Show State High School Inspector In In- Inspector Makes Survey of Duchesne County School District The State Department of Education lion tion under nd l th the chairmanship of I. I L L. Williamson State High h School Inspector InSpector In In- released the survey suney of the I School District Tuesday evening ev ev- ening April The survey was authorized au an- by the Duchesne Duchene Duch ne Board of l Education and work be began beg an last DeC De- De C comber mbel and has bas occupied the attention attention attention atten atten- tion of th the survey ey committee since that wat time Two visits of several days s sach each ach were made by Mr Williamson Mr Noel Noal Mr Bjarnson Miss Peter Peter- Peterson son n and Miss Cox Cos The rule reports consist consists of type typewritten writ ten pages consisting of nine chapters dealing with the Population and He- He sources sources Organization and Administration Administration Adminis Adminis- Transportation of School SchoolChildren Children l I he rIt-ach rIt rs En Enrollment and Attendance Elementary tion lion Secondary Education School Buildings s and Financial Support of E Education Dr C C. N X Jensen State Superintendent lend cadent nt of Public Instruction says in part in Foreword The TIle school survey y has bas become an important in instrument in in- ini T i 5 strument in evaluating e educational procedure and guiding the formulation I of I I of or educational policies By the method of scientific investigation and 1 analysis analysis sis the survey storey y determines both the worth of pres present nt policies polich and the wa ways s 's to improvement It was with the hope of aiding not only Duchesne district but hut other districts where conditions con con- are similar to those in Duchesne Duchesne Du Du- chesne J that I t this l s survey u was en The principles and practices herein herein here here- in set forth should be of value generally general generally gener gener- al ally y to school administrators teachers teachers teach each eachers ers students preparing to teach and to citizens interested In education The data collected have bave been carefully sifted and analyzed by hy the entire staff of this department The report has hns been written in the light ht of gen gen- gen general eral principles arrived e 1 at through painstaking in study and discussion Under Population and Resources the following observations are made At the time of the federal census of 1920 1020 the population of the new county had reached Since then thell no official count has been ma made e. e It Itis Itis is probable that the total total population trends since 1920 1020 clOS closely ly s school hool trends The school population in hi u 22 1921 was 2 G mil and andin andin in 1929 was 2802 2392 with some fluctuations fluctuations fluctuations In intervening years The 19 1923 census of a agriculture shows farms in Duchesne County This Ibis is is' is fewer than there were e es in 1920 The majority of these farms farm s an ange e from 50 to to- acres and were e credited In H 1125 5 with with a population o of ef f 44 persons In terns terms of other natural resources resource s than those derived fro front l the soil Duchesne Duchesne Duchesne Du Du- chesne Count County may be said to b be bewell bewell e well supplied It has over oyer 1000 square squar e miles of forest foiest reserves es well timber ed According to the U. U S. S geological i surrey lY it is rich In deposits posits of coal gilsonite and aud other valuable minerals miner als ais and including a vast supply o orare of f i rare are h hydrocarbons With increasing g facilities for fOl Economical transportation l tion r especially 1 should a railroad b be e constructed through the the- county these thes e mineral ral re resources will undoubtedly v be developed de The survey sur committee could di discover coer cover cov- cov er no probability of such expansion it in inan I an any section a as would create nl an merJ- merJ emergency enc envy ency in the field of educational policy v The 1 primary consideration in shaping g educational policies should he be to take tak e care of present needs which in lu man many ep p cases are urgent and to i provide e fo for r needs arising from future expansion ti as ns th they r make their appearance Fo For t instance new buildings should s provide pro e sufficient rooms for the present population pop population but should be so constructs d that rooms may be added in the ft future fu t ture if the they are ale needed The same sam adoptability should characterize character I e po polIcies policies pol pol- 1 Ides i nother phases of of- education The following recommendations ar r made maee relative to Administration an and d Organization 1 The pr present ent tendency to confine e board Iward action to the field of legi legislation n and acid the approval of policies havia having g the lie administrative e duties to the su sup sup- sup P should be 00 continued 2 The board should increase i its l S efforts to stabilize its policies policies' Policies Poll Pal 1 cies Iles should be adopted only after care cart ful confederation and o once once l e adopted should not be subject to sudden nn and n d abrupt changes chanies es especially during the tl school term 3 The supervisor of elements elementary ry grades one to six should be lie employed ei d leaving the supervision of junior at ul senior high hl school grades rades to the Sill superintendent superintendent sup sup- assisted b by his principals principal s 4 An u improved 8 system stern of fillip filling i requisitions and checking out Ls bo bu Inaugurated ted The major po pore por r tion Uon of the supplies especially for ti the e larger schools should be shipped to the schools schooL direct G 5 The rhe of st stenographer no to the superintendent and clerk of oC ti th the e hoard board should be combined The oce occupant u I pant of this position portion should work u un n- n der del the direction of the superintend nel nd ent ant The money S saved ted by combining ug the two Ilo positions to together together- ethel with the ex tra 11 pay now given l the rc regular prim m I ar try ary teacher for fur Supervisory i orr help belp w will ill school largely pay for tor the elementary supervisor Other observations and recommendations recommend recommend- mado in la tho re report rt include the tho following The consolidation of small