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Show Scfcsl OvcFtFouding Still A Real Problem By ROSELYN KIRK Parents and teachers from Burton and Kaysville Elementary Schools in Kaysville Kays-ville did not get a commitment commit-ment from Davis County School Board about how overcrowding conditions in those schools will be handled next fall. That situation will be alleviated by the fall of 1979 when the Samuel Morgan School opens in the fall of 1979. SUPERINTENDENT Ber-nell Ber-nell Wngley did say that the district does not plan any split sessions at the Kaysville school. Teachers and parents said that rumors about split sessions, busing and temporary tem-porary classrooms were rampant ram-pant and questioned whether the school board would make a decision soon. : They were told that final decisions on the placement of students for the 1978-79 school year would be made on the last board meeting before the conclusion of school. Students receive their assignment for the following year on the last day of school. Superintendent Wrigley said that waiting until un-til late in the spring allows the district to study enrollments enroll-ments and new subdivisions, resulting In the best placement of children. LUCILE Reading, school board president, said that contrary to rumors, there has been no discussion of split sessions at either school. One spokesman argued that studies show low productivity when children are slotted into late afternoon classes when a split session is required. Parents from the Mutton Hollow area requested that their children not be transferred trans-ferred to another school prior to the opening of the Samuel Morgan School, specifically to Layton schools. BUSING PLANS would not be resolved until the end of the year, Superintendent Wrigley said. But he pointed out that it has often been necessary to transfer children back and forth from outside the boundaries of the community com-munity until growth requires the construction of a school in the area. Parents argued that, since the children in Mutton Hollow had been moved once, they not be moved again. The board made no commitment, but told parents the decision would be made late in May. Superintendent Wrigley said the Samuel Morgan School, when opened, will accommodate ac-commodate students in kindergarten kin-dergarten through fifth grade, just like other schools in the Kaysville and Farming Far-ming ton areas. SUPERINTENDENT Wrigley did not guarantee parents and teachers that there would not be busing for students. "We try to avoid busing, but have had to do quite a bit of it." The board did not discuss the matter of using portable classrooms at the Burton School, but that appears not to be the plan since two weeks ago, when they approved the purchase of nine portable classrooms for four schools, the Burton school was not named as one to receive a portable unit. The Morgan School will be a 21-room facility, the board said earlier. |