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'e are committed to that ophy, we must move away >egregated facilities and al-ese children to reap the ts of interaction with their r school peers.
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can?t good news about )lic schools be presented in ve way? Negative articles ning gangs and parental intc "^out administrators ;e predominant school itely;
ily we have good news, inal Literacy Test scores ed in all Coast school dis-low did The Sun Herald?s iter present this story? iphasis was on Gulfport?s ate sliding from 24 per-2 percent.
could she not have said lfport?s passing rate in-I from 76 percent to 98 ? Good news should be ed in a positive way. ort and all other coast i have a right to be excited lid. Come on, Sun Her-! about a pat on the back a while?
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Individual praised for meet?s success
The National Genealogical Society held its 1988 Congress at the Royal d?lberville Hotel and the Convention Center April 27-30 with over 1,300 participants. This was the largest group to ever attend a NGS Congress in their 85 years of operation.
Ms. Anne Anderson of the L.W. Anderson Genealogical Library spent over two years in planning and promoting this prestigious meeting which pumped over a quarter of a million dollars into the local economy.
The local tourist-oriented organizations on the Coast did very little to assist Ms. Anderson in organizing this great event. They were too busy telling each other of their shortcomings and moaning about the decrease in tourism.
The roster of persons enrolled for the Congress included individuals from four foreign countries, 44 states and the District of Columbia. Everyone seemed well pleased with the facilities and the overall organization of the event.
We owe Ms. Anderson a big vote of thanks for a job well done.
JAMES. V. LYNMANSR.
Biloxi
School discipline attitudes scored
Being the parent of three elementary school-aged children, 1 was absolutely stupified, no mortified, by the comment of Supt.
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Henry Arledge, ?The socio-eco-nomic level (of the students) has a significant bearing on school discipline, ? and the comments of Harrison County school board members in The Sun Herald front-page article of May 28.
I believe that discipline is a sign of love and caring. But to let paddling be the be-all, end-all, solution to these children is ludicrous.
What they don?t need is even more humiliation and degradation than their socio-economic status has imposed on them in the first place.
I?m sure the school officials have never been in the home situation of each of these students, nor should they be expected to.
But I am also sure that energy and money spent on buying worn-out paddles each year (yes, I?m being sarcastic), could be better spent on a full-time school counselor (if there is not one), or on sending school officials to work shops to leam more about the stresses on these children and their families because of broken homes, low income, and other things that plague our society.
In these workshops, they could also leam to better deal with these children and their families, rather than deal with them with shortsightedness and aggression that may be also sometimes reciprocated to the school officials by parents and children.
PAULETTE AVERHART
Biloxi
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I went back to school this year. Th< school was Duke University ii Durham, N.C. The reason for mj four-week stay was a fellowship pro gram for journalists.
A few observations gathered frorr inside and outside the program:
The Shape of the South. I elected tc drive rather than fly. The interstate highways from Mobile, Ala., to Atlanta were lonely, four hours of shifting pastoral scenes.
Atlanta to Durham was a beehive. 1 had not been inside Atlanta in almost a decade. Growth there, especially in the northeast suburbs, sure did look like the magic of economic miracle.
Business and housing construction in follow-up cities appeared feverish, too: Spartanburg, S.C., Charlotte, N.C., and on into Durham.
The South has risen again, but only in pieces.
Meet the Magnolia League. I attended and graduated from a public, four-year college. Duke University is a private school with strong Southern ties. It was built on tobacco money.
As expected, Duke students were bright, ambitious, and fearless. The student who led our first-day tour of the Gothic campus announced immediately that he was graduating.
He was available for job interviews, too, preferably with New York or Washington postings.
Another campus life story was the BMW-emblem bandit. One student was allegedly caught in the act one night, but said he was only trying to replace the hood emblem stolen from his personal BMW.
High-powered jobs and status cars don?t tell the whole story, of course. I also met Mississippi students at Duke who combined work, scholarship and bank loans to meet the $10,000-a-year tuition.
Their career choices ? teaching, government, and the ministry ? weren?t the sort that usually pay back student loans in a year.
Computer Land. My first journey into Duke?s library was a humbling one. I wanted to research black Catholics and find a book on modern American religious cults.