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2B g- COURIER-POST, Friday August 15, 1997 kt Teachers learn ways to instruct kids on diversity it i 4 flan: Mount Laurel's K-8 district will address the subject of genocide indirectly at first, then gradually add the details over the k- years. 1 lO that can help students learn to i' On the job: Diane Walsh of Mantua stands watch over a manhole Mark West, a construction splicer, works below. Walsh bides other cultures and recognize that beneath the surface differences lie "Jh basic commonalities. ny" Books like Everybody Cooks' CCMUA fined for odor violations itice, which makes the simple but telling point that no matter how manv redoes there mav be around the globe, it's all rice. jf Learning to respect and appre- ciate differences, Andronici said, are steps on the way to the ultimate goal, "which is to learn how to confront prejudice.

Not as dramatically as Zim- mersDitz was torced to as a jPemberton could lose 700 students By HAROLD T. NEDD Courier-Post Staff PEMBERTON TWP. The township's school district is again faced with the threat of losing students to another district. Students who live on the Fort Dix Army Post could be pulled out of Pemberton by fall and sent to school in North Hanover, school officials said Thursday. Earlier this year, Woodland Township pulled its students out of Pemberton.

The change to North Hanover is being discussed because nearby McGuire Air Force Base is taking over ownership of some Fort Dix housing units. McGuire students go to North Hanover under an agreement between the military and the state. The move would mn a loss of 700 students out of nearly 7,000 and could force the Pemberton school district to lay off teachers. The district would also lose state aid for educating students from government installations, officials said. Pemberton is one of two Burlington County districts, along with Burlington City, classified as a special needs district a district that is among the state's 28 poorest.

Pemberton officials say they'll fight the move. "For us to lose more students after just losing Woodland would be devastating to our district," said Diane Stinney, vice president of Pemberton Township's school board. "I'm meeting with the county superintendent next week and that's all I can say about the matter at this time," district Superintendent Wendy Schadt said. Talk of a pullout of Fort Dix students follows a decision earlier this year by the school board in Woodland Township. The board stopped sending its students to high school in mostly blue-collar Pemberton and, this fall, will start sending them to Lenape High School in the upscale suburb of Medford.

That will end more than 60 years of Woodland sending an average of 37 students to high school in Pemberton each year. The loss of Woodland students is expected to cost Pemberton an estimated $300,000 in tuition payments from Woodland. McGuire Air Force Base is taking over the deed of 147 housing units at the Army barracks in Fort Dix. Under an agreement between the state and the military, children from McGuire housing are supposed to attend school in North Hanover, while those from Fort Dix are to go to Pemberton schools. "If this happens, there would be no hardship on our district," said Richard J.

Carson, North Hanover's school superintendent. "Our class size would be up to 18 or 19 students in a class, which would be a minimal number of students coming to our district." Still, county superintendent Douglas Groff wants to be certain any switch won't backfire. "I'm meeting with the (local) superintendents next week to discuss what may happen," said Groff. teen-ager, hopefully, but in ways "in that are important nonetheless, such as not excluding a classmate JG large numbers calling the DEP each time the stench of sewage fills the air. The recent violations occurred between April and July, said Edward Choromanski, chief of the DEP's southern regional enforcement office.

And Choromanski said more fines may be on the way. "There is another odor complaint that has been verified that occurred in late July or early August," Choromanski said. "We haven't had many complaints so far in August. We assume we've gotten their attention and they're working to correct the problem." Robert Conforth, CCMUA's director of operations and maintenance, did not return phone calls Thursday. The DEP warned even higher fines could follow if the authority does not control odors.

Authority officials have said they'll try new odor-reducing tactics over the next few weeks and hope to find a in Camden, police say. Long admitted he ran into Hill's car, police say, because he took his eyes off the road while rolling the marijuana cigar, known on the street as a "blunt." "He stopped and I think he dropped his drugs and he reached down to pick them up and his car lunged forward," Hill said. "He could have just as easily run a child over because those drugs were more important." Police Sgt. Prince Burnett reported finding the marijuana cigar on the floorboard of the borrowed Lincoln Town Car that Long was driving allegedly without a license. Long was charged with driving under the influence, careless driving, driving while unlicensed and possession of a controlled dangerous substance in a motor vehicle.

5SK, TV Illl By Brian Porco, Courier-Post where Bell Atlantic co-worker her time by making anklets. solution. The sewage treatment plant is not the only contributor to the almost daily odor problems in the area. Another major headache is the heavy licorice-root smell from the Pneumo-Abex licorice plant next to the CCMUA plant. The licorice plant has been fined in the past for odor violations, too.

The fines come- as a blow to CCMUA employees and officials who argue against a recent effort to privatize the authority's operations, saying it could result in lower environmental standards. While a private company might run the plant for less money, it might not pay attention to the environment, privatization opponents argue. But the fines take some wind out of that argument, demonstrating the facility has environmental problems now. Potential bidders, meanwhile, have criticized provisions in the authority's privatization guidelines that require any eventual private operator to run the plant exactly as the authority has. because they are deaf or black or By JEFF BEACH Courier-Post Staff CAMDEN South Camden residents who complained for years about sewage odors got some vindication this week when the state fined the Camden County Municipal Utilities Authority for multiple odor violations.

The state Department of Environmental Protection hit the regional sewage treatment authority with a $4,000 fine. The DEP cited four confirmed violations stemming from about 40 odor complaints from residents near the authority's wastewater treatment plant on Ferry Avenue. The state's action was the first against the CCMUA since residents organized a stepped-up campaign of filing complaints last spring. South Camden residents have turned up the heat on the authority in recent months, with different in some other way. Elinor Hecht, a first grade teacher at Larchmont School, said she was glad she came.

"I wondered how I was sup- i'u'l nntzaA tannh a cv-raar-rA ''V. about reducing prejudice. I guess I was doing it but in a disorganized way. This broke it down and showed us how to use the literature to accomplish the task." Flynn pointed to a statement made by Nobel laureate and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel as the theme of the workshop. "Often because of one story or one book or one person," Wiesel wrote, "we are able to make a different choice, a choice for humanity, for life." Motorist hits chiefs new cruiser in Camden By RICHARD PEARSALL Courier-Post Staff MOUNT LAUREL The New Jersey Legislature's 1994 mandate that every school district teach elementary and secondary school students about the Holocaust and genocide raised a number of interesting challenges for local school districts.

Like how to teach first and second graders about the deliberate slaughter of six million people? The answer, Mount Laurel's K-8 district has decided, is gently, but persistently: Come at the subject indirectly at first, then gradually fill in the details over the years as the children mature. "We're not going to teach second graders about the Holocaust itself," said Eileen Flynn, the district's curriculum supervisor for social studies, "but we are going to teach them that it isn't wrong to be different." About 30 district teachers gathered at Hartford School on their own time Thursday for a workshop designed to help them help their students learn tolerance and appreciation. Organized by Flynn and Karen Andronici, the curriculum supervisor for language and reading, the workshop was divided into two sessions. The morning was devoted to making the teachers more aware of the Holocaust and other instances of genocide. Among the speakers was William Zimmerspitz, a Cherry Hill resident, who related both the horrors of the Nazi concentration camps where he was imprisoned and nearly died, and the heroism of those he called "the righteous helpers," German citizens who found the courage to act on their conviction that their country had gone terribly wrong.

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