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Greater attraction But those two in the driveway are just inâ€" fielders. They have to get the winter chill out of their muscles and the winter beer out of their systems so they’ll look snappy at the first practice. You see, rumor has it that there may be a few hot shot kids moving up this year, and that could mean the outfield, maybe even the bench. When the fourth arrives they’re off to the park for a game of pepper, not to be seen until dark and thirst brings them home. He talks things over with all his friends. Sooner or later they all drop by to take him away from the painting or pruning or digging to throw the ball around. I start to think I am living out one of those beer commercials in Jerry is never coming back. He always waits till the last moment to show up. He can afford theatrics He’s a pitcher. This is mere Spring Training Ritual. These two have played on the same team for 10 years. My husband runs out to ‘join him. They stand there in silence, bending and twisting. “Gotta ball?" “Yeah.” They put on their baseball gloves. Spring Training has begun. No, he won’t come in. He waits in the driveway. I watch him rotate his arms and stretch the knees of the new jogging suit he got for Christmas. I wafch from' the kit- chen window. u>Do'n‘t know. Jerry says he’s-not coming back." THORNHILL â€" That knock on the door tells me winter is over. “Where’re you playing?"r People keep telling me I shouldn‘t believe everything I read in the papersâ€"especially most of the stuff I write. But I read an article recently in a Toronto paper that I very much want to believe. Not just because it backs up some of the timorous beliefs I’ve held and never fully asserted before. but because it expresses the views of a man who has been all through it himself. And so it stands up all the more‘ You probably saw the story. It was in the March 31 issue of The Globe and Mail, and told about one Andrew Spowart, who had been a Grade 7 dropout and a steady drifter for many years Same old story That’s pressure 1st TREATMENT â€" FERTILIZATION 2nd TREATMENT â€"â€" WEED â€" DANDELION CRABGRASS CONTROL V regional viewpoint YOUR - LAWN LESS) PER TREATMENT PRICE BASED ON AN AVERAGE LAWN SIZE OF 2,000 SQ. FT. AT 1c PER SQ. FT DRIVE WAYS PARKING LOTS TENNIS COURTS PATIOS â€" WALKS RECREATION AREAS By Sharon Brain By Jim Irving T0 BEAUTIFY AND PROTECT YOUR CONTRACTORS YORK REGION TORONTO RICHMOND HILL NEWMARKET START- T HIS-SPRING Sharon's sunshine (WITH A TWOâ€"TREATMENT PROGRAMME) BEAUTIFY Someone has heard he is trying out for a team in the Beaches. He won’t come to the telephone. His wife says she doesn’t know what he’s doing. 7 The last practice of the season, Jerry arrives. He The coach is unim- pressed. He‘s seen it all before. The only thing that worries him is Jerry. He still hasn’t shown up. He tries out bats and finds the one he feels right attached to. He buys it for the team. They now have 15 new bats. which “Joe and the boys have been getting together for years to throw the ball aroun- I like that ad in winter. I hate it come spring. He looks vague over breakfast because he's trying to perfect his bunt. He spends his lunch hour in sports stores. And one of the ways he's clearing up that fear is by teaching them the technique of handwriting by means of simple drills, which. he says. help them increase their reading ability as well. The relationship bet- ween the two, he says, has been “underemphasized and overlooked.” Another important thing he‘s doing in the process. I feel, is discarding the labels that afterwards. Now, at 43, with three university degrees behind him, including a masters in psychology, he is back in school, showing little children they’re not so dumb as they thought they were. Shé doesn’t Simple drills of". 