Show interesting information given on uintah school district t in rn view of the agitation belne being worked up against the board ot of education regarding dInt its administration of and the expenditure ot of school funds the express waited on the secretary ol 01 the school board and secured that official the following state ment which is based upon records and reports report available lable to the public as are all public records eight years ago we had no high school supported by the district we had scarcely no bus service and before the county took over the high school they had about seven ty teachers the increase in the number of teachers installing bus service genice and a high school in vernal and oth grade in other p parts at of the district has practically doubled the service rendered tendered to the people of thu county and yet this has been done with very little change in the assessed valuation of property this Is a very good showing considering that our revenues have decreased rather than increased during the last six years revenue in 1131 1931 la Is WWW W less than it was six years mo A report front from the of education 1930 shows uintah district has elul wealth per child the average wealth per child in the irate tat of utah to is le leaving leving ving us with less ie than half hall the average 0 of f the state in per capita wealth report from state superintendent superintendents biennial 1830 1930 shows uintah a spending 64 41 per child and the average of the statte states Is saju per child based on our cenius census enu mera tion this Is U a dUye difference rence ot of 1994 per school child which multiplied by the number of school children would over more to run our bhoola if we were recell r oa an pave five interesting GIVEN GINEX ON SCHOOL BOARD continued from page one ont tog ing state average we could run our echolls twelve months a year at the cost considering tb tho fact that we are lire so 90 tar below the state la in cost cast and yet we so are holding an record in achl chica you will tee see by the further examination of 0 school records this finding well of the tr atlon dipre are about seventy three then cheis in our elementary schools w with ith a teaching load ot at about awen ty nine children per teacher we have all ill kl it of schools from the one teacher school with sith all the grades to the graded with ore teacher to the grade Accor dag drig to the report of our state and inspectors we have a good quality ot at teachers echers te on the ehtle there we exceptions in this case us as la in all others it has been a it policy ut of the school board to en ei aljy local teachers as far is possible arat is so doing we havo tome of the best teachers in the state and some borne that are not so good the same 0 conditions would prevail in any datrice no teacher i b be btag employed emp loed for tl 0 caming air I 1 that has not filed evidence nl of I 1 meeting re ments for proper superintendent olson a certificate is designated as a IL life d in school administration autho authorizing rUng him to teach supervise and act as superintendent in any of the school districts ot of the state ot of utah there are re twenty one trades grades ot of teachers certificates and d in the state ot of utah and ot of a I 1 these them grades a life diploma in school ai ad ministration Is the highest from state superintendent superintendents a biennial re port ending june 30 1830 1930 we tind find a total of 30 certificates and diplomas out of this number only five were in the class clan held by tte tt e superintendent our teacher teachers have developed a new technique in teaching whereby better results can b obtained ti in less avs time than by the old method this district was one of the ars in the st at te e to accept a change chance in t tt teaching aching procedure it has been quite clearly demonstrated that a t acher teacher can teach two clabes at a time without any lose loss in tiri efficiency cien CY it is also being demonstrated that our teachers can ca carry rry little heavier teaching load I 1 inspector bjarnason in a mass miss meeting held at the hah school this winter sinter stated after vl a number of school schools 1 11 I want to compi ment the superintendent end and the beard board of education lor for having school matters fo veil well in hind hand and tor for the splendid showing their choals are making net oly only tie vie in lepet perter b t n 1 r outs de visitors haie hae paid high tribute to the cual ty y cf our teachers and yet in tre tte final analysis there Is 13 only one way that you can dt termine the quality of anything and that Is by the results in every rase case here our children hate hane had cc occasion caslon to come in competition rith with other schools they haie made a splendid showing pup Is from our choals have gone into city systems of longer terms and hac hae held their grades to tao ca C students from the oth grade of tort kort mchesney school went sent to wasatch academy and were placed on the honor honer roll we have won this division the last two rem years in the tribune spelling con teat test A pupil from vernal central won went into the granite district and was advanced a grade two pupa went horn from our to the calif ornia schools one held his grade trade and one was advanced a grade the state tests tor for a number ot of years back enow show a decided forward movement tn in educational achieve ments in this distinct they have advanced from about a state media to a substantial burgin over the state median last year war or example the 1930 state median tor for eig el arilee in reading was 29 0 4 in arith met mete C 23 ji in langu language ace and in hillury 18 4 tile the rit r if hi it n acu district were reading 31 t tic 44 language 24 and his tory 24 this information was tak en from the table of uniform state tests compiled by the department of public instruction for several years the U atah high school has been one of the 01 upstanding high schools of the elite it Is one of the few high schools in utah that has his been boen associated the northwest high school 1 uon tion the ot at our chocas receded the follow folla wins tog no fee 1 I am happy to inform ou that the uintah high school as accrued ted by the northwestern Northwest em as co claton of secondary and higher schools at the annual meeting of the association in anra 1 l I L I 1 williamson WUll amson state agh a ua inspector the students from our stand well in other schools of the tate it has been reported from the U S A C that the uintah students stu dnita are among the best in that sc school b 00 I 1 that only one other school rated higher in english As outstanding examples we have the davis boys with cal as captain of their basat ball team the calder boys and girl hazel marle single ton etc smilar reports are coming from th buraver i a ty of utah and from the brigham young university we are proud at of our school nd the record our schools are making moat most of t the he a departments are ars exceptionally strong last year our dramatic department tied the bbate ter drat lint our domestic science department apartment part ment took first in the betat the team from our agriculture dc do partin ont nt scored first rn in same of the judging and nd near the lop top in all ill forms of judging just a sho short t time we won out over caruci in debat debaene ng contest aich entities us a tn in compete hi in the state tryouts A glance at our domestic science and domestic art departments Is U ent evidence of efficiency and did work the music athletic woodwork and art departments are all ou wending tn in their work eln it 16 earn comes s to student body the uintah high school Is binl the cost of running OLI high school per capita for instructor lors on and other expenses Is AS compared with 2784 per school pop popi i lation tn in grand county a difference of 19 72 per capita As compared with the average of the tate state on iw per capita cot coat we have gagnat 1142 a difference of thil this means if it we had an ali of the state we e would hae about 10 DOO more to run our high school when these facts are knon 11 dos srem that a c are petting getting verr splenda returns from the money invested we all regret app et that the schoel term has been stort ened but that Is a matter over which the tn indent and the school board had no control itie the financial depre depres lon ion effected schools very the same is it did other forms ol 01 bustnes business depreciation ct at valuation and anil pow collection ot of taxes reduced their revenues both from rom the district and from the state what our be schools need today Is 13 constructive coopy atlon and an in progressive edu at lonal movements |