School Board Oks Parents' Drug Seminar

I A seminar for patents on the subject of drug abuse will be sponsored sometime this spring by the Ann Arbor Board of Education. The seminar was unanimously approved last night by the school trustees. Neither the dates nor specific agendas have yet been set, but Assistant Superintendent for Instruction Sam Sniderman told the board the "hazards" of drug abuse will be stressed. ! Sniderman said an advisory committee - which will include representatives of city and county law enforcement agencies, school agencies, the University, the Ann Arbor Schools and high-school aod junior-high parents - will be established to make plans for the seminar. Board approval of the seminar followed a query by Dr. Stephen Tonsor, an associatel professor of history at the University, on what the school board planned to do to inform the community a b o u t drug I abuse in the Ann Arbor Public! Schools. Tonsor said he plannedl to come to all public meetings! of the school board and prod the trustees about the drug is-j sue until he was sure something was being done. Tonsor also said he wasl "quite concerned" about disci-l pline problems in the Ann Arbor Public Schools, and toldl the board he had heard some things in this área that arel "quite unbelievable." i