Vote Due Next Week On School Schedules

The Ann Arbor Board of Education will be forced to make some type of decisión next week on the types of shifts to be instituted this fall at the junior and senior high schools. During last night's meeting, School Supt. W. Scott Westerman Jr. and Trustee Cecil Warner indicated to the board that a hassle over next fall's class scheduling could continue until late summer unless some action was taken. "I don't want this thing to dragon with board members playing games like last year," said Trustee Warner. He requested that the item be placed on the agenda for the next regular meeting and that board members not present be informed early enough to ask the administration questions before making a final decisión. I RnarH President Harold Lockett and Trustee Robert Conn left the meeting . early and Trustee Richard Wood was not present. Whether the board will support the administrative recommendation for a continuation of the schools' current ■winter-spring semester's schedule, with the exception of Scarlett which proposed a six-period split shift next fall because of expected pupil population increases, was not indicated last night. (A split shift would have half the students attending classes in the mornings from about 7:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., the other half from about 1 p.m. to 6 p.m. A staggered schedule would have the early group in school from about 8 a.m.. to 1:45 p.m., the late group from about 9:45 a.m. to 3:25 p.m. All of these times are approximations and are set by the individual schools.) Trustee Paul Carrington, however, said he would not support the present I recommendation and feit that there could be some other alternative in scheduling recommended. Supt. Westerman told the board that although they did not support the administrative recommendation last y e ar that this year he feit there would not be any other feasible alternatives. "Last year you did not support the recommendation and the plan that was devised, in my opinión, was better than the recommendation from the administration, but nis year I don't think you have much choice in deciding what would be the best scheduling." 1 man said. Each school had been asked to I pose its schedule for next year to be I mulated into a recommendation from I the central administration. All four junior high schools are placed I on split or staggered shifts because of I overcrowding, and there apparently will I be no relief in sight until the fall of 1972, I when Clague Junior High is scheduled to I open. The current proposals for each of the I secondary schools for the 1971-72 year are as foÜows : Huron High: Continuation dt the sixperiod day used during the current year. Pioneer High: Continuation of the seven-period staggered shift switched to in January, 1971. Slauson Junior High: Six-period split shifts. All seventh and eighth graders would attend in the morning, with the exception of 200 students in an experimental program. Scarlett: Six-period split shifts. Half the seventh, eighth and ninth graders would attend school in the morning and the other half in the afternoon. Tappan: Eight-period staggered shift, [ identical to this year's schedule. Forsythe: Six-period split shift. Seventh graders and half of the eighth graders would go to school in the morning. Ninth graders and the other half of the eighth graders would attend classes in the afternoon.