Show S OGDEN DEPARTMENT I Twenty fIfth rUt fifth Streit Phone all alt co complaInts complaint m to 91 BOARD EXCORIATED IN SUPT MillS MillS' REPORT Special to The Telegram OGDEN Jul July 1 If I If the Ogden cit city school board will spend as much time in trying to support the new superintendent superintendent superintendent as asit it did in blocking the plan plans of the former school head the newman neWman new newman man will succeed Is the glut of ot the annual annual annual an an- nual and farewell report submitted by John M. M l. l Mills retiring city Mills took tool occa occasion sion to roundly rap lap the board for its treatment of ot him In part he said When the board through some of its members advertises to the world that it has ideas of its own and has not been taking any of the superintendents superintendent's superintendents superintendent's superintendents superintendent's ideas during the past year ear I must humbly admit it all and ask that the record of the past year where I Iwas Iwas Iwas was voiceless be compared with Ith former years During the past year the board has done my work I have remained belittling m my own self respect because duty suggested it Last year I recommended the usual advances in salaries and a continuance of school reorganization that would have fully met the expenses My recommendation recommendation rec roe September 1 would have saved you My recommendation October 22 would have saved you ou Scores the Board After setting forth his opinion of the attitude of a board of education to Its I duties the superintendent goes on Candor compels me to say that some I of your members have hare listened to disgruntled disgruntled dis dis- dis- dis disappointed malcontents Insubordinate in insubordinate insubordinate subordinate positions He lie refers to these malcontents as tattling sycophants sycophants sycophants syco syco- and declares he is surprised that the encouragement and protection of offered offered of- of the disloyal did not completely disrupt the school system If you spend as much time trying to support the superintendent-elect superintendent as aa you spent in trying to disrupt my plans he will succeed Superintendent Mills concludes In the forepart of his report he de declares cle- cle clares dares the average school of toda today is a school machine and children of vanous various various vari van I de-I ous temperaments must conform to this system The school of tomorrow will conform ra to the child he says If It the board does away with halfday halfday halfday half- half day sessions in the lower grades up to and including the third grade he be says the board must employ three fifty-three additional ad ad- teachers and provide additional addi addi- rooms costing about to give those students all day sessions The Lewis junior high school is organized organ organ- led in irs accordance with his plans he set forth and this school handles twenty-seven twenty more pupils than the central junior school which has three more teachers than the Lewis As to Elementary Work lie ire advocates the return to his plan of having six years of elementary work in grade schools three years o of work in junior high schools and three years in high school He declares that ultimately ultimately ulti ulti- this system will b be in effect in Ogden and elsewhere He also forecasts forecasts fore fore- casts the return to the tho elective system with guidance in the high school The superintendent maintains maintains' that during the six years he was active head of the system the tax levy declined despite extensive building and remodeling remodeling eling but that during the past year ear the board has a large overdraft without without with with- out having Increased salaries or constructed constructed con con- buildings |