Show A FOR CENI ION believes the greatest good can be accomplished by continuing As we have started tho movement in education which hichi two years ago centralized the eighth grade students at vernal was considered by those most competent to judge ono one of tho the great greatest cst stepi educationally cation ally that haq ever taken in uintah county it has had tile the fleet of turning out moie graduates from that grade from our public schools than was done in the ten 3 ears previous two reasons at I ast for this thia cicat showing are obvious I 1 aist I 1 st such students while tn in the several had all the way from onu one eighth to ti one third of the time almo at ai 1 d I attention of tho the teacher which re in about tho the same kind of work bearg done as would by a farmer trying to do the work ork on lion fion lio fio n threes three to eight calms when hen each bonev one would ba have is IMM been enough gh to have occupied his talc tacit nt and energy the boain of EiL Cation by special ta tax hn h is mair anair taint d school from thre ta t four longer than other districts havo have seen fit to d in salt lake ci y ll 11 0 year la is nine months montha in dai aaion and there frequent complaints complains tire entered that the school year is ia too shot t to complete the work mork required salt lake city speaking as a whole is 1 p ovidea with every modem amodei n com conen oil lence tence and facility to increase the useful usefulness nes of her schools and pans pays sufficient cien salary to attract the best beet educators obtainable it is easily to be seen then that with our yet somewhat crude conditions we would not be able to do the work covered by their students in nine months on tho contrary reasoning from our point of view it would require a longer period hence the few graduates prior to eighth grade centralization liza tion end and a term of bix or seven months this salutary condition was mas not br ought brought about in our county without opposition indeed I 1 may say that just now the opposition comes from an altogether unlooked unlocked for quarter the basis of centralization has been that other districts than vernal contract with her to furnish a certain number of pupils for the grade in question by which the county superintendent was authorized to divert tho the state and county Lr for that number of pupils atom that district to vernal vernal objected because there mere w ere not sufficient pupils to justify tl ti e employment cf a tr for that grade alone and that the al af prop nation accruing to Ine incoming wiling students was as insufficient to meet tile the balance it requiring aiom to four hundred dollars to the deficiency at that tinie time it was slown shown th it if other cities took the same stand the appropriation for our county would be deiy much diminished whish may be seen from a comparison made for tho the school 3 ear just juat ended the state tip A as 01 the county 55 vernal laid all selfish interests aside and welcomed all comers this obstacle ae overcome some parc parents ants said eaid it was impossible to their children because of the distance and cold dalar ing that they would mould rather not have children kno know quite so EO much than to overcome these and ei lences this difficulty has not at the present been solved by all but it is pleasing to know the unconverted aro ara hopelessly in the mio mitao onty rity and v A e hope soon that comfortable vehicles will be provided for the transportation of children in our entire brunty a as it is in parts of our state tind and in miny many other states of the union notably massachusetts illinois and indiana until that time arrangements may lie be made as amicable as possible letteen pupils from the same locality av avoiding aiding i the necessity of each bring bringing ing a separate rig there is ia a new feature of the question however and it cornea comes from that unexpected quarter trustees are complaining that where here they contracted for a certain number of students only a small percent attended in consequence of which the whole appropriation contracted for came to vernal without proper returns and w was as lost to the district for thit thip reason some have thought to mal mai etain an eighth grade in their own on district as a matter of economy thih brings us back once more to the commencement of the movement the grading siaion I 1 take it that it will A ill be universo illy 9 ranted granted that the graded system hai hag incomparable advantages over the old haphazard methods and will take up the question of economy only the average pay of principals in our county ranges between seventy five and eighty five dollars per month it is safe to say bay that those school boards which have students fitted for ath grade work pay their principals 80 or more per ninth say they bave ita a 0 ten att slide de its for that grades fot that number last year there would have j been an appropriation state 1 and county of sixty two dollars ard eighty beite of anat number would be an average attendance of six or levan tho the lowe grades being crowded the principal then receiving the highest pay spends one third or one fourth depending on the number of grade lie ha teaches of his time in instructing ting six or oc seven pupils whelps wh erps his hia subordinates are a art aay ay with twenty or thirty pupils in a alss at a lower wage dut but this is not all one third of eighty dollars is ia 26 1 6 2 3 tt tle 6 cost of teaching te achin tile small class of six eix or for each cach month dutine a period of say seven rn wi vl ich ch would amount to la 18 2 3 for the cl u a or 2 3 23 2 3 per year for ei ch indjid al pupil ane appropriation state ard rd chanty coi aty last 5 ear was waa plush I 1 er capela I 1 will leave the matter for the trustees to decide whether it I 1 tys financially to centi centralize alize und akiso it pays to have their test teacher employ amplo ed willi a few ants while the langei number are being neglected parents ba free to judge jude of the advantages advant asea u i disadvantages of all education 11 inove indents and ex expires pies i I 1 icely ecly so that school bearis may loloa their wishes and act accor lin bingly hy utah lanka thaid in education 0 dl tha states of the unini let rot uintah county be the one to detract from this thia excellent record foully it is c earnestly ar nestly to be hoped that every step wo take on this question be baa a stop step furnard for fur v aid rot backward J 1 RUDY county of schoula Schou ls |