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Show PAGE TWENTY DECEMBER THE PAYSONTAX, PAY SOX, 0: - 0 Nut tall, Superintendent a Tho American schools aro passing through a very marked transitional Siuco tho beginning of our period. history this has teeu known as a Jand of freedom and opportunity and was tho one of the opportunities privilege of public school education, by iho schools while auuionzed luw were supported locally and were organized alter tho model of tho old New England grammer schools with rather rigid diciphne, literary and cultural courses of study, and formal It methods of group instruction. was everyone's opportunity to attend such a school but if one was not gifted with abilities which profited no'll tho course given one had an to equally pionouuceu opportunity ft wo stay awav from school. neeesary for tho schools to change. Time has changed our point of view until now America is a country of freedom, opportunity and responAmong the responsibilities sibility. recently emphasized aro industrial intelligent lojalij. eliieieney and ifoih oi these are based on education so it is no longer considered a matter of opportunity hut a sacred ousi to attend children ior aigutiuu aud fur parents to send cmidron to school. But if every individual, no matter how peculiar or uincicnt, must he trained uud loyal it is seif evident tnat tho schools must substitute special types of education lor tho suited unnorui courses iu tho past, fins demand together with tho made neeesary by linaucial conditions lias made tne present a fn period of educational adjustment. iho district attempts aro being made to have tno scbouis oigauizo ior the now coni uona iu such a way us to maso necessary only a minimum reaction in becoming stable. sponsibility in the nation, 1ms been thorough and is rapidly foiling the completion of the above reoignniza tion. Statistics are not completed yet Hero the first attempt is being for all of the schools but the records niiule to care for the variety of last year showed a total high school children now all iri school. enrollment of 8.11. This year the First, the elementary schools are enrollment on Friday, November -- 0, fundawas 8411. being planned to cover the Several are still entering Hero school. mental training needed by all. also efforts are being made to adjust There have been issued 40 working the promotion scheme so that so permits of which 22 aro for short much repetition is unnecessary. The part time periods this fall. It nppiaS Bacond, the junior tygh school classes will be very small. course is being so planned that every at present, now that parents understand conditions better, that it will child is brought in contact with . foundation courses to all industry. not bo necessary to report to the General physical and biological sci- county attorney many aroiits for not sending children to school this year. ence, applied mathematics, commercial and industrial geography, English, Summer Activities. citizenship and industrial science are so to mako as an taught possiblo order better to adapt to the intelligent vocational choico which newIn individual needs the school peowill guido tho training in high school. contact Junior high schools are now organiz- ple need to come in closer the . ed in Salem, Santaquin, and Goshen with the homo activities of the that believo do Wo not as separate units. It seems to bo iu any tesiiable that tho junior high schools school people should assert Tho school way pareutal control. in Payson, Spanish Fork and Spring-villto him be organized as much separate teachers work is delegated do Older it well iu so to by parouts, as possible in tho buildings. ho must como in contact with the in. senior the courses Third, the The summer work home conditions. Busias high school are all vocational. district has not been in the home making, ness, agriculture, iu districts some other as aggressive trades, preparatory courses for en- but aims to reinforce the moral gineering, preparatory eourso for woik industrial These teaching and the offered. life are Wo hopo parto tho child. given much all very practical courses are ents will continue to woik with us handicapped at present because of in making this reorgiuzation. lack of room. Every student in tho the Tho above topics represent senior high school should bo study- transitional factors. Fundamentally work. of definite line some ing along tho schools are being well taught; the buildings aro not adequate in School Attendance. some places, the equipment is rapidly Tho response to Utahs part time being mado as complete as possible. law, which is but tho state's inter- In general everything points toward pretation the above mentioned re a splendid year educationally. enough to supply tho schools with plenty of teachers. 8chool Organization. cliil-dten- o Teachers an Salaries. Tho application of tno suhiry ule auu merit system of touunor sched- wcii.iu gonoial tho salaries were uoi. meioased us niucii as iu sumo tho hoard of education feels tout tho teuchois will bo couipeusui-oin not being likely to face ret ductions. ml teucueis m tno ao receiving seuoduio sulancs Theiu nas as lutreputed Iasi year. fius been expressed no dissatisfaction This yeur there aro employed no .Lust year eight unliuiucd toaeUors. used. were ft is safe to ussuro the public that the schouis aro well taught this year, aud the duturo seeina 10 piumiso mat tno hold out to teachers in will Uio district prove attractive U kilo Growth of the Public School BY MELVIN WILSON uis-Inct- s d dis-tuc- 1 tlum-sclve- Our public schools are probably growing more rapidly in general aims and responsibilities than any other social institution Each yeur sues somo additional social problem pluc-eupon tho school for solution. Each year sees a docroaso in responsibility for tho training of young people for every other organization aud aow domands made of the school. d Oaco upon a time, vividly in the e minds of many of tho present bckool the master was a ration, more joke, n subject for youthful pranks, yet tolcruted by the parents for tho little good he might do iu ..elping their children to acquire tlioso social luxuries, reading, writing and arithmetic. reToday practically tho whole sponsibility for the moral, intellectual and physical development of our Colvin & Reec Co, Extend to all a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year From Our Superb Stock You Can Select for the Wife FINEST ALUMINUM WARE BEST TABLE CUTLERY FINE CARVING SETS and a Splendid Line of Household Necessities s '"T i . col-fi'g- s JUSTIN A. LOVELESS Nurs-Hom- has wuiaed this yetr. is i of the N'obo District. 