School Board Contender Submits Qualifications

Ivan R. Kemp; 36, an instructor at Wayne State University and the director of instructional materials at Stevenson High School in Livonia, is another candidate in the June 9 Ann Arbor Board of Education eleciton. Kemp has been an Ann Arbor resident since 1951, with the exception of two years spent in the U. S. Army Signal Corps in France. He received his bachelor's degree in history, and mastérs' degrees in history and library science, at the University of Michigan. Kemp was a teacher at Inkster High School for years and a librarian and Federal Projects Coördinator in the Chelsea Public Schools for three years before obtaining his present position in Livonia three years ago. He belongs to several professional audiovisual, library and I curriculum associations, and is a member of the State Committee o n School Library Development. Kemp lives with his wife, Marcia, and their two children at 635 Duane Ct. Kemp submitted the following I candidacy statement: "Three of many issues in this I election are: (1) Accountability I of local school boards. The school board is one of the last remaining strongholds of local government, in its having to account to the people for its programs and management of money. Some confidence in the publics schools can be restored by asserting that schools belong to the people and by demonstrating that schools can use resources wisely, can establish sound educational priorities, and can build programs within reasonable budgets. "(2) Current millage request. The current millage request continúes the steady spiraling cost of financing local schools by property owners. The choice, I believe, is not one of 'going along with the program' or not having quality education. Many school districts are supporting good educational programs with fewer tax dollars behind each student than Ann Arbor pro vides. With some imagination, with attempts by the teaching staff to explore new teaching patterns (i.e. use of teacher aides), quality basic education can be provided without passage of the present millage request. "(3) Sex education. The 'new' sex education program in the elementary schools has involved the schools in an area they know little about. Why first graders should be subjected to graphic details "about human reproduction and human sexuality is not clear to me or many citizens of Ann Arbor. How teaching about human sexuality, furthermore, can be provided children without attendant moral and religious values is a question yet to be answered by the schools. With this 'pilot program' in the early grades, the schools have entered an area where they are neither competent nor do they belong. The present program should be abandoned."