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SANDY. OREGON THURSDAY. MARCH »8 1982
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are excused, while others are not,
although the current policy does not
John McMahan. Sandy Union High
distinguish between the two.
School p rin c ip al, doesn't mind
McMahan's attitude is easy to peg
rewriting the attendance policy pro
Frankly, I don’t work with percen
cedures
tages I work with people, he said
He’s in his third year as principal,
The problem isn’t percentages,
and he's rewritten them every year
it's people I t ’s communication ”
so far.
Currently, after five consecutive,
But. with eight different sets of
or collective, days absent, a student s
policy procedures in eight years, the
parents will be called
numbers reportedly remain fairly
After 10 absences, a conference is
constant
set up with the student, parents and
According to a study done between
an administrator
Nov 3 and Jan 18 of this year, 129
At 15 days, a student is in a position
students out of about 1.250 missed
to lose credit
school on the average, or about 10
"Only those that w e’ve tried
percent
everything on are out of school,"
Sixty students, or 4 percent, drop
McMahan said.
ped out of school last year Some of
Students have the right to make up
them will re-enroll, and others will
work, although this can cause pro
take a G E D. class
blems as some students wait until the
Due to economic conditions,
last moment to do it.
McMahan feels that the dropout rate
Differentiating between excused
will be less than 4 percent this year
and unexcused absences has in the
Of that 10 percent, some absences
past caused certain problems.
Mt. Hood
plan to be
review ed
It has been obvious in the past that
some notes from home had been w rit
ten by the student and then signed by
a parent That works all right until a
student tells his parents he was
somewhere that he was not, and so
meone at the school knows better.
Then it pits the school against the stu
dent and the parent.
Notes also require certain " F B I
kinds of work," such as checking the
signature or calling the parent tor
confirmation
With all its drawbacks, however, it
appears that the school will go back
to the excused unexcused system
McMahan reports having talked to
about 120 parents, as well as
students, teachers and others in the
community
Some of the changes proposed in
clude an excused unexcused system,
with four reasons for an excused
abscence
They include pre-arranged school
activities, illness or an illness in the
Man supports development
by MICHAEL P. JONES
Post Correspondent
The location of the citizen review
meeting for the Mt. Hood Community
Plan, scheduled for tonight at 7:30
p m , has been changed to Welches
Grade School.
Originally, it was announced that
the review was to be at the Women’s
Club
The informational meeting is the
firs t of two which w ill allow
re s id e n ts ,
p ro p e rty
o w n e rs ,
developers, special interest groups
and other users, an opportunity to
review policies, zoning ordinances,
and land-use designations, as cur
rently proposed by the Clackamas
County planning staff,
On hand at the meeting will be
resource maps prepared by the plan
ning staff showing areas of proposed
land use changes
Please turn to Page 2.
D.L. "Don" Broetje, Republican
candidate for the Clackamas Coun
ty Commission, would support the
evaluation of the present salaries
of county employees and elected
officials, hxsing them on respon
s ib ility and p erfo rm an ce , if
elected.
Broetje has been self emp.oyed
most of his life. He o w rjd Dee
Distributing from 1948 through
1964, was a distributor for Stan
dard Oil from 1954 through 1963,
and is presently owner of Winsco
Inc., and Don L. and Associates.
He is chairman of the Oak Lodge
C o m m u n ity C o u n c il, and a
representative of the unincor
porated area on the Clackamas
County Development Policy Ad
visory Board.
A member of a Clackamas Coun
ty pioneer fam ily, he attended
Milwaukie High School and Lewis
and Clark College
He is married, with three grown
children and two grandchildren.
He resides in the fam ily home,
built in the late 1800s,
As c o m m is s io n e r, besides
evaluating salaries of county
employees, Broejte said he would
consolidate county offices to a
sin g le lo c a tio n , r e h a b ilit a t e
dow ntow n O regon C ity and
preserve its history as a county
and state seat
D.L. Broetje
family, an emergency, such as a
death in the family, or a special
parental request
The special parental request could
be the most troublesome. It would in
clude doctor s appointments, court
appearances or family vacations
Except for an illness or death in the
family, these absences could be ar
ranged before the fact, which should
help solve the problem of making up
work
Another proposed revision is to
change the 5-10-15 system to 3-6-10.
