| Show S THE SPECIAL promotions are n the thy on OIL marit or forced by a I 1 DefeCt defective IVO tribune ih my letter which editor in your issue of tuesdays NO op macd so I 1 called attention to I 1 W tam fact that ill 0 av e age age of all tile 08 schools at now in the public the time of graduation from the high would be over 20 yerxa baal 9 how this the attitude of the th schools is readily a P edited it wa as it HOW labori P are there in aba city who parents I 1 an affe rd to keep their fed armed and clothed until thief y cam get I 1 of this course if via the hearty A U aport of 1 these people must we not place the of the schools within their reach questions to ia Is no answer to that we bieve a system of y promotions provides for be more rapid nt of all ho lo 10 vho aho have more than over eaps capacity elty or industry act tables taken from the abe finnual 1 report of at the public bools for or the year ending june 30 10 shou bho that the special ap caal prom odow i I 1 he close ot of the first aret halt year were 4 H tile th close cloi of oc and ajl et at 1 cent less irea I 1 than I 1 inn por per od and half year less leas than 4 per I 1 hie be q v vit hi or of the Y whole bole 1 promotions lous mado made nt at close of first hall half 7 w 10 a M r w I 1 25 sa 0 F 2 0 3 c 6 0 cp 1 l 5 7 F 3 3 2 s p 5 b a I 1 I 1 M 0 I 1 I 1 I 1 nobi 0 r UP to B lat 1 VI 0 B to 10 A lt 47 6 12 AM A at to 11 and 2nd 6 31 1 9 S B nil ml to A 2 sal d GIC e 49 4 8 A hil to I 1 I 1 11 I 1 arl d wa 7 III 4 11 to A 3 arl I 1 su M ei 3 3 A AW sol to 10 13 bath ath hll E 1 14 4 13 ath to A CM 44 2 2 13 A all th to 10 IS hll gib 16 3 M 3 i 7 B lah to A till RE 1 sl 31 0 6 A ain to toncia D ath wll ml ai ah 6 14 ill li to A flah 14 34 i 1 23 A can in to 13 till 7 ill 25 06 il 3 i 3 8 11 holh ill to 10 A ath 2 41 4 1 31 i K A allelo I 1 ill to B SO AS M i halb H aih to A la kah b 20 1 4 I 1 atah lohley 6 school c toi 3 I 1 total I Z 63 I 1 sl 21 promotions made at close of Be bedolli collI halt 3 car j 1 1 3 as M P 5 5 I 1 J 0 S i 0 3 1 c a ife IE 0 S I 1 5 P I 1 I 1 S g f I 1 to B ia fal 7 B betl jt to loa A it ni M 9 21 2 A w 1 to it U 2nd and SM fra 7 i il ani ml 10 A 2nd and n i 24 A nd I 1 lo 10 0 1 H 3 arl I 1 rio il A 2 37 1 B baj ard 3rd t 10 a A 3 01 to 65 so 1 A irl ird to li 4 ath 1 wa ia a i 13 19 B ath ft A 4 t h I 1 1 11 S 71 1 1 I A to B L ath ra 13 7 74 41 I 1 B all 2 A till am 43 7 i A 12 A st fill 10 0 it 11 fi liall h 41 44 3 1 7 R kah uh to A mh fth 7 34 6 I 1 A till cili to 13 hah at ti SM r i 6 B baul ath to A ath ill IS 33 aa h to avith lt 1 14 4 4 aj B nh ith to A mh bill 41 I 1 i s I 1 21 1 aulito A to high school I 1 20 11 I 1 i total I 1 1 I 1011 ana 2 r 6 A cartful ful examine examination tion of these ties discloses uie the existence c of 0 a practice affect ivil the entire promotion system ach cannot be too strongly condemned nor too quickly remedied the trouble Is 13 evidently caused by the fact cl that ahat we have halt half y yearly clavis chiwa ees and nd promotions in uie the grades erader nail and yearly classes and promotions in uie the high school it Is owing to this as stated elated tn in my first arst article that pupils who complete the ui aa grade erade in tho the middle ot of the school year must wait halt a school year in older to enter the high aleh school tills this in turn has haa sc BE resulted in a dl division of 0 the prado grade classes into two KEN one of 0 which roust must be sY sisterna sterna tl tally favored ta orel and the other systematic rally discriminated against in the matter of promotions s and failures in ort to them out all the right at the end of the grade course each of the grades covering one W school 1 year Is divided into two classe cla sacs R P la Is the lower and A Is 13 the hoffher highe r ell bilm the B and A classes exist side by side in tub each half year now the B classes clagsen in the first halt half year yar and the A classes in the second halt half year are in the direct une juneol 0 promotion to the high school without Jt hout loss leas of amo after completing the A 8 jrade grade these constitute COnat tUte one half 0 of all the and may for convenience bo be k called the regular cla cluba ages t ain A in the A in th first half and the B in t the second d half year axe are the oft off f classes for th the a reason that when by they become A 8 class claas in tile the lint first halt half year they must lose halt az a ear uniting halting for the annual entrance t to tho the idah school now comes the iho discrimination be bc awn the two sets vj viz t any