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Show Additional Class Rooms Needed For Elementary The Iron County School Board in meeting Monday approved five new teachers for Parowan, three for the high school and two for the elementary. This leaves only one vacancy in the faculty for the high school, a a men's physical education instructor in-structor and coach, to replace Bruce Decker, whose resignation was accepted at the meeting on Monday. Decker Is moving to the Ontario, Calif., schools. It has been found necessary t add another teacher In the Parowan Elementary because of Increased enrollment in the class coming in next fall, and for the past year. There will be two first grades this year we understand, and there will be a straight second, sec-ond, a mixed second and third and a straight third, but who will be assigned to these grades hasn't been stated. And with the addition of another an-other group in the elementary it is going to cause the elementary grades to further invade the high school end of the building, according ac-cording to' Alma Lawrence, elementary ele-mentary principal. With the addition ad-dition of the" first extra group It caused some of the activities of the lower grades to move up into the high school wing. Another new group will cause elementary school activities and even class-work class-work to move up Into the east or high school end of the building. build-ing. This creates a bad situation according ac-cording to Mr. Lawrence, owing to the fact that there will be the hl&h- school aer deDArtmpnt- lm. mediately east of the entrance to the elementary building, then one of the elementary groups will be sandwiched between the ag department and the home ec department of the high school. And then the elementary grades will have to move into a room adjoining the home ec department depart-ment on the north if they are to continue activities in music and dancing which they have had before. be-fore. Other bad features of the setup set-up are that high and elementary students have to mix in the halls of the school, cross paths in reaching their libraries and must share in the use of the auditorium. auditor-ium. Also one grade split away from the main group of the lower grades by a considerable distance Is also hard on the students and their teacher, no matter which group is moved. And all lower grades, in moving to the proposed activity room, will have to pass in a noisy hall, the ag and home economics departments and high school library. In addition to this, Mr. Lawrence Law-rence states that according to surveys made for the future enrollment, en-rollment, there will be 10 grades In the Parowan Elementary in two or three years which will have to be provided for. The new teachers for the Parowan Paro-wan schools are listed in another story in this issue of the Record. |