Split Shifts To Continue At Slauson Junior High

Slauèon ■ Junior High School will continue on the same split shifts nekt semester as it did for the fall semester, while Forsythe Junior High officials this week are surveying their students, parents and teachers to see what the majority favor during the second semester. Forsythe Junior High Principal William Rude says if a majority of students, parents and teachers wan to switc! next semester he and his staf will "investígate the feasibilit of a change." Rude said there is nö guar antee of a change, howevei even if the majority favors i because of possible administra tive and other pr,p,blems. !S l_ - ' ' f f IS This semester at Forsythe.p 11 seventh graders and half of P he eighth graders attend the h morning shift. All ninth graders and the other half of the eighth graders attend the afternoon shift. The survey at Forsythe will je done this week. At Slauson, Principal Collier Owens said a similar survey there showed a majority of teachers, students and parentsi wanted to keep the shifts the way they are now for the second semester. Owens said 556 of the 928 students who voted wanted the shifts to remain the same, though the majority of students inow on the afternoon shift rv-' ■ wanted to change. The faculty I roted by a 4-to-l margin lol L-emain the same, as did al majority of the parents. I At Slauson this semester, eighth graders and half of the seventh graders attend the I morning shift. Ninth graders and the other half of the seventh graders go to school in the afternoon. Split shifts were instituted at both junior highs in September because of overcrowding;