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Show f Crowded Classrooms At Uintah High Provides Largest Program lit School VERNAL Probably the s -nost critical condition at Uintah f Hirh School, and certainly the ne which no amount of ad- iustment will alleviate without j he added space which a new senior high would give, is that f the crowded classrooms. I When the school was built i about 20 years ago it was con- structed to house a student population popu-lation of 600. Each classroom was made to contain 25 students With the growth of student population over that period of time desks were added to accomodate ac-comodate 30 and then 35. Now it being impossible to crowd any more desks into the rooms, the addition of chairs has made 1 ! ; .j ....-1 t ". . I9 - i - - i v -V.-! v- : . r J n so that 40 and even 41 or 42 students who have registered for a class, can be taught there. In some instances students are only 4" from the heat ing piPes and 4' from the front blackboard. In between the board and the front desk the teacher's desk is wedged, v In some rooms students are ' sitting at the desk with the teacher, and in some they are uncomfortably close to the ventilator. ven-tilator. The aisles are narrow and the space between the students so small that the girls find it hard to squeeze into the seating spaces to say nothing of the six-foot seniors who sometimes have to occupy them. Such conditions naturally make for discipline problems and prevent the teachers from giving the individual aid that they should and would like to give. While considerable adjustment is possible in the upper grades to prevent too many "students taking a class which needs individual in-dividual aid, there is little or nothing that can be done about the Junior high grades. Population Popu-lation in junior high is heavy, and is increasing. Further, most of the classes taken by this group are required so that they must be taken care of in some way. Yet there are no additional rooms into which they may expand. Separation of junior and senior sen-ior high, with resultant smaller classes and programs geared especially to each age group seems to be the only solution. |