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Show ANNUAL REPORT OF SUFT OF BOX ELDER SCHOOLS (Continued From First Page) solldatlons per year for a number of years have taken place until we have; almost realized the consolidation which was intended when the State of Utah declared, in 1914, for the consolidation of all the rural schools, under the county-un- it plan. Small Inferior schools, in close proximity to better schools, are now almost a thing of the past, in this district, and very largely in the state. (Note that In 1926-2- 7 Utah had forty consolidated districts and Idaho 1306 units with three or more trustees in charge of each. There were about the same number of school officials as teachers in Idaho. Utah schools against had only 93 Idahos 754. Idahos cost per pupil was 27 per cent higher than Utah's cost. Utah had 10 per cent more in enrolled, of total census, ages 6 to 18. Utah had 15 per cent mpre attending school nine months in the year than Idaho. Utah had 11 per cent more attending high school than Idaho that year. (See Volume 1 of Proceedings of Idaho Education asociation, 1928, Page 96.) one-roo- m COMMUNITIES BUY OLD BUILDINGS After two or more years trial of consolidation of their schools with better nearby schools, such places as Harper, East Garland, and Beaver Dam have surrendered perhaps forever a desire for the little inferior local school and have, as communities, bought back their old school houses for recreational purposes. The East Tremonton community decided in advance of the action of the; Board of Education that they could handle their church and community affairs best jointly with Tremonton. So the consolidation of the school there, when once decided upon, became permanent, with little or no further opposition. The old East Tremonton school house was sold to thql highest individual bidder and is now used for a residence. It is located within one and miles in the Tremonton school As we pass by it1 now we wonder how it survived as a school house in these days of modern improvements. - one-four- th GARLAND VS. RIVERSIDE CENSUS-EA- ST Business and community affairs are in some cases consolidating much more rapidly than are the schools, and with no bad effect For example, the United States census in East Garland has increased from 198 to 233 in the last ten years although the East Garland school has been consolidated with the Garland school. Riverside school is nearby East Garland and in the same type of agricultural area. It has not been consolidated nad yet its U. S. census has decreased In the last ten years. It need not fear that the consolidation of its school with Garland would be in any way detrimental. UNION SHOOL UNITED WITH TREMONTON Some people in the vicinity of the; Union school, a brick, steam heated school house, two and a half miles from Tremonton, once claimed that a large edition should built there, but the eventually total school population in that section soon reached its maximum, began to decrease, and finally there were not enough pupils to justify the services of two teachers. When it was learned that only one teacher would be assigned there, as those on the Evans side of the Union section wished to go to Tremonton instead of to Union, then all but two, or three, who had previously pu up a continuous fight against consolidation, Bigned a petition to support and patronize a large bus to haul all of them to Tremonton. At the end of this the second two-roo- m, Permanent Wave Chance for a beautiful, soft, alluring wave for school. Improved Duart wave with ringlet ends. School girl special $5.00 EDITH CHENEY 829 South Main Phone 468 year, there Is no one calling for a return to the old school house, and it might be disposed of In the near future at the convenience of the board. Other patrons, in the Elwood, Bothwell, Thatcher, and Penrose dis tricts a few in each place have asked if their children may be hauled to Tremonton. This petition has been denied as there is not now room enough there for them and, too, in some instances, the distance is rather long. This proves htat consolidation at Tremonton has been very popular Indeed. ' RIVERSIDE SCHOOL The school census (ages 6 to 18 years) in Riverside reached 92 in the year 1915 but has decreased to 72 in the present year, notwithstanding it once had four well heated rooms to take care of all who may come to this school. The U. S. census has decreased from 245 to 216. The attendance during the past year in the flrBt six grades ha3 been only 34, which is not enoufh to justify the) services of two teahcers, especially when there is plenty of room for the eleven pupils in the fifth and sixth brades in the Garland school, only five miles distance, or in Fielding, nearby. In fact if the people would be agreeable to it they would be helping their own children, if they would willingly close the local school and petition the board for a place in one of the best schools in the district, namely the Garland school, where! there 1b ample room for all. PENROSE SCHOOL Likewise, at Penrose the school census (6 to 18) has dropped from 76 in 1920 to only 42 in the present year, and the official U. S. census from 220 to 155 30 per cent loss. In 1920 there were 62 pupils In the modern eight grades in a school building, but, in spite of these! privileges