To the editor:

Congratulations to the USD 497 district officials for requiring junior high students to take a “bonehead” math class as they used to be called. Students should be expected to give up the privilege of certain elective courses to hone up on their math skills. The taxpayers should not be expected to tutor them at the cost of approximately $6,000 to $8,000 per student as is now being done at the “alternative” high school. Start in the junior high and the class should be offered at their respective buildings, not across town.

As for the senior high students being “tutored” at the LAHS cruise ship tutor center, any student enrolled there should be expected to give up some of their “elective” courses as well. If a student has time for flag corps class, then the student has time to drop it and take the remedial classes needed.

Every attempt should be made to decrease the enrollment in this so called “alternative high school” and a good place to start is at the seventh grade, if not in the grade schools.

David Holroyd,

Lawrence