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Show Vew tee schedule adds charges for 7th, 8th graders Other fees charged at the junior high level include a $2.50 towel and lock charge, a $2 locker fee, a $6 activity fee, and a $5 class change fee. High school students who want to take part in extracurricular ac tivities are charged up to $300, depending on the group they're involved in, including debate, drama, cheerleading, club uniform (if student keeps uniform), drill team-pep club; orchesis, and performing per-forming music groups. Members of the Alpine School strict Board of Education animously approved a fee i ledule for the coming year which ll mean seventh and eighth grade dents will pay additional fees ten entering school, tie action came at the May f seting of the board held at district ices in American Fork. Members also approved a $20 ancy citation - as allowed by the 1 te Legislature - but haven't :ided whether to assess the fee or loney from the citations - if f sed - would go toward sup-ting sup-ting the district's anti-truancy program. Gary Keetch, secondary schools administrator, said the truancy fine was included on the fee schedule to "allow for its adoption if it becomes necessary." He said there has been no inclination in-clination at this point in time to assess this fee. He explained the fee was passed by the Legislature "allowing local school districts to charge a feei separate from a fine for habitual) truancy from school. ' ' , Other new fees approved include s seventh and eighth grade students paying a $15 refundable book deposit, and $2 fees for labs in art, computer, homemaking, shop and science. Fees would remain the same for musical instrument rentals, activities, ac-tivities, gym towel and lock charges and locker fees. At the senior high level, there is a a five dollar increase in the student deposit, from $10 to $15, which is refundable. Keetch said the district has tried to keep fees low because officials realize additional fees or increases in existing fees create a financial burden for students and parents. "We have done everything we could to avoid any increases," he said. In presenting the proposal to the board at the April meeting of the board, Superintendent Clark Cox said the increases are conservative because officials believe parents may have low tolerance for the fees. "Most of those fees have been kept to an absolute minimum to make those programs work," he said. "Our purpose is not to get money from the youngsters, it's to get the return of the books, which cost us $17 when we don't get them," he said. The $15 fee charged the students will be returned at the end of the year if students return their books in good condition, Cox said. By law, elementary students -kindergarten through sixth grade -do not pay fees of any type. Parents will be. notified of the increases in fees, officials said. |