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Che Summerville News
ACCORDING TO STATE TESTS |
Trion, Chattooga Students Improve
By KAY ABBOTT
Staff Writer
Both the Chattooga and
Trion school Sfi'stems show
%ood results in the Basic Skills
esting Program this year
with higher scores than the
state averafies for grades one,
six and eight.
Trion Schools also exceeded
state averages in grade 10,
where students must pass the
CRT to get a high school
diploma. In the Trion 10th
grade, 100 percent of the
students passed the reading
portion ofp the CRT, while 97
percent passed the math
portion.
Chattooga 10th graders fell
slightly below state average in
the reading portion of the gRT.
with 95 percent passing. Chat
tooga met the state average in
math scores and fell 1 percent
below the state passing rate
with 89 percent.
In the third grade testing,
both systems were lower than
average in one area and higher
than average in another. Chat
tooga students were below
QBE Changes Proposed
By TOMMY TOLES
Editor
Ed Deaton, a candidate for
state school superintendent,
outlined his plat&rm Monday
to the Summerville-Trion
Rotary Club, including a pro
posal for changes in the Quali
ty Basic Education (QBE) Act
to provide more funds for
special education and gifted
programs.
Deaton is former president
of the Georgia Association of
Educators and now serves as
principal of a Columbus
elementary school. He has been
an educator for 27 years.
David Houston, president
of the Chattooga County
Association of E(filcators. in
troduced Deaton, saying that
if Deaton becomes state school
superintendent, he would be
the first one elected by the
state's voters since 1932 who
had not been appointed
originally by the governor.
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Candidate Speaks To Rotary Club
Ed Deaton (second from left), Columbus,
a candidate for state school superinten
dent, addressed the Summerville-Trion
Rotary Club Monday at The Tavern.
Shown with Deaton are Jack Herring
state average in third grade |
reading and above average in
math, while Trion third graders
were above the state average in
reading and below average in |
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Chattooga and Trion 1
students joined students all |
over the state in taking the |
Criterion Referenced Test |
(CRT) and the lowa Test of |
Basic Skills last spring. |
Students in grades one,
three, six, eight angrlo took the |
CRT Basic Skills Test, while
students in grades two, four,
seven and nine were given the
norm-referenced lowa Test of |
Basic Skills. The lowa test is |
a new addition to the state |
testing firogram. In addition, זְ
the ninth grade students took |
the Test of Achievement and |
Proficiency. ‘
The Georgia student |
assessment program provides |
information about student |
achievement . to...teachers,
parents, educational decision
makers and the students
themselves. The information |
helps determine how well |
students are acquiring essen- |
tial academic skills and is us- |
ed in planning instruction and |
I know what the problems
are because I've been there and
I've lived with them,”” Deaton
told the Rotarians at The
Tavern, Trion.
To solve the problems of
education, Deaton said, a plan
is required. He said he had a
survey of 1,000 Georgians done
before getting his campaign
under way. ‘‘We did a
statewide survey to ask people
in Georgia all over Georgia,
what they wanted in their
schools. And once we got the
numbers back and found out
what they wanted, we
developed our plan. We call it
the Deaton pfan for educa
tion.”
Deaton called for restoring
“true discipline’’ to the
classroom and for removing
drugs from the schools by
educating students about what
things are good for their bodies
and what things are harmful.
BASIC EDUCATION
Referring to the trend
toward basic education,
(left), president of the Rotary Club; and
David Houston, president of the Chat
tooga County Association of Educators,
who introduced Deaton. (Staff photo).
evaluating the effectiveness of
educational programs,
educators said.
According to teachers, CRT
scores reflect what students
know, in relation to the
academic content Georgia
educators have defined as
essential. Norm-referenced
Test (NRT) scores, on the other
hand, reflect how much
students know, in relation to
how much students nationally
know.
The CRT scores give a pic
ture of student's overall
achievement on reading and
math objectives. Students,
parents and teachers receive
much more detailed individual
reports that show the student’s
level of achievement on several
specific objectives. This infor
mation is useful in planning for
improvement.
CRT scores are not com
parable across grades, but they
arkey_gthfiarable from I\;gar to
year within a grade. This pro
vides a way to chart progress
made by school sKstems and in
the state as a whole.
