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Show DUCHESNE - COUNTY '. - SUPERINTENDENT FURNISHES " INTERESTING REPORT i i The folloAving tabulations and ol-jrcrvations ol-jrcrvations furnished by Supinator d-ent d-ent W. A. Paxton, made from tb annual statistical report of tiis su'y.ev intendent of the Duchesne school district, dis-trict, should be interesting and of value to the patrons of the district., "It will lie observed that the school district employed . seventy-nine seventy-nine teachers to eare for its total enrolled school population of 2TS7 pupils. This figures an average, teaching load of 32 pupils for each teacher, which is-considered an average av-erage through-out the country. Duo to the measle epidemic, other illn-- s. bad roads and the carelessness of 1av patrons, the actual number of children in daily attendance av.is reduced re-duced to 2,004.59 or a. dilisrsuce of some 5S3 pupils. Tin's reduces the actual teaching load io an average of 25.3 pupils per day. "If the district could assemble all its absentees into one center and hy alloAving 32 pupils to die ieacner, it could dispense Avith the :'rvues of IS teachers, or it cor.id close, schools the size of Roosevelt, so far as numbers n:e concerned. "This situation pieiculs definite cn jilenge .the board vf i ducoti jh, :lhe patrons, the tax payer. The district dis-trict cannot consistently employ teachers for fewer than thirty pupils, except in one-teacher schools. If it ' dues, it increases its per capita i ! it-aching tost much beyond its .v.iil-;1a .v.iil-;1a to pay. This. challenge shou! 1 in-! in-! ie nest t'nose coinmunil ies Abe.s(: ;tec.chii:g load, througli actual daily at'.t-ndance, is 1'cAVt r than thirty p-.i-liils per teacher. i "Something must be done. This situation cannot, continue. i-'oAoral I districts of the stale boast of an at- i tendance record of better' (nan '.)() , i i j per cent and few schools average at; per cent to 9S per cent. D.i ! cliesne has a single one-leaclier school that approximates 90 per. ccnL.. ! This clearly resolves itself into tic j proposition that the district will i have to reduce its teaching fore to I be in keeping Avith its actual attend-Avisli attend-Avisli to maintain their present, rea'.-h-jance of children. Communities 11: a:. ng force Avill be obliged to show in school. Sickness and bad roads good faith by keeping their -children are usually considered the only valid excuses Ave have for absence. All others should be seriously questioned. question-ed. "Patrons are urged to study the report and compare their oavii school Avith order of like size. Teachers cannot remedy the situation, parents par-ents can." . ,FeAv items from the superintendent's superintend-ent's statistical report for 1926-27. Av. Daily . Pupils per No. Days School Xo Teachers Enroll. Attend P. Cent Attend. Teacher Sch Taught Altonali 4 13G 103.02 75.5 25.S 145 Boneta ' G 115 Si.GG 73. G 14.11 147-1G3 Basin. 2 G4 43.4 OS. 21.70 153.5 Bluebell . -3 S4 G5.57 " 7S. 21. S3 155. - Cedar vie av .. 2 . 47 31.12 S3. 2 19'. 50 13G. DuLhe.-ne ' 9' 3S1 279.93 73.4 31.1 154. 1G4 Fruitland 1 33 25.73 . 78.00 25.73 140.5 Farm Creek 1 22 17. OS SO. 3 17. G& 152 Highland 1 41 21. S . 5a. 1 21. S 154 Ilanna 1 29 25.94 S9.5 HS.tH 135 Jlayden 1 21 1 .43 7S.2 : 16.43. 151 Ioka 3 ' 99 82.39 S3. 2 27.40 15G Mt. Home 3 95 ' .03.91 67.2 21.30 149.5 Mt. Amnions 3 77 01.1 1 79.4 20.37 154 Myton 5 205 142.19 69.4 2S.44 151 Monarch 2 31 42.79 S3. 9 21.39 " 15G Xeola 4 155 123.00 79.3 30.75 13G Roosevelt' 1-6 9. 32G 273.G4 , S3. 9. 30.4. 153.5 High schl 7-12 10 350 2SG.0 SI. 7 2S.6 153.5-1G3.5 Talmage ' 3' 77 GO. 33 86.1 22.11 139.5 Tabiona 3 91 74.75 S2.1 ' 2S.25 145 Upalco 3 SS 03.2 74 21.7 155.3 Ttl.-Av. 79 25S7 2.004.59 77.4 25.3 151.5 |