Show educational minutes of a trustee and teachers educational association held in the central schoolhouse on saturday may 28 1881 after the usual opening anino exercises it aoa moved an and see seconded on ded thai that Swin tons language Less Lc sou be examined and its merits discussed at the next monthly meet meeting in also that goo bramwell act as xa chorister kiaer for the association the pro gramme of exercised exercises for the day wa was s next read and clias wright was introduced to deliver a short lecture on competent and incompetent teachers in place of edward IT H anderson compelled to be absent the lecturer addressed the meeting on the evils of employing ill incompetent comp tent teachers and related his experience in in visiting a school in this territory some years ago which was conducted in a manner so far inferior to the present mode of teaching that one would scarcely now illy C call ut it a school he lie was pleased to realize that the trustees would aid the superintendent and the bo board ard of education in still furt lier promoting it in the future that our county ma may even ir progress orm with tile t times i in cs tins I they could do by examining the t teachers certificate and find commenting ni on the standing of the same they would find three different grades the best being the first grade this was followed with a select reading by squire crowley V le whose excellent delivery applause mr G aco co carver from plain city next followed with ft a spirited address complimenting the people x bf weber county on the progress they were making in educational matters in all his travels in the south he lie did not notsie see any better school accommodations than we had here nor any iny better systems he was ever pleased to meet with the teachers and alid would esteem it a pleasure to become one of tile members of the association his address was listened to with much interest supt bupt L F monch followed on school reports he said great err ors had been made in ill the past in in giving the number of school districts several alain leaving reported the same number at t t the il last report there were at least three or four numbers 13 and other numbers corres correspondingly ond irregular he adviss advised the trustees to tic go to the clerk of the county court and find out the correct number for each district in ill filling filling up the reports the figures should dle bo written in the same position as the print in taking the census all over six and under eighteen be included the person taking the census should at the time he lie takes the names ascertain f from roin the names of those who lad been attends attending i n school a bool during the past nast year inci including in tills this the names names of all who were of tile proper school age during the last year this would f furnish the most accurate school enrollment while the tile manner in which most of the trustees had bad been doing during the past years was entirely wrong teachers should furnish a school report to the trustees before tho close of cadi each term and if the trustees would en on force that reau regulation lation by deni demanding andin a report before paying the teachers they would klive fess less trouble about this matter from this the trustees would be able to make out their annual reports with the ex exception of the school which was best obtained in the way indicated above the tile amount paid to teachers included all that the teacher received both from the trustees and tit alie people the value of school property should include all buildings which are used for school purposes and owned by the people mhd following pro was adopted for next meeting lat laa saturday urd i in i june the r c merits of Swin tons language lessons by clias recitation by ricy 11 jones address by peter later trustee sol select act reading by miss susan wheeler address on oil school improvement by simon halverson trustee address ib by george carver war HALLS HALU secy |