| Show I AN OMNIBUS SPELLING CLASS Editor Deseret News NOc Some time ago ngo you OU published an all edi editorial tonal much to 10 the point concerning the tho need of ot bettor better I methods In our public schools also culling calling atten attention tion to some Bomo new requirements In that direction by tho the secondary schools of ot the tho tale state Your Ideas have hao met with u warm response from tho thu teachers of ot the Young university For zor a II num nuni number number ber her ot of we accepted students on un the credentials contained In their diplo mius of ot graduation from the eighth grade assuming that tho the teaching of ot spelling belonged l to school preparations pre Hut wo WI eoon that our Il this tact fact did not lIot make inako It so by hy any uny moans moann for tor really the york work of 0 these schools Instead of ot be becoming becoming coming coining better as us methods o ot of teaching Improved became worse woree oue so tar fur us ue this particular branch brunch was concerned d until there thore was vas danger of 0 our bringing th the Institution Into disrepute dl on account of o defects that UI t should never have havo beon permitted to topa pass pa the eighth grade Krade training Tho ihie matter was brought to an nn Issue J u a 1 fortuity faculty meeting last lant year when the following resolutions were welo passed gassed i hereau a Spelling In is primarily an grade study we 0 your commit committee tee ter recommend That 90 o per tnt cent or 90 GO words vorde In III 00 b be the minimum pas p passing point In till nil formal tests for tor entrance to this thin Institution Institution to ho bo chosen eho en within the range of It an eighth grade students vo vocabulary 0 Secondly Second I That every evry Clr teacher bo he heW held lit responsible for tor teaching the spelling of ot all 1111 technical words wool wor Pol or words word peculiar to his hl courses cours Thirdly That the tho misspelled words word peculiar to any course shall affect the tha grade grude of ot the examination paper Fourthly Fourth That every such lIuch misspelled technical word shall shah count 1 I per Iler cent off uN In III such paper Fifthly That thero shall elicIt be lie held haiti rag reg regularly during two days day per week of lr each cacti semester an omnibus clue clasi without credit to In which riny tn teacher may lOa assign a a II nt whose P Is 18 i conspicuously bad brul Since tho lie opening of the second cond te e o emester meeter of thin this year the tho spelling lI class above referred to has bias become one otto fit cf t the largest clauses classes claH cM In iii tho the school ami an something of ot the enthusiasm which u jl to be hE associated n I with tho the old spelling down Iown class III In vogue ogus with our fathers Cath r rIn In the tho days tays of ot the tho old Webster Wb tr rack Jack speller to have hao taken hold hoU of ot the work here hort hereIt hortt It t IH Is II to bo hc hoped that nth r liki hi schools III In the state will tire tho s im C In the thus matter nf lit if spelling r requirement Then Thon principals of the public ImbUe schools will iII hail l n a way wey 11 to improve this very on onsen tint hut but tOuch much neglected study N 0 I 1 N Provo March 14 H 1 06 |
