Show Equal Educational ty America is dedicated to the ideal that every v ry boy and girl shall have have- havea a a fair start in life and have an equal opportunity ty for educational advance advance- advancement advancement advancement ment To accomplish this ideal it has created an educational system system which provides free schooling The fr free public school is is Americas greatest ate g gift t to mankind Its suc suc- success success success cess requires the cooper cooperation tion of all The Th c community is greatest which puts the child first in its thinking in its business and in its ideals of conduct conduct con- con conduct duct It has the highest regard for childhood it will lead in health in intelligence in- in int intelligence t morality efficiency and happiness A people or nation moves forward through its children The school should be true to the needs of lifo life around it It exists to inform to lift to grade and inspire Does every child in the various pants of our state and nation have an equal opportunity with those in other districts 2 According to figures compelled by bythe bythe bythe the National Bureau of If Education 53 per c cent ht of the pupils of the United States are arc found in rural schools And 47 per cent in city The length of the school terms is rural schools day city schools days The average a cost costI I per r pupil in i the United Unites States is in rural schools in city schO schools The length of school term in U Utah is days and the average cost per child is 77 13 In Davis school schO lI district the length of the school term I is days and the cost per school schoolchild i child |