Show STATE SCHOOL PUZZLE ARISES I Institution In Ill Ogden an arid Its Finances Cause Discussion II I SALT LAKE LAIG Jan Jail Where 24 24 should that portion of af the time 25 per pcr capita state tate lI school haal levy d drawn ra wn b by Inmates of af the tho Industrial school Ogden Ogden be expended in the tho districts from flam which Inmates come came or at the school That ThIt is ono one of af the questions puzzling legislators in the consid consid- consideration consideration of af state school finances and the best beet manner of af handling activities in Utah At present the US 25 per por capita hl h the state tate allows allow for far each child of af 8 school age goes oes to the dIstrict In which the home hame of ot the tho child I Is located but the educators isho ba made a 0 a survey sUr of ar the tho states state's edu- edu edu educational system last su summer hed he'd that the academic education of af those thase children n is a just charge against school funds of the state JUST n T CIT It U the legislature Is h unwilling to provide special funds for Car teach teach- teachers ers era of af the tho academic subjects report declared In referring to educational conditions at the In In school schaal thosa salaries properly he paid Irons from the tho slate state school Cund funds for far these children are re all of at legal school age and at least their academic education Is a 0 just charge against the scho l funds The Tho report repart declared the members of aC the survey sut staff felt C lt that the educational sido of af these theRe young peoples activities is to a IL consid considerable erable rable degree neglected that they are e forced to be producers rather than than learn learners erR and that their r- r ia r- r training naming m in i tile related SUbjects too taa small In amount and n not t I prop properly rop- rop erly coordinated with their work In s shop ap and Held field One of ot th t reasons for things the report says is that the the staff ot of the school Is a 11 pro pro- producing producing body rather than the In- In instructional In Instructional one that It should Ie be beOf Of OC the tho thirty persons em employed played have duties of af a Industrial nature The They are a printer at a II salary saInT of at n a month a 0 blacksmith a chef a a dairyman a brick mason masan an Instructor In furniture making a painter and a baller- baller boiler maker boiler malt maker PI each at 1 6 a II month manth a horticulturist at a farmer at and a shoemaker at 81 It 11 Is evident that these s shave have e the tho point of af o view pf pt over overseers seers rather than that of af teach teach- teachers teachers ers Besides the UIO five are Indicated as rv l HR hav-HR nA educational duties a director oZ af education and recreation a a director of af athletics a mu- mu mute mu music sic te lc Instructor 40 and l two o school schoolteachers schoolteachers teachers eachers one ono at 68 an and the other at 63 Board Baard and living lI quarters quarters tOrs are arc furnished free tree to every el OT l OT EL The belief was expressed In tile be report repart that the lie method of ar finan n financial financial cia cial I support for Car the tho was to toa toa a considerable extent a Cause cauan QC r thc thc fault faulty educational existinG there A fixed amount to cover caver all the expenses of af the theIn In institution is appropriated hi bien biennially n- n as IS a af Of o the state budget et Ct Tho The board baard of at management let must not nat create te a 0 deficit the ro- ro re report jall port nort points out even though the number r ot of young aung people peaple commit commit- committed committed ted tell to time the In is grenter great r than thal tho number when the appropriation was made The boards board's first obligation atlon Is Isto isto lato to see that Uie the children are aro fed and clothed and and that the tho various ca are paid After ACter these necessary expenditures have 13 0 been made the report declares the mat mat- matter matter ter of education Is considered The I report then declares With WiLls a small email appropriation such as this Institution is recel receiving I log ing- one may allay expect to find just the conditions that do exIst namelY that education Is Jy Jy neglected and that the ehll- ehll children chil children dren are in effect laborers rather than students MINIMUM SALARY S To remedy this the tho ho re report art roe roe- recommends rec recommends making an appropriation I of a 0 a minimum salary for far each aliJ and providing Iro that enough teachers must lust b- b employed so that there shall not bo be more n than a ce number of af o pupils about 2 01 or 30 r for r each and in requiring that tile tha Industrial subjects ho bo taught b by persons who have havo train train- training ing log M as J industrial teachers When that i la Is done dane the report declares education both bath industrial and ac- ac academic academic ac academic wll wil take taka its proper Place In the tho institution How Haw to arrange the finances es of af the Institution to meet the stand stand- standard standard standard ard ard set by the survey board Is a question which must be bo settled by bythe bYthe bythe the legislators ars nfl |