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Show EDUCATORS FIR SCIMEIS1 Utah Teachers Urge State Board's Program for Vocational Work. Control of the youth Is too soon relinquished re-linquished by the schools, in tho opinion of D. C. Jensen of Sandy, superintendent, of the Jordan district, who says this condition results in serious drawbacks in life to boys and girls who leave educational educa-tional jurisdiction before they are properly prop-erly equipped to go out into the world for themselves. On account of the undesirable condition arising from the present educational system, sys-tem, Mr. Jensen says in a letter, received yesterday by the state board of education, he is in favor of the new extension program pro-gram advocated by the board. Other educators approve the proposed program for extending public school education ed-ucation In Utah, as put forth in a folder recently sent from tho office of Dr. K. G. Gffwans, state superintendent of public vTnstruction. These approvals come in let-ters let-ters received yesterday from J. M. Mills, r superintendent of the Grnnite district; Lester D. Greenwood and John F. Oleson of the South Summit district; A. M. Merrill, Mer-rill, principal of the Jordan district high school: George S. Ensign of the North Summit district, and 1). A. Broadbent of the Wasatch district. In its essentials tin Utnh plan is identical iden-tical with the program which was bring . informally considered by the president and the vocational education officials at V"Vashington, as a suggestion to the nation of an ideal plan of action. A copy of tho letter of approval from Hr. Jensen follows: "Ever since I began my work in the public schools, and especially since I have taken up the work of supervision, I have been thoroughly convinced that the public schools lose their supervisory control of our youth too early in life. "Thousands of our young toys and girls are now awaiting their seventeenth birthday birth-day in order to be free to slip away Into some slightly remunerative service which they think will make them more inde- r indent financially. Frequently such oung people fritter away two or three years of valuable time and then suddenly sud-denly awaken to the fact that further progress is cut off without further training, train-ing, and so seek to re-enter school to take up the training where they left off. Here they meet new discouragements, for while they have slept their companions compan-ions have gone on and are now finishing the course which they are to enter. "Or, frequently, those who drop out of school at 14 or 15 years of age never reenter re-enter and forever form the urtfortuiiate strata of society who are at the mercy of those who hire. "We have dozens of youn people in this district who have completed tlie grade work who ougtit to bo in high school, but haven't reached the point either in their intellectual development or their experience in 'life 'where they are able to see the necessity of further training. Neither do their parents sec this necessity, because they had no high school training, but hae been able to 'make a living.' As a consequence these young people will be worse than merely A-lUug away their time from now until , next April, when their services will be tr needed in the fields. r "What a misfortune that these young people are out from under the beneficial supervision of the public schools! These could utilize the -leisure time of the youngsters to lead them into the worlds which aro really worth while knowing. "We are back of you in your proposed program for extending public school edu- cation in Utah." |