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125 <br /> Faculty Changes <br /> In September, we welcomed -two new teachers to our <br /> faculty. Mrs. Nancy Thibideau, a former nurse, a graduate of <br /> the Massachusetts General Hospital School of Nursing and <br /> Bridgewater State College, is teaching our new third grade. <br /> Mr.David Consalvi, a ,June graduate of Boston State Col- <br /> lege teaches grade four. <br /> Mr. Barry Johnson, former fourth grade teacher, is now <br /> teaching grade six in place of Mr. Philip Curry, whose resig- <br /> nation, after five years of outstanding service to our boys and <br /> girls, was accepted with regret by the school committee in <br /> June. Mr. Curry is presently an insurance adjuster with Aetna <br /> Life Insurance Company in Boston, Mass. <br /> Federal and State Regulations <br /> Each year, increasingly, state and federal laws and regu- <br /> lations affect the public schools. The Lord's Prayer is pro- <br /> hibited by an act of the Supreme Court, collective bargaining <br /> is here, minimum teacher salary laws have been passed by <br /> the state legislature, kindergarten will soon be mandatory. <br /> In September the school department plans to add the ser- <br /> vices of a physical education instructor because state statutes <br /> require that space and time be provided for physical educa- <br /> tion in the daily program of every public school. <br /> This year we are again using the services of the Multi- <br /> Service Reading Center which is a Title III Program created <br /> to work with children who in spite of adequate intelligence <br /> and opportunity to learn are suffering from reading retarda- <br /> tion. Cases are selected for referral only if their I.Q. is 85 or j <br /> above, and their reading level is more than one year behind <br /> grade placement. <br /> Curriculum <br /> What is to be taught in school is constantly being re- <br /> viewed to meet the needs of this changing world. It has been <br /> said that the amount of knowledge to be learned doubles <br /> every ten years. Children today must learn more and in a <br /> shorter time. Time is our -most important element. Most <br /> schools will have individualized instruction, programmed <br /> learning, team teaching, ungraded classes, and other inno- <br /> vations necessary to speed up the rate of learning and still <br /> provide for the varying rates at which children learn. Chil- <br /> dren are constantly exposed to educational opportunities.that i <br /> I I <br /> 1 <br /> ` i <br />