Show vocational EDUCATION IN I 1 UTAH HIGH one hundred students may enter your high school next fall but bill ont only forty will graduate four years later sixty of the hundred will drop out before graduation time tho the forty will have greatly profited by what the high school shall havo have given thorn them dut but will the high school havo have done clone nil all it could for the sixty fourteen of the forty will graduate from collego and may sw see their names lit in chos who academic studies may fit them for their lifes work thu laty will nil 1111 up in ranks of th the 0 workers on farms in industry and business what high school studies fit eherts for their afas work sonio sonic the two groups need in common lota common culture kind and citizenship other studies that are arc useful to ono one group may bei bo masterful to the other group small schools continue morely merely to touch teach subjects na as such or rather tenet teach subjects in terms of tile tho place in life which the young people will some day fit what adaptations does the utah eighteen year attendance law require of tho the high schools thoro there tire are two distinct ways waya or of making young people efficient ony way la Is to it fit them for the professions anti and the other way to la to fit them for tho the occupations which do not require college training over fifty per cent of the hegt chool student body will enter nonprofessional occupations ninety four per rent cent of gf the nations total population Is engaged in occupations which do not require college training and sax fx per cent in vocations lond which require college training cannot tile the high school improve its service to the majority while not diminishing mini shing its value to the minority who need professional and college entrance courses here hera are two distinct services A democratic school system must render both services in so BO tar far as aa tho the program of vocational education in the united states Is notional national in character it has its origin in tho the federal vocational education act approved by Pre president walon february 23 1917 and accepted in utah by governor bomber bamber ger in 1918 allday all day and part time schools tor for adult and for youth both malt and female tire are I 1 included etrig in allday all day classes in all utah high schools receive instruction in Hom homemaking making nutrition cookery sewing millinery dressmaking pee bonal hygiene Ily glone and art special federal eral and state funds are extended consecutively to twenty five ficho oia biennially in a program of up grad ing the work about four hundred ladi were reached tills this winter through afternoon and evening classes for adult women who met sit at the various high clothing nutrition millinery home care of sick dressmaking child cure care dress design imd and renovating Renova ting clothing wore were taught federal and vocational funds provided boys in every utah high school tiro are taught agriculture and sonic somo shop fillop work courses denting with thu farm animals soils held field crops horticulture ti feeding poultry dairying and farm management wore were taught federal funds to sixteen rural high schools since 1918 hivo have thou them to employ their it ri cultural instruct tors tora twelve months annually so that tho the Ettic ants lents carry on competitive projects octa under tinder the instructors supervision allper per vision testing in practice ano principles studied at school anti ana learning to keep accurate account of their farm work about eight hundred boys are thus busy on oil homo home projects on their farms each season training in the repair of harness harne sn es soldering care anti and repair of farm machinery an dearm woodwork parallels and agricultural bisti instruction three hundred and twenty tou foil nion men taught poultry production pip luction lit at ten high schools lit in salt lake ant and utah counties luring during the winter or 07 o r 1923 24 about one hundred men lit in five other high schools studied dairying this winter fifty mon men are abeln taught better poultry husbandry and two hundred received instruction ili hi farm drainage and in fit tile the care and repair of oc automobiles these and other subjects subject a were taught to adults in fourteen rural high schools during thu the winter of 1924 25 special federal funds for training teachers in home economies economics work and agriculture have been extended annually since 1918 to the university of utah and to the utah agricultural college special mom of teaching each vocational subject and practice teaching in nearby near by high schools are especially require of all prospective teachers summer school courses are offered annually for upgrading teachers already in service in altah V lah high schools as teachers of agriculture and farm mechanics tho the latest findings of science allonce and the better mett methods ioda of teaching are thus placed before tiiu teachers tea chera annually much remains for future accomplishments tc com ments but foundations ilava been laid and considerable program made in giving to tho the sixty per cent who drop out of high school at I 1 least some preparation for lite |