0 tem of supervision by which each teacher has the care of a group of students about twenty to thirty anJ R A short time in the the child to solve a much needed promises students have the While senior high This brings within the school. ,it a few months during the mid ei ght period day, each period cf want an i r the personal element nnd care to of each yeur of his early About forty five minutes length. The supervisor get (lnIdlKtod in school. Today oveiy five of these periods are used in reel every pupil. from each their regularly reports everv man aad child, every young tation ami the other three in study looks after them in case of voung women between the ages of in a general unsuperv ised study room teacher, works with them in case or trouble, six to eighteen sjicnds six hours a kept orderly bv the students failure in classes, and in geneial tor nine mourns a year iu through their student body aims to give the kind of assistance while The plan Ts yet it not surprising that national organization. one teacher department was the that authorities have to designate a spe- - in the experimental stage is working able to while llie student gdsj. gie, ini week throughout our land to better than originally expected and the benefit of a specialist in eiuTf in its 'rrienoo operation ic, piaint people generally with thlwi. W,U i """'I'tedly solve a serums subject. npnrt.inco of the scl.mdsf fur the administration. few years ago the high w h,.o! problem Jes Stropping Some of the departments of our unnis-essaran called burden i are new to patrons in When the train stopped at a little Next it ralpon the public. beginnii general and which are in the South, a tourist from station the poor mans college. lied some work worthy of attention are: North the emerged nnd gazed curlay we havo ceased to call it bv Tin music department the under mv special name, but look upon it direction of If. levton Johnson, whiMi iously at a lean annual rubbing itsdf4s, as n necessity in our communities has organized a band and an nrches against a scrub oak. ,1 a high school education from trn, in addition to the general ehorous What do you cull that! he , iw on will be tho common heritage and glee dubs. The home economics asked a negro. Within with Mrs. Sorenson and Miss Shaw every youth in tho land. Razor back hnwg, sail. " school experience of the writer both giving their entire time is s he rubbing himself against What work of a greater variety e school offering enrollment in our high The expresthan ever given before. the tree for? , roper has increased from twenty sion department Hes stropping hisself, suh; j, s under Miss John ight to two hundred twenty-sixSchool field ( Ya.) so, is worthy of being watched carestroppin This change in attitude toward the now as gross. its are results fully beginning The physigh school has been followed by. to be felt in the school. Ilis Way. or simultaneously along with it has ical education work under I. B. Isaaccome, a great change within, the son and Miss Maurine Prouse is Smith is always putting up a ehool itself. 'When there were but giving much attention to the health said of some kind, isnt he? few pupils the attitude was naturally and physical welfare of every boy bluff Miss G. Jensen in history, Brown. girl. similar to the German idea, that ed and If lie Yes, E. A. Morgan i.n science. Miss Maud agreed .Tones. m at ion is for tho select few and had a pack of eigaret papers, and Stone D. M. in in business, Taylor hose few- - should go on through median ie arts, Henry Oberhansly in a sack of tobacco, lie would brag and prepare to become tho lead-r- agriculture, O. L. Barnett in mathe- about owning some rolling stock. of tho many. tho matics aro all teachers of experience Cincinnati Enquirer. Therefore, curriculum of the old school was and exceptional training for thei: In a Restaurant. such that it led naturally to college. spedal subjects. The junior high school is rt was in reality a preparatory school being administered under I say, do you ever play Customer for higher institutions. True, only development is all right provided a anything by request? Musician i few went on to college and tho the direct charge of E. W. Simons Certainly, Delighted and Howard Ilolladay. The library sir. t becoming discouraged by secur- is being conducted bv Harold Pers Then Customer I wonder if ing no real help for their many son who valso acts as clerk of the youd be so good as to play a game needs dropped out. Then bognn a faeulty. of dominoes until Ive finished my change whieh has resulted in the The operation of the advisory sys lunch! Punch. introduction of tho great variety of practical subjects to meet the many mods of society. Such subjects as, j Cooking, Sewing, Agriculture, in its Auto branches, Wood-work- , many teehanies, Forgo work, Typewriting, Bookkeeping, Shorthand, Home REAL ESTATE EXCHANGE Management, Art and Designing, Commercial Arithmetic, Civics indicate the trend the high school to meet tho deRanches Buys, Sells and Homes, school students have a six period day, eaih hour divide, into two divisions, a jlaeed upon the .idlers ami the school plant. liililren ,s, Modern Educational Adjustment by L. John 10, 1920. o Citl-e.ishi- mand. Tho ' second movement in the progress in high school was dio great building crusade of a few years ago which was forced upon us ,y tho demand for that great variety f subjects. Our present high school building was an example of the and commodious many beautiful structures erected and now standing out in every community. Tho third step toward the present status was caused by the very progressive law passed by our lasts legislature, making it compulsory for every boy and girl to attend school for thirty weeks each year up until tho time they are eighteen years of age or until they finish high school. those Tho only exceptions being whoso parents require their assistance, and who are excused to enter employment. It can readily be seen that to meet this requirement very many young people who would for trivial reasons during certain unsteady years of their lives desire to drop out of school aro now kept in by tho law. It is very gratifying to know that at tho present time in Payson out of about 980 children on the census enrollment call but 27 are now in school who are physically able to bo thero. And practically all of the twenty-seveare registered and exschool. pect to enter part-timOne of tho recent changes in administration of the high school is tho division of tho school more definitely into a junior and senior deWhile there are yet a partment. few obstacles in the old law and In tho building facilities whieh prevent an ideal arrangement, much progress is being made in that direction. Though the plan seems inconsistent to many school men wo actually have in operation a dual system of in our high school administration Tho junior high school building. n o ooooooooooo-ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo- Exchanges Farms, and Business Property in Payson and Vicinity, and in doing so takes pleasure in justly and equitably considering the interests of both seller and buyer alike. 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