pupil PUPI in the oft off set mt may bo be to the regular oft bet by deolal promotion thereby gaining a class or by a failure to pass thereby M ne tiff a class the promotions promo tlona as a given elven are a fair oe x t to 0 I 1 the he numbers in the respective classes 1 i ook at the tables and observe tho the decrease in the oft classes and the comparative increase in 0 o the regulars IS I 1 st we elhat remarkable results havo have produced lit in the first half year the promotions i iora A ith iho oft off clam claga to B D ath li Is pin t big class the failure were G and tile special promotions were 28 29 evl evi ata ili nuy UY more than one ileth of thin class t I 1 M by special promotion landed imong the regulars ref ulars i now low look into the tables table of th tb see tail ond halt year in thin it will be ba rek e 11 the n are the off classes t and nil the promotions from 13 ath to A ath k 0 re rc it 1 l in this clana clam there were 8 fall ures and 21 special promotions prom 0 eions so BO that nearly ry one third ot of this oft class clasa was by special promotion transferred to tile the regular Is there not it 0 principle nt at work hero eff effecting eting the promotions which Is 11 tri entirely independent of uio tile cap capabilities abill 5 of the pupils thedeth Th ereth there 8 21 24 p per 0 r cent cx nt of special pro li notions in the first oase and 33 per cent in the second while the general of special promotions as above stated are only 2 per cent and 4 per cent respectively again beginning at tho the forty ono on promotions promo llona as ad given in tho the second halt year run up the column the oft off cla mea ture are marked with a slid ond up tr to about the fourth grade erade era de where the Livor gence apin appears ara to bearin it will rill ho observed that the promotions in the oft off claason aro are uniformly lew less than tho the promotions in the regular classes on eight aide ide it if these promotions are an index of tho th actual number in the classes they sefrin seem to show it A comparative de crellen in n the off on acta wes and it a corresponding sp increase in the regulars so tax oa am the eighth grale grade of 0 1197 la in concerned the tables show ghow by adding tho the promotions failures and special promotions ns that there are am 73 pupils puella in BS tho the OX oft class claas and 42 in A AS the regular class these cannot fill be accounted for on the theory of at difference in entries into an and d capabilities of 0 the pupils in the two sets seta of classes omitting the iho beginners there were in all the classes of the last halt year more failures fal lupca and more special from the off classes than there were in the regular classes inasmuch ns tt it requires either cither EL a failure or a prom promotion to 0 c the trans tran f ers from one set to the other these two taken together netted tra transfers rufers from the olt off classes to the regular classes the promotions present the g I 1 ronger contrast for occurred front from the orr on classes out of OL a total of 35 in the last hall half year the lallo belne being 2 to 1 there Is every reason to bell believe e re that this effect was W 18 brought about by an earnest desire on the part of the rivin arcement t ot of the schools to save five a poi bible half years delay in the transfer to the high school would it not bo be better to avol avoid 1 tile the necessity for cor this attempted antra tion lion of t 0 half yearly entering classes into one yearly exit class by providing for half yearly classes in tho the high school it if the demands of a modern education aro are so BO heavy prudence would dictate that we save gave time whenever we can call even 1 it it he bo necessary to make sonic additions to the teaching corps in the high school the lit in this article are b baach ased entirely upon tho the tables given hove above aro are tile the fair will somo some one under undertake to discover how many if any of the failures in the arst half year and the 1011 f failures allures in in the the second second half year are influenced by tile the conditions herein pointed out if the fallucca fall fallu urca rem are influenced in thin way and it has been going on tor for several years does it suggett any explanation in part parl of the present crowded condition of the schools or lias liaa the management of the schools been demonstrating that hat t while tho the course of 0 study cannot be condensed for ono one half haft of the chut classics ses it can for the other halt evidently we io cannot iely icly upon 0 our