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Show A forum for opinion Wednesday August 20, 1906 ow do you The Davis School District re ceived a grant of $170,000 to study and implement a program of extended day andor extend- Street talk ed school year. At four elementary schools have to work longer than my children are in school. And I do not like my children being home without my being there or turning them loose and having them taking care of themselves. Boulton, Knowlton, Layton and another to be announced later the possibility of a split-shitype of day (extended day) and a longer school year where the stuI personally feel anything dents will be able to choose time has worked for as many that off during the year (extended years as 180 days has worked year) are under consideration. should not be tampered with. The purpose will be to inI got into it pob) so I could crease the capacity of the school have the time with my children. by staggering starting times and When are out of school Im the allowing students to choose out of they school. the days they will be in class. I honestly think the children The Lakeside Review ranand the parents and the teachers domly asked several area resineed a break. I dont think they dents how they felt about the need to work as long as a lot of extended day andor extended the feel they ought to. people year for schools. Trying to fit 30 or 40 kids in a Cynthia Gardner, Layton, classroom everyday is real hard school secretary The extendon a teacher. ed year? Im not in favor of it. I Parents, after a few days, are dont see any pros to it. The ready to send their kids back to cons are, in my own situation, I school because they cant stand ft School crowding and how to alleviate the problem is a dilemma on the minds of many educators. A $170,000 study to be implemented in the 1987-8- 8 school year in three Davis County elementary schools will test alternative scheduling programs used in other school districts in Utah. A fourth area school will be involved in the study at a later date. The goal is to enhance building occupancy by 25 percent in each of the four Review editor Are we examining the events in South Africa in the proper perspective? If we divest in South Africa in order to bring down the heinous apartheid government, we cutting off our nose to spite our face? We are merely replacing this government with a communist government which from a hu arent them anymore. Reuben the present ones. Justin Clift, Fruit Heights, at Knowlton EleI dont know, I like mentary the longer days. I like it the way it is now. Id like it (longer school year) but I like holidays. Id like to see school go all the way through. Karen Clift, Justins mother I see it as being really hard on the teachers. At this age (Justins) they are having projects. Im in faPeterson, Layton vor of it. I think its good we utilize the space, thats for sure. Well, instead of building additional buildings we should use sixth-grad- er , And its important for them to learn about the time limits. And if they are taking off any time they want the teacher doesn't have any control over the class. Thats going to be a real big drawback for a lot of teachers. 3:45 p.m. t tlie Don't let S. Africa fall to Soviet Union Justin Clift In our view BHBHHnnHBHHm Grant Elementary School in the Springville School District is another role model for the study. This school operates on an extended-yea- r plan in which classes are held 225 days a year with school being held further into the summer. Each childs parents selects which 180 school days their child will attend. schools. But no program has been The effort will explore the set for the four Davis schools extended-da- y and extended-yea- r yet. The programs will be deplans currently in use in veloped by administrators, other schools outside the Da- teachers and parents during vis area. The Club Heights the 1986-8- 7 school year. School in Weber County operThough avenues to alleviate conates on an extended-da- y overcrowding in schools cercept, using two schedules at tainly must be evaluated, the the school from 8 a.m. to 2 extended-yea- r plan presents p.m. and from 9:45 a.m. to serious problems. ettes1 Reuben Peterson Cynthia Gardner No Davis schools are elementary schools d equipped with air condition- would equal the cost of a new ers, and if school days are exschool. tended into the summer, air This cost must be considconditioners might be needed. ered in an evaluation of the A study on d schools extended-yea- r concept. completed by a committee for A changing student populathe Davis School District tion would be an inconve. shows the cost to install, oper-nience to teachers, who would ate and maintain an air condihave a tioning system for seven children varying number of to teach each day. year-roun- ecu tor manitarian point of view as well as from our own self interest would be an infinitely worse situation. From a humanitarian point of view you will be replacing the apartheid government with a government whose Soviet masters and their cronies around the world are responsible for murdering or starving to death more than 100 million people since the Red Revolution. Are we so guiltless of atrocities that we can afford to point an accusing finger at others? What mm I is SPECIAL' Parents would need to know the curriculum plan for the school year in order to determine which days their children could miss without year-roun- about the 1.5 million children we murder each year through abortion? Since most of the leaders support abortion, they are responsible for more atrocities to their people than all the apartheid leaders of South Africa. From a point of self-intere- st view. South Africa is a unique source of raw materials that are indispensable to our vital industries and if South Africa falls to the Soviets, we all will be at the Soviets mercy. Cornelius U. 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