Two CRT tests also provide
pass-fail scores. Beginning this
year, students must pass the
Deaton said, ''! say we need to
move back to using flash cards,
to memorizing multiplication
tables if we need to. We need
word cards so we can recognize
words and sound them out and
we need to make sure our
students can add, subtract,
multiply and divide, can read
an application, can read direc
tions as well as write coherent
ly ... so they can communicate
effectively what they want to
say.
Georgia's schools also need
quality teachers as well as
quality instruction, Deaton
said, saying that teachers leave
the profession for two main
reasons: compensation and
working conditions. ‘1 guess
we're going to have to improve
both if we're going to recruit
trained, quality people in our
classrooms,” he sai£
More funding is needed
under QBE for special educa
tion and gifted eé)ucation pro
grams, the candidate said,
because it was set up for a 44
see QBE, page 8-B
Independence Day Fireworks
A number of Chattooga County residents enjoyed the
Independence Day fireworks display in Rome last Fri
day niiht. The fireworks and an antique cannon were
fired while the Rome Symphox;{ecOrcheatra played the
“1812 Overture.”” Two Rome reation Department
employees were injured when one of the disglays explod
ed on the ground, but no spectators were hurt. Special
music and a number of events were scheduled
throughout the da¥ in the Heritage Park area of
downtown Rome before the fireworks lit up the night
time skies alontg the Oostanaula River levee getween Se
cond and Fifth Avenues.
Photos By Earl McConnell
third grade CRT in order to be
promoted into the fourth
grade. Also, students must
have a passing score on the
10th grade basic skills test to
receive a high school diploma.
Students have multiple oppor
tunities to take these tests.
Two different NRT scores
are reported: grade equivalents
CRITERION REFERENCED TEST RESULTS SPRING 1986
GRADE 1 GRADE 6 GRADE 8
s Reading Math
CHATTOOGA 207.93 206.46 | 207.80 211.32
TRION 22202 221.00
STATE 212.90 208.36 | 206.73 205.00 | 207.07 209.46
"~ CRITERION REFERENCED TEST RESULTS GRADES 3 AND 10
: FALL 1985
' GRADE 3 GRADE 10 ;
זאקיזסעם & READING MATH READING MATH
EAN % PASS MEAN % PASS |MEAN % PASS MEAN % PASS
CHATTOOGA | 20750 89 210.30 4 329 95 322 89
TRION 33 100 N חס
COMPARISON OF TEST SCORES FOR THREE YEARS
CRITERION REFERENCE TEST BY GRADE LEVELS
READING AVERAGE MATH AVERAGE
MEAN SCORE MEAN SCORE
CHATTOOGA 1984 1985 1986 1984 1985 1986
GRADE 1 210.47 209.84
GRADE 3 2060
GRADE 6 206.46
GRADE 8 21152
TRION 1984 1985 1986 1984 1985 1986
GRADE 1 - 22960 | 224.37
GRADE 3 207.28
GRADE 6 215,67
GRADE 8 213.06 221.23 222.02 210.74 220.69 221.00
TRION COUPLE’S LAWSUIT
Wreck Charges Denied
A trucking company has
denied the charges made in a
$1.25-million lawsuit filed by a
Trion couple in U. S. District
Court at Rome regarding a
January, 1985 traffic accicE:nt
in which the wife was injured.
Annie Mae Hogue and
Richard H. Hogue Sr., 55 Park
Ave., Trion, filed the lawsuit in
mid-May against Carolina
Western Express Inc., Atlanta,
and one of its drivers, Francis
Kent Cogdell Jr., Columbia,
S. C. The lawsuit is seeking 4
$1,250,000 in damages from
the companKland driver.
The truc 'ng company has
i’ust answered the Hogue
awsuit in federal court at |
Rome. i
The original lawsuit said |
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Regiscer To Vote
After next Monday afternoon, it’ll be too late.
To rtzlgist,er to vote in this year’s Aug. 12 primary, that
is. The deadline is next Monday.
Chattooga County’s registrars will be in their office in
the courthouse from 8:30 a.m. to noon and from 1 until 5
p.m. today, Friday and Monday.
Residents may register to vote at the Wal-Mart Dis
count store from 1 until 5 p.m. Sunday, as well as from 3
until 6 p.m. Friday at the Super-D Inc., Trion.
They also may register at the Chatto;)ga County
Library, Summerville, glom 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. today, Friday
and Monday.
and percentiles. Grade
equivalents allow one to see the l
grade level at which the
average student in a system is
performing comparedv to the
national norm. Grade
eguivalent scores are express
ed in years and months, e. g.
