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Home-school debate continues COMPILED FROM LOCAL LOCAL see more positive results coming out of the home-school setting There's a sense of self-confidence and positive self-image (among those Bert Juhala Cornerstone Christian School tendent Judges the parent to be otherwise to teach Parents who take responsibility for educating their own children must organize a curriculum see that complete academic records are kept and have their child take a standardized test annually The law represents a compromise between those who want home-based Instruction with no government interference and those who oppose home schooling entirely- Local school officials did not relish their new responsibilities under the revised law particularly because no additional funds were allocated to cover those duties Some are worried that there is no way to monitor what is really being taught in home schools really concerned for the said Alice Cooley administrative assistant for elementary education in the Vancouver School District the one hand the Legislature defines so strictly what goes on in public schools On the other hand saying parents can do this but it's very A sampling of local school districts shows that some families are taking advantage of the new Disgruntled library employees protest at director's doorstep Unhappy employees of the Fort Vancouver Regional Library System brought their complaints to library Director Ruth Watson's doorstep Saturday About 20 library employees protested what they called unfair labor practices by carrying picket signs and marching back and forth in front of home at 7612 Michigan SL The protest lasted about an hour Bryan Leeder acting president of the union local chapter said the picketed came to Watson's home let Ruth Watson know that as director she has ultimate for problems at the library Employees and managers at the library have not been able to agree on a new contract No one answered the door at Watson's home Saturday Council to discuss annexation tactics Monday The Vancouver City Council will discuss tactics and policies to encourage annexations at 4:15 pm Monday at City Hall 210 13th St The council will weigh setting up a panel to act as a clearinghouse on information about prospective annexations Between 4 and I pm Monday the full council will meet twice in sessions closed to the public once to discuss a transfer of some property and again to discuss pending litigation Shortly after 6 pm a committee of the council will meet in a closed session with the board of directed of the Vancouver Humane Society to discuss the contract with the agency Public hospital district on forum agenda Tuesday The ballot measure to create a public hospital district in Clark County will be discussed Tuesday at a forum sponsored by the Clark County Coalition on Health Care The forum will be at 7:30 am in the community room at the Clark County PUD building 1200 Fort Vancouver Way Representing both sides of the issue will be the Alliance for Two Hospitals and Southwest Washington Hospitals The alliance wants a hospital district in an attempt to keep Vancouver Memorial a full-service hospital Officials of Southwest Washington Hospitals the corporation that operates Vancouver Memorial and SL Joseph Community hospitals say a public hospital district is not needed Each side will have 20 minutes to present its position Questions and answed will follow The hospital district measure will be on the Nov 5 ballot Covington to celebrate anniversary with roast Covington Junior High School will celebrate its 25th anniversary with a pig roast and barbecue at the school Saturday The event from 11 am to 3 pm is open to current and former Covington students staffed and community members Admission for youngs ted grade six and under is $150 Admission for adults is 6250 Adults who bring a salad hot dish or dessert will be admitted for 2 Admission Includes a meal of pork or hamburgers salad roll or potato and drink The event will feature historical displays exhibits of student work a curriculum fair and toud of the school At noon current and former students will present a program on the history of Covington Miss Clark contenders have Nov 15 deadline Young women who want to be contestants in the Miss Clark County Scholarship Pageant have until Friday Nov 15 to sign up Organized are seeking applicants between 17 and 25 said Pat Kuehlwein secretary for the Miss Clark County Pageant Committee Tryouts will be scheduled about two weeks after all applications are in Kuehlwein said The pageant is set for April 4 and 5 For application forms call executive director Connie Sharp at 693-6093 Committee members are planning two fund-raised to help pay for the event Glass Reflections a haidtyling salon at 6204 NE Highway 99 will offer haircuts for $6 and fingernail painting for $25 on Saturday Oct 26 Proceeds will be used for the pageant's scholarship fund Four arrested for alleged sale of marijuana Four people were arrested Friday night after they allegedly sold marijuana to a Clark County sheriff's detective at Wintler Park The detective was assisting Vancouver police who have been receiving reports about drug sales at the park for several months Those arrested and booked into the Clark County Jail for investigation of delivery of marijuana at 