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Parents Are Valued: A few figures will serve to emphasize the scope of the seed industry in the United States. The 1966 production of corn, for example, was 4,103,000,000 bushels, valued at $5,340,000,000. In the same year, 1,311,000,000 bushels of wheat and 2,428,000,000 pounds of peanuts, valued at $2,152,000,000 and $273,000,000 respectively, were produced. In regard to forage crops, 123,000,000 pounds of clean seeds of alfalfa,valued at $42,000,000, and 66,000,000 pounds of red clover seed, valued at $15,000,000, were produced in 1966. In 1965, out of a total production of over 4 million hundredweight of dry field peas, about 388,000 hundredweight were used for seed; total acreage planted was 241,000.
This school has a high reprographics standard. The 'leaflet' rapidly became a booklet, wire-bound, with semi-stiff covers, illustrated with copyright-free professional graphics and cartoons drawn by a pupil. Moral: if parents are valued by the school, then give value to what parents receive by ensuring it looks good. An early choice of illustration was of a teacher figure, extending a grateful hand, smiling broadly, but with an axe hidden behind his back. 'Read or else' seemed to be the message! Subsequent versions blanked out the axe. The booklet offered a brief rationale for the scheme, and
some plain advice:
Children learn first and foremost from their parents. In this respect all parents are teachers - and very effective teachers they are. Arguably, children learn more from their parents in the first five years of life than they do from their schools in the next ten. This book is about parents and teachers working together to help children with their learning; more specifically, it is about parents co-operating with teachers over their own children's reading. We have chosen the term PACT (Parents, Children and Teachers) to embody this concept.
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