In other words, parents would be
called if a student misses three days
of class, rather than the current five
McMahan feels that they’re doing
pretty well at five days Calling at
three days will be more difficult, he
said, but they’ll do it.
Many parents would like to be call-
ed the very first time their child
misses a class " I don’t have the staff
to do it," McMahan said.
He is concerned about the amount
of time spent on the problem 10 per
cent rather than the 80 to 90 percent
that are in class and doing well
Currently there are two field
counselors who check the halls, and
the area, for students who should be
in class Also, there are two full-time
people who, during the day, p rim ari
ly work on attendance, which in
cludes filing records, feeding the
computer, and making academic and
disciplinary referrals
In addition, other clerical workers
make calls to parents, and a person is
hired to make calls from 5-8 p m in
the evenings
It is difficult to get ahold of some
parents, McMahan said Others, he
said, tell them not to bother to call
anymore
“Some parents don’t take educa
tion seriously," McMahan said.
Even money wouldn't solve the
problem, McMahan contends. "Peo
ple are the problem, people are the
solution," he said.
The problem existed, he said, even
when the school had a full time atten
dance counselor, and even more staff
members than they have now to deal
with it.
McMahan said that his goal is to
direct the creative energy students
use to find a way to get out of school
back into the classroom
He pointed out that there are
schools with much more serious pro
blems than SUHS
Participation is essential in a
democracy, he said " I t ’s the thing
that makes our country great, and
the place to learn it is in the school "
He hopes parents and others in the
community will participate in the
town hall-type meeting planned for
March 29 at 7 30 in rooms 50-51 of the
high school
McMahan said he wants to develop
attendance procedures that fit the
community, but people from the
community need to participate, tell
him what they want.
Driver investigated for assault
after accident on Saturday
MICHAEL
by M
IC H A EL P. JONES
Post Correspondent
A sin gle-car accident, which
resulted in injury to two persons
Saturday, is being investigated by
the Oregon State Police as a possible
assault case.
Trooper Bill Lewis of the OSP
Portland office said that his depart
ment was first notified at 6 a m
Saturday by personnel of the Oregon
State Highway Division He said they
informed them of a small pickup
“driving in an erratic manner down
Tim berline Road," just east of
Government Camp.
Lewis said patrols in the vicinity
were notified to be on the lookout for
the vehicle, described as a small, red
and black 4X4
At 6 30 Lewis said that the
( lackamas County Communications
Center (C-COM) notified them that a
1981 LTS Datsun pickup had struck a
pole.
The accident occurred in front of
J.J. Fox's Arco station on Highway
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Brightwood
and
Alder
Creek
Injured in the wreck were two
Woodburn. Ore., residents,
The driver, 32-year old Danny
Albin Halter, had possible rib in
juries and was transported to
Gresham Community Hospital, and
admitted
Halter was listed in satisfactory
condition Tuesday morning
Also injured in the mishap was
20-year-old Wendy Jo Sauer She was
also transported to Gresham Com
munity Hospital by Alpine Am
bulance She was treated for minor
injuries and later released
Lewis said the incident is being in
vestigated by Sgt Dan E Wolf of the
OSP Government Camp Outpost.
He said that because Halter is
suspected of being under under the
influ en ce of in to xicants w hile
operating a motor vehicle, and
because another person was injured
in the accident, under Oregon law he
could be charged with assault
He could also be charged with
D U II
Chuck Mitchell, assistant disti
attorney for Clackamas County, s
Tuesday no charges have yet been
ed against the driver
He said. "A person, if he int
tionally, knowingly or wreckles
causes physical injury to another c
be charged with assault in the foui
degree.”
’50s-60s danc<
is March 27
A 50s-60s dance is being held I
the Mt Hood Lions Club on March !
to raise funds
The dinner and dance is open to 1
public.
Serving will begin at 6:38 for tli
steak and oyster dinner The danc
will start at 9 There will be a I
charge
The dance will be held at the M
Hood Lions Club building.
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