Sex Classes To Stay

The school administration currently has "no intention" of recommending the abandonment of the Ann Arbor School District's Family Life and Sex Education program i n 11 elementary schools, School Supt. W. Scott Westerman Jr. said last nightWesterman said the administration may recommend certain changes in the program, but he has no plans to suggest any "deletion" in the program as presented this semester. The superintendent added he has been "very pleased" with the amount of support for the program expressed since last week's six-hour review of all books, films and film-strips used in the program, held at Pioneer High School. Any school trustee may introduce a resolution calling for modification or discontinuation of the program, however. The board is expected to make a decisión on the sex education program by mid-June. Dr. Sam M. Sniderman, assistant superintendent for instruction, told the trustees an administrative report on the program should be ready by that time. The report will contain reaction of a panel of experts to the program, results of a survey of all 2,600 parents of children who participated in the program during the past two years, assessments of teachers and ministrators involved in the program and reactions of the 1,200 persons who attended the review last week at the high school. Representatives of several Parent - Teacher Organization Family Life Committees expressed their support for the program. One woman from the Lawton School Family Life Committee said she hoped "minority rule" would not become the rule in Ann Arbor.