Show SCHOOL SC DELAY CAUSES lOSS I Parents Urged to Have I Children Ready On I Opening Ope ing Day Ogden city schools will be open for the registration of ot pupils on Friday September 11 Classroom Instruction will begin on Monday September 14 13 It Il Is s cry very Important said Supt W. W K Hopkins par par- parents parents emits prepare their boys hoys and girls of o school choal age for or school the first lay day da of ot the term I School superintendents principals I pals pal find teachers te want every child eligible to attend schools to en enroll en- en roll roil tIle the first day Ila of the term and to be regular In attendance there there- thereafter alter after because iA 1 they l nv 1 know from ex- ex exI T- T TI I that n. n week teel or even a aI aI I I day lost at the beginning or at an any lime within the chool year Is IsI isa I a waste vase of o time lime not only for tho the thoI I child chilli himself but for the other children and fOI for the he teacher tea er erO I O IJ O i h TX SI not nol enter If H a child docs does school until after the tho opening of I the he I term he lie loses the beginning I of things The only way he can make snake up the lo lose 1018 s Is for the teach teach- teacher I er I to repeal repeat the lessons alreadY I presented or for her to lo give tho tile pupil Individual help If the lea les lesions sons ions are repeated the time other mem members ICS ICS-I hers bers of tho the class are arc simply marking time If Individual help Is gwen en the Ihl teacher te-acher must take her own lime time before or after school hours or if It II Is given n dur dur- during durIng ing class dass periods period she is taking the time lime that belongs 10 o the others Is this fair fall to lo the pupils who entered the first lay day lay Is It fair all to the teacher Is 18 I It fair all to the child I Is It fair fah to 10 the tax lax payer He lie HeI lieI pays I taxes to educate all the chit chil children 1 I dren of or the school district for I or OO days a year car The T-he I child lent from school costs as RS much as the child who Is present I In Ill fact he may cost coat more He lie HeI 1 I may fall fail because of absence and andi i repeat a grade which means dou- dou double 1 ble Ide expense for tor pulling putting this child I through a particular grade A concerted drive drle e at once for or I prompt enrollment and a n contin conlin- continued drive for regular school at at- attendance attendance would be Le the greatest thing thin for teacher parent associations assocIations I lions of o the tho country to under under- undertake take 1 TO To D Ce A very vry large percentage of ot pu pu- pupils pupils pu- pu pils pus who enter the tho first grade In elementary schools each year ear fall Call to advance to lo tha the second grade according to lo a tabulation by the time j bureau of or education of or the de de- dej j of o the interior With each eachl school district ex- ex exPending Pending rl from 72 to 80 per pupil the bureau said saith a n. tremendous waste wash in education education- Is resulting resulting- from the inability of pupils to I advance The commissioner of education j in caling ealing the attention of or parents to this extraordinary situation de de- declares declares II clares dares that much of or this waste wasIl In education is due to physical and andI mental defects In the children lie He believes that the time number of put put- I 1115 1 lIs who repeat the first grade can be materially reduced If It parents par par- enis wilt will give due consideration to the defects of their children I before they th enter school The Tile bureau collaborating w-Hh w w th the National I Congress of Parents and Teach Teach- Teachers Irs ers In lit an extensive drive to have children n per cent perfect ct In I mind and body before beCore entering school for the first l time lime next Sep Sep- September lumber Thirty states slates have hR al already I ai-I al ready signified their Intention of participating in Par Par- Parents Parents throughout the country par par-I are arc urged to lo Join the time campaign and prepare their children for tor school during the tho next two Iwo weeks |