Show report of superintendent of schools for school year 1916 17 submitted to the board of education aug 6 1917 0 L JOHN NUTTALL JR superintendent F A D of I 1 the hot hope t thal drw ta a bf b aref f summary t the he h we work done in the a schools will make le us all 11 more are interested in the data detail I 1 of the school work and this able US bluel enable us to a make our or efforts count for more no in it results this brief re report 13 submitted A aalthe the years ya ro KO on will 1 be basin possible id le and a clout cleaber er con nesa of our mistakes and successes will result our hearts are in the work and suggestions are always welcome the following re port part though incomplete in some parts will gie a summary of the work done in 10 the county the sell schools bollt of the county have completed a year car of work quite satisfactory to the supervisors the response made by teachers and pupils to the requirements made of t them been am has been free and has insulted in the closest harmony in the chuoi system stem the teachers have been very will ing 19 to adapt their work to the plans sent out at for their ui and the re suit it has been an extraordinarily lose cloe paralleling of the work in all of the schools in the county in fact le if the same success comes another year the pupils 11 in the outlying schools should be doing work equal in n difficulty to that done in the larger arger schools it is not to bv b ex deets pecked it that they cover quite an equal amount of ef content in then their stud studies es plans outlining the work to be done have been sent out for each grade each month these contain a of statement of the no minimum in am amount of work to be done in a earh subject for each period of four weeks week reviews on the h e subject matter outlined in the P plans lans have been sent out quarterly these tests have ban been given and marked by the teachers and the marks sent in to the th e office for the first third and ali fourth arth quarters main sample Is papers from each set act have been checked carefully in the office to avoid any on the part of the he teachers and to enable all to benefit by the comparison of r results sulta the papers writ written temby by the stu students dents in the second review were brought in to the office calm and examined c carefully and a en of the work of each school was written out at the teachers have expressed their appreciation of constructive cri criticism desm and have en an deavo red to avoid repeating mis takes take each teacher has been visited five or six times during the ear car and such individual helps as could be riven has been given in addition to this regular supervision work sets am of standard tests in reading and arithmetic were given give late in the spring the results of which will be made thu the basis baia of constructive planning at the opening of the next school year the one room schools have re ce it special attention atten lion and a te re organization Lation has been tried out in I 1 the be larger ones this plan groups the students t of two grades together insures in some subjects and cac more ground in thebe subjects which will be taken every other year the plan has reduced the number of daily recitations until it is possible to de da vow vote about fifteen minutes to each lass period and provide at least lea it one period a day where all of the pupils are studying together under the teachers supervision the Thear acting rang ws of the subjects BO 0 iri as not to in with the progress of pupils hupila who he M move eye to a larger school ula is a difficulty yet to be overcome even this however is offset by the longer recitation and the larger number of f pupil loli reciting ting in eh class TEACHERS there have been employed this yes year forty six teachers tea chera three of whom have res resigned road making forty three positions exclusive of music supervisors a total of doity eight of these teachers tear hera one holds a high school life diploma live hold temporary high school certificates six hold life diplomas of grammer grades torte hold five year certificates one holds a two to year certificate twenty one hold county car tili silicates cates ten taught aught on emergency both music supervisors were ere certificated eleven of the teachers last year were mex penen ced eight had but one years previous ten had had dad imm ram two tofi experience and seven teen teachers teacher had more crolo than five scars of experience next year we ve are trying to reduce reduce the number of leathers and use a larger arger percentage of tea telli thyra hers who he have taught the aselage salary fur for female teachers is four hundred ninety five dollars per year sear for male teachers the average is five hundred ninety three dollars and ad thirty three cents while our or average for far grade prin cited