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Show I SHOWS GROWTH I III ATTENDANCE Only 14 Students Listed in Census Unaccounted for in County Schools Showing a Gratifying; growth .n at-cndapc" at-cndapc" of Weber county school?. T. R. Jones, attrndanco officer of Weber B county school?, has completed :i rc- port covering the growth of schools in rural districts cf the county. The report shows lha: the County school census for thin SdhOOl year records 3.". n of school :ig between six and eighteen years Or this num-her num-her 3007 are belonging to and ftt-lending ftt-lending the grade and Junior high l ciioois of the county. Besides these there if 1-"'- sVd" ucnts attending school in Ugden City and elsewhere, who arc ordinarily I residents of the county. This year the county school board pays the students' stu-dents' transportation to Ogdcn. ipO then turns over to the school there iho state money they would have received re-ceived for educating these students 01 high school age. II the high school , work had been done in tho county. Twentv-elght students avc doing I part-time work; nine were oxet.--d " account of sickness: twelve were given pedal permits to work to assist in tho support of o widowed mother or invalid father; 5J have move. I away, I ..-.en have turned eighteen since the opening ot school; two have married: even live farther from any .school than the school compulsory law will lorce attendance, and 13 are attending Weber county schools from other dis-1 dis-1 1 tricts. , . . ' In all the report show? only H M uents unaccounted for. Supt. B. A. Kowlcr explains that the reason their are so many attending school Is be-j cause ot a better understanding and attitude on tho part of parents since j th attendance officer employed by tho district has gone into the schools and homes to discuss the school law -and hcip thqm to meet Its rcn.nu -mcnts. |