Deleting user account and their /home directory

hi,
I'm a parent volunteer helping to admin a mac lab at my son's K-5 public school. The lab is running o/s 10.5 server on a mini with about 30 imacs as clients.
I noticed that when I delete a user in workgroup admin, the user's home directory is not deleted at the same time. Is there a way to force the home directory of a user to be deleted at the same time a user is deleted. Its extremely tedious to have to delete the home directories manually.
This question was previously posted under Open Directory forum, but I've not received any replies so I thought I would try here. Thanks in advance for your assistance.
William

william_sf wrote:
when I delete a user in workgroup admin
Workgroup Manager only deletes the user record in Open Directory. There is no known preference that I know of that will delete their data (the home folder) at the same time.
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