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greater problems with the behavior of younger and younger students, he said. The disciplinary problems with elementary-school aged children and even primary-grade children are the sort that used to characterize some secondary school students, he added.
“Ultimately it’s not fair to the children who do behave and who are trying to learn to have someone in the classroom who is out of control and is constantly interrupting,” he said. “When kids are not able to control themselves in a regular classroom, it is detrimental to the others as well.”
The alternative education program will put those students in a much smaller group than the regular program and a “much more restrictive environment,” Dr. Gangel said. There is a similar in-school suspension program at the high school.
Parent Patty Metcalfe presented a report from a committee working on improving the college preparatory program at the high school. She said the group surveyed other schools and colleges and will have a full report later.
“One thing that continued to surface is the need for greater parent involvement,” she said. The group would like to initiate a program to get parents more involved and perhaps include retirees and other members of the community, she said. They would be looking for people to help as activity sponsors and volunteer tutors, for example. She asked if the group could have a table set up at fee day to try to get volunteers.
The board agreed to support this approach. Chairman Beverly Massie said it was a “marvelous idea.” She urged the group not to restrict it to parents of college preparatory stui dents but to involve parents of children with special needs and those active in the sports and music booster organizations.
“There are benefits to kids in the elementary school when parents are involved,” she said. “It’s more difficult in high school. When students get to be teenagers parents are not as involved,” she noted. She said the students worry their parents will be “critical of how they act with their friends...It’s not like it used to be when parents were proud to say they didn’t come to school and interfere.”
Bids will be opened Thursday for 1 work on the high school sewage system. A new chlorine contact tank will be built. For the first time the
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