Show SUPT farnsworth ANSWERS in PERTIN ENT ar agga ING SCHOOLS J reaffirms its ita Jn tenton of Conti ding Kaing nine mondis term building 1 program and other irit a I 1 problems also dis cussed by superintendent of millard county schools I 1 r the follo follower was waa su st batt ted by sup superintendent farnsworth to appear in last weeks slid and la is in answer to the article which kell appeared fit the h progress under tinder tho th edale daje of ri feb eb 28 n duo to a last for advertising space the eilt graciously coli anted to allow allow us ua to withhold it until this afek office of millard Cout county ity board of education fillmore utah march 7 19 1930 30 0 i editor millard 1 co ca progress utah u dear editor in last weeks toque issue under tile lie caption teachers committee makes invest investigation I 1 galo n you asked verr very worthwhile questions and wished wi abd someone would woula answer thera with the article before me ma I 1 shall copy your questions and nol proceed to answer themi showing also the source of mya information question 1 are schools going to close short of a nine months term Q iti ili millard county this yearl the board of education in its last icet ing march ath reaffirmed its ita intention of riving giving nine months oln 2 has the building program past five ye years ars obbon out of proportion with tile the ability oi of the peo people P ie ot of the county coun to pay 0 answer during the last five I 1 year following building program has lias been carried out new buildings 1 have been built at aadot Meadow fill inore high schoola hop delta high school sutherland and was v aa done on Fil willinore linore junior high y furnaces and heating flave blei installed at Natio kanosh sli meadow ore junior high 0 sutherland or larid lynndyl lynndal with the exception of two rooms it the Fil willinore fellmore linore junior high every room built built during this period is used lally these two rooms K were not but remodeled however we have room ip spare 1 I 1 lit in nearly every building in ili the county there ba have ve been several factors at work produced this condition 1 it was a co common nimon altho faulty practice until the ladt few years of building not only tor for I 1 present capacity but tor for the future growth growth 2 growth has not come as aa these communities anticipated bu but rather while wa v 3 ar estill paying c for buildings bull builte five ten tell or alt teen years ago they have all time been een target larger than was needed 11 3 this recent building program was ad senous bously ly increased mcrea sed last bear earlby by a fire tor for which surely no school official was nas responsible question 3 has the building program been influenced by the tact fact that board members are elected frow from districts and not from the county at large ass 0 11 answer it if this were true rue it would not thing in american life it i 8 i a common and not notorious orlou a 1 practice anat to the victor vleta or belong the spoils ablo tor for a district which wants something to get ai member on an the board this is less true of I 1 boards of education than other political J boards 0 1 it Is IB suggested and andt rational at lonial education educato conj abeso association c bation lids has gono gone on rford repeatedly f vy favoring kinf e B boards E education du cation comeri comprising i civo i members ote one E elected each year tit large jut just as t the he county commissioners sto ners are question 4 has the alie cirri curriculum culum been advanced beyond our needs and ability to pay answer what is essential and what Is our ability to pay and what le is our present cirri eulum costs 14 1 am tn question quentio n no 4 lat nto parts parti to more definitely bitely answer it i ta taft aver avertine tike per caplia capita costs I 1 in a 0 tle th e PI neary and and high schools or astle the b ot f ute utah h last y ear ft 11 based on population was for total operating ex peise not counting or buildings caplia costs of air schools 0 in n MUIR milled ya county was I 1 4 see 1 page 2511 3 uth review 0 march 1030 tilts IN 1 to 0 for school ance ike e tre 0 per the state ave r a siev g eo ax fyd zd I 1 mhd jq oc 40 0 dial xa we ra ti U Z 11 ehfe hife farero bere rere 53 13 cosans cf ad an I 1 la cosmos coing ball that KL zv Z J v p Ss moans that tile coat ceet in millard county Is a day por per child both in high and all elementary it has seldom beldom lieen less leas even aven lit in the good old days what Is our ability to pay I 1 recently heard over radio radio ahat that last year Amor amoric lc 1 l spent 2 billion dollars tor for ra radios if this thijs Is true wo we spent nearly ais w much last year for radios us as tor for schools lust last year in ili utah we spent ten millions of dollars fur schools and nearly forty five millions tor for passenger automobiles automobile four times fr yore ore for antos antes than for schools pr practically I 1 aLl cally every dollar do ilar spent for schools remains inthe in the conf om arid and state doai most of