.
"Each merchant involved will adopt a student or students," Eales said.
The merchant will help the stu.
dents price their items and display them on tables on the sidewalk, Eales said. There is no cost to the children in these settings, but the children make, they can keep.
Timmons also volunteered the use of his store in a commercial filmed earlier this week to promote the sale
Gary Strong, objector of Stirr's Antiques, 1025 Massachusetts St., said the ABC sale was an excellent idea.
Andy Timmons, owner of Uncle Andy's Hamburg, 1132 Massachusetts St., said he was glad to see the space in front of his store.
Strong said he would open his store early to help the students with problems they might encounter.
Andy Tobben, West Junior rpg.
School freshman, said that his parents were going to have a garage sale this weekend but that he might bring some of the items to Massachusetts Street to sell.
High schoolers in Kansas beat ACT, SAT averages
TOPEKA — Kansas high school students scored higher again this spring on college entrance examinations than students nationwide, but showed no improvement from the previous year, a report released yesterday to the State Board of Education showed.
The Associated Press
The test scores prompted Education Commission Lee Droegmuller to warn board members that the still is not good enough for Kansas."
Kansas students scores were higher than the national average on the American College Testing Assessment and the Scholastic Aptitude Test for both verbal skills and mathematics.
However, the average test score for Kansas high school seniors taking the ACT was lower than the average for the surrounding states.
In Kansas, the average ACT score was 20.9, compared to the national average of 20.6. The average for the
The report showed that 18,200 Kansas juniors and seniors took the ACT this spring.
ACT mountain and plains region was 21. The states in the region are Colorado, Idaho, Kansas, Montana, South Dakota, Utah and Wyoming.
Of that total, 6,700 students were enrolled in a college preparatory program, while 11,900 who took the test were not. Another 400 students did not indicate on their test forms that of program they were enrolled in
Kansas seniors scored an average of 548 on the Scholastic Aptitude Test's verbal exam, compared to the national average of 424.
However, only 9 percent of the Kansas college-bound seniors took the test, compared to 43 percent of the college-bounds students nationally. The report said that significantly higher scores should be expected because fewer students in Kansas took the exam.
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