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Show Better Citizenship By Home Training The local boards of education nra charged with the responsibility i ' studying the curriculum to meet tho I needs of the local boys and girls iukI (to see that, the chaff is eliminate'! 'from the wheat. This is th5 Kulftancf of the appeal made in the April iso of the Utah Taxpayer to our sch y people to train boys and girls for citizenship cit-izenship at home. Dean Cubberly's recent statement respecting the prevalence of chuff j among the wheat is quoted. It is pointed point-ed out that the school system is slave to entrance examinations ni l that no one osHum'-s responsibility for thi.'i antiquated set up. The Taxpayer regards the 'tcK-al board of education as the one that must make, the beginning to corrtlct ) this haphazard, impractical rourwi ef Isiudy. In a very definite way they suggest to the boards of education that they study the things that their own . boys and girls need to keep them t home: then to base the number . of j teachers upon the nature of the course ' of study and to estimate the physic -1 ; requirements after having determined the course of study and tho number of teachers. It is also suggested that the daily program be so arranged as to permit boys and girls where needed to di outside work and to remem1er thi. the school is made for the y and I not the boy for the schoL Important statistics arc given on , -apital investments, school bonds and t he casts of operation of elemcn'ary and high schools. .It is -shown these, ci sts have grown from less than (K 10,000 to nearly $9,000,000 in tbo las t tfl n years. t |
