Observer_1984-09-19; East Rockaway/Lynbrook Observer

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INCORPORATED VILUGE
Lynbrook
SCHOOL DISTRICT
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VOL. 32 NO. 44 Wednesday, September 19,1984 25c PER COPY
Maiden Dismissal Sought
HEADQUARTER OPENING. Congressman Norman
Lent (center) opened his campaign headquarters on Sunday,
September 16. Wishing him well are Observer Editor John
Hambel, Brian Meyer, candidate for the New York State
Assembly in the 20th District, Phil Christ, East Rockaway
Republican Executive Leader, and Dean Skelos, candidate
for the New York State Senate. Lent is running for his eighth
consecutive term in the House of Representatives.
Petitions containing the
names of 651 East Rocka-way
residents and taxpayers
demanding that the East
Rockaway Board of Educa-tion
dismiss Superintendent
of Schools Michael Maiden
f o r "negligence" and
"incompetence" were pres-ented
at the Board's regular
meeting on Monday, Sep-
• tember 17.
During the forum which
preceded the meeting, Mrs.
Eileen Campbell presented a
stack of petitions well over
an inch thick to the members
of the Board. The signa-tures,
651 in all, represent
"large voter discontent with
the policies of Superintend-ent
Maiden," stated Mrs.
Campbell. Several former
school board members
Regents Scores Reported
Calling the results of East
Rockaway High School
students' performance on
the New York State Regents
Exams "a mixed bag—very
good scores and very poor
scores" East Rockaway
High School principal
Robert Parry gave a detailed
report of this problem to the
Board at its September 17
meeting.
The scores ranged from a
100% passing rate in Busi-ness
Math, Shorthand
Transcription II and Com-prehensive
French to a low
of 37% passage in Chemis-try,
46% passage in 10th
grade math, 57% passing 9th
grade math, and only 58%
passing 11th year math. For
a more comprehensive
breakdown of test results,
see chart below.
Mr. Parry stated that in
response to this year's
results, there are several
proposals for correcting the
problem. They include: (1)
programs for parents to bet-ter
monitor their child's
progress, (2) the new
Human Relations Course,
(3) cumulative testing, (4)
» formal mid-term examina-tions,
(5) extra help on a
regular basis, (6) a reexami-nation
of field trips and
assemblies that pull students
out of their regular classes,
(7) reexamination of place-ment
of students in Regents
programs, (8) ) review of
remedial student placement,
especially in the math area,
(9) replacement of outdated
textbooks, (10) review of
regents proposals, (11)
diagnostic subject area test-ing
for placement, and (12)
computer bank of math and
science Regents questions to
better familiarize students
with Regents testing.
In other administrative
areas, Mr, Parry reported
that the current High School
enrollment is 664 students
and that fall sports are well
underway with a 18-0 vic-tory
by the Football team
over Floral Park. Mr. Ralph
Grandinetti, principal of
Rhame Avenue School,
reported that Rhame's
enrollment totalled 306 stu-dents,
and that a "Meet the
Teachers" program would
be held on Wednesday, Sep-tember
^ 19 for grades K
through 3 and Thursday,
September 20 for grades 4
through 6. He added that
school pictures would be
taken on September 26. Mr.
Maiden reported for Centre
Avenue School in the
absence of a principal there.
Centre's enrollment totals
346 students. Mr. Maiden
also reported that after a full
year of non-use, the compu-ter
system is operational and
will allow for greater accu-
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1984 REGENTS RESULTS
Subject Number of Number of Pass
Percentage
papers written passing papers Rate
Business Math 4 4 100%,
Shorthand II
Transcription 1 1 100%
Comprehensive English 87 80 92%
Comprehensive French 6 6 100%
Comprehensive Spanish 23 20 86%
Ninth year math 94 54 57%
Tenth year math 69 32 46%
Eleventh year math 45 26 58%
Biology 61 35 57%
Chemistry 51 19 37%
Earth Science 21 15 71%
Physics 25 19 76%
Comprehensive Social
Studies 88 67 76%
Statewide Achievement 30 28 93%
signed the petition seeking
Maiden's dismissal.
