responsibility for part of the tuition payment. Localities are

responsibility for part of the tuition payment. Localities are liable for 40 per cent of tuition payments with state and federal sources picking up the remaining 60 per cent only if the LD child’s family had an income below $5,000, according to Mrs. Massie. “I think we should find out if the parents are financially able to pay part of the costs,” she suggested to Superintendent William Bloomer.

Grade Placement

Controversy

Herbert B. Smoot appeared before the School Board to protest the assignment of his son William to second grade. Smoot’s case was intended for executive session but was moved to open session upon his request.

Assistant Superintendent Hogan reported that William Smoot had been promoted last year from junior primary two, a readiness program, to regular second grade. The child’s father, said Hogan, was under the impression that his son had been promoted to third grade.

“I wasn’t under any impression,” Smoot interrupted. “I’m going with the facts on the report card.” He maintained that William’s report card had shown the boy promoted from second to third grade.

Report Card Lost

Hogan told the Board that Smoot didn’t have a copy of the report card and added that school records indicated the child was promoted from junior primary to regular second grade.

“A Placement Committee meeting is in order,” suggested Hogan, at which administrators, teachers and the public health nurse will review all of William’s records and consider his grade assignment.

A committee meeting had been scheduled for last week in time for the School Board meeting, according to Hogan but circumstances required postponement.

Smoot maintained that more than enough time for a meeting had elapsed since he first contacted Dr. Bloomer about William’s placement or the second day of school. He told the Board that his child hated to go to school as a result of the assignment problem.

Smoot described his son’s

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