Bethpage-Tribune_1974-05-30

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VOL. 8 NO. 28
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Thursday, May 30,1974 10 cents per copy
The Tyranny Machine
ann conroy
Part III
County wide Action Plan
To Help Alcoholics
"The opinion that snow is white must be held to be a
morbid eccentricity. It is for future scientists to make
these maxims precise, and to discover exactly how
much it costs per head to make children believe that
snow is black and how much less it would cost to make
them believe it is dark gray. Although this science will
be diligently studied, it will rightly be confined to the
governing class and the populace will not be allowed to
know how its convictions were generated. When the
technique has been perfected, every government that
has been in charge of education for a generation Will be
able to control its subjects without the need of armies
or policemen... education would aim at destroying free
will, so that, after pupils have left school, they shall be
incapable throughout the rest of their lives of thinking
or acting otherwise than as their schoolmasters would
have wished...any serious criticism of the powers that
be will become psychologically impossible. Even if all
are miserable; all will believe themselves to be happy,
because the government will tell them that it is so."
Ber trand Russell
"The Impact of Science on Society"
1953
Although the above was
written three years prior
to the onset of the
development of PPBS by
the Rand Corporation of
California, it is an ac­curate
description of that
computerized Planning-
Programming-Budgeting
System through which the
ONE PERSON AT THE
TOP will control the at­titudes,
beliefs, ideas, and
opinions of the generation
of children subjected to it
in the classrooms of the
public schools. People will
be manipulated without
knowing how their con-v
i c t i o n s w e re
generated...the slaves will
be happy in their misery
because the government
will tell them it is so.
It sounds like something
out of a science-fiction
thriller. But, the system
described above is now
functioning in New York
State. In previous articles,
we have discussed
elements of the PPBS such
as the Standard Coding
. System by which the State
Education Department
(SED) will scrutinize and
\ eventualry--control the
detailed expenditure of all
public school monies, as
well as the programs
implemented °^by local
school boards, all coded to
fit neatly into the com­puters
and data banks. We
briefly reviewed the
Statewide Evaluation Plan
which involves the ex­tensive'
testing of all
students in the state,
backed up with com­prehensive
computerized
records. Now let us look at
the PPB plan for control of
the teachers.
In November, 1972, the
New York State Board of
Regents passed a
requirement that teacher
education programs be
"performance based".
For the millions of tax­payers
who were
dissatisfied with their
public schools and the
quality of education
disseminated therein, the
new mandate came as a
breath of fresh air.
Finally, teachers could no
longer hide behind out­moded
tenure laws which
so often shelter the un­caring,
incompetent
teacher. Now they would
have to show what they
could do: now they would
have to perform; they
would be held accountable
for what they taught.
But, as is often the case
with words, there is a
hidden meaning which
only the initiated know;
(Continued on Page 6}
Commissioner Harold E.
Adams, Nassau County Dept. of
Drug and Alcohol Addiction,
announced today that its
alcoholism action plan has met
with favorable reception from the
N.Y.S. Dept. of Mental Hygiene.
According to Commissioner
Adams, the Countywide Action
Plan, prepared in cooperation
with the Dept.' Task Force on
Alcoholic Rehabilitative Ser­vices,
was described as "ex­cellent"
by Assistant Com­missioner
John Butler, Division
of Alcoholism, State Dept. of
Menta+Hygiene. The plan was
submitted to Albany last month.
The Dept.'s plan pinpoints the
following needs to be fulfilled in
order to augment existing
alcoholism services and facilities
provided in Nassau by the Dept.
of Drug and Alcohol Addiction
and by private organizations.
According to priority, these
needs are:
o Expansion.of the Dept.'s 10-
bed Alcohol Detoxification Unit
at Nassau County Medical Center
from 10 beds to 20. Plans are
being worked out for this
doubling of capacity in 1974.
o Satellite outpatient services
for individuals who do not require
medical detoxification and
outpatient and aftercare services
for those who have been through
detoxification. Satellite locations
would be chosen according to
demonstrated need. Satellites
also will offer services to the
families of alcoholics.
