Jewish Post, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 January 1986 — Page 2

Florida is the place for using up time

By GISELA WEISZ 255 5019 Hello there! Is anybody left in snowy Indianapolis? Here in rainy/sunny Florida it seems as if everybody has abandoned the North because one can hardly

drive on the overcrowded streets and highways. Pale-faced vacationers stand in endless lines at supermarket cash registers. Florida is the place to be in January. Or is it? "Have a nice time!" they tell you when you leave. One certainly has the time here, but is it nice? Let's see. "The sun" creeps into conversations innumerable times. If the sun is shining — it's a subject; if it isn't — it is a subject again. Do you have any idea how much time is used up by repeating "sun" and "rain" 76 hundred times? A lot But is it a nice time? Then there is the discussion of meals. My memory is clouded with talks about food. During the war, when we did not have any, we fantasized about food. What will we eat and code when food will be available again. (I think my best recipes were concocted in the bombshelters in

Budapest in 1944. — sheer fantasies that time.) Here, people talk a good deal about restaurants, meals that they had, or meals they are going to have; or meals they are going to avoid, due to their constant dieting, either to watch their figures, or watch their health. This talk about food takes up a lot of nice time. Florida is filled with strangers and as I spoke to these newly transplanted individuals, I discovered yet another thing that is being done with time. Some people are shy about retiring. The more people I speak to, the more I discover that they are hiding the fact that they have retired. There are men, who can take up a lot of (nice?) time by avoiding the fact that they are no longer in the mighty working force. There is one more item that uses up a lot of time. Ahhh, I think I hit the right expression now. People's time here has to be used up! Discussions about the impending entertainment possibilities can also use up a long time on the telephone. Impending? Yes. If you consider the selection, it is impending. Milton Berle teamed up with Henny Young man. Seems they can not make it alone any more. The chamber music of Zagreb might be good...whatd'ya think? Or, let's be cultural and go to see the Tamburitzans, all right? Oh, yes, people can use up a lot of nice time discussing possibilities over the phone.

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Almost every phone call is to produce a social engagement. "Oh, yes, let's get together." And they do and what is going

the reason is to have something to talk about, of course. Walking is something that the other one doesn't do, therefore it is

topic for conversation.

Others attend lectures. There are many lectures of all kinds, in Florida. Samples: "Our Radioactive World," "Kids and Women in Distress," or "How To Buy A Condominium In One

Easy Lesson."

Malls and shopping centers are useful components of our economy. I use them often, every time 1 have to shop. What else? Ho, ho, no. Shopping centers and malls in Florida are

nothing

perfected in Florida. One would have a lot of time here for lovemaking. But the majority, as I have alluded to before, are retired. They say, the good life begins at 40, but will it continue into 70, or 80?

I doubt it

There are also many people who walk. They walk, where

to? From here to there. I suspect something entirely different sleeping. Academy students' high scores

They constitute a museum-like display. Something to walk through and ogle displayed items — in order to — once again, use up time and have something to talk about Women by the thousands and husbands with blank expressions on their faces are ambling back and forth in shopping malls. Not to shop, but merely

to look at something.

Oh yes, there is another thing that uses up lots of time in Florida, which I really enjoy and do more than any of the above-mentioned activities. It is

Continued from page IN 1 "We found that in many academic subtests throughout our grades, the actual score was higher than what we would have expected the children to be receiving." According to a source familiar with educational testing in Indianapolis, Washington Township scored 64 percent for the second grade; 60 percent for the third grade; 76 perceni for the fourth grade; 68 percent for the fifth grade; and 72 percent for the seventh grade. Scores were not available for Washington Township eighth grade students. However, Isabel Blomberg, director of curriculum for the Washington Township school system, said that it is misleading to compare Washington Township school scores to the Hebrew Academy because the

Hebrew Academy is a single private school and the scores for the township include averages for all the public schools in its

system.

"There would be no indication about the representative group, the number of kids, or the factors that are involvedin every school," Blomberg said. In addition, Marcia Goldstein, the coordinator of Bright Beginnings at the Bureau of Jewish Education, who runs testing for the early education program there, said there are problems in comparing local scores with national averages. "The problem is that in all middle-class communities, the children are going to score higher than the national norms," Goldstein said. "Therefore, our school in comparison to national norms is going to be

better. We always score way above national norms. That's natural because these kids have a good background." Stem responded that he is not sure that just because a student at the Academy is from a middle-class family the child's scores are going to be higher than the national average. "I don't know to what degree our population is different from the general population of Washington Township,” he added. In the BJE's community afternoon school, achievement and aptitude tests are not given in subjects such as reading, mathematics and social studies. However, Dr. Uri Korin, executive director of the BJE, reported that BJE students have scored 11 percentile points higher than the national average in Judaic and Hebrew studies.

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