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Show Grovecrest Parents ; Vote For Time Split ! , i By MARY COONS Parents at Grovecrest Elementary voted Tuesday night to go to split sessions for their first and second grade students. The vote was approximately ap-proximately 90 percent for the temporary alternative. Walter Reimschussel, principal of Grovecrest, explained to parents that a split session, running from 8 a.m. to 12 p.m., and 12:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m., would be the only way the school would be able to bring together all of the students that now go to Central, Grovecrest and Barratt Elementary that will eventually go to the new Manila school. The school is scheduled to be completed in mid-December, mid-December, and occupied in January. One mother said that it will be really hard for her as she works full-time, full-time, and it will cost her extra babysitting for a half-day. Another parent asked why only the first and second grade students will be put on the half-day sessions. Superintendent Max Welcker explained ex-plained that the state requires that first and second grade students attend at-tend a minimum of four hours instruction in-struction per day. He said that third to fifth graders have to attend five and a half hours a day. He also said that if the entire school goes on half day, that children will be walking to and from school in the dark. Welcker explained, however, that with this particular plan the least amount of students will have any disruption in their normal schedules, j He said, too, that this will only cut out a half hour of recess for the students, ! as well. ! One father said that he hadn't j received any prior information about the change. Another parent said that she had received notes home from j school asking for input, and that the PTA had talked it over extensively. He then asked if a parent's committee com-mittee could be formed to study the proposal, and look into alternative proposals. Reimschussel said the plan had been studied extensively by the administrators and PTA, and that they could see no alternative plan. Dan Fugal, president of the school board, said that many times that proposals could be, "committeed to death." He said that the board will be voting on the proposal soon, and that if anyone had any input, that they should get in touch with a member of the board. When the teachers attending were asked for their input, a first grade teacher, Mrs. Beveridge, said that at first she didn't like the idea. Then, as she though about it, she welcomed the idea of having another teacher helping her in the overlapping one hour time to work with the students. Mrs. Judy Turnbow of Cedar Hills told the parents that it was their responsibility to give the children a positive attitude toward the temporary tem-porary disruption. |