| Show SCHOOL 0 Ao C SYSTEM State Superintendent Nelsons report OLI the public schools to Governor Cut Cutler Cutler ler shows a gratifyIng condition In the doo oven ovon If It does doos indicate that the tho growth of school population L outruns the increase ot of revenue with L W which hl h to facilities for pupils During 1906 there were pupils in attendance and the tho expenditures per capita wore 2128 The proportionate number of children ot of school age in I relation to total population Is 15 greater than In any other state and only six other states spent more per capita on L The superintendent mends an apportionment of state funds funch in aid or of high schools a of debatable value so far as thc tho larger arger clUes cities are concerned because It II means In effect a 8 heavier levy in Salt Sail Lake Ogden and the larger towns without a proportionate return to those places which will boar bear mose of the cost cosi it If the tho recommendation carries There Is no question but that Mr Nel Nelson son Is rIght in his declaration that thai t salaries ot of teachers are too low lov Thc Tho Thor r requirements In have beer bean I raised with the natural result that more mor mortime time is required for preparation to t teach and fewer teachers are for the schools though the demand is i 3 growing constantly In the state out outside outside side the cities of the first and second I classy dass teachers for seven mOnths earn can I Ian an average of per month or less ies S than for the school term Even if ifa I 1 a teacher cnn can find In the ui a vacation and so supplement school sal salaries salaries aries his earning capacities for the thi 0 year veal is so low that ho he cannot be r ra In Iii employ for any grea t length or of time The Tho effect offet Is to dis discourage courage teachers of experience who wh 0 would bo be most valuable mid and bring about abou I Ia a constant change in the tho 1 Oi of the teaching staff much to the ment or of the school system The Tho same argument applies in cities of the nL ep nd class because although salaries arr s are re hIgher the cost oost costI p I L great t r an and tie the I for other r employment t more fr frequent quent and tempting In pro proportion proportion portion to the service rendered no class of public employee Js Is so poorly paid for exacting service as the teacher in the public schools and this condition Ought to be remedied The report recommends that a fixed portion of th the state tax he be se sat aside Ide for the tho State University and Agricultural tural College Such an would he be desirable In that that It would stop the tho biennial wrangle In th legis l over the amounts to be appropriated appropriated for these two institutions and the constantly recurring political row between the friends of the the two schools In Inthe I Ithe the legIslature It is by no means certaIn taIn tam the recommendation favor w with th t the st state te a h is ted to th consolidation of the two collages and bent benton on Its plan and ui hi any t the e propos l to o be ed only If the rate rat of cost in involved d is within ratIonal Mr ir N suggestion that the school censuS be taken when the cl chil children ll dren ren arola areat home lome in Is se sensible and ought to o e adopted without debate since it i manifestly impossible to get getan getan an census in JUly Tuly as at pres wit ant when many families are alC out of the cIty and children are counted in dis districts trl ts whore they have no residence The superintendent might properly have mentioned with emphasis the need of an extension of technical instruction it irr the higher schools and manual train jag inS In all the grade schools The tend tendency ency and need nowadays Is unquestionably unquestionably toward the technical side and Its value to Utah is so plain its im to the pupil so evident that it ought to be an Important I part art or of ortho the tho general system of state Instruction |