the population gradually decreased until It was inconsistent to have two teachers there. Last year there were seventeen pupils enrolled in the first four grades, under one teacher. All of the children would be better cared for if a special automobile were provided to take them to Thatcher and Bothwell, where there is ample room. Perhaps a majority of the. patrons would acquiesce In this were it not that they might srike fire with two or three patrons and neighbors who are very tenaciously set against their children receiving the advantages which are available in better schools. They claim the little schools are better. PARK VALLEY AND ROSETTE Park Valley has not enough pupils to justify the services of three teachers, unless it be that all of Rosette pupils are transported here and the! ninth , tenth grades included. With only two teachers, it is undesirable to try to handle the grades up to the tenth. It is too much for the grammar grade teacher or to put it another way, he would have to devote so much time to the high school students that he would necessarily have to slight the others. The best arrangement for both Rosette and Park Valley would be to have all the pupils up to the tenth grade under three teachers at Park Valley. The next best is to have two teachers at Park Valley and one at Rosette with no ninth and tenth grade classes in either. This would cost the Board of Education a few hundred dollars less than the better plan. If the Rosette people are far sighted in the matter, they will petition to retain the ninth and tenth grades and have all pupils received at the Park Valley school. When weather conditions are decidedly unfavorable the Rosette children could remain at home and make up lost time on good weather days later. The route is not so difficult as a few we already have which are now managed successfully. There were only eighteen pupils under one teacher at Rosette and enrolled under three' only forty-si- x teachers at Park Valley last year. There will likely be no increase next year. There will likely be an average daily attendance of twenty-on- e pupils, per teacher If all are assembled at Park Valley under three teachers. The U. S. census dropped in Park Valley from 173 In 1920 to 167 In. 1930, and In Rosette from 100 in " 1929 to 77 in 1930. SCHOOLS OTHER The one room schools, which are too remote to be consolidated, such as Boothe Valley, Kelton, Lakeside, Lucin, Clear Creek and Junction (in case there may be enough pupils there In the near future) should be strengthened as far as possible and so long as the enrollment there justifies this action. THE BUILDING PROGRAM The board is making no mistake-icarrying on at least a modest continuous building program, as each year will have its petition for more room and better buildings or new furnaces somewhere. The Clear Creek people seem to appreciate the long needed new building in erection there, and those doing work in the auto mechanic shop at the Box Elder high school will be made happy over their new and adequate facilities provided in the adidtion which is now under construction. We are now in need of additional land at the Tremonton school and could make good use of more room there, as soon as it is advisable to tear out the old room at the southeast and square up the; present building. SUPERVISOR BJARNASONS two-roo- m nl ONE-ROO- M n INQUIRY A recent visit from Supervisor Lofter Bjarnason of the State Department of Education, inquiring into the possibility of more fully adopting the plan in this district, resulted in the opinion that this would first be feasible In the two high schools or still better the plan This would, of of organization. course, require more room at the high schools. OTHER OLD BUILDINGS The Bchool buildings at Junction, Promontory Station and East Promontory might bo held a little longer to see if these sections will acquire enough children to reopen them, but there seems to be no good reason for keeping the Appledale school, west of Corlnne. The Call residence near the Lincoln school is of little value to us at present. If we are going to keep -3 -4 it should be remodeled for either kindergarten or first grade work. it, FORTY CENTS PER PUPIL PER DAY HANSEL VALLEY . Hansel Valley there has been a At school for a part of a year for only seven pupils. The board has allowed these pupils 40 cents per day each toward the salary of a certified teacher, and have also furnished the school fursupplies free. The patrons have the nished the house, the fuel and janitorial service, as well as the; balance of the teachers salary. A similar arrangement might be provided at Lynn, or elsewhere, where there are too few pupils to open a school, that is, where there are fewer than a dozen pupils. 