Iron County Record | 1953-04-30 | Page 7 | Education Yearbook Praises County School Bus Program

Education Yearbook Praises County School Bus Program The Iron County school board i has been praised through the 1953 rural education yearbook of the National Education Association Asso-ciation for "Imaginative use of school buses to promote extracurricular extra-curricular activities and community commu-nity relations", it has been reported re-ported from the Washington. D. C. offices of the NEA. The recognition came as the result of the local district's program pro-gram to transport students of outlying areas to Cedar City to enjoy such programs as the art exhibit, and other cultural events. The yearbood also reported the "recognition of values gained through participation in these programs has led to the carry students to visit iron mines, Indian mounds, power plants and other plans that offer direct experiences ex-periences that supplement classroom class-room activities." Orientation of new teachers in the county was also commended by the publication. Bus tours to Cedar City and the surrounding area were used to acquaint newcomers new-comers to the teaching staff with the community and the county. Transportation was chosen as the subject of the annual publication publi-cation of the department of rural education of the NEA because a daily bus ride is part of the learning experience of more than a quarter of the school children in the U. S. The chief objective of the compilers of the yearbook was to find how school trans-porta'ion trans-porta'ion can add to education beyond getting pupils to and from the classrooms.