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Show i Fins to cm ON FREE MOT SCHOOLS There will be no free public night schools in Ogden this year, according toa definilo decision made by the city board of education at its meeting last night The adverse decision followed the recommendatiou of Superintendent Superintend-ent J. M Mills that the night schools be immediately opened and conducted as they were last car, the board rejecting re-jecting the recommendation on account ac-count of lack of funds to carry on a night school. A department for sub-normal children chil-dren was considered by the board on a petition presented by a committee of local club women, for the establishing establish-ing of such a department. The committee com-mittee was composed of Mrs. R. B. Porter, Mrs J. A. Howell and Mrs. T. D. Johnson and the petition was signed by a large number of parents. Superintendent Mills indorsed the petition pe-tition and it was discussed by members mem-bers ot the board to some extent. It was finally ordered held over until the next board meeting and plans of financing a sub-normal school Mid olher details will be threshed out In the interim. A request from Superintendent Mills to reorganize the Dee and Central Cen-tral junior high schools on tho same plan as that In vogue at the Lewis junior school was also carried over for a future decision. The Lewis J school, according to the plan explain-I explain-I ed bv Superintendent Mills, is in ses-I ses-I slon'from S:30 a. m. until -1-30 p. m.. I giving the students longer class and study periods and necessitating less I home study. He claims it Is also be-ing be-ing run along more economic lines than the other two schools, the teach-I teach-I lag force numbering three less teach-I teach-I ere. By putting the other two schools I under the same system, Mr. Mills ex-I ex-I plains that seven teachers could be I transferred and eventually dropped I from tho pay rolls or kept to till po-I po-I sitlons opened up through the natural I growth of the school system. 1 In line with this question, the board I members decided to visit tho three I junior high schools and to compare the two svstems now In force. I A committee ot high school boys nppeared before the school board with H nowlv signed petitions for compulsory military drill. Tho petitions included a promise ot the signers to provide their sons with uniforms and other equipment necesgary, but tho school directors deemed tie number of signatures signa-tures insufficient to warrant the inauguration in-auguration ot compulsory drM at the high school. The boys were, therefore, there-fore, advised to secure more signatures, signa-tures, but, it was thought, they will have difficulty in securing a sufficient suffi-cient number to warrant favorable action. Owing to lack of funds to meet the monthly pay roll, a condition which will exist until tho tax apportionment is made and transferred to the school board, It was decided to borrow $20,-000 $20,-000 to cover the salaries of tho school system employes which fall due next week. A petition from six teachers, -who are teaching double half day sessions in the lower grades, for the same rate of pay as a number of other teachers, who are Instructing the same number of children for the same number of hours, was ordered filed. |
