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Show FOOD W-ANN LANDERS jialt akr tribune 12 Section W Sunday, May 18, 1986 Page W-- 8 1 1-ro- school om concept alive and well By Judy Magid Tribune Lifestyle Writer IBAPAH Tooele County Kyle Bateman, bus driver for Ibapah Elementary School, had to herd cows to another pasture one Tuesday afternoon so he asked Stephen Warner if he would drive the loop to take the children home from school T m glad to help out, Mr Warner said lies used to doing that and is well acquainted with the children He for the school is the teacher is one of few schools in Utah Nestled at the foot of the Deep Ibapah Elementary "one-roo- one-teach- Creek mountains, the community boasts a population of 150, give or take a few In 1960, the National Education Association reported 24 000 schools in America Today, there are approximately 800 The demise of the small rural school is due, in part, to decreasing populations and insufficient facilities There are a few in Utah, said Dr Ivan Muse, department of education, Brigham Young University, "including Antimony Elementary School, Garrison Elementary, a school at Hall s Crossing and Tintic Elementary But conditions change rapidly Sometimes there are enough children for two teachers, sometimes not enough for one Distance Is Problem One problem shared by these schools is inaccessibility Its not easy to get to Ibapah from here, no matter where here is The easiest route from Salt Lake City is to drive r, through Wendover, Utah, into Nev , turn south toward Ely for about 35 miles, then east into Utah From there, the road is more or miles less straight another into Ibapah At least, this year that road is paved, Mr Warner said He said a paved road as well as other school improvements came about when the Ibapah Elementary School joined forces with the elementary school on the Goshute Indian Reservation "Having two elementarv schools for so few students was not beneficial to either school, so they were joined Combined, there arent 18 chilor n for two baseball teams, even if they included kindergarteners Gathering pupils and faculty for an official Ibapah Elementary School photograph isnt too difficult. Stephen Im cooking lunch for 15 children school. Carolyn Warner, back row right, teaches part time. Warner, back row center, is teacher for today," Marilyn Cook Linares said Design' Sam Smith Having a small audience for which to Tribune Staff Photos by Al Hatmann cook enables her to make special things A favorite, she said, is Indian Ln.'jw Tacos (Indian fry bread with cinii topping) The district (Tooele) sends menus and provides supplies, but I can make treats I know the children enjoy Facility Expanded Mrs Linares is familiar with the routine. She attended the school and watched her mother, Joyce Cook, prepare lunch for nine years .1 The school building itself has changed since Mrs. Linares attended Ibapah Elementary When I went here, there were two 1 small rooms. Today, there's a kitchen And theres a and a lunchroom-gyHI new playground, too i Her grandparents settled in Ibapah and her parents grew up there "My grandpa, Wade Parrish, was a s' sheepman from the East and Dad s father, William Cook, came with the 1 Mormon pioneers " The Cook chili dren were reared in Ibapah B.J. Steele gets undivided attention of his teacher, Stephen Warner, an Kristin Warner is one of 15 I one-rooone-rooin in Tooele Were All Cousins one in this of school. the students County. school, Ibapah 5 advantage t "I didnt marry a boy from here . because they all were my cousins if 3Si4 AtfrwwJl yn jsIa. But I married a boy from Wendover We weighed the facts carefully and decided we wanted to live here The Linareses have two children, preschool age. "I liked going to a school I like the idea of my children having one, too There arent drugs here as there are in larger towns and kids get know this and are artists more individualized attention from cinched waists, sweetheart necklines south of the border. Since everything By Nickie McWhirter of illusion. You should have no diffithe teacher (those are the ones that start at the has to be somewhere, the tummy may Knight-Ridde- r Newspapers the as When I went to Grantsville for juto grow scandalously culty curve and upward slightly appear armpits The "deb" look is back Thats rib The shrinks. to before may waistline cage Bra for nior high and high school, I was two oblivion), plunging Gravity "deb as in debutante I read about it just more voluptuous than the ahead of everyone in my class " sleeves as full as any worn by Queen become years beThe reason you need the bra is in the paper. Elizabeth I, or no sleeves at all The bust line This profile may not be Grantsville is 180 miles from Ibacause of gravity It can be an embarIt seems that many young women strapless look is popular. Closed what you had in mind Cook Mrs and her children took pah one wears rassment, especially when are opting for prom dresses reminis a house there and spent weekends at heels, delipumps with - or Aside Stuff Pushes a strapless gown Strapless gowns cent of the formal dance parties held cate white gloves and pearls comdehave upright supporting members home with Mr Cook. Mrs Linares g There's another I'm glad theyve plete the ensemble. Couldnt you just circa said that some of her classmates sewn into them in strategic locations and cinch vice that combines bra, abandoned the Earth Child look, the die' from Ibapah boarded with GrantsWhat I dont theyre sup- ville families They're iron rods. tummy depressor all in one Cinched Waist Drop Dead look and the during their junior high the of hold do the to one is when top part posed stuff the know where goes look Still, I school and high years It's all uncomfortable as blazes As at I one called the attention, bodice, dress, is encased in this crusher. wore wonder if these sweet things underChildren Commute a veteran, I can tell you that And you even I iron Sometimes no wnat out matter I 1951 Before passed once, in stand the agony they have