State Rep. Doyle Heffley met on Sunday with about 20 parents of the Jim Thorpe Area School District about the potential of troubled teenagers from a private facility being transferred to clasrooms in the district.

A meeting on the topic is scheduled for 6 p.m. today in Jim Thorpe Area High School.Heffley said he is hoping the matter can be resolved without the district having to bring the teens to the public classrooms.He said the meeting on Sunday with the parents lasted about 45 minutes and he shared his feelings with them.The state legislator said he had conversations with the school district, the private agency, and a state agency and is optimistic the matter can be resolved.Teenagers are sent to the treatment facility, commonly referred to as Camp Adams, by courts.The agency says the facility is not a detention center but rather a residential treatment center.The Bucks County-based Youth Services Agency of Pennsylvania issued a press release Friday saying that some of the clients have committed no crimes and that none have committed serious or violent offenses.Money is at the heart of the matter.The agency says it negotiated with the school district for more than a year over how much money it needs to be able to continue on-site classes.Heffley said it is the responsibility of the Jim Thorpe district to educate all children residing within the district.He said Youth Services Agency is reimbursed by the home district for providing an education to the students.If the district doesn't have enough funds, a reserve fund in Harrisburg is set up for this purpose, he said."I was looking into how the process works," he said. "It seems like a convoluted process to me."Heffley said, "At the end of the day, I'm hoping all the parties will come to terms."He said he feels it is in the best interest of the children at the residential treatment center to continue getting educated there because some are not ready for the public classroom environment.Parent Kathy Schwartz has created a Facebook page, "Stand Up For Our Schools," to generate discussion on the matter."All children should receive or have the opportunity to receive an education. But, how do you balance their rights with the rights of our children who have not committed a crime? How do you balance our rights as taxpayers into this school district against the rights of those kids whose parents have no financial responsibility toward them? Why should our children suffer?" she wrote.Jim Thorpe school board President Dennis McGinley said Superintendent Barbara Conway and solicitor Gregory Mousseau will field questions from the audience at tonight's meeting from 6 until 7 p.m.The school board's regular meeting begins at 7 p.m.