Show W lL RUN FUll TERM High School and Eighth Grade to June 1st OTHER GRADES CLOSE MAY 1 I Ij I II I Decision Arrived at by tho Board Education Last Evening Superintendent Superin-tendent Cooper on the Effect tho Loss of Time will Have on the Schools Board will Estimate Requirements Re-quirements for Next Year Meeting Meet-ing Night Changed from Thursday Ito Ito I-to Tuesday Treasurers Report f 1 i The Bonrd of Education last evening I adopted the recommendation of the Committee on Teachers and School Work to terminate the school year on May llth and close the schools on that I account of lack of lundt I and the In rtructions n given Clerk Morcton to so notify the supervisors principals and teachers were approved The board hoover decided io make an exception in i tho oases of the high school and division l di-vision A or graduating section of the l elgljt grade schools and continue those for three weeks longer to enable them I to complete the comse of study To do this about l300 will be needed hUl as the board will have en hand on May nth S32G7 ile funds will be sufficient i The resolution providing for the continuance I con-tinuance was oftercd by Crltchlow and i was unanimously adopted It read as follows Resolved That provided tho funds of the bonrd will permit the work of time eighth A giummur grades and the high srnool bo continued lor a period of tlirco weeks Ironi May 1 1 H0 und that special I contracts bo niaclo with the teachers necessary ne-cessary to carry on this work EFFECT OF LOST TIME In speaking of the effect winch the I time lost by the closing of the schools on account of the smallpox epidemic and the curtailment at the end of the school year Superintendent1 Cooper expressed ex-pressed himself as followsto a Tribune reporter i The course of study planned for the Salt LakOl City school requires thirty six weeks for its satisfactory completion comple-tion The loss of lime this year cue In tlin iiimviii I nrr closhH 7 on nnrnnnl nf lark r funds and to the enforced vacation = vaca-tion will have amounted to six weeks so that 0110slxth of the work of each gm40 would remain uncompleted if I there had been no elimination and no fncrenaed effort in order to make up somclhlngjdt the loss Much credit is due hath teachers and pupils for the earnestness with which they have worked to repair lu a measure the effect ef-fect of the lost time As It now stands the various grades will at tho close of school be from three to live weeks short of tho limit which Is usually reached The classes which will suffer most are those nearest thai end of their course as the nearer they are to tho end the less limo they TwMJ have to make ll p ho deficiency cruised by loss bfllme1 ITho present sovdnth grade willhave omryear to makovup tho deficiency de-ficiency the Hlxth grade two years the fifth grade three years andtto on down The eighth grade cannot make up the loss unions thej have time beyond the Uth of May to complete the work outlined out-lined All the grades should and will go on from the farthest point reached and will be promoted Should the eighth grade pupils be kept over In their respective re-spective buildings next year for a sufficient suffi-cient length of time to complete the work groat Inconvenience I and embai rassment would result on account of crowding rooms and multiplying classes as thereare about 1700 beginners begin-ners entering In l the fall for whom room and teaching orec must besupplled 1 The < oighllr gtadesWtiid have had lbb > pi6rrtoted TOthe hlfdi rdhboruVW 1 trarily wlttfoutlegotd loT tlie usifal rc quirpments or it would Hnvd been necessary ne-cessary for them to make up thelr de fclenC flmlnc tbr > vnrritInn If nrnvlsloii I had not been made yncaton continuance of their course after May llth The same is applicable to the senior class of the high school The classes In the high school known as the first second and third year classes would sprlously suffer from failure to finish and the work of the1 high l selMI next > ear would have been crippled to an uxtcnt not easily described as the dims slllcatlon Jn the high school Is neces sarlly much less regular than In the grades and thc necessity of carrying over Into next year work not completed com-pleted this year would result In confusion confu-sion and embarrassment which would seriously I Impair the efficiency of the Instruction In-struction But the extension of three weeks as ordered by the board for the graduating class In the eighth grade and for the high school work will I practically euro the dolays s < i far as these are concerned con-cerned I |