63000 bail were Dunny Glenn McConnell 18 of 10206 NE 50th Ave David Salisbury Vicrs 18 of 13016 NE Eighth Court and Robert John Tjorlker 18 of 3415 SE 141st St Portland Dawn Renee Stein 16 of 8309 NW Seventh Ave was taken to the county's juvenile facility By MICHAEL ZUZEL Thu Columbian For some parents dissatisfied with conventional schools there's no place like home Long a controversial topic among educators government officials and religious groups home schooling has become even more discussed in recent years Chief among its advantages say advocates is the home school's ability to incorporate religious teachings and family values into academic subjects In addition proponents say home education can bring families closer together and produce students with academic abilities equal to or greater than those of youngsters in conventional school settings feel that it's very definitely a growing said Bert Juhala home school coordinator for Cornerstone Christian School very successful You see more positive results coming out of the home-school setting There's a sense of self-confidence and positive self-image (among those Others have not hem sold on the concept Public school officials and groups express concern that not all parents have the necessary academic background to effectively teach their children at hone And they add few home schools can provide the range of instruction available in conventional schools particularly when students reach their middle school and high school years Critics also warn that children taught at home often have little Schools From Page A1 Daily activities are similar to those in public schools with reading language spelling math and science lessons The little school has a pottery kiln for crafts projects Shisha takes daily piano lessons The school day usually is over by 2:30 pm Much of the curriculum has a religious emphasis incorporating just seem to be growing so much more It's one-on-one You can sit and explain and if it takes going over it 10 times you have the time to do Sharon Ortega Christian teachings and values A lesson in punctuation includes phrases such as is our friend" and Bible is One reading text a part of the Bible Nurture and Reader Scries consists of Biblical tales written for youngsters So far the youngsters' performance has been excellent Ortega said just seem to be growing so much she said "It's one-on-one You can sit and explain and if it takes going over it 10 times you have the time to do WIRE NEWS SOURCES ALLEN MORGAN law Seven families with a total rf 11 children have Informed Vancouver school officials that they are educating their children at home 18 families have done so in Battle Ground two in Evergreen and two in Camas HOwever some parents who educate their children at home may not notify public school officials Others are not required to do so Thirty-four families in Clark County participate in a home-schooling program through Cornerstone Christian School an approved private school affiliated with Crossroads Community Church Children in those families although receiving the bulk of their instruction at home are technically enrolled at Crossroads and therefore do not need to notify their local school districts Some school officials expect home schooling to become more popular as a result of the new law But few expect any wholesale exodus from public schools if for no other reason than because home-based instruction can prove difficult and time-consuming for parents And it is almost impossible when both parents work outside the home Other parents reconsider home schooling once they consider what it might mean for their children years later think at first blush it looks good to Camas Superintendent Dick Mariotti said "But after they think about the end of the line credits graduation and college it becomes a little less attractive to them" for everyone You really have to be dedicated You can't get up in the morning and say Oh I don't feel like doing it It's not really easy but it's fun and worthwhile and is property tax deadline Thursday Oct 31 is the deadline for paying the second half of 1985 property taxes in Clark County "People need to be reminded They tend to Clark County Treasurer Doug Lasher said Friday Only those who didn't pay all of their property Uses by April 30 the annual deadline for either full or partial payment need worry about the Halloween deadline Interest will be assessed on overdue tax bills beginning Nov 1 Lasher said From Nov 1 to Dec 1 the interest is 12 percent on the unpaid balance After that an 8 percent penalty will be added he said The owners of about 40 percent of the county's roughly 89000 taxable parcels of property pay their bills in two halves Lasher said bills have been coming in fairly welt and faster they come in now the cheaper it is for us to process them" Lasher said That is because he win have to hire fewer if any temporary employees to help process the bills and payments Lasher said he would prefer that property owners mail their pay-menu to the county at PO Box 5000 Vancouver 98668 opportunity to socialize with youngsters their own age and can become socially retarded for that reason much of education is really said Tim Carman assistant superintendent of the Battle Ground School District not just a matter of (academic) Despite such warnings many parents