Show faculty forum by lee F gledhill well we are inside that new build ing and it is even better than we thought it would be without a doubt green river now has school ies as fine as those found anywhere the building was accepted by the board of education last thursday with the provision that certain ad just ments are yet needed to put everything in top working order however the building is occupied fully and the last touches by the con tractor will be done while school is in session we have designated the area so uth of the building between the sch ool building and the marsing street as the elementary play ground area it appears as if the best practice would be not to drive cars on the south side of the building at all in that way the playground would be safer too cars would not cross the concrete side walk leading to the that way we could expect a smaller amount of cracking and deterioration the parking area has been des ignatee as north of the building and east of the ramp those who drive to school can then enter the build ing via the door leading out to the shop when basketball game time comes of course we will enter th rough the doors on the ramp an important event happe happened hed at the high school last week on wed we were visited by a committee from the northwest Ac crediting association this is the association which sets standards for high sch emery county high schools have never been able to be accept ed by this group due largely to the inadequacy of their buildings andi and financial inability to furnish certain services now with our new build ings ingis and with certain planned addit addia ions tons to the facilities of the high school we have taken concrete steps toward meeting the standards of the association it is felt that the quality of instruction is high enough for en trance but that trained services of a librarian the services of a counselor less teaching time for the administrator and a smaller teacher pupil ratio need to be obtained we can report that attendance at school during the deer hunting sea son was much better this year than it was last after our holiday on mon day we had a poor record on tues day but attendance was almost nor mal beginning wednesday we wo uld like to thank the parents who ma de an extra effort to get the hunt ers back in school at an early date |