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Show TT Page B8 Wednesday, November 23, 1988 Park Record TTTTT Superintendent apologizes for releasing private memorandum By RON GEORG Record staff frriter Park City Superintendent of Schools Dr. Ron Mclntire has issued a public apology direcrted at Treasure Mountain Middle School teacher Betsy Bacon over an issue he once said "she brought upon herself."" The issue came up at KPCW's "Meet the Candidates Night" for school board candidates. Challenger Greg Schirf accussed incumbent Ed Axtell of breaking board policy by approving a school field trip. The field trip was a three-day outdoor out-door education trip taken by Bacon's fourth grade class. Bacon said the trip was organized quickly, but according ac-cording to board policy. At the candidates can-didates night, Bacon told Schirf to "do your homework." She formalized formaliz-ed the directive in an "As I See It" to the Park Record, when she advised, "it is your responsibility to verify the information by consulting primary sources." That appearantly prompted Schirf to go to the district office to get more information on the dispute. Dr. Mclntire then gave Schirf a memorandum from Treasure Mountain Moun-tain Middle School prinicpal Linda Davis, written to Dr. Mclntire. The memorandum accused Bacon of skirting procedure to attain permission per-mission for the field trip. The memorandum was written at Dr. Mclntire's request, and it was later presented to the board of education in executive session. According to Bacon, that presentation presen-tation made the memorandum priveleged information. Such information infor-mation is not available to the general public, and a candidate for office does not have a right to see it. Bacon set about pursuing grievance proceedings against Dr. Mclntire, alleging the memorandum could have swayed the election and should not have been released. Dr. Mclntire's differences with incumbent in-cumbent Axtell have been well-documented. well-documented. Axtell, who was on the team which picked the superintendent, superinten-dent, was one of three board members last spring who voted not to renew Dr. Mclntire's contract. Dr. Mclntire has suggested that if these differences could not be resolved, he would leave his position. posi-tion. "The question, 'what am I going go-ing to do if so and so is elected' is silly. sil-ly. We've been spending too much energy on politics; there comes a time when you have to ask yourself, 'Am I in the way?'" Mclntire had originally refused to apologize to Bacon, saying, "She challenged Greg. If you want to get into political mudslinging, you have to be ready to live with the consequences." conse-quences." Mclntire's public apology raises questions about whether or not he was within his legal bounds in releasing the information, but the superindent refuses to comment on an legal angles of the issue. "We're into a process that is confidential as far as the teachers' contract is concerned." con-cerned." said Mclntire. As of press time, neither Axtell or Bacon could be contacted for comment. A d . , - t V, i-' I 1VJ Randy Hanst-jt Look ma, I've made Varsity! Ralph Hale basks in the sports spotlight for a moment as football players Darren Bean and Shawn McMillan present him with a letter jacket for his efforts on behalf of the football program at Park City High School. Hale is retiring from his position on the Park City Board of Education this year. ' i.i v' i."". 'j 'i.. yiu m i).im.inw!iwi..y.inMI ,mm n ! ! I " I I ' i.-y , f j& -I. ' ? -,. . -. . ' . -.r ' ! ni l mr- ' i r f . : ' v - Julie Stewart, Park City High School Student Body President, editor of the school paper, and track star, is a good example of a student who is taking advantage ad-vantage of every opportunity oppor-tunity Park City High School has to offer. ATTENTION WOMEN Nurse researcher wants to interview women between 30 and 45 years of age. The value of women has too long and too often been overlooked. This interview will focus on womanhood; the joys and the difficulties. If interested, please call Marty Rhea at 649-1719 to set up an appointment. OKI. r s RonGeoro From PCHS, Page B 7 with their peers. However, some are students for whom the mundane setting set-ting of a school room is not enough. "In some situations it doesn't matter where the student is placed, things just don't work. No matter how many changes you make in the setting, set-ting, the student won't respond. We offer help, they have to take it." Many of Schaub's students do return to their regular schedules, and they are prepared for the academic schedule by then. That's because Schaub's students are on the same core curriculum as the rest of the school. "The difference is in the amount of time," said Schaub. "I give more time to complete work, and I can give them more of my time to help with their studies." While Schaub does teach the entire core curriculum, his students are not completely separated from the school. The most a student will see Schaub in a day is four periods out of seven. While Schaub was honored by his co-workers for his work, other teachers at the school have been recognized at the state and national level. Linda Preston and Bill Kahn have both received the Presidential Award for excellence in science and math teaching, and Craig Watson is this year's Utah Foreign Language of the Year. Park City High School students are also noteworthy acheievers. Each year, about 75 percent of the students taking Advanced Placement Place-ment tests earn college credit from those exams, and students score in the top IS percent of the country on standardized ACT tests. The school has also developed the best record in Utah in the Academic Decathalon competition. Decathalon is a series of tests administered to students in various grade categories designed to test a school's all-around academic ability. Last year's team went to the national na-tional level, where the school performed per-formed admirably. Their standing wasn't high, but they were going up against much larger schools with greater resources. Park City High School has been steadily improving in test scores over the past decade. Part of that climb reflects the communities com mitment in recent years to support a higher level of public education. The high school is the only school in the district which has been able to maintain .reasonable class sizes. However, in the next couple years, the bulge currently felt in the middle school will move its way up to the high school. At the same time, planners have predicted continued growth in the Park City School District, so the bulge could get larger. Like the other two schools in the Park City School District, Park City High School is producing good results. Also like the other two schools, the high school is going to have to expand ex-pand sometime in the near future. Not only will the district have to do more construction, more teachers will need to be hired to keep student stu-dent : teacher ratios low . Park City has created an exceptional excep-tional school district, but the incoming incom-ing board of education may be asking ask-ing Parkites just how far their financial finan-cial commitment to good schools will go. 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