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To Provide Leadership
Educator Challenges
County School Board
Dr. Pearline Yeatts of
the University of
Georgia's Department of
Education Tuesday
challenged the Houston
County Board of
Education to pioneer her
idea of removing
disruptive "hombres"
from classrooms across
the nation so that
children who wanted to
learn could do so.
Dr. Yeatts went one
step further and said the
board would be "remiss"
if they did not help
exercise leadership in
creating classrooms for
teachers and students.
"\Me have neglected
our children for the past
20 years," Dr. Yeatts
declared. "We have
allowed them to do
permissive things. We
parents have been
passing the buck to the
teachers, and we have not
been assuming respon
sibility for the conduct of
our children."
Dr. Yeatts' remarks
came during an ex
planation of projects she
initiated in two Houston
County Schools last year
to bring better com
munications between
parents, teachers and
children.
Dr. Yeatts' first
project, entitled
"Classroom Discipline --
Self Management", was
initiated at Tabor Junior
High School on Aug. 8,
1977. The second Houston
County project Is known
as "Child Growth
Through Parent-Teacher
Interaction", and the
project was started at
Lindsey Elementary
School on Sept. 1.
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Os the classroom
discipline project at
Tabor, Dr. Yeatts said,
"Consistent enforcement
of logical and meaningful
school rules by both the
faculty and the school
administration is an
absolute must. Without
this, our young people
will simply be grasping
for directing and stability
in all matters pertaining
to school discipline."
She said it was her
strong hope that the
parents of children in
volved in the project
would become involved
and supportive of all
efforts the project en
tails.
"Simply put, this
means that the help of the
parents in all efforts In
the matter of attaining,
and maintaining, Im
proved discipline In
school is necessary," Dr.
Yeatts said. "To
achieve such, respon
sibilities between the
school and the home must
be shared in all facets of
the problem, from the
making of logical school
rules to the acceptance of
the consequences of those
students who violate such
rules from time to time."
According to Dr.
Yeatts, disruptive
students at Tabor were
sent to a mediation room,
which eliminated the
disruptive element from
the classroom, kept the
student on campus, and
freed the administrative
staff to work more with
parents and other school
problems.
Dr. Yeatts said It was
imperative that the staff
of the mediation room be
well trained in working
with individual students,
groups of students and
parents. She said the
mediation room staff
must be able to com
municate with students
and other faculty as to
student problems and
progress.
Dr. Yeatts reported
that during the months of
September through
December the staff at
Tabor Junior High
continued to meet one
afternoon each week in
evaluating progress and
problems and further
developing their in
dividual skills in coping
with specific problems.
"Although the staff
experiences frustrations
and still have problems
they reported fewer
problems and viewed the
students in more positive
ways," Dr. Yeatts said.
School Supt. David
Perdue highly endorsed
the Tabor project and
reported that Tabor's
dropout rate, which was
among the highest in the
school system last year,
was now among the
lowest.
In the child growth
through parent-teacher
interaction project. Dr.
Yeatts said the teachers
and principal of Lindsey
Elementary School in
vited the parents of their
first grade children to
meet twice each month
for four months.
She said the meetings
were arranged by the
principal and teachers
selecting parents from
the first grade who would
serve as contact parents.
The contact parents
represented all the neigh
borhoods and con
tracultures of the first
grade, according to Dr.
Yeatts.
She said the first two
meetings involved
management skills for
helping children develop
appropriate behaviors,
and specifically involved
such activities as
parental power, getting
the child to bed, home
study, dealing with fights
and arguments, finishing
an assigned task and
resolving parent - child
conflicts.
As an evaluation of the
program at Lindsey,
parents were asked to
evaluate the sessions and
their effectiveness. Os the
221 forms collected and
returned, Dr. Yeatts said
97 percent of the parents
would like more
meetings, and would like
them conducted by their
child's teacher in the
school the child attends.
