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Show B;l ' 'm' ' -ill. n i - - I ; Shall the Schools ' i Be Consolidated H tVadlng Educators Fnior t'oniuilldn- H Hon Question Soon to-Ilc I'nt H Up (n Ihe People. Hi' r Hl Lchl Is being stirred oer tin; ques- Hj Hon of the coiiBolldatlon or the hcIiooIb Ht or ' tho north end of Utah county. K Nearly every educator In tho state, H' county' and district, favor a chance of B some kind, and with practical unnnl- B inity they say that tho solution of the m school troubles Is consolidation. Lchl l citizens hnvo In tho past been. very H Jealous about their schools or giving B up any rights to a central board. TIiIb H, J' paper Is not yet prepared to unquall- K ' , flcdly .endorse county consolidation. '1 j However, wo do ngrco with tho trus- H i , i tees and teachers of Lchl and tho rest B , of the county that tho present method B la too extravagant to keep up and that 't a moro efficient method of supervision H f '1 , Is desirable. M I Thorc is no need of being in too H ', big a hurry over tho matter. If con- H ' i Bolidatlon Is tho proper thing it will B stand tho fulf light of Investigation B if that It is proposed to turn on it. Wo Htr- ,1 will welcome any communications on K H tho matter from cither side. In tho ttJM nenr-futuro there will bo prominent Rpta Bpoakors hero who will address public HH moctlngs under tho direction of tho Hli ! local trustees. Hitl Tuc8day,nlght .Superintendent Crccr H. mot with many of our citizens io cx- Hr'"J plain this system. Tho first thing he H' ',. Bald was: Consolidation docs not ; mean tho taking of tho Lchl High P School to American Fork; nclthor Hf , ' ' docs It mean tho bringing of tho stu- Wv donts of Pleasant Qrovo to tho same Hfji city. H. this was tho fruits of tho $u system no would bo unalterably op- if , posod to tho systom. Ho stated that ff ho did not favor the centralization of B&j I our high schools; neither did ho think l such a system practicable nor fens- 1 , ' Ible, but that ho had always favored Hri l tha maintenance of three high bcIiooIb ) i ' ono it JJehl,,ono at American IFork J and ono at Pleasant Orovo and that 1 under no condition would he favor ' the uniting of theso throe Into one. ' Ho sold the advantages of consolida- iHHH', ( Hon Bro: First, tho elimination of Bi v i tho' double-headed system under which Bfr I wo r now operating. That Is, one ti.tJ i board running tho high schools and P another running tho common schools, thus aeparatlng the ono-from the other. oth-er. Instead of uniting them and mnk- PPH)V i lug -them ono as-they should be in Vft all our communities. Tho high schools :" ( and tho ooraraioB nicliools can not pos- albly work best together where they 't' aro. oporated by different boini:j nnd H? ' supervised by different principals B' r ' Tho new 'system of organization, H yhoreby . tho , seventh nnd eighth l grades -are to bo associated with the H high, school, whero -they can get man. Hf ual tral'ninK.domestlq art, lipnieatlc H''' sclonco and agriculture, can not bo H profitably worked out so long as one H, set of trustees run the common nnd ' J another run tho high schools. Tho 1 system Is too cumbersome and affords Hh too many opportunities for dlsagrco- H' racnt. Second, better facilities of r school administration., Consolldato ' and you havo, but ono set of trustees j whero -now you havo eight. Consoll- 1 date and you do not havo to pay eight Kf sets, of common school trustees' and HT one set of high school trustees. Con- Hi, solldatc and you do not havo nine IBl 8etB of-school trustees buying school H supplies and school furniture nt retail Hj prices -but ono Bet buying for nil the H' north end Of .the county at wholesale H prices.' Does this mean a saving to j. the pc'dpld? ,Ycs, according to reports r shown.. from counties already consoll- B dated, It means n saving of at least H' 25 pen cent.- -Docs it moan that tho H Buppllcs wlir bo moro carefully and 1 economically used? Yes, according to B i a comparison of tho snino reports, It B mqans' another saving of 25 per cent. B'l How can tn'a D0 done? you usk. lle- Hl'i cause consolidated dlstrlctu havo a B business "manager who is nlso clerk H of tho board, whoso duty it is to keep H an accurato check on. all books nnd M suppllos. used by each Individual HE and.' 'sco that no waste might bo HP incurred. Consolldato and you B have ' n system whero tho coin- B njon schools and tho high bcIiooIb H articulate perfectly, governed by HB ono board they movo In Ainlsou, ono Hl supporting nnd sustaining tho other. Hf Third, better, moro cfllclont, nnd moro BiBllt cconomlcalsuporvlslou. Today thu Ht supervision of the bcIiooIb of tho north R' ond of tho county Is costing approx- K Iraately ten or twclvo thousand dol- 1 lurs, while In consolidated districts HJB' approximately tho Bumo populntlou It K 'a not" costing Jive thousand dollars, E1 How can.thla bo posslblo? For three IIBh reasons. In the,, nqrth end of Utah illlljK county there , are four, district Buper- visors, four music supervisors and u IIIIIMh portion of Hie salary nnd expenses of illBL'l tll county Buporiiitoudont to bo paid. illllBK Consolldato and you will havo but one He Buporlntpndcnt, one music director, and IIH4 if you cliooso you can Bccurq tho scrv- icoslof ono primury supervisor and illllHrl then savo flvo or six thousand dollarH illS'C. to Hio people. Will this glvo us all illllKr f tho' Buporvlslon wo need? It is moro illllB-?, ' than Provo city has. It is moro than iH? Logan has. It is us much as Ogdeu illlllMf has. It Ib as much as Snlt Lake City illlllK h&B- It is as much as any consolidated Bi' district has, alid surely nil theso sys- iH' terns' can not bo .lagging In their cdu- iH'.; oatloual work, Todny tho taxes of H j luo pcoplo aro mado burdensomo on illlK account of too much supervision and ifffji too much loss In handling of school iffH. supplies and furnishings. Tho new illR,, system reduces this to n minimum J Wl11 lll'a supervision bo ao effective B, k u,s 0llI !r?f"mt system? Suporlnten- at PIcnsant (Jrovo last Saturday, devoting de-voting much or his time explaining how co-ordinated, consolidated supervision super-vision would ho much more effective than tho work being done todny. Prof. 1 lleiinlon, head of tho educatlounl department de-partment of the University of Utah, said the sclf-Bamc thing. The Hilnga mentioned abovo aro iionio or the jensoiiH why wo should consolidate; that we might rid ourselves our-selves or this double-headed system one set of trustees operating our high schools and another set our common schools. That we might securo better and moro economical administration; (hat wo might get moro elllclcnt supervision sup-ervision for n less expenditure of money; thut wo might havo a better organization or our schools, ns Is recommended rec-ommended by all tho lending educators educa-tors of our Btate and our nation; that wo might get a just and. equitable distribution dis-tribution or our taxes; that wu might most economically use the tuxes of the pcoplo to obtain tho post elllclcnt 3chool system, o |
