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Bellaire/West University
Edition
INSIDE THIS ISSUE
Calendar P. 2
Hints for Him and Her P. 5
Bellaire Connection P 6
Letters P. 6
Crossword P 9
Horoscopes P 9
Classifieds P. 10
Volume 36, Number 35 • Aug. 31,1988 . 6223 Richmond, Suite 102, • P.O. Box 571267 . Houston, Texas 77257 . (713) 783-5600 . Serving Southwest Houston Area Since 1954
Getting Tough in HISD
By Nick Herrera
Texan Editor
The Houston Independent School District
wants to get even tougher this year.
Continuing their “Get Tough” theme of last
year, HISD officials will welcome back over
190,000 HISD students this week with several
new programs designed to tackle the district’s top
two problems - drugs and grades.
Leading the war on drugs in Texas’ largest
school district, will be an army of Substance
Abuse Monitors - one in each high school - whose
full time jobs will be to seek out illegal drugs on
campus. Administrators
say students apprehended
with drugs will be referred
to school administrators
for disciplinary action,
counseling or referred to
legal authorities.
Realizing that many
students were carrying
electronic pagers to
school to sell illegal drugs
to classmates, school offi-
cials have banned the
devices from campuses
this year.
Just last year, the Texas
Legislature amended the
Texas Education Code to
prohibit students from
smoking or using any to-
bacco product on school
properly during school
hours or at any school-re-
lated or school-sanc-
tioned activity, on or off
school property. This pol-
icy will be in effect again this year.
HISD is the sixth largest school district in the
nation and in an effort to raise its academic rank-
ing to a comparable level, administrators have ex-
panded the “Get Tough" Required Academic Pro-
ficiency (RAP) tutorials to elementary schools.
Last year, HISD required secondary students
who were failing a course or who had failed part
of the TEAMS test, to attend RAP tutorials, either
before or after school or on Saturdays. In RAP
tutorials, students meet with teachers in small
groups to learn how to mke responsibility for their
own achievement, to learn how to get organized
and to improve study skills.
Also new is a voluntary Elementary School
Sixth Grade program in effect this year. Students
can choose to attend their sixth grade at one of 26
participating elementary schools rather than at a
middle school. It is believed that some students
are not ready to make the change to middle school
by the sixth grade, and will perform much better
academically within a familiar environment.
In an effort to relieve overcrowding at certain
elementary schools, a new program, called High-
Technology Elementary Education, will encour-
age students to transfer to less-crowded schools.
The schools will offer mathematics, science, Eng-
lish/languagc arts, social studies and extended-
day programs.
At these schools, students will benefit from
computers and calculators, flexible scheduling,
team teaching and other programs, say officials.
Many of the enrichment programs are based on
the “learning by doing” concept, in which young-
sters have the chance to
apply abstract skills and
use sophisticated
equipment to solve
problems. The five
high-tech elementary
schools are: Atherton,
2011 Solo; Highland
Heights, 865 Paul Quin;
MacGregor, 4801 La-
Branch; Oates, 10044
Wallisville Rd; and
Roberts, 6000 Green-
briar.
Other new programs
listed by HISD this year
include:
• A policy prohibiting
hazing. Hazing is de-
fined as any act that
endangers the mental or
physical health or the
safely of a student for
the purpose of being
initiated into a student
organization.
• All elementary school students will have a 20-
minute recess daily.
• All middle and high school students will have
a homeroom period, in which attendance will be
taken by the homeroom teacher. In addition, every
teacher will check attendance for each class pe-
riod.
• Five-year-old children can be enrolled in first
grade provided they have completed kindergarten
during the previous school year and a written
waiver is inserted in the child’s folder stating the
parent, principal, and teacher agree the child
should be in first grade. Children may be enrolled
in first grade if they are six years of age at the
beginning of the scholastic year, have been en-
rolled in the first grade elsewhere, or have com-
pleted kindergarten in the public schools of an-
other state.
The first day of school for students in HISD
schools is Thursday, Sept. 1. The last day for
Continued on Page 4.
HISD Student Calendar
Sept. 1...............
...First Day of School
Sept. 5...............
Oct. 5................
Oct. 26..............
... Parent Involvement Day *
Nov. 2................
...Early Dismissal
Nov. 24-25 ........
...Thanksgiving *
Dec. 7................
...Early Dismissal
Dec. 22-Jan. 2...
...Winter Holidays *
Jan. 16..............
...Martin Luther King *
Jan. 20..............
...Teacher Inservice *
Feb.1 ................
...Early Dismissal
Feb. 20..............
...Presidents’ Day *
March 1............
...Early Dismissal
March 15..........
...Parent Involvement Day *
March 20-24.....
...Spring Break *
April 5...............
...Early Dismissal
June 2...............
...Teacher Inservice *
* No Classes For Students
Make-up Days (if needed)
Jan. 16, Feb. 20, June 2
THIS WEEK AT A GLANCE
Business Fest 88
Business Fest 88, an after hours get-together where
business meets business will be sponsored this coming
week by the Bellaire/SW Houston Chamber of Com-
merce.
Fifty booths will be on display, Thursday, Sept. 8,
representing a variety of products and services. Location
will be the Holiday Inn-Medical Center, 6701 S. Main,
from 5 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Music will be provided by the
Downtown Bellaire High Society Jazz Band. Admission
is $8, $ 10 at the door. All Houston area business persons
are encouraged to attend. Door prizes will be awarded.
For more info, call the chamber at 666-1521.
WU Splash Bash
The city of West University will host their annual
Splash Bash on Monday, Sept. 5, Labor Day weekend. A
free swim at Colonial Park will begin at noon and last
until 7 p.m. There will be swim relays beginning at 10
a.m.. A “Family Dog Show” will begin the day at 9 a.m.
Prizes will be awarded to the largest dog, smallest dog,
best dressed dog and most talented dog. For more infor-
mation call 662-5844.
Labor Day Picnic
Creative games, lively entertainment and tasty food
arc the fare for the day at the annual Labor Day Picnic at
Russ Pitman Park.
Set for Sept. 5, from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m., the day will
feature traditional sports such as volleyball and croquet,
as well as“ncw games,” likecentipcde board walk, group
stand-up, greasy pole climb and the popular Burma rope
bridge. The fun will also include Kissy Face the Clown
performing tricks, International Folk Dancers, and the
Port of Harmony Sweet Adelines. Various food booths
will sell hot dogs, popcorn, frozen yogurt and more. The
picnic is sponsored by the Friends of Bellaire Parks.
Brad Wright speaks
Suite Representative Brad Wright will be the featured
speaker at the next breakfast meeting of the Bellaire/SW
Houston Chamber of Commerce. The morning meeting
will be held Thursday, Sept. 1,7:15 a.m. to 8:30 a.m. at
AMI Bellaire Hospital, 5314 Dashwood. Admission is
$5 at the door. For reservations, call Jenny at 666-1521.
Tom DeLay Town Meeting
Congressman Tom DeLay will host a Town Meeting
on Saturday, Sept. 10, 3 p.m. at the West University
Community Building, Senior Wing, 6104 Auden. The
public is encouraged to attend and voice their comments
and opinions on a variety of national issues.
QUOTE OF THE WEEK
“A fool always finds a
greater fool to admire him.”
Soileau
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The Texan Newspaper (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 36, No. 35, Ed. 1 Wednesday, August 31, 1988, newspaper, August 31, 1988; Houston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth641763/m1/1/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Bellaire Friends Library & Historical Society.