Mrs. Campbell asked if
she would be allowed to read
the text of the petition. Over
the objection of several resi-dents,
who asked to hear the
contents of the petition,'
Board President Richard
Meagher stated that the text
had been read at last
month's meeting and
refused to allow the text to
be reread.
The text of the petition
against Superintendent
Maiden is as follows:
Petition
Due to the gross misman-agement
of the funds of
School District 19, the East
Rockaway Board of Educa-tion
was forced to raise our
t a x e s yet again. This
increase does not in any way
enhance the education of
our children; it merely goes
towards rectifying many
errors made by the school
a d m i n i s t r a t o r . They
include:
St. Raymond's Jubilee Year
Pledge & Plaque Pro-gram.
Volunteers will be in
the altar boys' sacristy
•before and after all the
masses on September 22-
23rd to accept new pledges.
The deadline is Oct. 1,1984-
any new pledges made dur-ing
September must be paid-in-
full by that date. Thank
you.
Seagull Classic. St. Ray-mond's
5K Race (3.1 Miles).
Race will be on Sun., Oct.
14th at 9:30 AM - start and
finish in Bay Park. Mark,
your calendars!
"300" Club. Only 300
tickets will be honored, on a
first come, first serve basis -
contribution is $100 per
ticket. 100 tickets have
already been sold. For more
information • call: Barbara
Gribbon (599-5628), Cathy
Rooney (599-0457) pr
Dorothy Bock (599-8264).
Spiritual Events:
Sunday, Nov. 4th. Bishop
James J. Daly will celebrate
our 12:45 PM, Mass, fol-lowed
by a reception in the
cafeteria.
Sunday, Sept. 30th. Rev.
Peter Libasci will celebrate
our 4:30 PM Mass and will
address September's theme
of "Prayer" at 7:30 PM in.
the rectory basement.
Thursday, Nov. 8th. Rev.
Thomas Spadaro will speak
on November's theme of
"Trust - Letting Go" at 8 PM
in the rectory basement.
For the second year in
a row, transportation state
aid forms have been filed
after the deadline specified
by law;
Our elected legislators
have been forced to enact
special legislation for our
district because of our
inability to conform to the
law;
Social Security and
Health Insurance payments
were severely underesti-mated,
resulting in an addi-tion
to this year's budget of
over $23,000;
** A new computer sys-tem,
bought last year at a
cost to the district of many
thousands of dollars, has
been lying idle for almost
one full year because we
have neglected to train
anyone how to operate it;
• • Instead of an end-of-year
balance of $250,000 to
$300,000, it amounted to
only $60,000; this was disco-vered
only after $150,000 of
this fund had been commit-ted
to this year's budget;
** The public has been
left uninformed of our
financial crisis for some
time; supplies were frozen
seven months ago because
someone knew we were run-ning
out of funds.
Superintendent Michael
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Knights To Honor Dempsey
The Msgr. Walsh - St.
Raymond's Council of the
Knights of Cdumbus.will
honor Past Grand Knight
Jack Dempsey at a testimon-ial
dinner on Saturday.
October 6, beginning at 8
p.m. This gala affair will be
held at the Hewlett Point
Yacht Club, at the foot of
Seawane Road, in East
Rockaway: Tickets are
priced at just $15 per person
and may be obtained by cal-ling
Bob Fabrizio at 599-
3990.
All those in attendance
will enjoy a Hot Buffet and
will dance to the live music
of Joe Amato.
Past Grand Knight
Dempsey is a charter
member of St. Raymond's
Council. He has served in a
number of leadership posi-tions
in the Knights of
Columbus; including service
as both Chancellor and
Deputy Grand Knight of St.
Raymond's Council. During
his 2 terms of service as
Grand Knight, the council
grew to record membership
and moved into its present
headquarters at the East
Rockaway V.F.W. Hall.