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This week begins a series of
articles introducing Lancaster
County’s newest ag-ed teachers.
Robert S. Woods
“I’ve only been on the job for a
month, but I think ag-ed is just
about the best teaching job there
is,” says Robert S. Woods, the
newest ag-ed teacher at Garden
Spot High School.
Bob started on the job soon
after graduating from Penn State
in June of this year. At Penn
State, he earned a degree in
agricultural education and
minored in dairy science.
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This fall, Bob will be teaching a
senior agribusiness class, a ninth
grade introductory agriculture
class and an adult welding
course. He’ll also be assisting the
other Garden Spot ag teachers in
the shop and with FFA activities.
Fannettsburg, Pa., in Franklin
County, is Bob’s hometown. He
graduated from Chambersburg
High School in 1968.
Bob is no stranger either to
farming or to agricultrual
education activities. He was
raised on his father’s 530 -acre
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dairy farm, and was very active
in his high school FFA chapter.
His FFA projects in high school
included dairy animals, small
grain and corn, and he was
president of his chapter in his
senior year.
At Penn State, Bob was a
member of ATA, the professional
ag-ed fraternity, he was in the
collegiate FFA and he was a
stalwart of the Ping Pong Club.
Summers he worked on farms,
and in his senior year he was
employed part-time at the Penn
State dairy farm.
Bob’s wife, Faye Louise, is
from Chambersburg, and they’ve
been married since last August.
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You would think that an issue
like busing would be pretty clear
cut either you’re for or against
it. But, as is often the case, once
the issue gets before the
Congress, what should be clear
cut becomes very fuzzy.
As you know, I have opposed
strongly the forced busing
concept. There is enough
evidence to convince me that the
job of providing a quality
education for all students,
regardless of race, is not
something you accomplish with a
school bus. Busing suburban
children to the inner city or inner
city kids to the suburb may be
some social planners’ idea of
good schools, but I can’t see that
the children involved will end up
getting a better education.
Therefore, as the Education
and Labor Committee considered
busing legislation recently, I
stood firmly for a reasonable
anti-busing bill. The only way to
prevent busing from becoming an
accepted pattern in American
education is to pass strong
legislation banning the courts or
"'ederal agencies from recom
mending or ordering students
bused out of their neighborhoods
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and miles down the road.
But taking that stand became
more difficult than you might
suppose. There was a com
promise busing bill offered
before the committee that would
permit some limited busing of
students above seventh grade.
But, the same bill prohibited
busing children in sixth grade
and below to any school that was
not either the one closest to their
home or the one second closest.
In other words, it was a bill
combining some stiff anti-busing
provisions with some other
provisions permitting busing on a
limited scale.
To further complicate the
situation, the bill was opposed by
both liberals and conservatives
for different reasons. Some
conservatives claimed it did not
go far enough toward preventing
busing completely. But, the
liberal position was that its anti
busing language was far too
harsh.
One of the liberal groups
testifying against the bill was the
NAACP. This particular
testimony provided an in
teresting sidelight in the con
sideration of the busing issue
Clarence Mitchell of the NAACP
asked permission to testify
before a committee session
where witnesses are not or
dinarily heard I voted to allow
him to speak, even though I felt
certain I would not agree with
some of his viewpoints. During
that vote I was fascinated to see
some of the liberals, who always
seem to be talking about too
much secrecy in government,
voting to prevent Mr Mitchell
from testifying. But the majority
voted to hear him, and thus we
were able to listen to a very ar
ticulate spokesman on the busing
controversy.
That’s not to say that Mitchell’s
testimony did anything to
unravel the issue. In fact, it
probably helped to make even
less clear just what the effects of
the busing bill would be.
I finally decided to support the
compromise because it appeared
to be the best hope of curbing
busing during this session of
Congress
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