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The Augusta News-Review - February 2, 1978
Dr. Gipson is Founders" Day speaker
Paine College will observe its
annual Founder’s Day on Feb.
10 at 11 a.m. in
Gilbert-Lambuth Chapel.
Dr. Mack Gipson, Senior
Research Specialist with Exxon
Augusta Gallery
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Production Company of
Houston, Texas, will speak.
Following the 11 a.m.
service, there will be a
pilgrimage to the gravesites of
Dr. George W. Walker, a former
Paine College president, and
Dr. John Wesley Gilbert,
Paine’s Ist student and also its
Ist graduate. Transportation
will be provided for persons
wishing to attend the gravesite
services.
The public is invited to
attend.
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Fhe word utopia comes from the Greek "u" meaning
'not'' and "topia" meaning "place." It means something
:hat doesn't exist.
Legal storm clouds school’s future
magazine. “For a child to learn
is as inevitable as breathing.
What is extraordinary is the
millions of kids who learn
nothing sitting in public school
classrooms.”
What is also extraordinary is
the number of services and the
amount of attention available
to students at the school. The
staff consists of 16 full-time
teachers: 14 Blacks and two
whites. Class sizes vary from
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seven to 12 students, as
compared to the public school
average of 28.
The school provides
before-and-after-school child
care, three hot meals a day,
complete medical and dental
treatment and overnight care at
a Panther-run dormitory when
parents request it.
All of this is free to parents
who cannot afford the
$25-a-month tuition. And most
parents are single mothers who
cannot. It costs the school
about 530.000 a month to
provide the services and pay
salaries, with the money
coming from a variety of
grants, public food programs
and private contributions.
All of this adds up to an
exceptionally heavy workload
for the teachers, three-quarters
of whom are credentialed
instructors with public school
experience. At DCS they earn a
flat SBOO a month, or an
average of S3OO a month less
than their public school
counterparts. Most feel that
the chance to work with small
classes and the freedom from
bureaucracy is ample
compensation for the
difference in pay.
“The children in that school
are the same as you find in the
public schools, yet their
intellectual output is
prodigious,” said Oakland City
Councilwoman Mary Moore.
“Unfortunately, most
educators want to ignore the
school because it is run by the
Panthers and also because it is
a tremendous indictment of
the school system.”
Yet public school teachers
familiar with the Community
School do not feel personally
indicted by its successes. On
the contrary, they feel the
school makes the very case
teachers have been trying to
make all along.
“Smaller classes, and an
administration that draws in
the parents and the
community, make all the
difference in the world,” said
Ron De George, a teacher at
Kaiser school in Oakland.
Councilwoman Moore
believes the public schools
could benefit from studying
the community school and
adopting some of its
developmental programs. “It
would cost a fortune, but it
could be done and it would
save money later on, for
welfare and prisons," she said.
ALLEGATIONS
But the school, or more
properly the Educational
Opportunities Corporation that
runs it, is being studied from a
different angle in recent weeks.
Since the shooting incidents,
newspaper articles have alleged
that grant money awarded to
the corporation for educational
projects was used to pay rent
for Panther Party members.
Some party members have also
been accused of extorting
“contributions” from local
businesses for their community
projects. The city is now
auditing the 'corporation’s
finances, a move that brought
about the resignation of Mayor
Wilson from the board.
Suspects in the shootings have
been identified as employees of
the corporation who worked
on the school premises. Ericka
Huggins is under investigation
for welfare fraud.
All these problems, which
have descended on the
Panthers since Huey Newton’s
return from exile in Cuba last
July, imply that necessary
political and financial support
for the school could fade.
“People in high places forget
to return phone calls or invite
you to meetings,” said
Councilwoman Moore in
characterizing the reaction in
city government. “You have to
wonder what’s happening,”
says Alameda County
Supervisor John George, a
Panther political ally. “But no
one has tried to explain it to
me. That’s the situation with
all of us from Jerry Brown on
down.”
And a local political
observer commented, “They
do a fantastic job. But they
also use those children to gain
respectability. The school is
their big money-getter so it’s a
pretty thorny ethical
question.”
Though parents tend to
dismiss or ignore these
problems, some who have
expressed concern that a classic
confrontation between
Panthers and the police might
endanger their children were
reassured by Higgins at a recent
meeting that the school was
safe.
For the present, the school
appears to be in no danger.
“We haven’t suffered at all
in terms of losing children or
contributors,” said Huggins.
“Black people don’t believe
everything they read in the
papers. All this harassment
stems from the fact they want
to destroy Huey Newton and
the Black Panther Party. But
the school stands on its own
two feet and nothing can
destroy it because it is so
firmly rooted in the
community.”