Education: Sluggards Reprieved

To loaf like oafs, to nod like clods seemed the best idea to 40 students at Asbury Park High School, N. J. They were so lazy they would not even bother to be bad. Irked immeasurably by Asbury Park's 40 sluggards, Superintendent of Schools Amos E. Kraybill announced last week he would expel them. "They are wasting their time," he cried, "and their teachers' time and the taxpayers' money." Out they would go, he said, legally or illegally. The Board of Education backed Superintendent Kraybill. But soon Superintendent Kraybill changed his mind....

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