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Show Scla9ls (Editor's tlote: This is a reprint of cm article submitted to The American Vocational Journal ,.al their request.) Adult education in Millard Couii ty, Utah is an every-community affair. Through the efforts of Supt. A. M. Maughan, and the local Board Bo-ard of Education, there is not a village or town in the district that does not have an opportunity to have adult education course organized and taught 'in their own area. In this county covering 4,000,000 acres, the size of Massachusetts J there are 14 communities, two hav ing populations of about 2,000 and the remaining 12 having an average aver-age of 400 inhabitants. The plan, high school just celebrated its 24th consecutive Parents' Day with a full day program for the adults. Following the policy of taking adult education to the people, the psychologist from the U. of U. will sponsoring a Family Life Education Educat-ion Conference in which a clinical I District Administrators this year is go into six communities to lecture and be available for questions and ' discussion with the mothers of pre I school and primary children. Sex problems of children and youth will be the main theme of two sex education conferences to be held this spring. These will not be held in the larger communities, but in the communities which requested re-quested such a conference. The adults of Millard County go to school and take an avid interest inter-est in their adult education program, pro-gram, for truly in this school district dis-trict adult education belongs to the people. as proposed by educational leaders lead-ers in Millard County, was to give each town an opportunity to take advantage of adult education. Cooperating Co-operating with the Home Economics Econo-mics Division of the Utah State Dept. of Public Instruction, the administrators ad-ministrators procured services of a I director of adult education and tur I ned to tlje task of providing adult ad-ult courses for every community. In the first year eight commun- ities had classes, registering some 250 people in thirteen courses l which taught sewing, home impro-i I vement and decoration, parent -child relationships, and home nursing. nur-sing. The second year saw 12 com munities in Millard County participating par-ticipating in a course program with about 400 patrons seeking knowedge in courses such as those listed above with many new ones in addition. The populace of this district has accepted the idea of adult education, and if funds were available, the number of courses would be doubled. Organized courses such as those listed above form the crux of the adult program, but this modern minded school district does not stop there. During the first year the program a Child-Youth Confer ence was held at which the problems pro-blems of children and youth were discussed as they related to home, school and community. School was dismissed while the parents met! in discussion groups with state officials, of-ficials, college professors, and experts ex-perts such as Shirley Cooper, representing re-presenting NEA. From this conference con-ference came proposals and plans (later carried out) for ,the beauti-fication beauti-fication of communities, an enlarged en-larged audio-visual aids program, a summer recreation and leisure time program, a well organized and intergrated physical education educat-ion and health program in all schools thru grades 1-12, and each parent went home realizing that his school was doing its utmost for the betterment of his child. Parents' Days in which Dad and Mom go to school while Jill and Johnny baby-tend the little ones and feed the chickens, is an old custom in Millard County. Delta |