Show FEW AGED OVER AGED CHILDREN IN SALT LAKE PUBLIC SCHOOLS System of Rooms lS B rings Zions Zion's Standing in iii This Respect to Position Ne Near t r Top Among All lI American American Amer Amer- ican C 0 Cities r I I t t That the tho per ler cr cent of at over aged chil dren In the public seh schools of ot Salt Lake Lako has decreased In little more than a year ear from 18 i tp to 1 16 15 per ar cent as a Q result of ot the perfection of ot the system of ot un un- un graded rooms Is shown in an nn Incomplete incomplete report made maile to Supt D H. H Christensen Christensen Chris Chris- According to the report the per pel ea cent of oC under-aged under pupils has in increased In- In cr creased ased In proportion The Tho exact figures will win be made known when the report I Is completed It Is believed that the report will wll show that the Salt Snit Lake public school system ranks third from the thie top with other cities of ot the United States ta tes There arc are fifteen rooms scattered Q cr the city with an aVera average e attendance of ot 1000 pupils In addition addi addi- tion to these rooms there Is Js conducted a school for tor defective or subnormal children Tim The attendance at this thin In Institution tn- tn which Is known as the ical school Is For Forthe the purpose O c of ot increasing the standard of ot efficiency the board of education of or New ew York CIl City I Is planning planning planning plan plan- ning to install a n system similar to Salt Lakes Lake's The rhe room looks quite as much nuchi to the Interests of ot the bright precocious child nn nil to 0 the tho Interests of Ie the he slow low backward child said Super Super- Christensen It Tt Is not nat how hol however e ever intended ed for tor the mentally den dell 1 dent or subnormal child When hen H lie 14 I Is dl discovered he lie is transferred at Qt once to the school for tor backward or or 01 mentally deficient ent children The room room Into which j dren drea just a n. little lItte above C or 01 a little be below be- be low hoi for tho the class clas average ar arc aro brought Individual instruction and alid study stud tor for such a n time as their Interests ma may re require re- re quire has demonstrated Its ILs suitability oyer over the regular classroom room Frequent Frequently J ly h after aCte a few weeks weeks' training some som of the children advance anc until they of tn satisfactorily the requirement next advanced ad class while those thore 1 ly h behind move upward to a normal group of their own Tho rhio un room certainly I doe dot not lack variety varlet In the class claas of ot which gather within its walls wails Theo pupils I 1 think nay may a be PC divided ed into three groups a n those thoe who t with ith R a little help and guidance can easily cull do dothe 1 the wor work of ot tho tim higher grade tj LI j those thoc who aro alO behind their class clans pa In account nl of ot enforced a absence sence c tho who find great difficulty in up with their class on ac account of ot r rIn In Inability to on ono On of ot the fundamental funda mental subjects subJect |