ur system of special prom promo llona wo as ag EL a cialli saving plan ot of general application ca ion yet it if more explanation la is lleces sary take the pupils in tho regular classes for example A halt half year pained gained by it special promotion for them Is under existing conditions dit ions lost tn in halting alting for the tr transfer s for to tho the high school unless it can n be made two halt half years by another 0 promotion aulce tw ice during the course then every pupil handled in this way has haa one yeats years work crowded into 0 a halt half year the final result la is n year saved or skipped put but why not save that year for all the pupils by distributing tile the work involved over a period of sever seven years instead of loading a ilmi limited led few with mith two tu 0 years work in one it Is not intended to attack the special promotion cyst system it la is good and should bo be maintained under ader all circum but its use should be confined to the ad an cement of the more i capable and it should bo be applied to VL fill alike very respectfully r orr I 1 w SNOW mr ar snows snowa position tribune 9 that I 1 have taken up considerable of your space la in school matte matters re will you kindly permit penult me to add some personal explanations my friends in the fifth municipal ward know my views on the school question but there are many strangers there who do not and tor for their benefit I 1 owe it to my friends to make this explanation my candi candidacy dazy for the nomination to the board of education met with the most determined opposition front from certain people and my opponents did not hesitate to circulate more or less damaging reports it wasi was sold said that I 1 refused to olan the call for the mass convention this was vas untrue the call was never offered for my signature which would have been div alven e n had the opportunity to sign presented gon ted itself it was said that I 1 was wag opposed to the high school this was waa untrue one basis tor for the report was my belief that there Is no good reason tor for antagonism between the university of utah and tile high school another was the de determination ter mi to send my two older children to the university instead of to the high school this decision vas made not because of antagonism to the high school but because of antagonism to the high school building A third basis for the story was that I 1 had bad already taken my children out of 0 the public schools and was waa sending reading them to the university the facts are II 11 I 1 have two children in the training school ischook one ona lit in the wasatch and one in the bryant I 1 it as gaul baia that I 1 desired to reduce tho ly salaries sirl 0 f the th teachers dismiss all ithe tho foreign teachers and employ home I 1 talent this hafl as also untrue I 1 hold other things belos being equal that when vacancies va cande occur or new teachers are arc needed our home teachers should ro re ccleo tho the preference ference ernce I 1 should vigor bubly appo oppose ly dismissing a competent teacher who had conte conns here her from any ny other slat simply to make mah room for ony any ono one As to tho the galaxies they should ho be such euch OA ft secure tile the bt bent kalont the principle should be firmly estabi 1 dished that the one thing thine necessary neco for teachers teach cra to retain their positions position 8 a at t good sa galarion larion la is elU elli clency and alt atlan to duty without the nei necessity 0 ot r havone IJ any private influence with mom b 0 i the hoard board or tho the superintendent Superintend ei 0 i schools it aas aa said that I 1 was a mormon and paid my tithing and t h it it they could provo drove it this Is 1 another untruth The foundation lor for it W waa ile that list anat winter during or about t tho he holidays I 1 I 1 gave hl BI hop ambort morris of the eleventh war ward d somo some coal for tho the poor this was done at a time when will en e li 14 or should be peace on earth good v ill toward men another basis for tile the tory story was my repeated assertion that many or oc our strongest strong esi supporters ot of the iho schools adiong tile cormons mormons Mor mona mons that there was no ne cassity tor for stirring up it a morn I 1 mornion ion gentile Gentl ls light fight over the school question itch it a right la Is now imminent lot let it be averted by vl ise action ot of the school board I 1 thank you in advance for the and subscribe nub scribe myself it a friend of tho the schools very respectfully I 1 GEORGG GEORGE W SNOW |
