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10-A ~1\Ilnnfa~ru,ml Tuesday, July 8, 1969 WEEKLY SESSIONS SET ·.• I By JUNIE BROWN . .tiu::it~ Jou= Educalloa EdU.Or . Put the Atlanta Board of Edu- ·cation and an education subcommittee of Economic Opportunity Atlanta (EOA) together and what would you get? Sweetness and light. ~embers of the subcommittee left tl:i'! Monday night meeting which they expected to be a. fracas still a little unsure of what had actually happened. Not only did they get a sympathetic hearing, but at the recommendation of Atlanta Supt. of Schools Dr. John LetWll, the subcommittee will hold weekly meetings with the board "as long as is necessary" to discuss and iron out their complaints. "DO YOU REALIZE what this means?" Mrs. Marilyn Graybill asked following the meeting. "It means we ... .:e actually going to get in on school" decisions at the policy level." · "This is the best boar<t meet:Jng I've ever attended," said ~bert Tuve, chairman of another citizens ,group, Better Schools Atlanta. "I'd say this was a very positive response." "I'd say we made a start," ~d Mes. Maggie Moody chairman of the subcommittee of the tc)A Cmzens Advisory Council. . The meeting began on a sour llOte when board chairman Bill WJinwright grilled Mrs. Moody about differences between her eorrespondences praising the l,oard for working with the sub- I mm.mf.ttee and published re- , ports that the su.bcommi~e hqd : eriticize.d the board for {ailure · ID communicate and cooperate. i However, the tone of the ~eting began to change after one of. the subcommittee members came to Mrs .Moody's defense. ·'You're awful stiff," Mrs. ,Usie LaBord told Wainwright. YOUTe like you'v-e got Mrs. Moody ill . trial. We're here to ia.lk about our children's problems, not to jerk up Mrs. Moody. We don't want anymore of that kind of talk.," she said. AFTER A BRIEf exchange between Wainwright and another mbcommittee member, t,frs. DoroUiy Bolden, ovex whether 1he board should re- spond t.o the coxpplaints of the ..-oup in writing or, <JS Wainwright said, by having Dr. Le~ son "throw the answer~ out on · e table." Dr. Letson took over th~ rpeeling. --,. High School and .request that the board · ouil(j a new high school on Field Road to serve the expanding notithwest Atlanta population. . Mrs. Hill maintainoo Archer ls housing 1,700 students but has a capacity for only .1,2()0. Dr. Letson told the parents the school board included additions for. Archer, Harper and West Fulton High Schools in this bond issue to take care of popuiation growth in that area. "Mr. Wainwright may I suggest that we take each one of . these broqd areas the subcommittee is questioning us about .md set up a specific meeting to discuss it with them in depth," .l)r. Letson said. · "Let me illustrate," Letson went on. The Atl-anta school lunch program is the largest food service operation in Atl~nta. If you want . a thorough un<lerstan<ilng of our school lunch program it's · abosolutely essential that you spend the tJme to learn about it. "We'll set up these meeti,ngs, one on eqch topic or more if necessa.ry, and have all the staff people, area superintendents ~ d principals here to answer Yout questions. Then you help us evaluate the program cUld if there's a t>etter way to do it, we'll be glad to take your recommendations. THE FIRST rneetlpg, ~ t for 7 p.m. Wednesday, will deal with the operation of the school lunch program and the board's new policy on free and partial pay iunches. Mrs. Odessa Hill, Mrs. Mary &lnford and Mrs. Olivia Pullen representing the Perry Homes area, appeare<l before the board earlier in the evening to discus~ overcrowding in Archer can �