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offer such a program is
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the boys go to Western
Montgomery.
But Western Montgomery,
Souderton officials said,
charges more per student for
tuition than what Souderton
charges, and Souderton
refused to pay the dif
ference. Souderton said the
boys’ parents must pick up
the difference.
But neither Robert Freed,
Sr. nor Robert G. Shisler,
parents of the boys, thought
that was quite right. Freed,
who runs a Holstein herd;
and Shisler, who runs the
local Agway store, both got
bills for $6OO to $7OO a year in
“excess tuition.”
“The basic question is
whether the Souderton
solicitor is interpreting the
law the right way,” Freed
said before the hearing.
“It’s crazy. They are
busing kids to other schools
and forcing the districts to
pay. Here our boys have no
other place to go yet we have
to pay,” he said.
Actually, Freed has sent
two sons to Western Mon
tgomery. The older son,
Robert Jr., was not charged
for the excess tuition. But
the Freeds had to provide his
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Montgomery.
When second son Ralph
started Western Mon
tgomery two years ago, the
Souderton district asked for
$6OO excess tuition which the
Freeds paid.
This year the charge was
jumped to nearly $7OO and
the Freeds balked.
The Freeds also provide
Ralph’s transportation both
ways to school.
Freed said Souderton told
him they would pay only a
certain amount for the
education of any student and
the difference for Ralph’s
education would have to be
picked up by the family.
The Sfaisler boy, Robert
Freed Sr.’s nephew, also was
told to pay the excess tuition.
Robert Shisler is in his first
yearofvo-ag.
Late last fall, Freed
questioned the propriety of
the charge. At that time he
contacted the State Grange
for help. The Grange took
the matter to the Souderton
Schools and later to the
Department of Education.
A June 23 meeting of the
Souderton Schoolboard was
no help to either the Freeds
or Shislers. The District
restated it would be
responsible only for normal
high school charges.
The District refused to
accept charges for the boys
from Western AVTS.
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There was no question
from either district that the
boys have the right to go to
the vo-ag school.
The only exception to the
excess charges rule, Freed
said he was told, was for
students who are classified
“exceptional.” The school
district, he said, must pick
up all charges for ex
ceptional education.
The resolution of the
problem was forthcoming
from the existing code which
clearly states if a school does
not offer vo-ag and the
parents want to send then
child to a school with a
program, the school district
has the responsibility to pay,
not the parents.
The Act says any student
can apply for acceptance in
any other school district.
“The school district in
which the person resides
who has been admitted as
above provided...shall pay
the high school charge
provided by this Act...” Part
C reads.
What Section 1809 does not
cover is possible repayment
of the tuition already paid by
parents.
The Public School Code
does say that, should a
district neglect or refuse to
pay tuition owed to another
district, it will be liable to
action for violation of con
tract.
But in this case Souderton
paid the other district—by
billing the parents.
The total billing for the two
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already paid is returned is a
question which will have to
be solved by the parents
involved and the Souderton
District. The families are
preparing to request the
refund they feel is due
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