| Show INFERENCE conference ON 1 TION IN MINING communities fr in ail oui out I 1 ip ife the bureau of education has made with the university of pittsburgh to hold a conference on the ei national problems lerra of the mining milling villages or towns of western pennsylvania e astern ohio and west est virginia in conjunction with the fall meeting of school men of the upper ohio valley the latter part of thinks giving week letters have been sent to mine superintendents ind others ashing asking them to make a list of the problems met with ith in the mining region of we western tern pennsylvania eastern ohio and west virginia deep interest in the confer conference enLe is expected by many of those addressed ont of the mine superintendents in west virginia who has chaice of 20 mines lists the following problems I 1 alist problem to solve is to get suitable tea cheri generally a mine camp school chool corn com bines a all 71 the leg of a city school and a country school with noni of the Uvan advantages of either teach rs prefer either 1 i I real rural chool or 01 a ut it so thi mine ramp camp has lo 10 bo be sati hd with wh whatever ateer te ackers are left over 2 21 furnishing suitable boarding and rooming accommodations for teachers J 1 taking children butof out of school to larry dinner pails to the minis mints 4 keeping cecora of thi work done miners are chi changing nging bo u that the attend a different school every year and loe gr ende gride ide cards even if reci relieved eved A minister who has spent 18 19 years in mining towns writes there is lack of of the needs of the pupils b boards of education and the teachers no attempt is made whatever to come in contact with the hurne life of the pupils to find out anything iny thing of the ambitions or kurpiss pur piss s of the in sending their children to school the prejudices of old world con tact between the dif terent nationalities 1 1 ate ft |