As a final evaluation of
the effectiveness of the
two projects, Dr. Yeatts
recalled having the op
portunity to teach a group
of seventh graders at
Tabor Junior High.
Before the class
started, she overheard
one child say to another,
"We'd better behave or
our parents will skin us
alive when they find out
that we misbehaved with
Dr. Yeatts here."
Dr. Yeatts said she
found out later that the
children's parents had
been parents at Lindsey
and reinforced the fact
that "our children don't
misbehave with our
helpers or friends."
Crossroads
Women
Hold Meeting
For March
The United Methodist
Women of the Crossroads
Church met at the
Eastgate Bank of Perry
on March 8 for their
regular meeting and to
honor one of their
members with a baby
shower.
In her opening
remarks, president Alice
Phelps, welcomed the
thirteen members and six
guests. The devotional
"Christ Is Alive" was
given by Linda Jones and
was followed by prayer.
Mrs. Phelps conducted
a short business session.
Thanks were extended to
those members who
helped entertain the
friends at the New Perry
Nursing Home at the
Valentine Party.
Volunteers from the
community are invited to
join the UMW members
on the third Wednesday of
each month to serve at
the home. The sub
scription to the tracts
placed in the vestibule
and distributed to shut
ins and newcomers was
renewed. Plans for a
garage sale were
discussed with the
Methodist Men joining
this project on April 1.
The place to be an
nounced.
Brenda Coleman was in
charge of the evening's
program, "Shrouds and
Butterflies". She
requested that Mrs. D.A.
Phelps conclude the
program with prayer.
During the social hour
for which Linda Noles
and Linda Jones were
hostesses, Sheila Willard
was honored with a baby
shower. Guests for the
evening were Mrs. Jesse
Willard, Sr., Betsy
Willard, Beth Sewell,
Doris Kea, Mrs. James
Smith, and Mrs. Melvin
Sweat.
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Sogadera Club Raffle Set
Soeadera Club members Mrs. Johnny Gladden (L) and Mrs. Allen
Whipple (R) admire an original.water color by Gloria Ragland that is
being raffled off by the club. Tickets are now on sale for SI.OO each and
can be purchased from any Sogadera Club member. The winner will be
announced on April 14. The painting is now on display at Security Federal
Savings and Loan Association, where it will remain until the drawing.
For more information call 987-2947 or 987-0369.
Judged Best Overall
Troop 96 Takes
Top Camporee Events
Members of Perry Boy
Scout Troop 96 attended
the Thunderbird District
Spring Camporee March
10-12 held in the Oaky
Woods Wildlife
Management Area.
Participating in the
camp ceremonies and
competitive events were
Antelope patrol members
Philip Arnall (patrol
leader), Brian Lewis,
Tyler Golder, Louis
Shelton, Thomas Shelton
and Bill Lampley. Also,
Eagle Patrol members
Jim Fudge (asst, patrol
leader), John Schell,
Scott Westmoreland,
Gene Lassetter, David
Starr and Blake West
HOUSTON HOME JOURNAL THURS., MAR U, I*7«,
moreland. Leaders for
the eventful outing were
Rob Tuggle, assistant
senior patrol leader;
Keith Owens, junior
assistant scoutmaster;
and adult leaders, Bobby
Tuggle and Norman
Owens.
Antelope patrol earned
a first place in knot tying
and the reaction tran
sporter events while the
Eagle patrol won first
place in nature memory
and the Klondike derby.
Second place points were
won by the Eagle patrol
tor knot tying and log
rolling and by the An
telope patrol for the
Klondike derby. Antelope
patrol also won a third
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place for nature memory.
The total events scores
were added to campsite
inspection scores to
determine the winners.
Best overall scout troop
was judged to be Perry's
Troop 96 and the Best
Patrol award was
presented to the Antelope
patrol of Troop 96. The
prestigious red, white
and blue presidential
award ribbons will be
elevated to their place of
honor on the troop flag
staff, in the company of
other similar
achievements, as a
reward for the fun and
hard work that en
compaced this action
packed camporee.