schools hoots wherever r it could be done effectively and amI the increase in the number of pupils pa pu pUs pils per teacher that has been achieved achier achier- ed deserves commendation With one exception this consolidation con In la all probability reached ached ts its limits It Is worthy of note that four of the thirteen districts compared with Duchesne rank bl higher h l in per capita cost than does and eight Ig-bt rank lower Duchesne Duchene spends eight dollars per por capita more than the average av ar rn e of ot the twelve districts seven sevc dollars more than the aYera average for or I e thirty eight ht states While most of or the counties in tho the table have e a decided advantage e over Duchesne Duchene due dUll to density den den- sity of ot population and improved road conditions the relatively ely hl high h. h cost in Duchesne prompts th suggestion that the superintendent and board should make a careful study of ot the transportation tation problem in the light of ot loc local l conditions to determine e if It the cost may be e IO It should be borne born in In iii mind however er that even en a n relatively high per capita cost may be more e ec economical n than the maintenance of a large number of small schools 7 Speaking of the Tabiona section the report continues the too simplest t and most effective l solution of ot the problem problem probe lem is to repair on one of ot the then vacant n vacant nl rooms at nt Tabiona transport the sev seventh sev seventh Y- Y and ami eighth grades grade from lianna and grades one to eight from Farm Creek to the Tabiona school Based on on the October this would mean JUN a one teacher school at Hanna with an enrollment of 27 21 pupils In grades one two three three- 34 pupi pupils s in inin inin inin in grades seven ser and eight Hire policy of employing a hl high h per of men may mar well be continued So far as means will permit the general salary level should be raised With additional supervisory help the superintendent should expand and perfect his program of service in-service training of the teachers ne Beginning with the third grade and amI up tip to rind and including the tenth nth there e seems to be he altogether er too many overage over o overage age children in iu the dl district Tire The largest larg est eat per cent of over O age children oe oc- oc occurs c curs urs in the eighth and amI ninth grades grades Comparing Duchesne district with wit h four other t. t typical pi al rural districts and with the State as a n whole shows there are proportionately few fewer r un under der del age e children in Duchesne but birt many more over age than in Cache Cach M l Millar illard ld d Uintah Emery Emer and th tb the e SKate Slate as a whole whole- With an average n o of n cent of children of from one t tf to f four year rear over 1 u age e for their grade it ft is obvious ious that considerable re rid d- d Is needed Study of the educational profile charts shows the primary grades are f five ive e points above the n norm rm for th the e United States The other other grades ar are e d decidedly below the norms The fourth h grade rad Is three mouths months below th the e standard the fifth si six months the tin e sixth s ten months the seventh se eight i hf t months and the eighth eight t In terms of acc rati ratio o I the pupils of grades rades four foul to eight ot t Achieve ve e a comparatively ely high ran rank k kt with the exception of the seventh e t grade their accompli ratio 1 is s higher than titan the average a for th the Sam same e grades of the count county districts of th the e State In other It t appears appears' that tits t the pupils male make better beHer use of their r equipment their native e a abilities an and d other means that the they hn have e to won work worl l with than the average for rOl the rum rural tl districts of the State In lu view of the small enrollment available for the third ane and fourth fount years and the present financial limitations limi Jimi i of the district it is impracticable 1 cable cuble to consider nn any u upward upward up up- ward of the high school work at ut Duchesne Du Dt i chesne until the the population increases increase s' s Also that no work above e the tent tenth h grade should be attempted Reference has been made to tit the C shifting shifting- and uncertain policy polley pursued pur pin r sue sued in the tle past post with to gig high hig tt school chool work at the Mt Emmons Bo neta section For or the past several sever e rul ul years front from one to three e years ears of ulf f hi high h school work ork has been attempted 1 No o definite policy has been established establish establish- ed eel no permanent building l erected erect and the tile school Las has been moved mor-cd fro from nt place pities to place The conditions and under er which the work has been attempted have hae been heen so o unfavorable as us to nit make ke the value of the results questionable e Yet Tot the population in this section Is sufficient to justify some mie work in tl the to secondary field The survey v commute 1 te to feels that a n junior high s school hool c com coin m- m grades rudes seven en ei eight ht nine an and l ten should be maintained Also th that t no Ito work shove above the tenth grade Jrade shoo should lit be attempted The committee states that tl the school should be e located permanent permanently ly and concludes that it should be he 1 located lo 10 on the Thacher site on the en east eastside t side Ide of oC the river rawer The he cost of oC instruction n in Duche DucLes ue lle n wan AS 2812 per capita This figure re was 1444 below the State State- avers ern average ge e and 1111 second from front the the- I lowest in III ti the IC State It was only 2 7 per child nto more Ie than the the funds provided pro 11 by the State StA t te During Durin the tho past llast three years t the bonded d indebtedness ne s has lias been reduced ed from front f in 27 1920 27 to 1051 These The e last fig figures tres are the nit n- n and ami nut not the survey committee commit commit- it tee tees tee's s At this rate after aeter three ma more re years reul's the district should be In In a n fi fi- fi sundial position to devote ote a a IlAI much ch lar larger er proportion 0 of its funds finds f to loathe to t he l Improvement of Instruction through gh expenditures itu res to for l' l current operating ng purposes s. s |