Show pUBLIC SCHOOL NEEDS Three important matters are before the board of education for Us Its consider consideration atlon One Is the selection of a m morn m ber of the board from the Fourth pro pre precinct cinet to fill a vacancy Roancy another is the to add French rench and German to the tre optional studies s In the grammar grades and the third is the need of a anew new flew High school building The representative of the Fourth pre nov no serving is from the west end If f the precinct Geographical consider considerations considerations should in fairness be consid red in the election of t te e mom mer particularly as the east end of the precinct has not had the te consider atlon recently at the hands of the board to which It Is entitled The residents Interested In th the schoOls particularly In the Wasatch school believe beHove they should be glen given t i representative who whom will m understand their needs and see that they are given dUe die attention The addition of French French and German to the grammar schoOl should not I be made without thorough om and discussion of the question To the outside observer there seem good reasons for opposing the burdening of the school system in thIs way If a student wIshes to undertake modern languages In addition to tho th required studies in these grades there ther can be no objection to the assumption of such work outside regu regular regular lar school duties but parents who have hac followed the required of if the pupils must be Impressed by the mUltiplicity of subjects taught and the strain It requires to carry on studiOs S Apart from any pedagogical atlon it Would seem the wiser policy polley to spend any additional money used for Instruction in the practical Work of manual and the extension of manual work throughout the entire schOol system French and German are ble as a factor in mental training but the trend of modern life in and out of the schools Is toward useful education tion which also furnishes good mental dIsciplIne Moreover if a modern lan Ian language guage is to be Included in lower grade studies would not SpanIsh offer quite as good a subject with the added ad advantage advantage vantage of practical value to the pupil in after life French and G German r an are undoubtedly worth while as studies In the High and In preparation for university life Lie but they do not properly belong In grades which are already overloaded with studies Involving complex pro processes esses at a time of life when a child chUd has difficulty In digesting such material as jg of y thrust upon it still further the for tor a new High school building Is pressing No NJ Noone one with the physical condi coadi conditions in the present High school build buildings ings ng will pretend tat they are either adequate or fit for the Boys and girls tire are compelled to crowd in to together together gether constant travel across from one place to another In all sOrts of weather conditions generally are wrecking the health of boys bos and girls unnecessarily criminal criminally ly y The responsibility lIes with the school board and the conclusion Is forced upon the public that some one in authority has been negligent or t terent erent to the situation Until the board provides for new building of the right sort It should not undertake any additional expense In any other Uon tion |