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Show Home and School League EDUCATIONAL CODE COMMISSION. Kxplanatory The following i? the third of a scrip? of articles dealing v.ith Cue work of the educational code 'onimision. which is now preparing a bill looking toward the complete reorganization re-organization of the school laws of 1 tah. TAKING THE SCHOOL CENSUS. The present law provides that the j s.-hool census shall he taken in July. Inasmuch as th- purpose of taking the 'cns'JS is to ascertain the mini her of i ivs and girls of school age (hetween and l'i vears) reiient within each . bool dittri-t, and particularly since T.i:e census figures form the basis upon v.d.irh the state school money i gis-: gis-: :ii'uted. the code commission is pro-: pro-: o-ir.g that the census be taken winle the children are in school. T.'iey propose pro-pose that this work be -lone between The I .". i h and the Mist of October. In support of the suggested change, they poiiit out: d) That many children are j-way from hume in duly, traveling or f'riournicg in resorts with their parents: - C. other families have not settled for the new school year: to) many new families enter the district after school commences. All this goes to T'roy ',Kilt under the present .system the children omit'ed from the i-ount in gome districts constitute a large number, and the district dis-trict which they attend is therefore deprived of considerable revenue. Taking Tak-ing the census in October will result in getting accurate count of the childr-m in si Lool where they are likely to attend at-tend ali vear. It will also insure the district getting its full share cf the school funds. THE KINDERGARTEN. The following is one of a series of short articles by Miss Ko5e .Tones, director di-rector of kindergarten work of the I'ni-versitv I'ni-versitv of Utah. The league indorses most heartily the work of the kindergarten. kinder-garten. The school officials of 'Tin-ago ht-.ye given unlimited authority by their board of education to provide ail their elercpntarv schools with kindergartens wherever the attendance justifies taking such a step. Buffaio is attempting to do the same thing, and has recently orened cine new kindergartens. ' Debate over the matter before the Buffalo hoard of education brought to light an interesting condition of affairs in regard to ehiicren in 'he first grade "tnder '3 vpars of age. VVhile most of the Buffalo schools had kindergartens there werev twelve districts in which there were none. Because of this, and 'because of overcrowdiug in other districts. dis-tricts. Shout g'inj rhildren under o years of age were placed, in September, UUd. in the first grate. This conuition was followed in .lune. bv the repcrted non-Tromotinn oi ahuit " hi first L'ra :c children. While -nine of the retar ia-tion ia-tion was undoubtedly cue to the prevalence preva-lence ot measles an.i other diseases ar.d i to inclement weather, it is safe to sav that the immaturitv of these loco accounted ac-counted for much oir the non-promotion, ihe result of this investigation was I incorporated in the reciie-t of the school board for more kindergartens, and the I economic waste involved j having j.Vici children repeat their first rear's work, and the '-orresnonding waste of enerv ou the r-irt of the tca.-b.Ts. the loss 7,'f entntisiasin and mtere-t on the part ot tne .-hiicrrn and the iorma'ion of bad school habits that inevitablv follows all constituted an unanswerable argJ-mer.t argJ-mer.t in favor of the kindergarten. The Webster Parent-teacher association associa-tion will hold its next meeting at ti.e Webster school Thursaav. February 1-at 1-at -1 o'.doek. Miss Rose' Jones wall address ad-dress the meeting. Music will be furnished fur-nished by pupils of the school. The feature film of the beys' an1 girls' matinee next Saturday. Febniarr o, 10:Su a. in., at the Paramount-Kni-pres5 theater, will be Marv Fickford in Rags.-' |