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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1988 COMMUNITY NE1 THE RECORD 3 From Page 1 Palisade's WAKE YOU UP A LITTLE RICHER! many had enrolled there. But she said, "I think it's one of the largest enrollments we've ever had. It's one of the largest programs in the area. It's self-supporting and it's been very profitable for the district." Why are the schools so popular? "My feeling is that it's a very inexpensive way to spend an evening," said Kenison. "It's more or less an outlet for people." Eleanor Carrozza, one of the golf students, said adult community schools offer "a good way to try a hobby that you've never tried before." But there are other reasons to go to the schools.

Take Iris and Tom Wood of Teaneck, who. first met at a class in Teaneck 12 years ago. Since then, they have never stopped coming to teacher Larry Klein's jewelry-making classes at the Tenafly Adult School. "We met at the class and Tom took me out to Bischoffs Candies for ice cream," said Iris Wood. "And she never let go of me," said Tom Wood.

"is really not a profit-making venture. We break even, pay our bills, and purchase equipment with the excess revenues." Some North Jersey adult schools have reported big increases in enrollments. "This is the best enrollment we've had in about five years It's the best single semester" said Charles Kenison, a guidance counselor who is also director of the Pompton Lakes Adult School. Kenison said 1,500 people had enrolled this fall in the 32-year-old, nonprofit program. He said that competition for students has increased in recent years, as more districts offer adult courses.

Edward Fritz, director of Wayne's adult education, said so many people were registering this year that "it's been hectic here." Classes did not start until Monday. "We're probably going to be pushing 3,000 plus this semester." Dolores Butler, registrar for the Tenafly Adult School, said it was too soon to estimate how mm 1 IySDKls Defiance eyed 1 YEAR CD rate (D)(0) 8 3.30 0 effective annual yield parks and recreation. COAH allows municipalities to deduct 3 percent of their total acreage for future parks and recreation. Board members also said the borough's high land values would make affordable housing impractical and that assigning higher-density zones on vacant land would result in pell-mell planning. "If we just took sections that were open and made them available, you'd have real scattershot, which wouldn't be good planning," Kettler said.

Ftom Page 1 jfWe don't want to force any zoning on anybody," said Mayor Bernard Kettler, a member of the ad hoc committee. The committee concluded that "the thorough and comprehensive review of vacant land in Woodcliff Lake revealed that the borough is fully developed. The few sites that wpre identified were determined to unacceptable either to the owners or to the citizens of Wood-cliff Lake." However, the Planning Board did not contact every owner of vacant land in the borough. "It shouldn't be up to us to go out and ask them (developers)," Kettler said. "If they want it, they should come to us." Grace Harris, the borough's professional planner, calculated that there are 15 acres of vacant land in the borough that can be used for affordable housing.

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Those officers are earning $36,104 this year, under a contract that provides 7-percent raises. The borough's captain earns $42,500, its three lieutenants $40,500. PALISADE SAVINGS BANK SLA RACE: DiMasi, Walvick seek council seats 99 245 Main Street, Ridgefield Park, New Jersey 07660 201-641-3200 HUDSON COUNTY: M64700 WEST NEW YORK UNION CITY NORTH BERGEN WEEHAWKEN BERQEN COUNTY: M1-3200 RIDGEFIELD PARK TEANECK NEW MILFORD NORTH NEW MILFORD SOUTH DUMONT Member FSLIC Harris Lanier Co. in Manhattan. He and Sheehan will be seeking the seats now held by Democratic Councilmen Jonathan Netts and From Page 1 376 Summit St.

for five years with his wife and 14-year-old daughter. Walvick is a field engineer for James Mazzo. DiMasi will be opposed by Democrat Joseph Ascolese, 36, of High Street. Ascolese, a pharmacist, was selected to run in August. For students in smallest district, combined classes are a way of life THE RIDGEWOOD COMMUNITY SCHOOL- presents By Colleen Maneino Correspondent AMERICA: THE 21st CENTURY Dr.

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Mr. Pisarski served on President Reagan's White House transition team in 1980. done well with combined classes, and those classes have contributed to the family atmosphere at the school and allowed fast learners to move ahead more quickly. Lorraine Turner, whose son is in the seventh grade, says it is the lower-grade student who is combined with an upper-grade class who benefits most. Using this year's sixth-and-seventh grade class as an example, Turner said the sixth grader who is a fast learner can do seventh grade work, but the seventh grader cannot jump ahead.

