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Show Page B6 THE HERALD, Provo, Utah, Thursday, December 13, 1990 Juab district home schoolers don't want mandated test I By MYRNA TRAUNTVEIN Herald correspondent Home schoolers in the NEPHI Juab School District do not want a ; njandated achievement test to home school students. district school board was considering a testing plan. Sit was decided at the November bpard meeting to redesign the !The home school policy. At that meeting, Superintendent Kirk Wright suggested the district adopt a written policy concerning home schools. Board members decided at their December meeting, after hearing from 13 local people and the chairman of the board of the Utah Home Education Association, Roger Wise, to withdraw the proposed policy. They will, however, write a new policy. In addition, board members will meet with interested home schoolers to discuss the policy prior to the time the policy is introduced at board meeting. The policy being considered did comply with state law, said Leon Pexton, school board president. It would have released students from district schools to be taught at home if the students were taught at home in the subjects required by the state board of education in accordance with the law and if students were taught for the same number of days (180) as they are required to be taught in district schools. Reasons for exempting students to be taught in home schools, under the policy, would have needed to be sufficient to satisfy the district board and the board would have issued a certificate stating that the minor was excused from attendance during the time specified on the certificate. The policies proposed would have made the district in step with the state board recommendations. The problem came with an addition made under program requirements, item 3, reading: "Home school students will be required to take the same achievement tests as do regular students in the Juab School District public schools." An additional policy change stating "The Board of Education will approve or disapprove applications," also concerned home school providers. In November, the board adopted for a first reading the JEG Home School Policy as changed with the policy to become effective in Janu- at the meeting to speak against the adoption of toe testing portion of the policy. Legal counsel to the district on the state level had informed the district the board had the right to require testing. "It's elective on a board by board basis," said Pexton. Home schoolers objected to the ary. he said, home schoolers often teach the required state cirriculum in a different sequence which would mean home school students might not have learned the same things in the same order students in the regular school had. A second reading at the December meeting was planned. All home schoolers were sent a letter informing them of the changes. None of them liked the proposal and home shool parents showed up Mapleton planners hoping to 'beat the clock' By LAUREL BRADY ; Herald Correspondent .' MAPLETON Mapleton's planning commission is playing beat the clock to finish the city's master plan by the end of this year. - The master plan is already one year late because the commission has been overwhelmed by subdivision requests generated by the city's rapid growth. Commissioners saw, some for the first time, detailtJ maps of natural hazards in the city, some in prime development zones. These include faults, patterns of debris and landslide flow, and the water table. - The maps should play a significant role in zoning and identifying areas of hazard in which developers will be required to get expert guidance on measures to minimize consequences in the event of problems. Commissioners were told the purpose of zoning is to protect health, welfare and safety of people in the city. Recently, citizens have questioned whether zoning takes away property rights. The city's zoning ordinance is based on its master plan. The hazard maps will be included in the appendix to the master Computer course offered The Advanced High School Studies Program offered by Brigh-aYoung University's Department of Computer Science is accepting applications from exceptional high school juniors worldwide to participate in an intensive computer course. This 9th annual program grants n k scholarships for a hands-o- n course computer Aug. 5 through Aug. 16, 1991, at m two-wee- BYU. For more information, write to plan, rather than the plan itself, would be confused with an actual zoning ordinance in designating zoning restrictions for environmen- tal hazards. Commissioners felt inclusion of the hazard overlay zone in the plan - SPANISH FORK Members were recently selected for the Nebo Youth School Board. Those mem- bers serve through the coming school year. The idea behind the youth school board is to help students learn about how school boards work as well as to let those youth give imput back to district officials on what they percieve to be problems and in the accomplishments schools. AHSSP '91, Department of Computer Science, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT, 84602; or call (801) Students on the board are in junior high and high school. Those serving this year are Ben Riley and Jeremy Ewell Payson Junior High, Celest MacNaughton and Doug Finch Payson High School, Kellie Verville and Chris Houghton Spanish Fork Intermediate School, Jack Stoneman and Matt Larson Spanish Fork High School, Meran-d- a Frischknecht and Chad Hill Springville Junior High and Connie Childs and Robbie Jones Springville High School. Prospective participants from throughout the world must be high school juniors in the top 10 percent of their class. Eligibility is determined from English, math and science grades, and from ACT or PSAT scores required of all applicants. No previous computing experience is necessary. - SPANISH FORK City Council members denied the Sanders Annexation last week expressing concern about housing development in other newly annexed areas where city utilities are not currently available. The Sanders annexation includes 8 acres located across Cutbridge Road, north and east of Highway "Imposing requirements above and beyond what the law requires becomes very adversarial on both sides," he said. The law, he said, requires home schoolers to notify the district of the intent to have a home school, hold school five and a half hours each day for 180 days during the year, and to teach the state mandated core cirriculum. LDS Democrats organize Orem, and Dick Swett of Bow, New Hampshire, to the House of The recently organized special An Association of LDS Democrats, has just published its first news- interest group, Progress: Representatives, re- quest to 3220 Oakwood Lane, Beaumont, Texas 77703. The initial issue focuses on the election of Bill Orton of where they join fellow LDS Democrats Wayne Owens of Salt Lake City and Richard Stallings of Poca-tellIdaho, as well as Harry Reid, senior senator for o, Amuse Yourself This Weekend. Spanish Fork denies annexation 378-302- dents in public schools. Methods differed, he said. "We believe it is our responsibility (to educate our children)," he said. testing requirement for several reasons, said Wise. For one thing, letter, available free upon Nebo youth board selected Parents who teach their children at home often put a higher priority, on education than parents of stu- 214. Although power is accessible to the area, sewer and water are not. Planning and zoning needs to look at this area as well as a 200 acre annexation in the southwestern portion of Spanish Fork to put together a better strategy of development, said David Oyler, city administrator. Please Don't Put This One Under The Tree-NeTo A Table Or A Lamp Will Be Fine. I! xt $299 Panasonic' 19"' diag. color TV Reg. 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