Salt Lake Tribune | 1916-06-11 | Page 15 | School Heads Want Revenue Adjustment

SCHOOL ffiWH- County Superintendents After Af-ter More Equal Distribution Distribu-tion of Funds. ASK AN INVESTIGATION Several Resolutions Adopted Adop-ted in Yesterday's Meeting Meet-ing at Capitol. A more equitable distribution of sehool revenues throughout the school districts of the state was asked by the superintendents' convention at the concluding con-cluding session at the capitol yesterday afternoon. Two resolutions on this subject were adopted, one in the report of the resolutions reso-lutions committee and another in the report of the special committee on school finances. Both committees asked that the code l- commission, created Dy the last legis-Jlature legis-Jlature to codify and unify the educa-ttonal educa-ttonal laws of the state, investigate the question of discrimination in the distribution of revenues for school purposes. pur-poses. The recommendations to the code commission were made following discussions dis-cussions of the report on the progress of that body submitted- by I. L. Williamson. Wil-liamson. Superintendent J. P. Creer of Utah county and Superintendent D. C. Jen-s Jen-s sen of Boxelder county led the discussion. discus-sion. They said that school revenues m many of the country districts were insufficient and that the boards were being compelled to curtail the school terms. They suggested that an investigation investi-gation be made by the code commission of the new revenue laws to ascertain if a new basis of apportionment might be devised to help out the less populous counties. Mr Creer suggested taking of the school census in July. Many country people moved with their cliildren to cities in the fall and winter, in order that their children might Have the benefit bene-fit of city schools. I Thus, he said, children residing in the county were gone when the school census cen-sus was taken and the county was deprived de-prived of their couut in the apportionment. apportion-ment. The convention did not favor his suggestion for a census in July, declaring, de-claring, instead, for the last two weeks in October. f For Early Appointments. Upon motion of Orson Hvan, the convention con-vention adopted a resolution calling for the appointment of a committee to investigate in-vestigate a uniform time for the appointment ap-pointment of teachers in the state and report at the next convention of the Tjtah Educational association. March ' ?od .'u pril were sl,Kgested as the time lor the appointment of teachers. The . motion nrovided that 1,Q should be composed of the state superintendent super-intendent of public instruction, one district dis-trict superintendent, one principal, one teacher and one board member. The appointment of the committee was left to the chairman, State Superintendent h. (r. Gowams. Dr. Gowans did not appoint ap-point the committee yesterday. Professor Henry Peterson 'of Jordan high school gave a paper at yesterday's session on the "Professional QualifiVa-tions QualifiVa-tions of High School Teachers." Professor Pro-fessor Peterson expressed the wish that high school teachers in America might be better Qualified and better paid. He spoke of the German system. In Germany, Ger-many, he said, it required seven to eight years of study for teachers to qualify put, once they qualified, teaching became be-came ,a life profession with them. In the high schools here, he said teaching was too frequently an avocation, avoca-tion, rather than a profession, and the qualifications of the teachers, consequently, conse-quently, somewhat less. No mention was made of specific conditions iu Utah. Discuss Physical Education. Professor Leo Marshall of the University Uni-versity of Utah and Miss Charlotte Stewart of the Salt Lake schools gave papers on physical education in the high schools. They advocated physical training train-ing aud exerciso more than strenuous athletic games for boys and girls, particularly par-ticularly girls, in their vears of adolescence. adoles-cence. Basketball was too frequently n overstrenuous game for girlx the'v jaid. J Miss Mary E. Downnv, state library orgnnizer for the department of education, educa-tion, discussed library work. She spoke chiefly of the advisability of iiaviuft- in public and school libraries books appropriate appro-priate for the grades and a book for every child iu school.