To loaf like oafs, to nod like clods seemed the best idea to 40
students at Asbury Park High School, N. J. They were so lazy they
would not even bother to be bad. Irked immeasurably by Asbury Park's
40 sluggards, Superintendent of Schools Amos E. Kraybill announced
last week he would expel them. "They are wasting their time," he
cried, "and their teachers' time and the taxpayers' money." Out they
would go, he said, legally or illegally. The Board of Education backed
Superintendent Kraybill. But soon Superintendent Kraybill changed his
mind. He reprieved the 40 laggards, announced he would consult with
their parents. Meanwhile, said he, they had been frightened into some
slight improvement.
Have school boards the right to oust lazy or stupid students? Many a
tax-paying parent might feel that, having paid his money, he has his
rights. Last May this question interested one Jean West, 19, freshman
at the Teachers' College of Miami University (Oxford, Ohio) which is
State-supported. Suspended for failure to maintain a required
standing, Miss West sought to restrain Miami University from expelling
her. Her counsel argued that higher education is for everyone, that
Miss West, daughter of a taxpayer, had a right to hers. She won her
case, but a higher court reversed the decision last December. R
Reason: a pupil who falls below a set standard must not be allowed to
retard his fellows.
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