| Show Davis on Space For September 13 Opening Back to school days begin September for school chool children of Davis County's County's Coun- Coun tys ty's ever expanding school lation Superintendent Samuel MorI Morgan Mor- Mor I gan jan Assistant Superintendent Harold larold Holt and the school board members have spent many hours of careful study and planning for the expenditure o of available money to give every school chool child in the county equal educational opportunities There are many pressing problems problems lems ems but a note of optimism has been expressed by Superintendent Superintend Superintend- ent Morgan that given a short time ime these problems will be satisfactorily satisfactorily sat- sat meet due to the fine public support on the bond issue and the federal grants of school funds received b by the Davis district Of special interest is the school boards board's new policy to replace leplace worn out and outdated equipment and desks and scats in all the older schools of the di district This project will be completed within three to five years Superintendent Morgan assures assures assur assur- es us that one of the first schools to be considered for refurnishing refurnish refurnish- ing will be the Stoker Elementary Elementary Elementary Elemen Elemen- tary school in in Bountiful a building building building build build- ing constructed over 50 years ago This brings to light a difficult difficult difficult cult problem in older school buildings With standard new type seating fewer students can be crowded into small classrooms classrooms classrooms class class- rooms than with row on row fixed old type seating Late studies for the Association for Childhood Education International by John L. L Goodland recommend recommend recommend rec rec- 40 square feet of space for each child in the classroom necessity in the past there has been an allotment of 30 to 40 or more children per pert teacher regardless of ro room m size size or t teaching teaching teach teach- aching ach- ach ing efficiency The rooms on the upper floor of Stoker 24 by 24 feet while the smaller basement rooms are 22 by 22 feet If we allow not the 40 square feet of space as desirable but just half that area or 20 square feet per child ONE HALF THE DESIRED DESIRED DESIRED DE DE- SIRED S STANDARD TAN D A R D this would alot slot not more than 30 students to the upper floor class rooms and not more than 25 students to the smaller small small- er basement rooms More than enough new type furnishings would easily fit into these rooms to meet these latter latte requirements It is realized that most mos of the theold theold theold old old buildings of the school district district district dis dis- dis- dis present similar problems of n not t only inadequate furnishings furnishings furnishings furnish furnish- ings but problems of overcrowding overcrowd overcrowd- ing of small rooms as well The school board is cognizant of this problem and is working to better better better bet bet- ter it This year the board has employed 40 more teachers than last year for the Davis school district It is also working on onI II I the he problem of sufficient classrooms class classrooms rooms to overcrowding Plans are already well under underway underway way vay for the construction of many new schools and additions to o existing schools in this area At south Cle Clearfield a new seven class room and purpose multi-purpose room which cost exclusive exclusive exclusive ex ex- ex- ex of site A north Bountiful ful ul elementary school of seven rooms and purpose multi-purpose room will vill be built this year at the cost of also a six room addition to the new Adelaide school in Orchard costing Being planned is an elementary elementary elementary ele ele- school in the north part of Layton an addition to the south Clearfield school of nine rime rooms an addition to fo the Wasatch Wasatch Wasatch Was- Was atch elementary school of eight rooms and a purpose multi-purpose r room om oma a new v seven room school at Sunset Sunset Sunset Sun Sun- set and additional improvements at West Vest Point and Syracuse Centerville elementary school will have additions of five new class rooms and a purpose multi-purpose room South Bountiful school will get additions and West Bountiful will be improved with witha a new purpose multi-purpose room and new rest rooms Bountiful high chool school will be into a year four year our high school for the 57 1956 school year This will include an auditorium auditorium auditorium audi audi- I enlargement of the present present present pres pres- ent gymnasium and new com com- mercial speech chemistry and physics class rooms and new class rooms at a cost of Still being discussed is the advisability of building another gymnasium at Davis high school in in view of the the- the fact fact that tha t the n next year year student ent population will be greatly decreased when Bountiful Bountiful Bountiful Boun Boun- high school comes into a four year ear school hooI Also Alsoto to be considered is whether this would be the wisest expenditure at this time when overcrowding and anda a shortage of class rooms still exists throughout the county Being completed and to be occupied this school year is a anew anew anew new central Davis junior high school at Layton built at an es estimated estimated es' es cost of Mr Hess tells us that this new building building building build build- ing will be filled to capacity the first year with students It has 19 teachers stations or class rooms including ng a multipurpose multipurpose multipurpose multi multi- purpose room which must be used as a gymnasium cafeteria and an auditori auditorium m. m Th The other north junior high school located at Clearfield was built in 1939 and is overcrowded The most ost pressing school problem today in Davis County County County Coun Coun- ty is the acute need for acc ace ac- ac e c e p tab I o e accommodations standards for junior high in the south end of the county This school year ear will see the south Davis junior junior junior jun jun- high school built in 1914 with students at least 30 more than last year to be crowded into already ridiculously ridiculously ridiculously inadequate class rooms Principal Pitt said there will be 46 or more students to a teacher and this even in the smaller rooms which will leave less than 10 square feet of space to a student It is extremely extremely extremely ex ex- difficult to do good teaching under such a situa situa- tion Of immediate concern to parents are the narrow hazardous hazardous hazardous haz haz- halls and the abominable abominable abominable able existing sanitation ties Charles Larsen president of the school board said that by 1959 1059 we will need not only one new junior high school but that two new junior high schools in inthe inthe inthe the Bountiful area will not be enough to the junior junior junior jun jun- high age student population which will be close to 1400 In Inthe inthe inthe the and grades and this is not room for ev even n one more student to move into the district Superintendent Morgan assures assures assures assur assur- es us' us us us' that the south Davis junior high problem will be well taken care of and that the school board is in sympathy with the problems involved andin and andin in the very near future will be ready to present a satisfactory solution |
