| Show II i i a f fW Y W ii rA a V s i. i H s Rt r g i a l i if l f 9 e p h w FC N Yc 2 n 4 u 9 v h r i YM 4 rau t S Y v. v 1 C i rn 4 w wp p f L tj v FA S Y 7 5 Symbolic of or Salt La Lake e City ryr d' d and Utah n fr 4 P school children who started school for the y Y first time this t 6 is s r year Sylvia Syl Syl- t via Sloan 6 y daughter of Mr A r rand and Mrs Eugene Eugene Eu Eu- y gene W. W Sloan s B street s She is is skipping f r merrily to her w i first grade class L at the Ensign a school the he be beginning beginning be- be r r p r ginning of years of educational education education- y al courses to prepare her for fora a successful happy life This fall thousands of Salt Lake City and Utah school schoolchildren schoolchildren schoolchildren children resumed formal school work untroubled by thoughts thought of war famine or suffering and concerned only with obtaining an ed education education education ed- ed and growing into good American merican citizens During the next several months months these boys and girls from 6 to 18 years of age will indulge in in intensive intensive intensive in- in academic social and recreational train training ng and next June many of them will graduate from our high schools To discover what and how how- he is taught during 11 or 12 years of schooling and to determine how well prepared prepared prepared pre pre- pared he is to make his way in the world The Salt Lake Telegram is presenting present present- ing a s series in explanation in cooperation with Dr L. L John Nuttall Jr superintendent superintendent superintendent of city schools and the many principals and teachers of the system It will record in pic picture ure and word the every-day every activities of f school children childre in every grade from kindergarten kindergarten kindergarten kin kin- to high school Because of the complex lives we lead it is is' is quite probable and only logical that few citizens and parents parents parents par par- know in detail what happens when the doors close behind modern school children It is taken for granted that schools teach certain fundamentals fundamentals fundamentals fun fun- but techniques and methods are not generally generally generally gen gen- understood by the citizenry School life differs greatly from the experiences of even the most modern par par- The old and system system system tem has been supplanted by bya a learn by doing technique technique tech Facts and figures are not crammed down the students students' students students' students students' stu stu- stu- stu dents' dents throats like rags into a bag but instead the student is allowed to proceed proceed proceed pro pro- as rapidly as he is able and he learns when he has need for more knowledge Modern students live their education and have an en enjoyable enjoyable en- en time doing it and each group a apparently p p par a r e completes the process better better better bet bet- ter able to face the realities of life than the group be before before before be- be fore it Come along on this picture tour of academic Look at the modern modern modern mod mod- ern school through the lens of The Salt Lake Telegrams Telegram's Telegrams Telegram's Telegrams Telegram's Tele Tele- grams gram's camera eye and compare the present methods methods methods meth meth- with those used when you went to school These school picture pages will appear every Wednesday and Saturday Watch for them F H v vw w y N F t i S fr 5 S S 5 5 f k N ro i c f H f 1 I 4 V S H HS 4 l S S J t es r il ry s At m Pa l X wm In 1951 or 1952 Sylvia and her classmates will be in high schools just like the group pictured d above leaving the West high school after a days day's work High school students over the state may take in addition to general academic courses h lf 1 6 y y y 4 y y p did r r r nR r l Y 6 y fN y S 71 Y ft 4 y r i l 1 fa f. f b N a rr f I y r i i S bf 23 JS v S 'S j i 55 S' S Sp 3 e r p y 1 r o v A N v y S S 5 4 b 5 t 5 w Salt Lake City's school board realizes that good health is system this fall all third and fourth grad graders rs have t taken takena ken a perquisite to learning Here a group of students at the the this test Results enable teachers and parents to advise Garfield school are taking a hearing test Throughout the and assist students with special problems I Further safeguarding the health of youngsters youngsters youngsters young young- the bo board d of education makes daily milk consumption possible for students at small cost Here Diane McQuay 10 daughter daugh- daugh ter of Mr and Mrs O. O L L. L McQuay of 70 10 East North Temple street shows her health secret Diane Piane is a fourth grader at Lafayette school C r K r R s 6 f t i 3 1 FF K ir S S SN Si 6 4 i S A G r N H y w r y r r y r A J s ap v b r 7 4 li R r l i RA o f 6 A I IL b l ps y s Close cooperation between parents and teachers is achieved by an active Teachers Parent association Above the executive board of the Salt Lake T. P.-T. A group meets with Dr y r s James T T. T. T Worlton assistant superintendent of the board of education The They are left to x right Mrs Royal L. L McKean Mrs A. A J. J Ha Hagan gan chairman Mr Worlton Mrs L Lawrence wrence Y t H H. Heath Mrs John R. R Player Mrs Byron Howells and Mrs Angus H. H Gibson P JF Y a R S 'S rh Mk H r nN work which particularly prepares them for jobs Classes Classes- in carpentry masonry mechanics printing and electricity are available to better prepare high school graduates inthe inthe in inthe the state to earn a living y if r S V 4 ro rok k 1 A b. b 17 I Ef 5 i n v. v JY lYk y E ti i q Y a t Y r s S n f i jt y it t. t S' S Sa f i I I a L d r I |
