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Show JORDAN PUPILS REGISTER AT BHS Some 23 parents opposing the shift of Jordan High students to Bingham Friday apparently kept, their children home on registration registra-tion day. The parents, mostly residents of South Jordan, signed a questionnaire ques-tionnaire earlier this month stating stat-ing they would not permit their children to attend Bingham High next year. Though absentees were reported report-ed "no more than usual" at Riv-erton Riv-erton Junior High, M. K. Bunnell, principal of West Jordan Junior High said only 49 of the 76 ninth graders enrolled were present Friday. "Apparently all of the opposition oppo-sition to this transfer is coming from South Jordan because of the 27 who are absent, 23 are from that area," Mr. Bunnell said. Ninth grade enrollments at Riverton Junior come from the Riverton, Bluffdale and Herri-man Herri-man areas. Ninth graders attending attend-ing West Jordan are from the West Jordan and South Jordan areas, Mr. Bunnell said. Last Thursday approximately 100 Jordan High students, most of whom will be juniors next year, registered at Bingham High Jordan School District officers reported 116 students of that grade are affected toy the transfer. Some 104 students, next years seniors, have their choice of which school they want to attend. . Among students who did register reg-ister from the junior high levels Friday, most seemed sincerely interested in the prospect of attending at-tending Bingham High next year, officials said. . . "The vast majority want to go along with classmates and most , have been cooperative. However, to avoid conflict between school and parents, we have informed the few whose parents don't want them to attend Bingham High to comply with their parents' wishes. wish-es. We aren't here to teach pupils to defy their parents," Mr. Bunnell Bun-nell emphasized. |