8 - The Dallas Post
Dallas, PA
Wednesday, March 6, 1996
Teachers
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‘disruption.
According to Dr. Thomas
Scapaticci, chairperson of King's
‘Education Department, “Dallas
Area teachers have decided not to
take King's College student teach-
ers because of a policy the college
~ has adopted which has nothing to
‘do with the quality of our student
‘teachers or our department.”
The King's admissions depart-
mentand the administration have
adopted a policy of tuition reim-
bursement for diocesan high
‘school students, announced in
local papers in June, 1995.
The policy, as it is stated in
King's College literature, works
as follows:
‘ ~e High school graduates in the
class of 1996 who have attended
Scranton Diocesan schools, and
have applied and been accepted
for admission as full-time fresh-
man at King's College in the fall of
1996 are eligible for the grant.
~~ o The student will receive a
grant, equal to the average amount
ofannual high school tuition paid,
to be applied towards the cost of
tuition for a year at King's. Only
the actual dollar amount paid by
‘the family will be considered for
the grant.
. For example, if a student at-
tends Bishop O'Reilly, where tu-
ition is currently $3,010 annually
(more if the parish doesn't subsi-
dize) for four years, the student
will receive a grant of $3,010 for
each of the four years at King's.
Currently King's annual tuition is
$11,710, not including room,
board, or books.
. According to Daniel Conry,
King's dean of admissions, the
program's intent is to “increase
our attractiveness to private pa-
rochial schools from the Scranton
Diocese area.”
© 'He said currently 60% of the
student population is made up of
~ public high school graduates. As
a result, “King's expends a lot
more money to public school stu-
dents in terms of grants and schol-
arships, based on both academ-
ics-and need.”
“The first class that will take
advantage of this is the 1996 high
school graduating class. We've
processed roughly 40 applications
so far,” Conry said.
bi “Private school parents are pay-
ing for their high school children
double - taxes and then tuition,”
Conry said. ‘Granted, it's of their
own volition. We're trying to help
them recoup some of their double
expenses and see that Catholic
colleges are affordable.
+ According to Dr. Nick Holodick,
director of student teachers at
King's, “The tuition policy was a
college decision, not the educa-
tion department's decision.”
~ “I had three placed,” Holodick
said. “Then we got a phone call in
early to mid January from Gil
Griffiths, assistant superinten-
dent at Dallas, who was told by
Bill Wagner that they wouldn't be
accepting teachers from King's."
According to Holodick, Dallas
is the only district which denied
their student teachers this se-
mester. He was able to place the
three in Wilkes-Barre area schools
by late January.
Holodick said the majority of
King's student teachers are placed
in Wilkes-Barre Area schools this
semester. They have 23 elemen-
tary student teachers in Wilkes-
Barre, Pittston and Wyoming Val-
ley West schools. King's also has
10 secondary student teachers in
Wyoming Area, West Side Vo-Tech,
Wilkes-Barre Area and Bishop
. Hoban schools.
Holodick said it's ironic be-
cause, “This was started by
Wilkes-Barre Area. However, I
think they realized if they locked
us out for this semester that would
be unfair without looking first at
any other options. They took a
professional attitude. We feel this
is not adecision made by all teach-
ers - but made by officers of the
teachers’ association. We're not
criticizing teachers as a whole.”
“We're open lo speak lo any
teachers association toresolve it,”
Holodick said.
He then posed the question:
“Are they going to deny a Dallas
graduate attending King's the
chance to student teach at Dal-
las?”
William Wagner, president of
the Dallas Education Association
and a biology teacher at Dallas
High School, is a King's College
and Dallas High School graduate.
He did his student teaching at
Bishop Hoban High School.
He said the PSEA LCCC (Penn-
sylvania State Education Asso-
ciation Luzerne County Coordi-
nating Council) is concerned for
King's student teachers, but, “we
feel they could get their student
teaching done at a parochial high
school.” ;
Wagner said thereason the DEA
refused King's student teachers is
“Two or three months ago King's
announced a tuition reimburse-
ment policy and no-holds-barred
admission for parochial students.”
