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Title I
Praised
To the editor:
I would like to take this opportunity to congratulate this newspaper on the thorough and objective reporting of the Title 1 issue. I would also like to commend Dr. Bloomer and Mr. McDaniel for their objectivity in reporting the facts on the progress and lack of progress: progress in the labs offered to grades 4-7, lack of progress in classrooms 1 and 2. " It was my experience that even though I called this fact to the attention of the former Title 1 superintendent, the response was vague indifference.
Therefore, 1 think it should be clarified that most of the complaints are in fact regarding the primary "Open Court Classroom Title I program. The reported level of achievement speaks for itself. Most of the parents I am acquainted with who had children in this program had little or no knowledge of what sort of program Title I was expected to render or what to do about the fact that our children were failing.
Therefore, like myself, in the beginning I did not know my complaint was one regarding Title I. Most parents did not know they were supposed to be consulted regarding their child's need or lack of need to be placed in or to be a participant in a Title, program. Parents are to be kept informed as to the child's progress.
I was told almost two years ago that my child would spend three years accomplishing two. How can anyone premeditate a childs development? How strange that seems now since test scores heretofore concealed revealed him considerably above grade level in January of his first year. Title I
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