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Tuesday, October 16, 1973
University Daily Dansan
School Board Debates Free Breakfast Issue
By LINDA HALES
Kansas Staff Reporter
A dispute over a committee recommendation to not provide a free breakfast program in Lawrence elementary schools turned into a discussion of the philosophical roles of schools at the Board of Education meeting last night.
A committee was organized at the Sept. 4 board meeting to study a breakfast program after a vote not to continue a free lunch program. The board had been federally funded until this year.
The milk program would have cost Lawrence School District No. 497 about seven cents to attend a. A breakfast program would cost 20 cents a student but would be worth $50.
Carl S. Knox, Superintendent of Lawrence schools, said the committee didn't recommend the breakfast program on philosophical grounds. He said providing breakfast was the responsibility of the home and not the school.
The committee also decided not to recommend the program because of administrative and financial considerations, he said.
John H. Spearman Sr., board member, complained that there was a lack of objectivity in his discussion. He said the study was approached from a negative point of view.
KENNETH ANDERSON, board member
and professor of education at KU, also questioned the recommendations. He said be wanted to know how many children didn't and couldn't get breakfast at home.
Knox said the committee didn't have any statistics on children who didn't get breakfasts, but Kenneth Fisher, assistant superintendent for business and facilities, said that about 450 children a day participated in the free milk program.
Dr. Helen Gilles, school board president,
opposed a breakfast program and
questioned whether children would eat hot
meat. He said he would be all the board
could afford for 20 cents.
Dr. Gilles said that providing breakfast at the school would weaken the home, adding that hers was a philosophical argument. She said she had opposed the free milk program from the beginning because there were hens who get protein than from bengeneged milk.
Warner Morse, co-president of the Corday elementary school Parent Teacher Association and assistant professor of education at Corday Board consider the philosophical argument.
"I HATE to you brush it off on
"I HATE to see you face," he said. "It gives
philosophy a bad name."
A decision was reached to survey parents' views about the possible establishment of a breakfast program. The survey is to be completed by December.
Committee Says Boards Short on Student Members
Policy-making boards for the departments and schools at KU could be disbanded unless 20 per cent of the board members are students, Rick McLaughlin, Dullah, Tex., junior and chairman of the Student Senate and responsibilities Committee, last night.
According to the University Senate Code, all policy-making boards in each school and department must have 20 per cent student representation.
Members of the committee have sent letters informing department heads of this stipulation in the code, but they have received little response.
Cindy Buxton, Alton, Ill., junior and committee member, said she had sent self-addressed stamped envelopes with the information to contact. When contacted to contact, but had received no replies.
"I think that they (the departments) are complying with the rule but I need to have the names of the student representatives so I can urge them to attend the meetings."
Bob Ebert, Kansas City, Kan., junior and committee member, said that the lack of interest from the student body was reflected in the lack of response from department heads.
Melaughlin said that if the committee didn't receive any answers from some of the department heads, its next step would be to visit the University Council with the problem.
"A particular committee could be disbanded if it didn't follow the 20 per cent policy," he said. "We could and we would be prepared to encourage that."
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