that spent for care leaves the fhe state it la is not that our rural districts are a not 0 t p producing 71 0 it la is that they aro sending to cities and foreign markets wait wh at has our carric clurn in it that it have bave thlin is a de question the tendency throughout the country has been and still la 13 to enrich ellch tile the c cli rl culum bit under conditions prevailing in america today the homo home Is pot nob doing many of tile the things it formerly form exly eKY did many of these home hoine teachings are now boing being done by the school health physical education and industrial courses are by far tho the most expensive part of our cirri curriculum culum and they are the part which marks the widest difference between the old school and tho the now new in ili so tar far as curriculum tent la Is V concerned question 6 are we spending holing too much money on super supervision X ision 0 this des al wes W a article and will bo be answered hn se separately par jucson 0 lias has the board ofha of bd ti cation under tinder any circumstances tile tho right to exceed its budget in ili any fund t 4 sq Q L answer anaver I 1 shall not quote tile the hol holo 0 law but here aro aro statements front from it chapter 75 sections 1 12 2 3 laws of atal it shall ie oe unlawful tor for any board of education du cation to make any lit in of the or estimated 11 expendable f r revenue for U I 1 th tho 0 en ensine sune fiscal year any ally budget audgo appropriation may be ed ad by action of the board 0 bojt education cation at any regular meeting of tile the board of education notice of the proposed action be given to all members of tile the board and to ilia iha superintendent of the district ol aj Yeast least ons one week in avance advance of such action no increase shall lue je maddt made lany p ap allowed loved al axe except 6 t upon written request of the 1 il 4 ent tit setting forth the emergency nee a such request r es 1 such written request shall promptly pi ly be made available for public inspection and such request hall not bg bj ali allowed owed unless notice of the consideration th er 41 cog shall have been pu rUts fished lied in ill tion in ili the 0 strict it if sucu such Is I 1 published in the district but in any event ofa ot general circulation in the district at least one week in advance of the meeting I 1 I 1 atos cli such request is to lt be considered and nd unless I 1 ap also a upon such request ahall have been ill allowed owed clerks of boards of education shall not d aw warrants ov OD school district funds ex except 2 cepl 1 in accola accordance a nce with and within of the I 1 budget duty duly passed by the boards cards of education bation of kofl their districts 1 r I 1 ca 1 fl 5 0 the provi provisions stabs of this not no apply to appropriations necessitate necessitated esst d by involving loss of lifo or great loss of property Thia law wis passed in 19 1927 2 T board of Eda education cation has haa made a most josf deter determined nit ned effort to abide by it the board canaly i ly va kase se its future future ex p on 0 the basis of bf tal P r past paa lt I 1 linking an average of meyeral years last year coal dealers united an aari q raised the price 01 coal it t rashard shard was wa achard winter and statha cost co the board nearly a thousand b 0 arnol doll dollars ais iare more than it liar eveM cost before bet 0 to we spent therefore than we had budgeted budge led for that itean This year w wo 0 are aie spending ini much ma mora ra for or electricity than ever before and lesz tor for 1101 coal but these expenditures are within the spirit of the budget be met by the board giving public notice funds from rom atme accounts that hae baa a surplus sur 10 lo oth dolbt vf aco Apts liadi arfe ty abort bab abo 1 thing Is thata that 3 t the 12 i card board shall husband e ever eq cepl cent an and of tt too bot evrrett it 10 tia jal budget 0 1 IQ now one inor gord r MV C tic 0 education Edl leation la is elected by the people to the people apol and are doing their bevel best to meet a me most at trying situation when wealth lt Is increasing yearly and everybody 5 prosperous tta its an easy ea mk matter ferto lo 10 public funds 6 if times nies of oe d depression n desalon funds aro are not those who pay their fed aud and the they r hare har 0 A lerud mate anat b rafa egl ta feel that they have pa bald I 1 d for they are entitled to good government 6 schoola Scho oIs olg mod ro roads ads etc why then should these things be take P from the manceo N paid rights in n taase tha TIC things 1 be cut down because mome in the community refu seMo pay their share aven they sher equal bene tits wab thosa thos e who are paying v n I 1 j what ve aeed is not to rut down 1 she benefits of mom who have paid their taxes but to make a at calle caefus fui study into the those boe who i ha pat not act accor accordine accord oling lne to tb tsa fact by br suri a att aw ay fy ire amm e i nd asich a schy ts thes county taxpayers ers Aa I 1 reppe tally 4 1 B ELK bs farn yarnell rah altol Su d ent i n 0 L |