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Show FIFTEEN QUESTIONS PUT TO HEAD OF ' THE SCHOOLS I Editor Standard: Having read Superintendent Su-perintendent Mills' talks to parents at Five Points and Quinc schools, .ind still being in the dark as to the true Inwardness of the half-day school system, and finding I am not alone in the failure to understand. I. as a citizen and patron of the public school, feel that I have a right to sub mlt the following questions to the superintendent, asking for direct artd comprehensive answers. So far. Superintendent Su-perintendent Mills and Prof. Peterson have evaded the questions askej them The people are trying to understand this Innovation and it is due them that, those who are virtually forcing this system on us, should be very explicit ex-plicit It has been said that the opposition op-position com..s from personal nreju-dice. nreju-dice. Never having met Superintendent Superintend-ent Mills, that assertion cannot apply to my opposition. I am asking for information. First, what reason can you give I hat a boy who does "practical wont" to help support himself does better work in school than the boy who does not work ? Second, why Is "work with no I school" better for the pupil than "with school and no work?'' Third, to whom does the advantage accrue when the school day is lengthened, length-ened, the pupil or the teacher' Why' Fourth, if the advantage of th? I half day system is that half a day Is I for study and half a day for work why not have the manual training in the school occupy half the time? Fifth, name the occupations avail able for boys and girl6 at the pres cnt time, which are beneficial in an educational line with their school studies? Explain fully and clearly how the "new plan will make the school fit the child? ' Seventh is not working to earn money during part of the school ses slon commercializing the school? If not, why? Eighth, how do you know that an employer will take the time to fill out a monthly report card for an employee em-ployee to accommodate the school Superintendent0 Ninth, In what way will the grading and grouping of the pupils be better under the half-day system and in what way will it benefit the home? Tenth, why will the fifth -and sixth grades be more difficult to change than the grades above or below? Eleventh, why count the economy to the tax payer or community by the resignations of the teachers at the end of- the year, unless they are forced to resign by the introduction of the new system? Twelfth, by whose authority and by what law in the statute has the change been made in the senior hign school? Thirteenth, In what way will the reduction re-duction of the school tax be made, and how will it be a saving if all the boys and girls choose to remain in school the whole day? Fourteenth, why have not the comments com-ments of the press on the half-day-school been published, as promised by Prof Peterson? Fifteenth, if It is true, as Superintendent Superin-tendent Mills stated, that a boy who has had only the training the country coun-try school affords, and who has been compelled to work part of his school year, can do better work in the high school than the boy who has been through the graded schools of Ogden, is it not a reflection on the efficiency effi-ciency of the schools of which Superintendent Su-perintendent Mills has had jurlsdic tlon for the past four years? It is easy to make statements, but the public would like to have these statements verified. I ask these questions not alone for myself, but for the benefit of the citizens citi-zens of Ogden. ( Signed) KATE S HILLI ARL) |