“4.7,” or “fourth year, sevent%x
month,” which is the perfor-
Mrs. Hogue was a ¥assenger in
the Hogue's 1975 Thunderbird
when a tractor-trailer truck
driven by Cogdell, caused it to
hit a utility pole. It said the
Ho%‘ue’s daughter, Teresa
Michelle was driving the car at
the time of the accigent, which
occurred on U. S. Highway 27
just south of Trion on Jan. 22,
1985.
The Hogue lawsuit charges
that Cogdell ‘‘negligently
drove the...tractor and
trailer into the traffic lane over
which the Hogue vehicle was
then lawfully proceeding, thus
gzoximately causing a collision
tween the Hogue vehicle and
a power pole.”’
The suit seeks $250,000 for
Mr. Hogue for medical ex
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mance level for a fourth grade
student achieving on grade
level at the time of the spring
testing.
Percentile scores rank
students in comparison to all
the students in the average
group. The Eercentile scores for
a system show the percent of
see TRION, page 8-B
penses for his wife and for loss
of consortium. His wife is seek
ing sl-milion for her pain and
su%fering. lost wages and per
manent disability.
The Hogues are represented
by Summerville attorneys Ben
Ballenger and Albert C.
Palmour.
The answer filed by
Carolina Western Express Inc.
denies all the Hogue's charges,
sayin%l. “The way and manner
that the accident occurred, as
described in the complaint, is
specifically denied.”
Instead, the response says,
“The true, direct and prox
imate cause of the accident was
the negligence of the (Hogue’s)
minor daughter, Teresa
Michelle Hogue." It goes on to
say she ‘' . . . was operating the
vehicle on a learner's permit
license at the time of the acci
dent and was under the direct
supervision and/or control
of ... Annie Mae Hogue.”” The
answer also says the Hogues
were ‘‘negligent in assuming
and directing (their) respon
sibilities in teach.iniand super
vising (their) daughter.”
The trucking com}fany's
answer also said the gg:.les
have been paid their medical
expenses and lost wages under
the state’s no-fault insurance
coverage.
A response by Cogdell, the
driver, has not yet been filed in
federal court.
NORM REFERENCED TEST RESULTS
SPRING 1986
SYSTEM | GRADE 2 | GRADE 4| GRADE 7|GRADE 9
| |GE %ILE|GE %ILE[GE %ILE|GE %ILE
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“rion 3166 [49 57 [BO 59 [ll2 6
9.7
State [3O 60 [47 52 [76 49 [lO.l 49
COMPARISON OF SCORES
FOR THREE YEARS
FALL BASIC SKILLS TEST:
GRADE 10
READING AVG. | MATH AVG.
MEAN SCORE | MEAN SCORE
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Home’s A Cage
For ‘Bigmouth’
By KAY ABBOTT
Staff Writer
TO A YOUNG blackbird
named Bigmouth, the freedom
of the open skies is no match
for the companionship and lov
ing care he gets from Mrs.
Mildred Forcf, Summerville.
Mrs. Ford has raised the bird
from the featherless chick she
found several weeks ago to a
you/?f bird near maturity.
though he has been given
a number of chances to return
to the wild, the bird always
returns to his cage after flying
around the yard. And after a
recent tangle with a cat in the
backyard gigmouth has refus
ed to leave his cage.
From the beginning of his
life, the bird has been in cne
scrape after another. Each
time, Mrs. Ford has come to
his rescue.
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There’s No Place Like Home
That seems to be Bigmouth's refrain since he was at-
tacked by a Persian cat during a brief period of freedom.
The young blackbird was raised by Mrs. Mildred Ford,
Summerville, after he fell from his nest at the building
where she works. (Staff photo).
At her first meeting with
Bigmouth, only four weeks
ago, she knew he was no or
dinary bird.
“I¥he first time I saw him,
he looked pit-i-ful!”” she said
with a smile. “He had no
feathers; ‘he wgs all*skin.”
THE LITTLE BIRD had
fallen three stories from a nest
in the eave of Duff’s Flowers,
Gifts and Furniture, where
Mrs. Ford works as a florist
assistant.
“The nest was in a corner of
th(;dbuilding, way up high,” she
said.
She was amazed the little
bird could survive such a fall.
“Well the boys broufiht him
to me, because they know I
love animals,” she recalls. ‘At
first, I said I didn’'t want him
because I already had dogs and
cats, but as you can see, I
wound up bringing him home.
see HOME'S A, page 8-B