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The Summerville News, Thursday, June 9, 1988
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Education, Manufacturing Economy Cited By Tanner
Labor Chief Speaks In Chattooga County To Existing Industries
Education and maintaining
a strong manufacturing
economy are two of the most
important issues facing the
United States today, Georgia's
labor commissioner told
several Chattooga County in
dustrial leaders recently.
Joe Tanner was the main
speaker at the annual existirrexg
industries banquet sponso
by the Chattooga Chamber of
Commerce. It was held at The
Lookout restaurant,
Cloudland, last Thursday
night, June 2.
FAILURES?
“If we fail as a nation, it's
soing to be because we didn't
o an adequate job on
educating our people,” Tanner
said in describing education as
the most important issue fac
ing the nation.
The country isn't doing a
better job of educating children
today than it has in the past,
he warned. One out of every
five adults in the nation can’t
read and write, he said. In
Georgia, the figure is one out
of every four adults.
Thirty percent of the young
people in school drop out or are
“pushed out” before receiving
a high school diploma, Tanner
said. They haven't gained the
ability to read or comprehend
what they read, to write legibl
or to do gasic math, he aetfleti
TIGHTEN
k‘;\merica‘s llabog for;:le “will
tighten severely" the year
2(?00 because yther}é wilf, be
fewer people to take the
available jobs, Tanner said, but
the “‘real tightening’’ will be in
the mismatch of trainable peo
ple to the available jobs.
Work slots that require lit
tle or no skill are disappearing
rapidly, the labor commis
sioner said. Virtually every Lob
in the future will require that
applicants read and com
prehend what they’ve read and
the ability to understand basic
math ang to write legibly, he
said. "If you don’t have those
skills, you're not trainable, in
my view.”
Education is not doing a
better job now in providing
those skills than it was 10
years ago, Tanner said, but
rather the trend is in the other
direction.
NO STONES
In making that observa
tion, he continued, he wasn't
“throwing stones’ at public
education. ‘‘Education has
been given a mission by socie
ty that it can't possibly fulfill,”
in that it can't be all things to
all people.
A number of factors deter
mines whether children will
succeed in school, he said, in
giving examples of ‘“‘two ex
tremes.” In one case, a child
comes from a home with
Alline Holbrook
Mrs. Alline Maynard
Holbrook, 86, formerly of 100
Bittings Ave., Summerville,
died Saturday morning in the
LaFayette Health Care Center
following a long illness.
Mrs. Holbrook was born on
June 27, 1901 in DeKalb Coun
ty, Ala., daughter of the late
Joe and Alice Norris Maynard.
She was a Methodist. Her hus
band, Ed Holbrook, died in
1962. She was also preceded in
death by a son, Carl; a
daughter, Bonzie Holbrook
Stone; two brothers, Gib and
Gene Maynard.
Survivors include one
daughter, Mrs. Joy Henderson,
Summerville; six grandchildren
and five great-grandchildren:
nieces and nephews.
Graveside services were
held at 3 p.m. Sunday in the
Green Hi.lrs Memory Garden
with the Rev. Jimmy Bryant
officiating.
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JOE TANNER SPEAKS TO LOCAL INDUSTRY
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from a home which may have
one parent, or not have either
parent working, where there is
no reading material and where
there is no concern about
education.
NOT EQUAL
Society is'asking educators
to &\rovide an education to both
children with no consideration
given to the problems involved
in that task, Tanner said. In
that case, the children don't
have tc;aual opportunities, he
asserted.
“How do we resolve that
problem?"’ he asked
rhetorically.
Tanner suggested that
youngsters at high risk of fail
ing in school be identified as
early as possible so that they
mafi' be inven special attention.
“These kinds of programs are
oing to become essential
ltghroughout the system.”
Students who come to class
but don't learn anything and
who are eventually “‘pushed”
from one grade to tf‘i'e other and
finally graduate are ‘‘a great
American tragedy,” Tanner
said. Diplomas are being given
to high school students who
are basically illiterate, he con
tinued, and even to some col
lege seniors.
RUN OUT
““We are going to run out of
workers if we don't do a better:
job in our educational system,”
the labor commissioner told
the industrial leaders.
Technology is changing so
rapidly that it will be impossi
ble for a person who can't read,
write angfio basic math to find
a job by the year 2000, he said.
He estimated the Chat
tooga County dropout rate at
50 percent and noted that the
school dropout rate in Japan is
two percent. He said after the
meeting that he didn’t know
that Chattooga’'s dropout rate
was the highest in Georgia.
It is essential that people
obtain an education or they
won't be able to find jobs, he
said.
Tanner also commended
Best Manufacturing Co. at
Menlo for the adult education
program it started this year in
its plant. Twenty-two of the
plant's employees recently
received a GED certificate
after completing classes.
NOT JOB
Tanner said that is going to
be the trend across the nation
in the next several years. But
he asserted that producing
educated, trainable graduates
is the legitimate job of society
and government, and that the
burden shouldn't have to fall
on private business.
“It's important that we
have people working to pro
duce a product,” the state of
ficial said in emphasizing his
belief that the nation must
maintain a strong manu
facturing-industrial Ease.
That need is not well
understood by the public, by
most politicians and not by the
fe(igral government, Tanner
said.
“Manufacturing is the driv
ing force of our economy,” he
said, and economists who claim
that the service economy will
be more important in the years
ahead are wrong.
The number of people
emr)loyed in manufacturing
will continue to decline, he
agreed, ‘‘but that doesn’t make
it any less important.”
In Georgia, ‘‘we want our
local manufacturing companies
to stay, and we want them to
expand their operations,
t 00..." Tanner said. State
government wants manufac
turing firms to operate without
“undue interference by the
state.”
The labor commissioner
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LABOR COM. JOE TANNER (3RD FROM LEFT) SPEAKS IN CHATTOOGA
Bill Baisley, Bill Irmscher, Grady McCalmon (R) Greet Speaker
said the state unemployment
trust fund had just reached a
record $865,372,000, some
S4OO-million higher than it was
in 1984. That figure resulted
from a strong state economy
and modernization of the
unem%loyment compensation
laws, he said. While the fund
earned S6B-million in interest in
1987, the state of Louisiana
paid some S6O-million interest
on money it had to borrow to
pay unemployment benefits, he
noted.
Tanner also told several
humorous stories about the
late Rep. James H. “Sloppy”
Floyd of Chattooga County.
Floyd was chairman of the
Georgia House Appropriations
Committee.
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