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Show ENFORCED VACATION ! - WDRRIESTEACHERS Question of the Time Lost ( i Through Epidemic Being Be-ing Considered. May Eliminate- Non-essen-i tials to Catch Up on Fundamentals. Mow to make up time lost in the public 1 schools through the enforced vacation of1 more t ban si x weeks, caused by the operation of the stale health order, is a j question that for more than a week' past has been given serious consideration by j school supervisors and leathers. Speaking with respect, to the loss of j time and the consequent delinquency in ! worl in all educational branches con- j nested with trie required curriculum of; Salt Cake schools Superintendent JSrnest : A. Smith yesterday sta led that every j effort would be made to brinsr the work up to standard when the schools opened again.' lie admitted that the tak is one of colossal proportions, and that only by eiminlfiting non-esVentia! features of education edu-cation can the essential and fundamental details be br'bght up In a reasonable degree of perfection in the time remaining remain-ing of Die school year. "We have ben hit a stagcering hln and only by the couvnlctest co-operation henceforth 'among parents, students and j the educational faculties can wc recover "ur academic equilibrium." Supei in tendon tend-on t Sniit h declared yesterday. Me explained ex-plained that the seriousness of tb situation, situa-tion, as It strikes at the educational in-! slltuliori of this city, had been fully realized real-ized by school beads and educational staffs for some time and that in recent days definite plans have been made to meet in some degree, at least, require- , uient3 brought about through the long, lerm of school inactivity. Meeting of school supervisor's and teacher groups of: from four to six persons connected with a-3 ei.hf.nl ba VP hr-Otl lipid da il V d 11 ri DC the past ten days, and a conclusion has heen ariivej at which is expected to put the education of punlls on a footing fairly in line with that provided for a complete ? car of study. Eliminate Non-essentials. This pla n . a coord i ng to Mr. S m i t h . lin oh es the divesting of school work" of all its superfluities, such as social activities. entertainments and similar side features and pay strict attention at-tention only lo the fundamentals of t be year's work. . The schools of Salt Cake. Mr. Smith explains. are under obliga Hon "io further a thrift stamp campaign which is to net ?-00,nO0 In war savings. "We have derided, to cut out the side features of the school rear, but we do want to izo through with the sa Ings stamp obligation. Just how we are going to carry out this pledge has not yet been determined, hut our school faculties believe be-lieve that the work should be f urthrod until the money is all pledged. For-tunatclv For-tunatclv we. were able to et pledges of between .treS.OOO and $1 "0.o'rt before the health of the city demanded the closing of the schools. Perhans we can raise the remaining amount without much of a ' camnalgu. T hope so," .Superintendent Smith declared. flans of school officials do not con- ' template complete elimination of Thanksgiving Thanks-giving or Christmas holidays, according to Superintendent Smith. "The circum- 1 stances in Furope as they allude to the i closing of the war demand thai time be taken for the proper displav of gratitude at the regular Thanksgiving time, the chief of the schools says. I le suggests, ho'vc'er. that Ihe usual holiday period will doubtless be cur-tailed, if the health regulations are lift ed In tfme for school onening. Only one week will be taken at Christmas. ' and there will be no state teachers" institute this year. It has been the annual custom of the schools to hold a state institute during New Year's week, thus making the holiday for pupils a fortnight's length. This season the holiday holi-day will be taken only during Christmas week. The amount of the vacation will he decided at a regular meeting of the board t education. How the regular vacat ion period will be a ffcetcd next summer, too. hangs on the decision of the same board. Pupils May Quit. Superintendent Smith entertains a pessimistic opinion concerning attendance In the ''oily high schools after the raisinc of the health order. Me has expressed the opinion that all indications point to a greatlv reduced enrollment both of boys and girls when the schools reopen. "I base this opinion," he says, "upon a sur-vev sur-vev om-sorilv made. This survey reveals the fact that a larae number of high school pupils of both sexes have taken emplovment in various mercantile and commercial establishments. and will hardly respond to appeals to return lo their academic studies as a preference to the earning of fairh- good salaries. I feel confident that this will be the case when the schools are again opened, but am full of hope that the parents will hear til v co-operate with the school authorities au-thorities in bringing these young people back to the school rooms for completion of their high school work." A campaign for the filling of all high schools, carried on by school authorities during the few weeks immediatelv prior to the fall onening of academic institutions, institu-tions, resulted in the complete filling of pvcry room in Salt Cake high schools. This campaign was inaugurated and carried car-ried out on suggestion by President Wilson. Wil-son. The results of the campaign, Superintendent Su-perintendent Smith announces, have been entirely nullified by the long continued closing of the schools. Tn order to add as much time as is practicable to the first semester of school, so thai work can be brought nn as natlv as possible to the required sta nda rd. the closing dale has been chanced from January 17 to Fehruary At present school officials have no definite advice as' to when they will be nermilted to reopen the schools, hut are hopeful that the ban will be raised for i Monday, November 2.". |