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THE NEW WRK TIMES METRO TUESDAY, JUNE 7,2005 yN B3

^activists’ Taking Their Cause, and Their Babies, to the Streets Test Scores By AMY HARMON le calls for a “nurse-in” began on loteraet mere momems after :ffirbara Walters uttered a negative l^ark about public breast-feeding To Analyze ^her ABC talk show, “The View.'’ ;CThe protest, inspired by similar events organized by a growing group Schools^ Roles of pnlJkely activists nationwide to fee By DAVID M. HERSZENHORN year, brou^t about 200 women ABC’s headquarters yesterday. Schools Chancellor Joel I. Kteto litey stood nursing their babies m will unveil plans today ter a more phisiicated analysis of annual starei- fee unmistakably public venue of Co- ardized test scores feat he said wrtU lujcbus Avenue and West 87th Street. provide a clearer picture of which ■They hnld signs reading, “Shame on schools are belph^ students and View,” and “Babies are boro to be which schools are lagging behind. breastfed.” Ms. Wallers, wlw re­ g 'The new analysis. wWch will be marked a few weeks ago on the show based on the same annual reading feat the sight of a woman breast­ g and mafe scores currently used, wiU feeding on an airplane next to her compare a school’s results, grade by had made her uncomfortable, said n grade, against those of oeer schools ferough a spokesman chat “it was a O wife students staning out at generai- particular circumstance and we are K ly fee same level surprised that it warrants a protest.” B Known as a value-added approach But the rally at ABC is only the B because it seeks to judge how mudt R»st visible example of a recent H value schools add to tiwir students’ Wpve of “laciivism.” Prodded by |r R educaciwis, the analysis is attended. Schers who say they are tired of be- B to offset some of fee limitations in asked to adjourn to the baferoom B fee wAy scores are tradrtionalJy ex-. •while nursing to a public space, six J ■ amined. Slates have recently passed laws glv- ? O' .C' H 'The traditional measures, for in- H stance, make it extremely hard to _ a woman fee right w breast-feed ® determine if generaDy hl^pertorm- wherever she 'Is ofeerwise author- ] tog schools are helping their students rtsd to i-e.’’ O advance even further. ,. ■■An Ohio bill saying a woman is 9 The approach would also Identify “entitled to breast-feed her b^y In B low-{»rterming schools that are any place of public accommodation” B nonetheless bclpiug shunts make passed last month over the objection B significant progress, relative lo their of one representative who wanted to B peers. “The power in this.” Mr. Klein exempt businesses from liability for B said, 'is being aWe lo recogniw high- accidents caused by “spillage.” er-performing schools at the bottom "I really don't know any women ManijnoK Vee-1 be ne* York T«»ie» of fee pack.” who ‘spill,’” saw! Lisa Wils^ the Tamara Tsoufsouris, right, feeding her T-week-oW yesterday outside ABC headquarters as part of a protest over remarks by Barbara Walters. The value-added method Is also a mother of a 4-month-old in Fairview first step toward even more highly Park, Ohio, who helped organize a sojAisticaied methods of analyzing do it without being locked In our vlsw comparo discomfort wife see­ doctors aaribute the decline to self- given him somefeJog to tide him school performance. Once fee new nurse-in at a local deli to support fee homes.” ing breast-feeding in public to 4is- consciousness and the difficulties of over. He needed to eat.” biU. system starts to make better seme But Ms Walters is not toe only one comRirt wife seemg Interracial cou­ finding spaces where nursing seems Marilyn Yalom, the author of “His­ oat of year-to-year changes iq, . Represent atlve Carolyn B. Ma- who mighl prefer not to be cunfront- ples or gays holding hands. acceptable. tory of fee Bre^t,” says Americans’ scon^, officials can then examine kmey. Democrat of New York, held a ed with breast-feeding at dose quar­ 'it's like any other prejudice. They “To many mothers, breast-feeding views of .the ,, breast. has changed over factors feat might be innuenctog the aurse-m on the Capitol’s Canooi Ter- ; ., ters. Legislators, business owners have to gel used to it,” said Rebecca runs up against sexual attitudes time, and could change again. More scores l&e teacher absences and raiae last month as she reintroduced and family members are debacing Odes, co-lounder of “The New