Salt Lake Telegram | 1936-09-24 | Page 11 | Students Kept out on Strike

STUDENTS KEPT OUT ON STRIKE OGDEN N Sept 24 4 UP four Fifty four Fifty students students' of or the Eden school were b being ing held from their classrooms today by parents who demanded U that at the Weber county school board employ an n additional teacher for foz 13 students of ot the seventh and grades D During the tho first two weeks of this term the Eden school chool operated operal d yIt with 26 students lour classrooms comprising comprising com corn the thc entire town enrollment On Monday however parents parent re refused refused refused re re- fused to let their children attend ach school ol until tho the board s supplied a a third teacher I Superintendent K Keith uh said a vote taken in the spring showed that r residents of ot Liberty berty arid Huntsville favored sending their seventh and eighth grade grado pupils to the Huntsville junior high school but that Eden protested protest d the consolidation The superintendent said that the board ordered the Eden seventh and eighth grades transported dally daily to Huntsville with Liberty students atthe of at the same grades thus saving the expense of ot hiring a teacher who would have but 13 3 pupils The Eden r residents assert the tle school authorities promised to hire a third instructor If they voted in favor of retaining the 13 scholars in their theiL own town Since ince a bus carrying Liberty students students stu stu- dents to Huntsville and to Ogden passes passed through Eden each morning morning morn I Ii i ing g Mr said It is only a sane move arid and eighth graders be taken along with Liberty pupils pupils' of the same grades to the Huntsville school