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Let Superintendent Interpret School Policy

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30
Month
August
Year
1970
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IT'S EASIEK to make decisions when you are not on the firing line, but we wish the Board of Education could show more agreement on the public schools' discipline policy. As presiding officer Trustee Charles H. Good commented at a recent board meeting, it should be obvious to the administration t h a t there is no uniformity of yiewpoint on the subject of discipline. Differences in Viewpoint are not necessarily bad, but t h i s is one : t i m e when solid board support for fair disciplinary p o 1 i c i e s raight be welcomed by school administrators. Í School discipline is the No. 1 problem now, in the minds of many Ann Arbor district parents. Individuals quoted in The News' recent controyersial "Exodus" series were Jjsually referring to disciplinary situations when they expressed disappointment in the Ann Arbor schools. They were not questioning the quality of education h e r e. Sbme may find that other, smaller schools also have disciplinary problems, but this is the one with which thejM are most familiar. Ann Arbor school teachers and administrators have now had several years' experience with the kinds of occurr onces that the trustees were thinking about in their "lively discussion." Those who are still here should have an idea of what f orm of discipline works and what does not. The junior highs will have three administrators at the principal and assistant principal level this year. WE WONDER if the precise wording of the board's discipline policy declaration really means that much. In an emergency situation the school administrators are not going to be searching through policy manuals for guidance. Supt. W. Scott Westerman Jr. has the confidence of the Board of E d u c a t i o n, the teachers, and the parents, including the black community. Give him the authority to opérate the schools and support him. Nobody calis them all right, but the probability that most of his decisions will be right is good.

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