Show BRIGHAM NEEDS that brigham city Is s in dire need of additional room in which the children in the grade schools can gather and be taught is apparent to ta anyone who mabes a survey odthe of the situation lvery every a school chool building in this city is dver overcrowded crowded and has been forthe tor the past lew few ye years a rs each year the increases from uj j to in the grades but nothing has been done to increase the facilities for taking tare care of them in order to get a comprehensive understanding der of 0 the situation the writer interviewed the clerk of 0 the board of education and gathered some statistics which corro bates the statement made in the opening paragraph I 1 of this article for instance there are 1249 children attending the three grade schools in brigham city and thirty teachers are employed to give them instruction this means that each teacher on an equal division must care for far from 40 to 42 pupils and in some ot of the s alloi booi buildings there are not rooms enough to accommodate all the classes which necessitates the bringing into service of the principals office for class instruction in all the buildings it is impossible impassible to provide more room and i nd so when the new students student 3 present themselves next tall fall unless more room Is provided they will either have to 10 be turned back home or else squeezed into the already overcrowded rooms and thus endanger their health and retard their education added to this there are four teachers who ulic are doing double work in order to accommodate the children just how the conditions condition 3 in this city compare with those of other school precincts are best understood by a comparison par lson in garland for instance the average number of students per room ts Is 36 tremonton Tre monton 32 melding fielding 24 bear river city 29 and willard 26 these precincts have been named because they are the larger ones I 1 A comparative statement of tile the amount the board of education is capita tor for the aduca tion of the children in the tha various school precincts shows the allowing Erig brigham harn city 1350 garland af 1144 H tremonton Tre Tro monton 1556 fielding 2 2350 1 50 bear river city 1904 and willard 1858 these there figures shew shaw instruction only and do not include investment in nor maintenance of school buildings but the school patrons I 1 in n t this a c city it y are not complaining as ail to cost for they are willing to bear their portion of it but they do feel tl that before the board of education spends any more money for new school buildings the children of this city are entitled t to 0 consideration whenever a school be it the remotest school in the pit on tire school district becomes so overcrowded as are the brigham Ci city schools the taxpayers and patrons of this city will willingly get behind any movement inaugurated to improve those conditions condition the situation in this city demands attention before another school year opens there will be a very large class from the eighth grade pass on to the high school this year but the class of beginners who will enter school next fall will tar far exceed tho the number pass out so the room conditions next winter will ill be more intolerable than ever we feel that we a are en entitled titled to another school building or at least a number of additional r rooms the teachers complain because of the he large classes the students cannot possibly do the same kind ot of work as those who have more room to work in and fewer in the class tor for recitation this city is growing rapidly and it will continue to grow so that tho the situation will become more and more aggravated as time goes on brigham city needs a new school house and it ought to be pr provided ovidea during the coming summer signed A TAX PAYER |