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JUST SAY NO — Students at Cas

sie Hall pledged to give up

television last week, Teachers encouraged students and their
parents to play games, go for walks, and do family activities, in-

. stead of watching tv.

Students pull
the plug on tv

TELEVISIONS WERE tured
off —- and in some cases even
hidden — last week by Cassie
Hall students.

Students pulled the plug as part
of a schoo] program to promote
healthy alternatives to tv,

“We did a survey and found
that on average children were
spending between 270 and 670
hours watching tv a week,”’ says
Ieaming assistant teacher Carla
Eide. ‘‘Television was on the top
ten list of things to do for almost
every class,””

She and teacher Mary Delayouh
were. worried children were
spending so much time watching
ty, ‘that they were lacking basic
life skills.

Attention span, concentration,
creativity, fine motor ability,

- memory and interpersonal skills

were some of the problem areas
the two identified.

“TV just takes too’ much time ‘

‘out of their lives,’? says Eide. ~
‘In order to bring attention to the
wide variety of activities children
could be doing, instead of watch-
ig tv, they organized Pull the
Plug weck, from May 1-5.

The school sent home a
newsletter to parents, asking for

.. parents’ support and commitment
‘to -non-lelevision activities for

that week,

Family activities were
arganizéd every day after school,
to encourage parents to take part.
Softball, line dancing, scrabble

games, and yard games filled up
the regular tv hours for parents
and students,

“T went gymnastics and spend
lots of time playing basketball
this week,’’ says fourth grade stu-
dent Brad Carson. He usually
watches baseball games on tv,
and admitted missing them.

“‘We unplugged the tv
downstairs, but my parents just
went upstairs to watch tv,’’ says
Whitney Bruneau, gr. 6 student.
**My dad won’t give up baseball
and hockey.”

Brothers were more of a prob-
lem for sixth grader Kalvin Hill.
He has two, aged 13 and 14, and
complained they were always
watching tv.

Lanny Scott's brother hid the
tv, so no one in their family was
able to watch that week.

Anna Schachner and Caitlin
Westerman didn’t miss tv very
much. They had been- working on
preparing a play’ for’ their
classmates for three months prior
to Pull the Plug week, Another
week without tv made no dif-
ference to them.

Teachers at Cassie Hall are im-
pressed. with the cooperation and
response of the students,

“Now we just hope we can -

keep the momentum going,”’ says
Eide, She plans to follow up Pull
the Plug week, with more theme
weeks to encourage children to
continue’ finding alternatives to
ty,

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