• Effective preventive
alcohol alcoholism education at
the elementary and secondary
school levels, and treatment
geared to the needs of the
adolescent population. A
proposal, "Education Before
Experimentation," filed with the
N.Y.S. Dept. of Mental Hygiene,
is designed to teach educators
effective methods of promoting
such education in the schools.
Plans will be developed for in­novative
treatment of developing
adolescent alcoholism, perhaps
through peer approaches.
• Court referrals of alcoholics
and their families to the Dept.'s
Alcohol Addiction Services Unit.
Need for this service is validated
by almost 6,000 Nassau Police
Dept. arrests in 1973 for Driving-
While-Intoxicated. Courts should
be provided a system of referral
to appropriate services for
persons with alcohol-related
problems.
• Establishment of a six- to
eight-week inpatient alcoholism
rehabilitation program for
alcoholics needing long-term
inpatient treatment. Absence of
this service constitutes Nassau's
major gap in the delivery of
comprehensive alcoholism
services. Presently, county
residents needing such treatment
must be referred to Pilgrim State
or Central Islip hospitals in
Suffolk.
• Expansion of the Nassau
County Drinking and Driving
Intervention Program, now
limited by the State Dept. of
Motor Vehicles to only 50 percent
of those arrested on DWI
charges. Through expansion of
DDIP, originally and primarily
designed to eliminate the car­nage
caused by drinking and
drunken drivers, a larger
number of DWI offenders will be
reached earlier. The program
has affect not only on the drivers,
but on the lives of their families
as well through family counseling
and education. DDIP, opened in
July, 1973, through the support of
CountyExecutive Ralph G. Caso,
is the first such county-funded
program in the nation.
Ttye Dept.'s countywide
alcoholism program-including
Altox, Drinking and Driving
Intervention, a Family
Education Series, Recovery
House, and the Alcohol and
Alcoholism Consultation and
Information Service—was just
selected by the National
Association, of Counties far a
national award.
The Nassau County Task Force
on Alcoholic. Rehabilitative
Services, created by the Drug
and Alcohol Dept. in December,
1973, is composed of sub­committees
whose members
represent the following groups :
towns and cities; the Parent
Teacher Association; labor;
business; Alcoholics Anonymous,
Al-Anon, Alateen; the Long
Island Council on Alcoholism; the
Roosevelt Community Mental
Health Center; Family Court;
the County Dept. of Social Ser­vices
; the Nassau County Traffic
Safety Board; the Nassau-Suffolk
Hospital Council and Long Island
Health & Hospital .Planning
Council; Nassau County Medical
Society, and the Inter faith
Council.
New Tuition
Assistance Program
ALBANY - Direct tutition
grants under the new Tuition
Assistance Program (TAP), co-sponsored
by Assemblyman
Stuart R. Levine (R-Bethpage),
will- provide' middle income
families with State aid for the
college education of their
youngsters for the first time in
history.
Levine said that, as he had with
several other issues this year, he
held out with other suburban
lawmakers on legislative
measures until "we were sure
that our middle income families
would finally receive some kind
of relief through benefits which
could be provided by the State.
"TAP will enable students
from famiKes with average in­comes
to pursue the field of their
choice at either private or public
institutions," stated Assem­blyman
Levine.
"Maximum annual grants of
$1,500 for tuition costs at private
institutions of higher education
will be made to students from
families with net taxable incomes
(Continued on Page 7)
Late Bulletin
The deadline for filing petitions for three seats on
the Bethpage Board of Education was midnight,
May 29, 1974.
Candidates for the seat of Richard Gorman:
Edward Marczewski
Michael Verderosa
Kestutis Miklas
Henry Pozio
Candidates for the seat of Herman Slavin:
Jeffrey Schuckman
Joseph Parisi
Elizabeth Marinuzzi Gackowski
Candidates for the seat of Elizabeth Regan:
Lee Hilton
Jeffrey Schuckman
Mr. Gorman and Mrs. Regan are not seeking re­election.
Mr. Lee Hilton was appointed by the Board
of Education to fill the vacant seat created by Mr.
Slavin's untimely death.
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