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Revised policy pleases Kleitsc For the second time in five years, the attendance policy has been revised. Instead of permitting a student two unexcused absences before removal from class, in 1983 there will be no unexcused absences allowed. Vice Principal Dr. Charles Jones believes the system will work. "Why wouldn't it?" he asked. "I think it will keep a lot of stud~nts in school." The punishment for infringement of this rule is spending time in detention before or after school. Jones said he checked with PSAB to affirm the legality of the move, and received the . nod. "If we say you must be in class
every day and you're not, you've become insubordinate," he said, which, according to Lincoln Public School policy, is grounds for being expelled. Rumors circulating last year about the possibility of serving detention time on Saturdays were confirmed by Jones. H<~wever, he said the chance of that happening was remote. Faculty had input The new policy was developed by a· representative group of faculty members, consisting of one person from each department. "Everyone had input," Jean Kleitsch, attendance director, said, adding that decisions were being
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Study halls played a major role in the decision to change. "There were too many people in study halls," Kleitsch said. "It would be better to keep the students in class rather than get · a teacher to babysit." Kleitsch admitted that out of almost 1800 students, only 2-300 caused serious attendance problems. But, she added, "Students have said they wouldn't take them (skips) if they weren't allowed and most parents don't want students to skip." To improve communication with parents, phone calls will be made
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whenever possible .instead of mail .big slips home when a student skips. "The slips were , ineffective," .Kleitsch said ... Students intercepted them, .and some parents ignored them." Besides better communication, Kleitsch is excited about another change in attendance procedure. This year, Lincoln High will be the first school in Nebraska to use computers as aids in attendance recording. "I'm enthusiastic about it," she said. "We'll be a pilot · school." Kleitsch is pleased with the overall policy. "I just think we were ready for a change."
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Hi_ghest in state • Enrollrn ·ent shows increase Enrollment counts taken during the 1981-82 school year shows that Lincoln High will have the largest enrollment in the state for 1982-83. Th~ Nebraska Schools Activities Association (NSAA) is responsible for the enrollment count - and classification of Nebraska Schools. Founded in 1895, the NSAA was voted upon by the schools of Nebraska to tally enrollment. Figures accurate "Our job is to organize, regulate and conduct the activities program for the state," said Executive Director James Riley. According to Riley, NSAA tallies enrollment by using the previous year's enrollments of ninth, tenth, and eleventh grade students. Thus, giving the enrollment the tenth, eleventh and twelfth grade students for the follo.wing year. "We receive our information from the State . Education Department," Riley said also adding, "usually the figures are very accurate." The NSAA classifies the schools for · competitive reasons such as sports. But Riley also stated the
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enrollment records begins on the first day of classes and ends the last Friday of September. But that doesn't include the daily enrollment record that is kept yearly. "Even though we're the largest there are still less and less students since ten years ago when I first came here," Dean said. "There isn't one essential positive or one essential negative happening that is due to the fact that we have the largest enrollment." According to Dean the fewer amounts of students are not only at LHS, but at all schools. "There just aren't that many student aged kids around ·anymore," he said. "People aren't having as many babies these days."
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Transfer stats stabilize
Dean also said that the transfer statistics have stabilized over the · past few years. "Obviously we'd like more than out transfers," he said. "Maybe more kids are coming to LHS because its a better school." But Dr. Charles Jones, assist. principal to student services, thinks of the large enrollment in different "Maybe more kids are coming . terms. "We've always had a large enrollbecause it's a better school" ment at LHS, and its never had an -Dean effect . on the school itself," Jones said. · Jones also stated that LHS had figures were used for journalism, the largest enrollment, with the debate, speech and other activities least amount of damage done to the as well. school. "Theoretically speaking, there "The student body views LHS as should be 1775 students attending their school," he said. "So they tend LHS this year; but theoretically that not to vandalize something that's exch1des the drop-outs and so forth," theirs." he said. According to Vice Principal Don Dean, the keeping of LHS's official
In This
NWF 'no nukes' chant counters
Reagan policies . By John Smeltzer Editor's note: This is the first of three reports on the issue of the nuclear afflls race. This report deals with the Nucle<J,rWeapons F'reeze . Campaign, the second will investigate the Reagan Administration's nuclear weapons policy and the third report will deal with student opinion. · ·
Here in Nebraska, tentative plans are being made to put the Freeze resolution on the state ballot in 1984, while residents of Kearney are voting to put the resolution on the city ballot this year. Brian Coyne, Nebraska state coordinator for the Nuclear Wea pons Freeze, said the resolutions are being used ·to "let the voice of the people be heard."
Thousands of people across the country, fearful of the prospect of nuclear war, are joining together in the call to halt the nuclear arms race.
The ultimate goal of t he mQ,vement, Coyn said, is for the U.S. to adopt the Freeze policy as a method to stop the arms race. Coyne criticized the current nuclear arms reduction policy of the Reagan Administration as ineffi-
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passed in over 400 New Englan d town meetings, in over 125 city councils and 36 county councils around the nation, and in 14 star,,~ legislatures, including thos., of Nebraska's neighbors, Kansas a1~d · Iowa. -The resolutions call for a mutual freeze on the testing, production, and deployment of nuclear weapons in the United States and the Soviet Union.
Called the Nuclear ·;.1t ;~ pons Freeze Campaign, the movt~m1.:nt is responsible for Freeze resolutions
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