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weeks and they’re already a year behind?" asked Board member Arthlinda Quaintance. “Then what good is it going to do?"
Hogan replied that sixweeks progress was the minimum goal.
“That's pretty minimum. 1 think," Mis. Quaintance responded.
Superintendent William Bloomer explained that the administration had worked with a special reading consultant in formulating the proposed summer program. The consultant. Bloomer said, had warned against anticipating more than three month’s progress — "the realistic maximum expectation" — for six-weeks of summer school.
Then children, even after completing summer school, "will still be below grade level?" Mrs. Quaintance asked.
"Yes ma’am. It’s a start. We can't expect to bring them all up (to grade level) in one six-weeks summer
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