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SECTION TWO - PAGE EIGHT PLAINDEALER - FEB. 19, 1975 Elementary Age Children Spend Only 7 Percent Of Time In School Here is a startling statistic. After six years of formal schooling a child of 12 has spent only 7 percent of his or her life in school. The other 93 percent of the pupil's time has been spent outside the school. This puts the onus on home, church, neighborhood and community, generally, to shoulder at least equal responsibility for instruction of the young - especially for moral, ethical and social lessons. During that meager 7 percent of a child's time, the schools have an enormous amount to teach. Most children arrive at school illiterate. They must be taught reading and writing. Generally, they have only the most primitive notion of numbers and no skill in adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing. Notions of geography and history are limited usually to home ground. Music and art, with few exceptions, are areas of untapped talents. Even development of physical fitness and skill at team games is left to the schools. Nowv all that is a nearly impossible task in itself. But it is what teachers go to college to learn to teach and what ad­ ministrators go to graduate school to learn to administer. What makes very little sense, though, is for parents to expect the schools to assume major responsibility for teaching personal and social behavior as well. By the age of 12 most children have formed quite firm opinions about the sort of person they want to be. Truth telling, for example, is a particularly sticky problem for little ones. When do you confess you have done wrong? When do you tell that others have ddne wrong? Acceptable and unacceptable behaviour is generally sorted out by the age of 12 - what is fair and unfair both in what is done to you and in what you do to others. Parents can be with children for substantial periods of time. They have plenty of time for teaching social and personal behaviour, for passing on mores, for imparting folkways, for sharing religious con­ victions. The schools have the same children for just 7 percent of the time. Just barely enough to present the three Rs. Yes, parents are responsible for the other 93 percent of a child's early growth. It is a precious time - the foundation period. Clearly, the churches need to continue the job of making religious, ethical teaching very important and compelling. Clearly, local social agencies need to provide assistance when needed. Clearly, neigh­ bors should care as much about the example they set for the child next door as they do about the child who lives at their house. It's hard to reach second base, without leaving safety of first base. Mentally Handicapped Served Through SPRED Special Religious Education (SPRED) is a program for the mentally handicapped in which each person can grow in faith and his relationship to God and others. Students are divided into groups by age. The 11-16- year-olds have their sessions on Sundays from 10 a.m. to noon at St. Thomas school in Crystal Lake. On Wednesday evenings the 17-21-year-old group meets. Each session is divided into three parts. In order to develop an atmosphere of love and friendship, the students and catechists work on activities designed to make each person I EDERAL SAVINGS slow in the CRYSTAL LAKE PLAZA HOME FEDERAL PAYS HIGHEST INTEREST WITH INSURED SAFETY PASSBOOK SAVINGS Intereit paid daily from Day-of-Deposit to Day-of-Withdrawal. 5%%. * • year Compounds to 5.39% 90 Day Notice. % CERTIFICATES Minimum 1 Year. $1,000 or more. 6% Minimum 2Vi Years. $1,000 or more. 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Following this, the group moves to the celebration room where the lesson is worship, a common experience, is shared and discussed. The leader uses this experience to help each person understand the~message from the Bible in relation to his own life. The session concludes with time for the members to socialize with each other. Refreshments, games and singing help strengthen the Christian friendships that have developed within the group. SPRED will holdanopen house March 2 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. in Beddoes hall of St. Thomas school in Crystal Lake. Everyone is invited to visit and learn more about the program. For further information, call Mrs. Robert J. Allison, Crystal Lake. Bicentennial Essay Contest Opens March 1 A Bicentennial Essay contest open to all grade and high school students in Illinois has been announced by Michael J. Howlett, Secretary of State. Theme of the essays will be "What Is The Spirit of '76?". Entries of 150 to 200 words may be submitted during the contest dates of March 1 through June 1, 