According to Wagner, the rea-
son for the objection is two-fold:
* He feels King's will eventually
“raise the tuition at the expense of
public high school students,” who
would then be paying more for the
same college education.
* They'll also be “giving paro-
chial students special treatment
by foregoing the usual screening
process for being admitted.”
However, both Conry and Rev.
James Lackenmier, King's presi-
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dent, deny that King’s tuition in-
centive program gives any special
admissions treatment to parochial
high school students. The policy
states that diocesan high school
graduates must be accepted for
admission first, before being eli-
gible for the grant.
When questioned on that point,
Wagner said that he “assumed
that's what they meant because
they never stipulated that any of
these children would be refused.”
Wagner said that when King's
announced the tuition incentive
program, the Wilkes-Barre Area
Education Association, which
takes the bulk of the student
teachers, met with Father
Lackenmier and Dr. Scapaticci of
King's, and stated that they feel
King's is using public school
children’s money to finance paro-
chial students’ college education.
They also said they weren't going
to accept King's student teachers
ifKing’s didn’t withdraw its policy.
According to Wagner, “King's
ignored Wilkes-Barre Area's re-
quest and felt there wouldn't be
enough unity within the PSEA to
exert any pressure.”
At that point, Wagner says, the
PSEA LCCC held a meeting and
surveyed the local districts to de-
termine which ones would sup-
port Wilkes-Barre Area's decision.
According to Wagner, “All but
one district participated in the
survey and all nine voted to sup-
port Wilkes-Barre Area's decision.”
He says the results of the survey
were put in writing to Father
Lackenmier.
He described the situation at
Dallas Area this way. “I sent the
teachers a memo recommending
the DEA executive board's deci-
sion and left it up to the individual
teachers to make their own choice.
The teachers got back to Gil refus-
ing the student teachers. Gil
(Griffiths, assistant superinten-
dent at Dallas) asked me what
was going on. I told him that's the
position of the DEA.”
Wagner said he feels the Wilkes-
Barre Area teachers’ decision to
take the King's student teachers
was within the guidelines because
King's tuition incentive program
doesn't take place until the fall
semester.
Walter Glogowski, PSEA re-
gional representative agreed.
“Wilkes-Barre Area adopted a
similar policy to not accept King's
student teachers next fall.”
Wagner said he feels Dallas
teachers reacted so quickly be-
cause he immediately communi-
cated to them the PSEA and DEA
stand in memo form.
However, Wagner is quick to
give credit toKing's student teach-
ers. “We feel the quality of their
education department is fantas-
tic. We're not boycotting King's
College. We have students that
attend plays and programs there.
We're just trying to get our point
across.”
In spite of the inconvenience,
Roderick, the student teacher,
said, “I can see both sides of the
issue. I was really torn. I could
see what the public school teach-
ers are saying and I support pub-
lic schools.”
On the other hand, she says;
“They have no right to tell a pri-
vate school what to do. The stu-
dent teachers are caught in the
middle. They're the ones suffer-
ing and they're future PSEA mem-
bers.”
What if future King's students
are forced to train at parochial
schools? “I would think the teach-
ing experience is just as good at a
parochial school,” Roderick said.
“But if you wanted to apply for a
job at a public school, it would
probably be better to do your stu-
dent teaching in a public school,
so you could have that experience
on your resume.”
So far, Roderick says her teach-
ing experience at Heights Elemen-
tary has been very positive. “The
teachers are really nice. On a
personal level, there's never been
an issue. Nobody's ever men-
tioned a problem to me.”
Dallas assistant superinten-
dent Griffiths also feels a certain
ambivalence toward the issue: ‘I
feel badly for students in their
senior year getting ready to go
outside in their profession due to
the fact that King's made this
decision. We should enhance their
chances. We should not be clos-
ing the door on them because of
an administrative problem on the
college level.”
He continued, “I don’t think the
college anticipated a problem. On
the other hand, our teachers are
just making a statement on how
they feel about the voucher sys-
tem.” ;
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