All-year School Consideration Dropped

The proposal for year-round schooling in the Anti Arbor Public Schools is dead - for the present time, at least. By a unanimous vote of the Board of Education, further investigation of the quarterly plan of year-around classes will be abandoned. As a result of this decisión, a June 10 bonding election for school construction is quite probable, and may be set next week. Trustee William C. Godfrey, who originally proposed the idea on Feb. 14, concurred in the cision and voted to drop further discussion of the year-around schooling proposal as an alternative to a summer bonding election. But Godfrey requested that the idea of an extended school year - in some form- continue to be studied on a long-range basis, perhaps for implementation in the 1980s. Admitting that his original cali for implementation of a year-around program by 1971 was "not realistic," he said that such a plan needs to "gradually evolve" from the needs of the school system. Godfrey maintained, however, that some type of year-around plan still has merit. "It's an extremely complicated question," he declared, "but I'm still satisfied that dollar savings under the (12-month) plan are possible." Godfrey's comments followed a report by Supt. W. Scott Westerman Jr. on an administrative study of the year-around idea. The conclusión of the administration, the superintendent said, is that the four-quarter calendar "jeopardizes quality programming and does not assure significant economies." Stressing that the tive investigaron was not anl "in-depth study," Westerman said that the study nevertheless gave a "strong feeling" of the impact which the quarterly plan would have on the school district. (The quarterly plan of yeararound schooling m e a n s that three-quarters of the students would be in school at all times, with one-quarter on vacation at all times. Only one-quarter would vacation in the summer, while the remainder of the students would vacation in the spring, f all or winter quarters). Westerman said that the ad-