7.5,000 MILES IN A TEACHERS IN GROUP C SCHOOLS Although more. money Is being paid to get teachers to go out to the small remote schools yet this does not always attract good eachers. We have gotten as good results from the strong beginner teachers, who must have a place to start somewhere as we have from imported experienced teachers who are not so very highly We are as anxious toi recommended. get the very best for Group C school as for other schools in the district Teachers in Group C schools ara always offeed the privilege, of returning thee again if they have made )' I P good there. GOOD WILL AMONG TEACHERS Four institutes per year is conducive to good working methods in the district and the cultivation of general good will among Box Elder teachers. It seems there is something about the Box Elder teacher which belongs to every other Box Elder teacher. Experienced teachers are willing to give a helping hand to beginners. This is fine, for not all Is to be learned in the normal training school. We learn to do by doing. We need apprentices in this profes slon as much as we do in any other skillful occupation. THE TEACHER COMPETITION PRINCIPAL APPRENTICES r of about There is a 20 per cent per year, of our teachers a little less than that this year. Competition among teachers to do the type of work which will give them recognition when vacancies are to be filled is Indeed keen. It is very difficult to keep the relatives of the aspiring teachers, as well as the) teachers themselves, happy about the placements. About a half a dozen young men are apprentice principals In the larger schools each year. Thd following year most of them are assigned as principals of schools. SELECTION OF TEACHERS Some people hold that because they are taxpayers that their children ought to be, given positions as teachers. It is difficult to explain that their records are not favorable in some cases. Considerable embarrassment might be saved if we should, do as is done in Kansas City, begin down in the high school to train teachers and to exclude those who may hope to teach unless they show some Inclination and ability in this line. We hope we have got by the, place where it may be said: If they cant do anything else let them teach school." TRAITS AND ABILITIES OF TEACHERS Each year some special problem or subject has been emphasised in a general way, for example: Character education, health, safety, individual differences of pupils and individual differences of teachers. The selfrating of teachers has indeed been interesting this year. It has caused some very serious thinking and stirred many teachers to greater effort to become the very best in every possible way. More than 150 special traits, or abilities,, have been discussed In particular. There is nothing more Important in our school system than the good teacher. NOW IS THE TIME TO TAKE THE JUNIOR COLLEGE ISSUE SERIOUSLY There is no school issue touching the interests of the Box Elder School District right now of more importance than that of the Junior College issue. This is revealed in the reply to a questionnaire sent to both high schools for the parents of the third and fourth year tsudents to make out for the junior college committee appointed by the Utah State Board of Education last February. One hundred and sixty-on- e one from the Box hundred and forty-tw- o Elder high school and nineteen from the Bear River high school report that they cannot afford to go out of this county for junior college work. They estimate that it would cost them about $490.00 each per year extra to go away from home to college. These questions were answered students and their by seventy-on- e parents from the Bear River high school" and 314 from the Box Elder high school, with the assistance of their parents, total 385. Three hundred and thirty-seve- n 'sixty from the Bear River, and 277 from Box that they would most likely attend the junior college if it were established in this district Usnig the standard method used in the County, (California) survey there would be 272 of this number attend, besides from fifty to one hundred more from classes that have alreday graduated from high school, and others. It would, therefore, see mto be conservative to say that If a junior college were established here there would be within the first two years time, as many as 300 students in attendance. Were these grouped with the uppper two) years of high school, on the plan, which has gained the most favorable consideration recently in the country, it would make an excellent working unit In almost every stnadard requirement as to number of pupils, number of high school gaduates, assessed valuations, sentiment of the people, etc., Box Elder can easily double the requirements. Dr. E. S. Eveuden, an authority on school organization, from Columbia University, answering a question, at the University of Utah, April 5, 1930, said he thought these schools could be consistently established for one hundred and fifty or more pupils in turn-ove- Elder-signifie- MODEL A FORD Letter from salesman shows reliability and economy of the car past two years, many new Fords have been driven 50,000, 75,000 and even 100,000 miles. Everywhere the car has made an unusual record for reliability and economy. Following is a letter - one from a among many received distances travels who salesman long automobile. daily by I purchased a Model A Coupe May 8, 1928, and at this writing have run it 75,888 miles. After I had driven 44,400 miles, 1 epent $45.08 in repairs and at 61,000 miles had an additional amount of work done costing $25.60. My tire mileage has averaged better than 18,000 miles. I am a traveling man and my territory is from northern Virginia to Macon, IN TIIE Mississippi, and from Knoxville, nessee, to the Atlantic Ocean. Similar tributes to the new Ford J to us daily from individual owners,? Federal and Gty Bureaus and