Oakland Tribune from Oakland, California • 14

1 14 Spt.7, 1970 Parents Aid In School Refurbishing By IEV MITCHELL Tribwe Ederatie Wrtirr Qungrt lor Guldrcs" la woct-raij la avoid employ the Crocker Highlands Ele- ment cat-back, and lb roenttry School art ar to- Trade Council ob votviaf changes for many peeled to the fre labor. i 4 Jt i i i 7 Crocker Highlands School parents Mri.OdQ Johnson (left) end Mrs. John Elliott reedy materials, while Principal Carolyn Murphy checks rtmodaltd room fl PeoDoixsy 0 0 0 feir i On Friday, the school district promised to send a painter around to finish the Job-Now Principal Carolyn Murphy, who bid been a luile discouraged about her partially painted school, looks forward to a new school year made more exciting by educational chance. She says the Oakland school district has cooperated fully with the program, approving the expenditure of some funds to open up classroom facilities for multi-graded teaching. Dorothy Martinson of the curriculum department has been assigned to help the school, some special experimental funds have been avid-able for materials and supplies, and the district research department working with a teacher-parent group In planning ways to evaluate the worth of the program.

Gendenin, who is also pfesl-dent of the school community council, promises that the new program means that each student will have room personal attention, more equipment to help him learn, a more Interesting and flexible curriculum and better trained teachers." Committee members believe that some children learn best in the conventional "self-contained classroom and that others will thrive In multi-graded classrooms. Multi-grade classrooms are proposed for 248 of the schools 800 youngsters. Three teachers win work with grades four, five and six in this situation, and another three will be assigned grades two, three and four. Two teachers will instruct 58 first, second and third graders as a team. The auditorium b.

being converted into one multigrade classroom, freeing three other classrooms to be used as a media-center, art resource room and science resource room. Committee members are proud of their school, which located in an Integrated neighborhood populated primarily by business and professional people. Community and parent participation in school activities an established tradition in the area, where two years ago members of the Parent Teacher Association produced a film, "The Crocker Highlands Story," to visually demonstrate educational and social successes in an Integrated setting. In the appeal for funds for the new program, parents are told, "Today, concerned parents are not enough to insure success in an integrated set-needed. "We have involved parents; we have an innovative educa-tonal program that will provide a i education for Crocker children.

And now we ask for your financial support to make this program the success that it must be. parent a wtH Some parent hat spent lung hour during summer month erratics educational matenals to be used to the proposed new program at the school, located at S3 Mtorrerf Real Other have worked at refurbishing the school build-mi and suil other are solicit-tog funds. An impoverished Oakland I'niDed School District months ago Indicated Interest to the program, ahich mas developed with wide community participation, but said there wu no money In the budget to meet th estimated 3.100 cost This figure Include Classroom modernization, creation of a adence resource room and media-center library, teaching aids Including additional audio-visual equipment, teacher workshops to 'aid in preparation for team-teaching and part-time specialists to the fields of the. arts, science and foreign languages. farents decided they could construct soma of the teaching materials needed, do some of their own building modernization and also raise th money.

More than .000 has been pledged by parents to help finance the project Largely because of vacation absences, committee members say that about half of the parents have not yet been contacted. Most parents, according to John S. Gendenin, president of the school Educational Fund, have indicated support A recent newsletter authored by him said that mar than 85 per cent of school parents have committed themselves to some way in favor of the plan. A few parents have verbally 1 objected to either the plan, which includes some multi-graded classrooms intended to add flexibility to the educational program, or to the plea for private funds to supplement, already high taxes. The committee has suggested that parents donate a percentage of their yearly income.

Funds collected are being held in trust, and a special program is being planned on Sept 28 at the school at which the money will officially be presented to the school district Board ofEducation members, in turn, will have to take formal action to pledge the money to the use for which it is planned, and have already indicated they are pleased with the program. Some years ago a library was established at Grass Valley Elementary School through a similar kind of community drive, so there is legal precedent for the fund drive. Parents volunteering time to do painting to the school recently ran afoul of organized labor. Some members of the school maintenance staff are already working short I 200 only. Infants training pants.

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