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Show School board seeks discipline, less truancy ,cy and discipline at Vernal d junior high schools was the f a" last Thursday's meeting of the County School Board of Ration. . ,;ne Pacheco and Dr. Bill Murphy Truancy Working Group reported bnard is fourtn quarter truancy jjr Murphy said that the jn of students cutting class 'ids and remaining in the halls is controlled by the truancy group, in gr0UP nasn t succeeded with jnls who quit school. sty.four students dropped out of last year, and sixty-five dropped His year, Dr. Murphy reported. !e said many students drop out of because they were failing one or re classes. n Pacheco said many of the jjjs or students dropping out of ,'4l are: family disfunctions, 3tal neglect, marital problems, Jital abuse, parental support to not school, total adolescent social before school starts, new stores around the school, parents sending lunch money which is spent off school grounds, and high school students involved in-volved with junior high students. Court Anderson, chairman of a parents' group which met four weeks ago about discipline at the school requested the board to authorize an administrator, teacher, studentbody president and board member to be members of the group's committee for better discipline at the Junior High. The board suggested that committee work with Dr. John Childs, principal of the Junior High, to work out a way the group can function. icture, peer pressure for negative ,3vior, drugs, low self-image, ility to function, lack of total school irict programs to support families j stated problems, minimal em-sis em-sis on school failure nonattender-iinctioning nonattender-iinctioning and prevention in -entary and secondary schools. iiitions to the truancy problem tested by the group include com-tiy com-tiy involvement, Uintah School si participation and additional jielors in elementary and secon-; secon-; schools. le presentation of the truancy sp concluded with recom-idations recom-idations that the non-attender iing group continue to function ijgh the 1980-81 school year, that i agency have an understanding of .it in regard to school failure, and sded, legal opinions be obtained to Miine role responsibilities of jcies involved. iperintendent Wayne Reid iented to the board the results of a U of 91 ninth graders at Vernal tior High School concerning Ipne problems at the school. la scale of one (not proud) to ten :eremely proud) the students :aged 8.41 when asked how proud : were of the school. The students' ragerated the community 5.58 in its lis in controlling student discipline, My, or tobacco use on a scale of ten. Students similarly rated 7.99 for their effectiveness in lining their children. Ninth lers mentioned most often that they i the teachers at Vernal Junior b when asked to list one thing they ii best about the school. Other "js mentioned were sports and : .rities. They also said that teachers iJd be the one thing about the school 'would change if they could. They ) mentioned discipline, sluffing, boys and cleaner halls as things to :nge. Students mentioned being t strict as one thing they would Hge about how the community tlols youth in the area. nscaleof one (low) to ten (high) r ients average rating was 7.6 for all teacher classroom discipline, discipline in the halls, 6.21 ppline on the school grounds, 4.91 'railing profanity, 7.04 controlling 'ing or physical abuse, 5.77 con-'ig con-'ig the use of tobacco or alcohol, controlling classroom tardiness, : controlling student truancy, 7.21 Wiling the use of drugs, and 6.8 filing vandalism to buildings, etc. Reid said the reasons for the ne problems at the Junior High 1 because 87 percent of the students !bused-arriving 30-45 minutes |