from? industrial companies having fltg, several hundred cars. They have found, as you will find; the low cost of operation and no on the Ford is even more important the low first cost of the car. Ini thirty, or fifty thousand miles, this j ing frequently amounts to hundred dollars. The quality that has bees! into the car is reflected in its good) formance and long life. See the Ford dealer and liavehimi you for a demonstration ride in fog Ford. Give the car a severe test in tn on steep hills and on the opean Check up on comfort, safety, sp power, acceleration. Talk with Fords ers and experienced garage meui note what they say about reliability! economy. Then you will know, from yon i experience, that the new Ford brings; everything you want or need in ana! car at an unusually low price. NEW FOES COUPE A pod typo I ukw entire, nd phyiltlno-Mriding eo Uag I 9 because of Hi Bondiilli acting hyip,b luoA shock f.o.b. DfwfcT freight taimd& Bumper tire e Ford Motor Company rural localities. He did not favor them being located In but one or two places In a whole state. Answering another question, he said the higher state institutions of learning should not dominate the high schools of the! state any more than the high schools should dominate the universities.! Box Elder has an assessed valuation of about thirty-nin- e million dollars compared with a little more than seven hundred million in Utah, and therefore bears more than of the burden of state taxes. Why should the parents of one hun-de- d and sixty-on- e children be denied the right to local education of their children and yet be forced to pay the cost of other children in the congested centers of the state? Is this, fair? Is is democratic? Proportionately not half as many of our high school graduates go on to college as those In counties where the higher Institutions of learning are located. They cannot afford to go away from home at great cost. There were 230 graduates here this year, which Is more than one twentieth of all high school graduates of the state. It is not Impossible for this number to reach 300 in a very few years at the present rate of increase. Why ship these out of thej county for a year or two? It would be better to Import qualified junior college teachers to come here instead The mortality of the first two years at the university is too great and too expensive. Those who do not desire to pursue further college preparation pay too high a price, when away from home, for their early college experience and perhaps disappointments. Those who intend to go farther on in college nearly bankrupt' themselves away from home the first two years and are often forced to quit before they are through. Otherwise, with loca,l junior college opportunities, they could tide themselves over to finish some desired college or university course. th HIGHER INSTITUTIONS SHOULD HELP US GET A JUNIOR OOLLEGE HERE It is my opinion that the University of Utah could well afford to lead out In a state-wid- e solution of the junior college problem. To it, in the end, would come the students who are equipped to do the advanced work, and others would pass out into various life activities. Surely the university will not oppose the establishment of local junior colleges on the ground that Salt Lake City needs the business that comes to it from the students who are forced to come there for freshmen and sophomore work. Can it be that the university is ambitious to boast of its great numbers? Can it be that it is considered about its - future appropriations? Are these good reasons for the existence of the discrimination that now exists between the youth of the various parts of the state? We need to equalize educational opportunities as well as to talk about equalizing school funds. BOX ELDER COUNTY WITHOUT COLLEGE OPPORTUNITIES This matter of lack of college opportunity in this county has been discussed ten years. A bill was prepared six years ago, and another for the legislature four years ago. In the last regular session of the) legislature of Utah, there were five) junior college bills, one of which had the approval of a committee of school superintendents and board members, who had been appointed by the state superintendent to study the matter for about a year. Near the end of the session considerable opposition was thrown against this bill and support In favor of a bill to provide a branch of the University of Utah at Ogden, and another at Ephraim. This, was opposed by various school men over the state on the grounds that it would not solve the problem right for the whole state and that it is not in keeping with the tnai authorities, who hold junior colleges should part of secondary the hi? than branches of tions of learning. A STATE ICO.1 , ' AT WORK There Is now a mlttee at work, appoW Utah State Board of BJJ consisting of represents the higher institutions, y intendents staff, andLake ton of the Salt are system. These men make a proper surve . and let u.!l The rural school district t representation upon ab except Indirectly as our Upon request cently supplied mercial club and ch ry merce with a summa: which deal with the! Issue as applied to club has mailed the men throughout the them to study the of establishing iunr larger rural centers ( , f . k tM PETERS COMPANY famous High Class Moderate fr" JeweW ( |