Meeting story

   Saturday morning cartoons may turn into silence and disciplinary talk for students who break the rules. Tim Steele, stirred up some controversy as he proposed his new special Saturday morning session for students with disciplinary problems.

   The session would be help from 8 a.m. until noon on various weekends throughout the year. This new rule will cost the board $3,000 for staff alone, which ultimately will land in the cost of taxes for parents.

   “I know my son isn’t perfect, and I know he’ll probably wind up on the Saturday list at some point, but I’m not going to force him to go, “Peggy Bacon, a parent at the board meeting said. “I just don’t think it will make a difference, and the parents are going to pay for it in higher taxes as well as in ruined Saturdays.

   Senior student, Lisa Gallagher, has never landed herself in a detention before, and although this rule would most likely never affect her, she doesn’t agree with it. She brought up the question of what if the students simply do not show up. In answering her question, Steele explained said students would not be allowed to return to school until they served the detention.

   On the other hand, Bob Farley, of 64 Elm Street, liked the proposal of Saturday detentions. “Parents can whine all they want about this, but maybe it’s time parents in America were made to take a little responsibility for their kids,” Farely said. “That’s the whole problem, parents aren’t teaching their kids any discipline, so the kids have no respect for rules.”