1975. "We were encouraged by the participation of over 400,000 Illinois students in the contest we sponsored last year to design the 1976 Bicentennial license plate," Howlett said. "The essay competition will give our young people an en­ tirely different way to express their feelings about their country." The contest will be divided into three divisions: red, grades one through four; white, grades five through eight; blue, grades nine through 12. All entries must be typed or legibly written on 8V2 by 11 inch plain white or standard notebook paper. Contest guide instructions for teachers will be distributed in public, parochial and private schools. Principals will be asked to select the two best essays in divisions in their schools. These will be sent to Secretary Howlett in Springfield.. Special sub-committees of newspaper editors are being formed in each of the twenty- four Congressional districts. They will receive and judge all entries in their respective districts and select the top essay of each division. The seventy-two essays from the twenty-four Congressional areas will be forwarded to Secretary Howlett's Bicen­ tennial committee for final judging. This committee, which selected the winners in the Bicentennial License Plate contest, will narrow the field to the best essay in each division. The grand champion will be named from the final three, receiving a $1,000 educational savings bond. The two runners- up will be awarded $500 bonds. Winners will be announced this fall. In addition, the three top essays, along with photos of the authors, will be published in the 1975-76 Illinois Blue Book. S e c r e t a r y H o w l e t t ' s Bicentennial committee is a blue ribbon citizens' committee consisting of business, professional and civic leaders in Illinois. Recruit For Peace Corps, Vista Feb. 17-21 Recruiters for Peace corps and VISTA will return to the northern Illinois area again due to the overwhelming response they received when visiting Rockford last month. In a three-day period during the week of Jan. 19, over 250 telephone calls were received, and eighty-eight applications to become Peace corps and VISTA volunteers were taken. So far, 38 people have decided to join. Catherine Weir, coordinator of the Rockford drive, at­ tributes this to the high quality people available in the area. She said, "Rockford's own awareness level is ex­ ceptionally high....This was a satisfying campaign for those who worked it, and one which produced almost 100 percent qualified, skilled, applicants. As a result of their success, representatives from the volunteer programs will visit DeKalb next week from Feb. 17-21. They may be found at the Pow Wow room of the Northern Illinois University Holmes Student center, and will be available to talk with those interested in finding out more about the programs. Announce New Driver License Station Hours Michael J. Howlett, Secretary of State, has an­ nounced that all driver license examination stations outside Cook county will close at 4:30 p.m. Wednesdays, beginning Feb. 19. Secretary Howlett said new Saturday hours are providing more service and convenience to Illinois drivers than by keeping stations open Wed­ nesday nights. All downstate facilities are open from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Tuesday through Saturday. Illinois Farms Decline In '74 , To 126,000 Total farms in Illinois declined to 126,000 in 1974, according to Jimmie D. Lucas, county executive director. Nationally, the number of farms declined by ap­ proximately .5 percent from 1973 to 1974, said Lucas. This compared with declines of .9 percent in 1973 and 1.2 percent in 1972 and shows a slowing in the rate of decline. A report issued recently by the U.S. Department of A g r i c u l t u r e ' s S t a t i s t i c a l Reporting service (SRS), in­ dicates that total land in farms also declined again in 1974, this t i m e b y a p p r o x i m a t e l y 1 . 7 million acres. Total farms at the end of 1974 were placed at 2,830,490, down from 2,843,890 in 1973. Total U.S. land in farms was put at approximately 1.09 billion acres, Lucas said. The trend toward larger farms was also continued in 1974, Lucas said. Nationally, the average size of farms was 384 acres, an in­ crease of one acre over 1973 and 52 acres larger than 1964. Preliminary SRS estimates indicate that 1975 will see a continuing move toward fewer, but larger U.S. farms. P U N C H L I N E O F T H E W E E K SOME COLLEGE EDUCATED WOMEN CAN COMPUTE THE AREA OF A TRIANGLE, BUT CAM'T FOLD OR PIN ONE. eJ nniimi"'""!""" || / FARMERS! II ATTEND OUR JOHN DEERE FARMING FRONTIER SHOW SAT. FEB. 22,1975 LUNCH SERVED 11:30 AM. SHOW STARTS 12:30 P.M. HUNTLEY FARM STORE PH. 312/669-5126 RTE. <47, HUNTLEY, ILL.