taken upon need to know. The cinched a be A can bra diffirods "Now waist, for children arent the from age 12 and enough. discovered it made breathing themselves not comfortwhen it even is Wendover for and into example, is a brute comfort, go up unbearable, high school," sitting cult. sitting Simple and Demure able And it will not be comfortable she said That is approximately 125 The idea is to magnify the contrast and breathing at the same time imIt will be full of iron rods, too miles round trip Cathe Hardman, The deb look is seemingly simple, between the huge skirt and the teensy possible a whose younger children attend Ibato So cinch that sucker waistline. in About the gloves They're a nuiand demure. It's Cinderella at the cinchYou might decide to forget 18 inches' the for O'Hara Scarlet essential are but pah Elementary, drives the older Ibasance, with ball they Its Ginger dancing royal waist and just go on a diet your ing so children into Wendover and back lose Youll one, look. deb finished pah Fred It's Doris Day' But it isn't easy who make laThe torture-vendor- s for a few weeks That ought to do it each on them of a lot day She teaches English as a dont money spend to achieve. dies undergarments have a variety second eat when off take them language at the Wendover you Always Youll need a bra, however, even if The deb look depends on very full, of devices for doing this There is the school ) Have a one lose when (That's to you'll r have think that just squeezes anything you you dont puffy, long skirts, typically supported plain wonderful time I know you'll get "Wendover offers a unique situaput in it All deb dresses assume the by layers of petticoats or some sort of your middle, forcing everything that be You'll in home said John Butterfield, principal tion," All early it pain to in or north It wearer this has favors tightly normally occupies put something space hooped contraption one-teach- Wen-dove- d 15-pu- jJ d -- H ;$ ; m m ,r'w Pains what cdeb look is all about one-roo- waist-cinchin- 1940-196- 0 waist-cinche- I $ i of Wendover High School (grades 7 and up) as well as Ibapah Elementary School ' Wendover, Utah has a high school and Wendover. Nev has an elemen" tary school As a metropolis. Wendover is noted more for entertainment offerings for adults than for children There is no public library The first movie the, ater opened about four months ago ' Ibapah gets visits from the Tooele County Bookmobile," Mr Warner said, adding that the elementary school has between 1.200 and 1,500 volumes in its library "We have four sets of World Books, but the newest one is from 1974 " The big dictionary belongs to Stephen and Carolyn Warner Ibapah Elementary School's favorite teaching aid is the computer The school has four There also is a printer There is no typewriter in the school "I teach grades two through six all day," Mr Warner said "My wife, Carolyn, works with kindergarten children and during the morning After lunch, the join the rest of us and the kindergarten children go home Schools Are Better A 1984 study by Dr. Muse, Dr Ralph B Smith, BYU, and Bruce Barker, rural schools expert, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, found that major improvements have occurred since the National Education Association 1960 study. "From that report on schools in 1960, the findings were negative, Dr. Muse said More than 20 percent of teachers in these rural schools had less than four years college training More than half of the school buildings did not have a workroom, a general activity room, kitchen or science area Outdoor Toilets "Only about a third had electricity. A majority of the schools had outdoor toilet facilities. Most lacked radios, duplicating equipment, projectors and television receivers." The 1984 study found that the remaining schools serve a community need to remain in contact with the education of their children. If the schools were closed, students would have to be bused considerable distances or board in another community to attend school. The majority of teachers (better than 93 percent) hold a bachelors degree or higher. School facilities have improved Approximately 30 percent of the teachers make frequent use of both television and computer equipment in the classroom. first-grade- first-grade- one-teach- tack-board- s, Parents Support School Parents give strong support to those schools. Both reports stated that the quality of the school rests, in great part, upon the quality of its teacher. "I think it depends as much upon the parents as the teacher, Mr. Warner said Even the best teacher can't teach if the parents dont value education One of the strengths of Ibapah Elementary School is its PTA With 15 students, and two or three from the same family, the parents managed to raise $1,500 for a new playground That's involvement The district matched the funds and now the children have playground equipment No fence, though, because district funds cant be used for that "I dont worry about traffic out here," Mr Warner said with an outstretched arm to open spaces, but when a ball rolls off the blacktop into the cactus, it gets holes in it." Difficult Question How well students from rural elementary schools do academically when they reach high school is a difficult question Dr Muse and Mr Barker studied 204 high school students in Nebraska, Montana and South Dakota who had received their entire elementary and junior high education in schoolhouses "Out of the whole group of students, every one of them was considered by the principal, counselors and other educators to be average to above average in academic ability," Dr Muse said We found no students from a school that were considered below average academically " Mr Warner has hopes for his students "We give students the Iowa Test of Basic Skills," he said "The first year I taught at this school, our students averaged one and a half years behind the national average Last year, the average was four months behind. "This year, we hope to be even up " one-roo- one-roo- |
