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Monday, December 12,1988 The Salina Journal People LUCKY FAN Ayana Takada, 9, Tokyo, (left) poses with rock star Michael Jackson (center) and her brother, Taisuke. The girl was the 4 millionth person to attend a concert on Jackson's tour. Princess supports children's cause LONDON (AP) Princess Anne, president of the Save The Children charity and daughter of Queen Elizabeth II, said she doesn't like children. In an interview shown Sunday on London Weekend Television, Anne, 38, said that when she became interested in the fund in the 1970s, "I wasn't particularly keen on children and I'm still not." "But you don't actually have to like children very much to be interested in giving them the best possible start in life," said Anne, who has two children. "And that is quite important for a lot of people to remember." Princess Anne NAACP recognizes achievements LOS ANGELES (AP) The Rev.

Jesse Jackson, Michael Jackson, Eddie Murphy, Whoopi Goldberg and Clint Eastwood were among those honored at the 21st annual NAACP Image Awards. "Coming To America" was named best movie and NBC's "The Cosby Show" best TV comedy at a National Association for the Advancement of Colored People ceremony honoring black achievement. Saturday night's show will be broadcast Jan. 14 on NBC. Jesse Jackson received an award for public service.

Eastwood, who directed "Bird," which chronicled the life of jazz musician Charlie Parker, received a special award for using blacks in his films in positive, non-stereotypical roles. Murphy, who starred in "Coming To America," was named black entertainer of the year. Michael Jackson was honored as best male recording artist and for best album, "Bad." He also shared a humanitarian award with singer Lou Rawls. Goldberg was named best film actress for her work in "Fatal Beauty." Arsenio Hall (left) turns over the podium to fellow actor Clint Eastwood after each won awards at the 21st Annual NAACP Image Awards show Saturday in Los Angeles. Study says school punishment biased Nude statue wins OKinLoveland LOVELAND, Colo.

(AP) How do you make a nude statue respectable? Stand it against a wall, according to the Loveland Visual Arts Commission. The commission was caught in a controversy that broke out over "Moulding Our Future," a proposed 7-foot-tall bronze monument meant to celebrate love, the town's namesake. The commission wriggled out of the problem by approving the statue of a mother with a child at her breast for a new park, but ordering the sculpture to be turned toward a wig shop wall so it won't, offend passersby. The woman's breasts will also be covered by trees, hiding them from unsuspecting strollers. About 600 residents signed a petition against the statue.

Customers at the wig shop also protested. "This is not a nude," artist Denny Hasken said. "This is a mother and child." The Salina Journal P.O. Box 740 Zip Code 674O2 Publishi'd SCVLTI days a wcuk, 365 days per year at 3H3 S. 4th, Salina, Kansas, Salina Journal, Inc.

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to 12 noon Saturday and Sunday. The Advertising and Business office will close on Saturdays at 12 noon. NEW YORK (AP) Black students are twice as likely as whites to be suspended from school, physically punished by school officials or labeled mentally retarded, a new study concludes. Only 8 percent of black children are placed in gifted and talented school programs even though they make up 16 percent of the nation's enrollment, according to a report released Sunday by the Boston-based National Coalition of Advocates for Students. The study gives evidence of "the failure of schools to be peopled by adults who are skilled in handling students who are different in any sort of way," said Joan McCarty First, executive director of the coalition consisting of 21 student advocacy groups across the country.

"Teachers often overreact to blacks, especially black males," she said. Interestingly, that's true even with black teachers." Male students account for 80 percent of corporal punishment in- Teachers want help of parents Students'problems instigated at home WASHINGTON (AP) The nation's public school teachers say they are not getting enough support from parents, and most report child abuse, poor health and bad nutrition among the children in their classrooms, according to a survey released Sunday. Ernest L. Boyer, president of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, said the survey of 22,000 teachers found a sense of frustration in the classroom, both at the lack of support they receive from parents and from a feeling of "powerlessness in teaching." "Large majorities of teachers find poverty, poor health, undernourishment and neglect to be problems at their schools," said Boyer in his report, "The Condition of Teaching." Teachers from every state were canvassed in twin surveys conducted by mail in the spring and fall of 1987. Ninety percent said lack of parental support was a problem at their schools; 89 percent said there were abused or neglected children at their schools; 69 percent said poor health was a problem for their students; and 68 percent said some children were undernourished.

"Teachers repeatedly made the point that in the push for better schools they cannot do the job alone, and yet there is a growing trend to expect schools to do what families, communities and churches have been unable to accomplish," Boyer said. Teachers in the survey described their students "as 'emotionally needy' and 'starved for attention and Boyer said. Mary Hatwood Futrell, president of the National Education Association, said the report's "disturbing statistics" underscores the need for parental involvement. "I wish I could sit down with every parent in America and emphasize how important they are to their children's education," Futrell said in a statement. "Parents are a child's first and potentially the most influential "Even the best teachers cannot go it alone," Futrell said.

"Teachers need allies. And the allies they need most are parents." The average public school teacher earned $28,031 in 1987-88, according to National Education Association statistics. Forty-nine percent of the teachers in the Carnegie survey said their pay was worse than they expected; 41 percent said it was about what they expected; and 10 percent said it was better. The average teacher surveyed had 16 years experience. The average teacher faced 79 students on a typical day, with elementary teachers working with 60 pupils and secondary teachers 114.

Most teachers said the school reform movement had led to greater state regulation of local schools. Fifty-nine percent said the reform movement has increased political interference in education; 37 percent said it had not changed the amount of interference; and 4 percent said it decreased interference. cidents and 70 percent of suspensions, the study found. The report's findings were based on data published in 1986 by the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Civil Rights.

The coalition study projected the rates at which students of different races suffered school penalties. While the statistics documented that school discipline seems to fall hardest on black students, the analysis shed little light on the reason. First said the results don't mean that blacks and other minority students are breaking school rules more often than whites. Instead, "teachers tend to react out of their frustration and irritation," she said. She said few school districts have systematic controls over discipline, such as requiring teachers to document in writing why a student was referred for discipline.

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