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Show Six Months School Term All people who are interested in the cause of education sh ould consider carefully care-fully the question now on foot to shorten short-en the length of the school year in our stake academy. It is held by some that the school should continue to run for nine months, so that the students can graduate in four years 'from the course that they would, on the new plan, have to spend five years to complete. com-plete. This plan is a feasible one for the man who has the money and can I spare his son for nine months, and even I in rare cases fathers would rather sacn-1 fice a little more and have his son do his five years work in four. But the majority of the people in this county, are not over flush with money and' have to work early and late on the farm, and can not very well afford to hire help. This six months plan, therefore, is no doubt the best method solving for the problem of attendance. It doesn't seem right that the poor man's son, who cannot enter school at : the beginning or stay until its close, ought co be deprived of an education to benefit the few who can. No credits can be given a boy unless he remains one semester at least, and in most subjects sub-jects credits cannot be given unless students can remain the full nine months Is is right to refuse credits to the poor boy who 'can go six months, but no longer, while if he ould remain but three months more he could graduate ! with honors. This is not fair to the young man who j is toiling for a livelihood. Why not ! give him the benefit of a full six months ! i of school at the rate of six days per ' week, and then give him his credits and j let him out in time to help his father ; put in the crop and prepare for an ! abundant harvest. This is the sentiment of the majority j of the people in the county as was shown by the vote taken in conference at Huntington last Sunday. Out of 700 people present only 6 or 8 were opposed to the new change. This plan has been tested by a number of church schools and their experience has demonstrated S the advantages that will occur should it be deemed wise for us to make the change. |