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Show U SCHOOLS' PLISJpil Students Are to Make Up the Work Lost During i Epidemic. Special to The Tribune. . 1 OGDEN, Aug. 23. B. A. Fowler, su- ! perintendent of "Weber county schools, today gave out information regarding his policy and plans for the ensuing year, which has the approval of the board of education. Mr. Fowler said: "First School will open September 22 for a nine months' term, which will give the pupils about one month longer term for better training, and "will add about 12 per cent to the monetary value of the ten chers' contracts. "Second liaises in salaries, "which have previously been decided upon and granted grant-ed the teachers to date, have attracted to the county some of the best qualified teachers available anywhere, a nd has kept in the system most of the strongest teachers of former years' service in Weber We-ber county. "Third More attention will he given to the physical well-being and the health habits of pupils. "Fourth (.irtranization to secure bettor wjrk in all departments, giving as much credit and recognition to practical lines and projects as is given the academic subj.-cts. "Fifth In the matter of promotions, the policy of former Superintendent Peterson Pe-terson to grant no promotions until the Incomplete work of hist yenr has been made up will be uphold. The plan for carrving it out, however, will not work a hardship, nor do any injustice to anyone. any-one. "This plan provides that stud-nts who attend th full nine months of school mav finish their last year's work and make another grade besides. This will not be done by miscellaneous spuria promotions, pro-motions, but by the usual method employed em-ployed at the end of each school year in the" spring. "When school opens September 22 everv pupU will enter the grade in which he worked last year. Since approxima: e- , lv six months of work was done last year, broken a? it was by the epid.-mir of influenza, in-fluenza, the pupil will now coinp! t'vo months n-.or-- of work in the same trade, 1 i having previously had a brisk review of the past work. Then at a srivn time fposs-bly the latter p.i rl of November) O'o-h pupil v:li I h,- examined to d-"', ermine )ijs fit no:-'-- fr pro mot ion just as he ordina r;i y v oV.d j be in the closing months of school ea--h "Ha en student found carab'e of doine the iv xt hiclvr crad wil", b- pro.,ved at this t in; r. and wi il c -nt in v i Iv re-r. re-r. ,::ning yv-n months in a grr-do hi'-'her ' s.-h,-,,-.;. I-'.;-" rn-ic-n:ra-;.-.-i up. n the i ..-.t re:i;-l r-uhi."-- ma -v. a:d by i j.--(.-,;V.-' a ", i iu-a :i n on the p'.irt of siu- : -s and a- tv.rv it is tV..-uh; nv -: j r.f rV-se s'udents w;:i be a'-i" -.dar. e ! c'TV. pi-" : '' u or' f -' r-" |