Mom” toward the breast.” said Dr Law- than in otb«r she said, the rhA parehtparucipaiion federal legislation to amend the Civil how to reconcile the health benefits blog, who attended the ABC protest rence Gartner, who leads fee acade­ breast is seen here as a sexual ob­ of nursing with the prevailing cultur­ “People don’t waai to see U because my's research on breast-feedtog. ject. In other states, fee value-added. Rights Act to protect women from approach has been instrumental ii) employment dlscnminatton for us­ al squeannshness toward nursing in they feel uncomfortable wKh It, and ‘’That reduces fee prevalence of “We live to a very mechanistic so- movmg toward merit-pay prograoik^ ing a breast pump or feeding their public. they feel uncomfortable with it be­ breast-feeding, which is a bad situa­ cteiy and almost anything feat does­ in which teachers or even entire babies during breaks. In interviews and Internet discus­ tion because duration of breast-feed- n't come out of a package is some­ schwl staffs. Incbdlng admfnistr^ Nursing mothers are pressuring sions. hundreds of women recount cause they don't see it.” Whether to breast-feed in public, tag is an Important factor in chil­ how suspect.” Ms. Yalora said, "So tors, secretaries and custodians, are businesses, too. Burger King ba.s de­ many nursing mofeers say, is not dren’s heaith.” milk feat comes out of a real human rewarded when a school outperforms clared that mothers are welcome to simply a matter of teing resi«i«ful Even mothers who are committed breast, we're not very comfonable its benchmarks. nurse. Starbucks — the target of a of another person's sensibiOnes. to nursing say thej' are shaken when with, it brings us too close to our ani­ In New York City, the turreat tetter-writjng campaign that asked More mothers They cite research by the FckkI and confront^ with fee hostility or con­ mal nature,” . mcthtxl of analysis looks primarily “What’s more natural than coffee Drug Admimstraiion showing feat sternation of strangers obterving The aurse-in at ABC was perhaps at one year’s tourth grade, for exam­ and roilk?” — has, loo. demand the right to fee degree of embarrassmenf a ctem, fee largest of the dozen or so held ple, versus th" previous year's fourth The moves come as fee number of nurse in public. mother feels about breasr-feedwg “Peopte make you feel like you're aroiaid the eoumry over the last grade — even though those groups American mothers who choose to plays a bigger role m determining doing something dirty, almost/' said year. Include different scents, 'The breast-feed has climbed to about 70 whether she is likely to do so than Rene Harrell, of Chantilly, Va.. “I have fee right to breast-feed ray added approach looks specifically at percent m 2003, the last year for househoW Income, length of macerni- who said she was recently asked to child without getting nasty tooks,” fee pertormarice of students who which ififormatkMi was available. being asked to stop nursing in public ry leave or employment status. leave a Delta airport lounge in Atlan­ said Patricia Lechuga, 32, who said ; main in fee same school from one from about 50 percent to 19M Many spots, including Uw? Children’s Mu­ The American Academy of Pediat­ ta as she nursed her S-month-old son. she watches "The View” every moro- year to the next. otherwise apolitical women say they seum in HunisviUe, Ala.; a knitting rics urges women lo feed their ba­ Elijah. «g while breast-feeding Itor 10- And while traditional measures found themselves unexpectedly store in the East Village, a Radisson bies only breast milk for the first six Once on the pl^e awaiting takeoff, monih-old daughter before her nap. students also focus overw'helmingly on the moving from below stale transfortned toco lactivists after Hotel lobby m Virginia; a public bus months, and continue breast-feeding she said, a man across the aisle com­ “So many people watch the show, I standards co performing at or above fieldtog a nasty comment or being in tos Angeles; and a city commis­ for at least an additlwa) six months. plained loudly aliout her into his cell­ was Jost so disappointed in them.” grade level, the new approach would asked co stop nursing In public. sion meeting in Miami Beach. If its recomniendanons were fol­ phone as she continued to nurse. On the Upper West Side, it was look al how siudents progress, re* . “We’re all told feat breast-feeding “it’s nothing against breast-feed­ lowed, the group estimates that The scene, said Ms. Harrell, re­ hard to (tod anyone to disagree wife i: gardless of where they start out. U’the best, healthiest thing you can ing. it’s about exposing yourself for Americans would save $3.6 billfen in minded her of the one Ms. Wallers her. Supporters of the value-added ap­ <to ter your child,” said Lorig Char- people who Ain’t want to see It/' said annual health care costs because desertoed, which she read about on “Are there people who are against proach say this helps w discourse koudian, 32. who started the Web site Scotty Stroup, the owner of a restau­ breast fed babies tend to require less an Internet discussion board. breast-feeding^” asked Rich Flisher, teachers from simply allowing high,- www.nur8eacstarbiicks.ajm after rant in Round Rock, Tex., where a medical care. But while more wom­ “It's just, where would you like me 30, a neighborhood resident passing performing students to coast, or being asked to use the bathroom lo nursing mother was refused service en are breast-feeding for the first to go so 1 don’t bother you by being fee nurse-in. "1 do prefer it if from neglecting fee very towest-per- nur^ at her local Siarbucks. “And lastfall few weeks, fewer than one-third are here?” .Ms Harrell said 'He wa.s not you're discreet, but hey. I’m behuid fonnmg students in favor of those then we’re made to feel ashamed to But the new generation of lacti- still nursing after six months. Some on solids. It’s not like I could hove you. Go go go.” just below gr^e level, who can meet the state standards wife just a little extra help. Chancellor Wein had initially Hunt for Missing Swmuner, ISjs Called Off pledged to unveil fee new account-’ ability system for the scan of school^ this past September James E. Sall-* By ANAMAD O’CONNOR 'Tt was like a treadnull, you swim er. die official who initially led fee ef­ m 9AK0OI lost OFFSHORE but you’re not going anywhere,” said and JANON FISHER fort w develop the method for New A squad of scuba divers looking for [■seng Jieid measuramendi and lab Jammis, a nei^feor <rf Jermaine's York Chy, left fee city Education De- a missing swimmer spent several models to try to predtci fip currents. from Crown Heights. “Jcrroaiiw was partmeni in July 20M, saying his hours searching the water off Rocka­ Science Times. Page Fl ^hng down so I grabbed hts band, work had been corapleted. way Beach yesterday morning, but then a wave came along and we both Mr. Ktein said feat the program called off their bant as a potentially went under, 801 just swam in.” ; could have been adopted earlier, but borhood of the Rockaways where Mr. Standing nearby was Jermaine’s that fee dtepartmeal was already in­ dangerous high tide approached, po­ MclXmald. and presumably Jer­ father, Delroy Coben, who express©! lice officials said. troducing an array of ambitious pol, maine, penshed is known to be par­ sympathy for Mr McDonald’s fam­ icies and programs. The swimmer, Jermaine Cohen, ticularly dangerous, elanaing fee ily but angrily blamed lifeguards for Officials said that initially the new. 16, disappeared in a violent riptide after he and three friends waded in near Beach 93 rd Street on Sunday lives of more than a dozen people in not being on hand to rescue h«s son. the last decacte akme. “They shouM make sure everybody’s .AS divers from fee Police Depan- out of the water: feat’s what feey get H system would not impose any addi- tional costs on the school depart­ ment. evening after the lifeguards left for Che day. Detective John Sweeney, a ment and the Coast Guard scoured paid for/' said Mr. Cohen. 42. a me­ Mr. Klein will describe the new ap­ police spokesman, said that the chanic who said that Jermaine had proach in a speech today at a lunch- ^arch would resume this morning planned fee same career. eota of tlie Center for Education Innor. but feat Jermaine was presumed But Norbeno Ferrer. 43, a life­ vatifMvPublic Education Assoclalton,'’ dead. ‘Jermaine was going guard at Rockaway Beach who was g a nonprofit group feat has been in- “It’s now a search and recovery; duQ- yesterday, said the riptide I volved to croating new public schools It’s no longer a search and rescue,” downsolgrabb^his on surge that dracyed the boys under Kizk Cowytes iiu The New Tajws and other educaUcm programs. Detective Sweenev ... ......... S-.ta n f alwnci In an Irtervinw yesteixlay, Lh<

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