"They're not suffering, but they're not benefiting," said Turner. "They have lost out on an awful lot," she said. "What about all the wonderful creative projects the teacher could have done with them if only she had more time with them?" Another parent, who did not want her name used, questioned the effectiveness of teaching in a combined class. Like may parents, she praised the teachers, but at the same time she wondered whether students might have done better if the teachers had one level instead of two to teach. Teachers Oliver Stringham and Evelyn Georgs teach the two combined classes at Roosevelt.

Stringham has 18 students in the sixth and seventh grades and Georgs teaches 23 students in the fourth and fifth grades. Both agree it's an "overload" that keeps them constantly on their toes and mandates a rigid game plan. At the same time, both say they love what they are doing "I'm here 16 years," said Georgs, "and I wouldn't think of leaving. These children have been together so long that it is these children that make it work. They know how to work in a combined situation.

They know how to handle it." Stringham said there were obvious disadvantages, such as having to interrupt a lesson because a student in the other grade has a question. But, Georgs said, there are advantages, too. "In classes that are so close together, many of the lessons are very similar." She said she has often spied children listening in on lessons for the other class, which helps to reinforce things they already know, or introduce new things. In June, eight mothers and a student attended a school board meeting with concerns about teacher overload and limited teacher-student interaction. Parents were clear that they saw no problems thus far with their children's academic performance; they just feared that the potential is there.

At the same time, some parents were supporting the seventh graders, who were staging a mini-protest in the hopes of ending their days as a combined class. A member of the class hand-delivered a letter to the school board at that meeting. The letter cited the class' disappointment that the board had kept them in a combined class during their last year in the school They also made buttons that read: "Combined but still working!" mimicking buttons worn by the district's teachers but still as contract talks continue. The children's protest provoked a debate among parents on the pros and cons of the combined classes. "Academically, if children were having difficulties, we would have to do things a different way," said Blanco.

"If we saw a pattern of academic failure, we certainly would have had to look at the program but that's not the case." School Principal Jack Delaney, who was a guidance counselor at the high school until last year, also sees no problems. He said the Roosevelt students were not deficient in their studies when they entered high school. Roosevelt has always had the smallest enrollment and was hit the hardest when enrollments declined in the 1970s. Blanco said he expects a rise in enrollment and added that closing the school would cost the district more money in the long run. He said he expects a growth spurt soon because a new housing development is planned.

That enrollment increase, he added, will be large enough to support one teacher per grade level and might even require an additional classroom to be built The school currently employs nine full-time teachers and uses the districts five special teachers for instruction in art, music, reading, and physical education. "I think one of the reasons we've been so successful is the teachers we've had in those combined classes," said Delaney. "They are experienced and their organizational skills are very high. That's one of the reasons it's gone as smoothly as it has gone." NORTH ARLINGTON The students in the seventh grade at Roosevelt School love their school But they don't like sharing a teacher and a classroom with the sixth grade. situation also doesn't win any popularity with Superintendent of Schools Anthony Blanco, parents, or the two teachers who instruct combined classes in the school.

Still, combining classes has been a necessity in the district's smallest school for years. "They have to work within a structure that is forced upon them in this town," said Kerry Gennace, the Parent Teacher Organization president Gennace does not blame the board for the combined classes. The real culprit, she says, is "economics." Combined classes came out of dwindling enrollment and budgets that could not support individual classes with few students. It was the most feasible solution, said Blanco, who has always opposed closing the school. For students like those in the seventh grade at Roosevelt School, the problem of combined classes transcends economic factors and boils down to a loss of individual class identity and limited time to spend with a teacher.

hard to ask questions when our' teacher has to work with the other class," said Justin Heykoop, 12. "It's hard to take her away from them." For Justin and the 11 other seventh-graders, combination classes have been the story of their grammar school lives. This year, they're with the sixth grade, a class they have been with for two years. Before that, they were among with the first through fourth grades, in on class, with two teachers. was something everyone knew they could not change, so they accepted it, said Gennace.

Combining classes also was a way to ward off pressure to close the school from a "cross section of people without kids in the school" who consider the school an example of needless spending, said Blanco. The situation began in the 1970s when sharp enrollment declines shut schools across the state. Enrollment at Roosevelt School dropped to as low as 80 students. Today it stands at 128 in a school that can service 150. Many parents sty the school has Daniel Burrus is a speaker, educator, and science futurist He specializes in science and technological advances, their creative application, and their future impact.

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