Show A review of MILLARD COUNTY SCHOOLS lly ily supt bupt 11 K true to the ideals that brought pioneers to millard county the people have at all times manifested a keen interest in the progress ot of their sel schools bools from the very beginning 0 of these settlements the school houses could be pointed to along with the church as the outstanding buildings ot of the settlement sacrifices have always been graciously made that the children of millard county might have good schools consolidation had begun in mal ard county even before the law of 1915 but in the spring of 1915 all the schools of the county formally camo under the one county board of education scarcely has there been a writer on the subject since that time that has not referred to utah as the classee class example ot of consolidation indeed in respect to consolidation the of utah are almost lite ideal of the nation but desirable as consolidation is it has its own peculiar problems among which are the election of a single board of education the selection of a superintendent in and clerk and the problem of conducting all the schools consistent with each other but keeping close to the homes of the various communities that comprise the district since there have been eighteen men act as board members A consideration of bf the list that the schools have been in good hands they represent leading men of tho the various communities their names follow rutus rufus day fillmore jos L stott meadow J avery bishop delta J lee anderson Au derson oak city john reeve hinckley jos W damron deseret oscar anderson delta T geo Thoo theobald bald hinckley hugh hilton hillon hinckley J G bennett kolden holden wm thompson scipio james gardner kanosh howard bushnell meadow H E maxfield Masti eld delta jas A kelly fillmore N L peterson hinckley R B ashby leamington leavington Lea preal george kanosh four of the present board have been reelected and are serving their second term this also is a com not only to the men themselves but to the good sense ot of the people changes are expensive and should be made only when there Is some good valid reason tor for making them during the fourteen years ot of consolidation there have been four superintendents D P F peterson R E hammond alonzo huntsman and B K farnsworth the first served for or one year the second for two yeara and was taken into service of the world war mr air huntsman then served tor for seven years the present superintendent in Is completing his fourth year during this same period of time allne ellne millard district has had tour four clerks mr huntsman jane mcbride verl carling and genevieve badger the last named having taken office within the last month mr huntsman served three yeras prior to his appointment as superintendent miss mcbride served about four years and miss carling over six years when the schools first came into consolidation in 1915 several districts had bonded indebtedness on some ot of which we are still paying the district still owes for the malone school abandoned several years ago this matures in 1934 we owe on the central dond bond due in 1933 money is Is now available in the sinking fund to care tor for these two bonds when they become due we 0 owe L I 1 sj 0 0 0 0 0 yet on the holden IIo lilen bond which is being paid off yearly we owe in serial bonds which is being paid off a year these items indicate that millard district Is one of the best off in the state of 0 the forty school districts it ranks fifth or sixth in its indebtedness in proportion to its wealth the last month has been tho the first month in four years that we have not had any floating debt hanging banging over us our outlook was exceedingly bright until the delta tire fire the growth in school attendance since consolidation has also been encouraging cou raging in 1915 16 we had on our census 2586 with an enrollment of 2263 or 87 per cent of the census since that time our census has increased to about or 40 per cent and our attendance has increased slightly over 50 per cent the increase in high school attendance has been phe nominal in 1919 we had and in 1928 1923 we had or nearly per cent increase in ten years while figures are an index of school growth and achievement and an index which Is easy to measure and use tor for comparisons they are not the best beat index as to the real accomplishment ment ot of school growth which are hard to measure and even when measured are not comparable with lite he schools of 0 the past because they ther are phases that have only recently come into prominence these phases have to do with the point of view 0 of the school both of teacher and pupil they might bo called phases of disposition or the spirit of the seli school ool As a rule more children are coming to school because they want to come lew few are being forced to zt nol very few children really dislike school nowadays retardation and ot of pupils Is fast becoming obsolete the right ot of the child to be understood to progress is now being widely advocated schools today are conceived as institutions existing only tor for the good of the child and every child has a right to such a program ot of activities as he be can succeed in today we say it la Is the school that tails falls it if the child is not ready tor for promotion our testing has undergone a radical change now we test to diagnose to see what to to see where the childs are not to see it if the child should pass or not tests today are quite as much a measure of 0 the tea teacher chev as of 0 the pupil continued on page two lift A review of MILLARD COUNTY SCHOOLS ily by supt bupt it II K H farnsworth continued from page one we are breaking away from the idea of rigid grade placement and recognising recognizing I 1 in n its place that no two children are exactly alike or educational exactly equal we are lecog bising individual differences the back step system la Is Os disappearing appearing students are not expected to all do exactly the same amount of work in the same way and in the same time tables chairs houses toys and concrete things are replacing cast iron benches just as students initiative student responsibility self control are replacing cast iron discipline the growing idea Is that we all learn to do by doing school should be one rich experience after another students should be not hearers of the work only but doers student activity not teacher performance is the new slogan the outlook tor for the schools of millard county is encouraging teachers are doing their work the best beet they know how bow and are diligently studying ing to improve A splendid cooperative spirit exists between supervising officers and teachers the schools rank well to the front in all state tests on oil standardized tests we are well up with the average of city schools we adjudge millard district to be a fertile field tor for good school accomplishments |