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Show Things are getting brighter around the house. Manufacturers now are bringing out mops in lime, lemon and other colors; green, blue and yellow clotheslines; clothes-lines; pots and pans in all colors of the rainbow. Student Conduct Problems Aired by High School PTA Student conduct was the subject of group discussions dis-cussions featuring the first high school PTA meeting held Wednesday evening of last week under direction of President Ernest Boyer. 4 After a general assembly at which Ronda Jefferios gave violin numbers accompanied by Kay Christensen, group meetings were held and later the parents re-assembled to hear a summary of the various discussions. Students were also in attendance to express their opinions. In regard to the automobile problem, Mrs. Lee Miner, spokesman spokes-man for that group, reported that it was generally agreed that the prevalence of under-age driving could not be blamed as much on the young folks as on the parents who are allowing such practices. They pointed out that allowing a boy or girl to break the law in this respect would encourage breaking other laws. The group went on record rec-ord as favoring giving teenagers learning permits at 15 12 years instead in-stead of waiting until 16 to better prepare them to become licensed drivers. They also thought that driving a car to and from school was not objectionable so long as it did not interfer with studies. A need for better parking around the school grounds was emphasized and the present police system was commended in the group meeting, for which May Anderson was moderator. mod-erator. School Attendance In the attendance discussion, reported re-ported by Boyd Wilson, it was stated that so far there has been 97 percent average to school. However How-ever he pointed out that this meant between 35 and 40 students absent from school each day. Because most of the absence occured during dur-ing the hunting season, a recommendation recom-mendation was made that school calendar be revised to allow for special events either to begin school earlier or to extend the school year. It was brought out in the group moderated by Reese Anderson, An-derson, that the evils of absence from school were loss of state funds; loss of teacher effort and the breaking of school attendance laws. It was generally felt that sports have not infringed on the school attendance to any marked degree. Social Behavior In a discussion on student behavior be-havior conducted by Leo A. Cran-dall, Cran-dall, moderator, the students reported re-ported that in a student survey it was found that 87 percent of the students disapproved of smoking and drinking. Seven percent approved ap-proved and six percent were neutral. neu-tral. However a great number of students reported they did smoke and drink "occasionally" when in a group. Principal Paul K. Walker reported that smoking and drinking drink-ing took place mostly in cars off the school grounds and that the drinking problem is most evident when students are in other towns to dances, etc. He reported that the inter-school council had decid- . ed that any student found drinking drink-ing woudl be reported to the principal prin-cipal of the school he attended and would be disciplined. The group generally felt that this was another anoth-er problem in which the parents had a great responsibility. A spirited discussion evolved around the current practice of dancing the entire evening with one partner. Student representatives representa-tives reported that while some liked lik-ed the idea, a large majority were against it. Some suggested the use of dance programs and changing partners, others securing outside outside help by way of a trained dance manager to assist students in injecting more social dances and mixers into their dance evening and a group of the leaders in the school be the ones to break new ideas into the dances. It was felt by the group that this practice at the dances encourages encour-ages the "going steady" habit acquired ac-quired by students even those in junior high school and that it also had a definite effect on the "necking "neck-ing problem" at school. The discussion dis-cussion group was represented by Jimmy Lawrence as spokesman. |