have opted for the hone-school alternative particularly for children in their grade-school years Reliable figures are hard to come by but some suggest as many as 3 million families nationwide are educating their children at home In Washington 5000 to 10000 youngsters are thought to be getting their education in their homes Until this year the parents of virtually all those children were violating state law although that law was rarely enforced Under a new state law home instruction is legal if one of the following qualifications is met: the family is supervised by a certified teacher for an hour or more a week the parent has completed at least one year of college or a course in home-based instruction or the local public school superin A small building formerfy wed for Ortega sees few drawbacks to teaching her children Shisha and Eric have plenty of opportunity to socialize with children their own age after school and on weekends she said Tim Hedges Meanwhile a New York attorney was flexing his mental muscles The attorney had emerged victorious in the second and third shows winning a total of 625000 In the fourth show he set the all-time single-program record winning another 625000 had some good contestants on this season but this guy was from another planet or something" Hedges said didn't want to have to face this guy It would have been like cannon Nonetheless when program officials asked for volunteers for the taping of the final show Hedges stepped forward Along with the storage serves as a one-room sdioolliousc for the Ortega chikfccn WASHINGTON 'Jeopardy' to test librarian Vancouver woman appointed to N-waste council OLYMPIA Gov Booth Gardner has appointed Phyllis Clausen of Vancouver one of 1 1 new members of the Nuclear Waste Advisory Council The panel advises the state Nuclear Waste Board on storage of highly radioactive nuclear wastes Hanford in Eastern Washington is one of three sites being considered as the nation's first deep geologic repository for the wastes Clausen 61 of 400 Monterey Way is a board member of the Friends of the Columbia Gorge and a former teacher COMPILED BY ANGELA "The house I think has suffered a bit because it doesn't always get dusted and the toys always get picked up every she said wouldn't say it would be right attorney and another contestant he took the dive into with emcee Alex Trebek leading At first Hedges and the attorney stayed fairly even Hedges said he was anxious to sink his teeth into the category but able to hit his buzzer fast enough to give it a chance The two each ended the first round with about 62200 In the Jeopardy" round the attorney pulled well ahead racking up 67300 to Hedges' 64300 Hedges missed two daily doubles including one on Abraham Lincoln's opponent in the presidential election should have got that Hedges said was a history major in college" By the time of Jeopardy" the third contestant had dropped out with a deficit The Jeopardy" category: America" The answer was: populous state has had the most Miss The question? Viewers will have to watch Nov 8 for the outcome For now Hedges said he enjoyed the experience even though much of it is just a blur in his memory just go by so fast you cant concentrate on the scon or anything You have to concentrate on the questions" he said "It was greaL do it again in a minute" CORRECTIONS By MICHAEL ZUZEL The Columbian The answer is: a Vancouver school librarian who will appear as a contestant on the television game show next month The question is: Who is Tim Hedges? Trivia fans can watch the 41-year-old Hedges test his knowledge in such categories as "Abraham Lincoln" and "the when the show airs Friday Nov 8 Hedges a librarian at Fruit Valley and Benjamin Franklin elementary schools won the chance to appear on the popular program after auditions in Portland last May He survived two mock matches a written test and an interview and was chosen to appear at a taping in Los Angeles Aug 12 Hedges thought his chances were pretty good always been a reader the kind of person who reads the paper every day from front to he said always enjoyed the program (Jeopardy) because it's based on skill and not luck like so many of these programs" Hedges drove to Los Angeles and showed up at the studios of KTLA for an afternoon and evening of taping Five half-hour "Jeopardy" programs are taped in a session and Hedges waited to be called to the contestants' box The Colambiaa strives for acciracy ia all its stories Yet errors still might be made If you have seen a mistake ia aay of our aews stories please call as at 694-3391 834-4115 for Camas residents so we caa make a correction Callers should ask for Information Editor Mary Ricks ia the aews department between 8 am and 3 pm Mondays through Fridays Cosell withdraws after TV Times was printed Today's TV Times cover shows Howard Cosell as a member of the ABC team assigned to cover the World Series Wednesday it was announced that Cosell bad withdrawn from the announcing team TV Times was printed Tuesday a day before the announcement Assigned to ABCs team will be A1 Michaels Jim Palmer and Tim McCarver Michaels and California Angels outfielder Reggie Jackson will handle the pregame show LOTTERY WINNERS TRIPLE CHOICE Friday's winning number 363 Saturday's winning number 865 LOTTO: Last week's winning numbers 08 09 12 19 22 24 4 A 4 I.