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Show SUPT, PETTERSDR IS BACK FROM IE EftSI ' The last gonoral Institute of. the teachers and supervisors of the county schools -was held Saturday afternoon in tho Weber Normal college auditorium. audi-torium. At tho meeting Supt, Petterson Petter-son gavo a report of his recent trip east to tho National Educational convention, con-vention, tho spocial vocational convention conven-tion at Philadelphia and of several trips to other cities and schools in tho east. At Baltimore, SupL Petterson visited tho count yschools, -which, ho says, arc considered tho best consolidated consoli-dated in the United States. Supt. Albert Al-bert S. Cook showed him about tho county and explained tho school administration. ad-ministration. Supt Petterson says ho to mothods in Weber county some in which Weber county is surpassed and some in which it surpasses tho Baltimore Balti-more county system. There aro eighty-one one-room school, fifty-two two -room schools and forty-ono three-room three-room schools, in addition to others with more rooms. He visited New York, Buffalo and Clpveland. At Cleveland ho inspected tho famous Murray Hill model school. This is considered tho inest educational educa-tional Institution in tho country for its class. There are 2000 pupils and sixty -five teachers. There aro 250 children In the kindergarten with an instructor for each flftocn. The school is equipped in the von' latest and most complete manner. There are gymnasiums gymna-siums and natatorlums for boys and girls, with compotont instructors. There are special departments for delinquent de-linquent hoys and girls, special departments depart-ments .for sub-normal children, and special departments for physically defective de-fective children. Tho latter is on the roof, where the children, most of whom are victims of insiplent tuberculosis, tubercu-losis, aro muffled In furs and woolens, studying and reciting In zero weather and fresh air. Tho departments for delinquents or slightly incorrigiblo children, is autonomous and SupL Patterson was assured that the plan is very oifective. After visiting this model school ho raado a trip to Collinwood, the city! whoro the torrlblo firo of ton years ago destroyed tho sohool building and burned a largo number of children. This was to contrast the two classes of sohools. Tho Collinwood schools, SupL Petterson says, wore found to bo inferior in standard. Tho trip had firmly convinced him, he said, that Weber county's schools wore very good. |