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Show Farmington action spurred by differences of opinion By DONETA GATHERUM FARMINGTON-As long as ihere are children, parents, boards af education, teachers and administrators, admin-istrators, there will be differences of apinion. The '80s was a decade fill-?d fill-?d with many emotional board meetings where patrons very education wanted to give to 20 students in the high schools of the county. Parents had the right to read the survey before their child answered an-swered the questions. Either a parent or a student could refuse to participate in the survey. After several heated board meetings, approval ap-proval to conduct the survey was finally given. , One of the most unusual, ongoing on-going controversies the board of education continually faces is the question of placing limits on cheerleader squads, cheerleaders and other performing groups that represent the school. The board has placed spending limitations on most groups along with travel restrictions and guidelines for fund-raisers. The successful implementation of board policies and intent in this area has not been uniformly achieved in the district. As board member, Dan Eastman recently pointed out, "Some drill teams can afford to go to the Bahamas for practice; others can't afford a trip to Magna." vocally expressed their ideas about many issues. One of the first controversies of the '80s dealt with fluoride treatments the school nurses were routinely giving students. The PTA objected to this practice. It was stopped. On Dec. 29, 1982, the board adopted the policy that ninth grade students could not participate in high school athletics. During the decade, several attempts have been made to have this policy changed. Last yearr it was decided that ninth graders could participate in "individual" sports such as swimming, swim-ming, tennis and gymnastics. The question of allowing students to wear shorts to school was an issue that spilled over from the '70s when school boards across the nation liberalized school dress codes to allow girls and women teachers to wear pants to school. Today, Davis schools have a dress code that is based primarily on the good taste of students and parents and the discretion of the teachers and administrators. The hot issue in 1987 was a "sex survey" that the state department of !jfl IP? ' y, '-"' 3 Iff V f Tk jfa, 's - I |