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REPLACE COOLANT 375 OHIO ROAD RICHMOND HILL 8849245 or 773-4227 The reason this child can’t learn, the learned people in charge say, is because he (or she) is “perceptually han- dicapped," Because the latter term puts whatever’s ailing the child into such a neat. little category. something in the manner of chicken pox. measles and mumps. And just as with those ailments, the child now has a bona fide reason to stay behind the rest. Enthusiasm builds Everyone gets happy. They feel a warmth based not only on affection, but also on need. were formerly attached to these children. Handy tags, such as “slow learners.” or worst of all. “perceptually han dicapped." “Ah,” say their equally-learned con- freres, “then he (or she) hasn’t brought a bat. They head to the pub Everyone shakes his after practice. hand, or puts a hand on “This is the yeary his shOUIdel‘S- “The tournament’s in Enthusiasm London this year. Better huilnlc apply now." Spring ball fever has hit husbands K i//s incentive RICHMOND HILL LIBRARY WEDNESDAY-APRIL 13TH-8 PM EVERYONE WELCOME SPONSORED BY: WADDELL’S TRAVEL SERVICE LTD GLOBE TRAVEL SERVICE AIR NEW ZEALAND "TAI-IITI" F/L M PRES EN TA T/ ON W/ TH Labelling children learning disabled. or slow learners, “is nonsense” says Mr. Spowart, who failed in both Grades 3 and 7. Placing them in special programs is an attempt to get them “out of the teacher‘s hair," and a sign to the child that he has somehow failed. So right away the child is set apart from the others, and right away he feels he is not too bright. and right away he has a handy tag to back him up in his belief, and right away he’s got a good reason not to tryâ€"then, or for the rest of his life. because that’s the easiest way. will be put in a special class, where we know how to deal with such things. that is. ah. people.“ “Sure, with the talent we've got? We’re going all the way.“ ("3"on SAVEAT He says, also, that They 7 are going AVAIL/SEEM” AT ALLENCOURT ayvnew 8 Marklnm Rd., Rich: Iond Hill WE RESERVE THE RIGHT TO LIMIT g UANTITIES. CHICKEN, LIVER 0R BEEF PEP DOG FOOD CHUNKS 0R SLICES DOLE PINEAPPLE DECAFFEINATED BRIM COFFEE I'I-\ UY IliA TSMATO JUICE 49¢ COFFEE MATE CARNATION FANCY IGA FRESH GRADE "A" LARGE EGGS can rightmwa 003-44 FREE ESITMATES °" THERMOSEAI. INDUSTRIES LTD. 114 BOWES RD., UNIT 8, CONCORD giving intelligence tests to young children is “the most immoral thing we ever put into the school system." Reflecting on it all. you still remember when you first heard the term “perceptually han- dicapped“ some 15 years ago. It was applied to a young niece and it baffled you. What did they mean she was preceptually han- dicapped? She was bright. warm. responsive and laughed at her un- cle‘s jokes. What were they talking about? What did they mean? She didn't learn easily. they said. You remember then that dark day way back in Grade 1 when you stood nowhere. But right now, they don‘t know it. In Spring Training, all things are possible. TI! you hum lo a THERMUSEAI. widow, Wad to mice any type d widow. Sealed um: I I!!!" dick, y'ving ahsthte Mfim wiih five veal garanlee‘ 0!“ actuating um'ts remaveable from inside hum. oArailaUe in wl'ile. ueam or blown pevrmnem filish. ‘f‘ffj'f‘ Olmtahlim in one (by W 51-0" Remember? WINDOW 001V VERSIONS REMODELLING? RICHVALE MINOR HOCKEY ASSOCIATION April 12th, 1977 8 PM. HILLCREST MALL (UPSTAIRS) We specialize in all types of GENERAL MEETING 16 OZ. JAR 1 DOZEN 2 OZ. JAR 25 OZ TIN OR DROP IN AND SEE OUR WINDOWS BEING MANUFACTURED 19 OZ. TIN 31.09) there alone at the side blackboard trying to get the gist of long division, while your teacher harped at you in the background. Had one of those handy labels been around then. they no doubt would have applied it to youâ€"you‘d already applied one yourself. But luckily a classmate whispered the magic formula to you, just as you thought your mind had closed for ever, and it all suddenly clicked into place. So it is wonderful now to see this early “perâ€" ceptually handicapped" man. who failed five RCAF‘ entrance exams in a row. before finally managing to squeeze in on the sixth. is around to strip off the labels. Sometimes it seems, you have to fail a few times yourself, and un- dergo some of the frustration and humiliation that the text books never' deal with, before you can really understand how gratuitous must labels are. Just as are most research projects, such 98¢) 79¢ 499 Wonderful as the ones deemed so necessary to the salvation of mankind by the educationists. They are only too willing to abandon honest instincts. common sense. in» telligence and care in favor of lengthy surveys in an effort to find out why the student spends all day gazing out the window. or at the girl across the aisle. 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