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Show P. 7. A. Announces Plans For Summer School The Pleasant Grove P.T.A. Council announces its plans for a summer school which will be held from June 12 to July 21, 1961, at the Pleasant Grove Junior Jun-ior High School. The classes are to be organized in response to the requests of patrons. Mrs. Wayne Friant, the program pro-gram chairman of the Pleasant Grove Council, presented the subject sub-ject in a council meeting, and after discussion, it was decided that a questionnaire indicating interest of parents would be sent home. The questionnaire showed that the parents of approximately 105 children were interested in a summer school. The council con-tacked con-tacked Superintendent Dan Peterson Pet-erson and asked his reaction. He stated that the District would be willing to supply Uie classrooms and allow the classes to use the library faciliUes and textbooks of the school. Dr. Elliot C. Howe was appointed by the Superintendent Superinten-dent to represent him in organizing organi-zing the summer school. A second meeting was held in which school education chairmen and program chairman of the Pleasant Grove Council met with Uie president, Mrs. Zola Black-hurst, Black-hurst, and organized preliminary plans for the school. If all those who manifest interest in-terest in the school register, one primary grade teacher will be employed to teach reading; an intermediate grade teacher, Aaron Aar-on Card, has been engaged to teach reading and probably arith-meUc; arith-meUc; and an addiUonal teacher to teach reading and arithmetic will be needed. The Council decided Uiat the cost of the six weeks summer school will be $10 per child for one subject and $15 for two subjects. sub-jects. It was also decided that fees could not be refunded after the school begins in June. The Pleasant Grove PTA Coun cil will sponsor and direct the school. Paul Willes, school education edu-cation chairman, working in cooperation co-operation wiUi Dr. Howe, will direct the school. One of the basic requirements to enter school will be a parent-teacher-child interview in which student expectations and performance perfor-mance in the course and expectations expecta-tions for parental support of the student will be discussed. Each teacher employed will teach four groups of ten children child-ren for a period of forty minutes each day. Children will be grouped group-ed initially by chronological age, and then will be grouped according accord-ing to their performance level in the subject. Each child's school record will be examined to help determine difficulties so that the program of instruction can be geared to specific needs. Each of the local PTA imits and the Pleasant Grove Council volunteered to contribute $10 to- ward the cost of a tcsUng program pro-gram so that children could be tested upon entry into the class and upon completion of the class. Parents may obtain registration registra-tion blanks from their local PTA units. Registration will be conducted con-ducted at Grovecrest, Central, Lindon and Pleasant Grove Junior Jun-ior High School on Thursday, and Friday, April 27 and 28. |