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Show rmmm. . , .1 .. ...1, 1 , .., ... ill -. .. .1 1 1 1 .....- I l- Supt. Smith On Consolidation (jives Teachers and Trustees His Experience in Salt Lake County. Mass Meeting on 29th. Last Saturday at the Brlgham Young College, the teachers and trustees trus-tees of Cache county discussed the proposed consolidation of the county school districts. All phases of the malter were touched upon and a final decision reached that the county corn-mlssloners corn-mlssloners should call a mass meeting for the discussion of this question. The commissioners have namedSat-urday, namedSat-urday, February 29, and the B. Y. W. assembly room as the time, and place of this mass meeting. Before that time the consolidation will be discussed dis-cussed pro and con at meetings held In the various districts. The feature of last Saturday's meeting meet-ing was an address by John W. Smith, superintendent of Salt Lake county's consolidated districts. "Mr. Smith was superintendent of the separate districts, dis-tricts, 'also, and In talking of consolidation consoli-dation spoke from his experience with both conditions. That experience has made him an earnest advocate of the consolidation plan, and In his address ' he suggested that in Salt Lake county consolidation had the following ad- J vantages over the separate district method: 3 i School attendance has Increased n twenty per cent under consolidation. H Under consolidation teachers have H thirty-flvo pupils and two grades, as R compared with from 15 to 80 pupils K and up to eight grades under small At districts. B Uniform nine months of school un- K der consolidation. H Under consolidation high schools ,H had attendance of 104 pupils In middle II of third year, as compared with seven In attendance at end of twelve years II uner small districts. Two years Pi course given under former and but one year under latter. Financial Advantage. Under consolidation, everything bought at wholesale at a saving of from ten to twenty per cent. II, 100 saved on coal, fuel and hauling, II,-3S0 II,-3S0 saved on bonded Interest. TREASUREROETS2J PERCENT ON DAILY BALANCES. nigh school pupils with two years course under consolidation cost (7 per month per pupil, as compared with 813 a pupil per month, with one ear course, under small districts. Under consolidation each teacher and equipment cost $875, under small districts $000 with better equipment, and better teachers paid higher salaries. sal-aries. The above is but a very brief summary sum-mary of course. Supt'. Smith brought out the fact under separate districts children have unequal educational advantages; ad-vantages; that consolidation pays each teacher $40 a year more money but that the schools are taught for $25 a year less on each teacher. He also mado the statement that a standing offer of $50 for a criticism of consolidation consolida-tion has not found a taker even In these dull times.' Mr; Smith also asserted as-serted that consolidation would give any county high schools 20 years before be-fore separate districts would. Speaking of the abandonment of the small school and hauling the pupils to graded schools, Supt. Smith said that in Salt Lake county that this was never done until the patrons of the school consented. In his county sixteen six-teen wagons are run with consent of patrons, and no friction has resulted at any time. " The speaker answered all questions satisfactorily and created a very friendly friend-ly sentiment toward the consolidation Idea. |