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,;x . I ■ •'I piMMMil.'.. Olfie/tl Newspaper Village oi Freeport Freeport ! School Oistricl ' Baldwin .School Oistricl m FRUPORT m o w iN L a BEK € » m * n 4 4 n 4 ^ 54th YEAR, NO. 26 FREEPO R T , NEW YORK ‘ JUNE 30, 1988 • PRICE 2 5 ^ PER COPY RAP is more than music at Freeport High For the Class of 1989, next year's Freeport High School seniors, RAP is more than just a form'of music. It stands for the Regents Action Plan, and next year’s twelfth graders will be the first students in New York State to graduate under its rigorous requirements. Under the plan, created by the body that oversees all public edu cation in New York State, stu dents seeking either a Local or Regents Diploma will need 20>A credits. These include an addi tional year each of Social Studies, Science and Mathematics. For a Regents Diploma, those credits also include three units of a second language. Free- port'offers French, German, Ital- ‘ ian, and Spanish. In addWM to the required cred its,, studeuts pursuing either a _ .complete two thie^umt sequen- aRieials. cesorooefive-uiiitaadoaetlit^ . . unit sequence in English or Social Studies. The area which will undergo the most significant change is Social Studies. Betpnning with the Class of 1989, a fqurth year of Social Studies will be reqtuicd for can influence the development of public policy, which is to be the focus of the new Government course. The goverment course will not . be an examination of the gmsti- tution and_ how goverfilnent works in theory, unce that is part of the curriculum in seventh and . eleventh giadC Social Studies. It is d e s ig ^ to have students understand the forces that result in governmental decisions being made and how they, as citizens, can actually bring about those policies which will improve their world. In addition to studying issues- that affect them and whose reso lution they can shape, it is also hoped that the course can include, for those students inter est^, a government intem ^ p imgtam with tenttsifr working in offices of government United States, as well as New York State, Canada and Mexico, among others. Social Studies 9 and 10, which previously were Afro-Asian Stu dies and European Culture Stu dies, respectively, have now been combing into one course. Glo bal Studies, and taught over a two-year period. While the time spend on Western European Studies has been cut in half, the new curriculum added units on Latin America, the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. American Studies, the Social Studies 11 course, has also been revised. Formerly taught by top ics, the new course is primarily chronolopcal in organization and has been renamed US. His tory and Government. . The-Regents Action Plan also includes a new testing program. There are now Program Evalua tion Tests , iivjocial Studies in sixth and ei^th grades. Mote, significant, however, is the addi- (eontlnued on page 3) Crash injures 19 firefighters by Amy J. Vernon The new Economics com e will focus on the theoretical aind pnUM appBodiODa of econom ics, but not the historical aspects of the subject. ' .. In addition to being part of the Regents Action Plan, the new Social Studies fourth year grtiuation from high school. ^—requirement is part of a complete This will encompass two new semester-long courses: &onom- ics and P a rticip a tio n in Government: The' selecU.on ■ of the two courses was deliberate. Members of the Board of Regents believed that graduating students had lit tle groundwork in how economic systems actually operate and were unfamiliar with how citizens revision of the Social Studies cur riculum which began several years ago. The State Education Department began with the fourth-sixth grade syllabi, then worked on seventh and eighth grades and then grades 9-12. The biggest changes occurred at the secondary leveL Junior high school Social Studies now focuses on social history of the T Two Freeport .fiire trucks col- b'ded on the way to the site of a Talse alarm last Thursday, injur ing 19 firefl^ters. The Fird A p artm ent received a report of a fire on the fourth flootof72SMUlerAvemaett7:lS . , p.m. oa June SJ^awUllfSiitaiiS, Fuc CUef R |9 At7;I6pjSL,jtaftaimdttwere \ arriving a t the soene, Assistant ** chief Julius' Ellison, who was at the Miller Avenue btrilding, received.a report from Unit 218 of Truck Company 1, that they had been in an a c c e n t with Unit 212 of Hose Company 2, said Chief Maguire. . Unit 212, a pumper, had been Unit 212 “Vound up in the gas station on the comer (of Guy Lombardo and Merrick Road) and hit the gas pumps,” Chief Maguire said. “Tbere was no gas flow from the pumps.\ Traffic in the area was tied up for a few hours because of the oil and.diesel fuel that bad leaked hesidd. travelling south on Guy Lom- tMMntoSwwtNassanrnmiiiiw ities Hospital and Mercy Hoqn- tal. Their names were-_ru>L released. One man had received injuries to the leg and hands and was released the next mondng from South Nassau, Chief Maguire said. \Fortunately all injuries were bardo Avenue and Unit 218, a .minor,” said Fire Chief Richard hook and ladder truck, had been Holdener. travelling west on Merrick Road Both trucks are now being when the accident occurred. inspected by the Village Garage. , While other units were dis- . patched to the scene of the acci dent, Chief Ellison proceeded to investigate the alarm at the build ing on Milkf Avenue. The Assistant Fire Chief dis-' covered that the problem was that the fumes froin the nail pol ish or nail polish remover of one oftbeisriiiitemi of the fourth floor __ iriaieeior, eihi^ islvas|< :tha alasm. '-‘Vniedasadsocs aaa realty., really aeusitive,\ Chief EUiaon said. “When I got there, the super said he had just come from the fourth floor, andjiothing was wrong,” Chief Elluon iqid.. \Then the alarm went off again. The fumes must have sent it off. again.” Although the report was a false alarm, it was a \good intent”call. Chief Maguire said. It was not a malicious call, be said, so no charges will be pressed. ■ -'s FREEPORT HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATION waa Juno 2 6 . Parants and friandt fUM tha grand stand. spilling over riia tidat. Four-hundr^ and fifty atudanta.waia gniduatad In a splrft' of acceptance', solidarity and unity. Cynthia Taylor spoke about 'The Fraaport High School Expa- lianca,\ beforo the Prindpal. David Church, praaentad tha d aas of 1 8 8 8 for Graduation. Not tvsn tha rain kept tha graduation from going on. Jha thundarttorm stopped aarty enough for tha preparation of tha ariilarie field for the ayant,' arid a slight ^ o w a r returned after the caramony hadendad. ^ phonbyMiuricaFcrg* 1 ; 1