not act including the one room cheis is a seven hundred thirty three dollars and thirty three cents AND benr MEN r buildings have b been een fail anly well cared for though repairs sara are needed in practically alt all supplies have been wed used economically without any noticeable waste the quantity used has heen been wall within the amount allotted for use fir primary I 1 mary teachers are to be especially especial ly commended for the way in which supplies have been made to hold out jl it has been the policy to provide teachers teacher with whatever they required for far work and as far as the materials asked for have been obtainable this policy has been carried out iu in no a case be has there been the least evidence of any desire to take ad ita antalee of this supply of materials ft when hen school opened in the fall of 1916 the schools were not well furnished hed with t tt text t books A large number were therefore purchased honed there has not been the proper care token taken of the these books banks by the pupils in 0 o fact it is difficult in many in stances to detect the new books book from the old parents should be asked to co operate in this matter as the waste must be paid for from the taxes collected colleL ted from them not only because be cause of economy but for moral reasons such destructive care desness les cosiness ness should be checked I 1 becom mend end thea plan be adopted for next year whereby books can be identified and pupils can be held responsible for the care of the text our schools die ale not thoroughly equipped such articles as maps mapa globes equipment for la lavatory batory work are lacking while in several buildings the desk and seats are not suitable the total enrollment in the arhorn is boys and 91 girls r a total of 1426 in the grades 4 47 7 in high school or 89 percent of the school population the enrollment is distributed by grades as follows follow in int fust t second third fourth fifth sixth seventh nth eighth ninth cloth 47 the enrollment by is as follows parowan carowan high school 47 cad cedar r city 50 carowan parowan paragonah Para gonah 99 gabarra 82 0 0 summit 48 i if hamiltons fort 11 midvalley Mid Milly valley alley 26 new cath castle 3 36 new castle hotel 14 Stat elme ehile 14 modena il 11 prout front 16 sahara 8 lund 17 the records of the district indi inch cate that at least ninety children of school age have not completed the eighth grade and are not in school about one hundred thirty child ten ren who should be in high school are not attending ciny any school action these lat numbers dumbers are estimates ai in crease in the high school op a ties in the county will tend to hold more of these pupil in school site they reach the higher grades there were froni from th the sigh eight erade its foi tv seven buys boya and lifty tifty two girls gir of whom him fifty four f required more than eight yeras to complete the cauris careful re cords of more than one year are no DP cestary to determine cause for far such each a high percentage of Is retarded pu pils that retardation is a very real problem in the country is shown by an age grade census taken during the sear ear in the following table for the county Stat elme and the fert three grades of ale aie not included you will DOD the follow ing percentage of pupils retarded an more ore than two years I 1 ast 1st at grade 2 4 second grade 9 9 91 third grade 21 4 fourth grade 26 6 5 fifth grade 23 5 sixth grade 80 9 seventh grade 39 5 eighth grade 43 to age grade bisti distribution loution of pupils grade ages 1 I 11 II III IV V VI VII vill VIII 6 68 08 7 92 44 1 3 32 9 4 74 21 30 15 44 64 54 12 11 2 25 2 5 fa 46 5 1 1 12 1 9 ia 6 J 32 4 2 to 2 9 jj 60 f 21 6 14 3 8 45 idi 28 15 4 11 35 24 2 16 3 16 au 17 1 8 18 1 1 the numbers below belov the line re present the pupils more than two years yeara behind their grade this census of retardation will be put into the hands of t the h e teachers next year and a careful study made of it nine hundred se seventy nine pupils pupil were promoted two hundred mneri nine were retained and twenty five were riven given special promotions promo tiona during the i ear As aa indicated on the age grade table only four pupils have been two years a head this percentage is below dv stage the average daily attendance in the county has been 1092 or ab 76 per cent of the enrollment the monthly lo crit of punctuality in the county is 13 96 4 it is here that parents parent scan can help very much in making our schools more efficient the very poor showing made in regularity of attendance e ih explained in part dart by the epidemic which serend through the county last year yet parents can increase the regularity above what this will account for let us ua set a slogan for next year of dt at least ninety five per par set cent attendance and one hun dred percent punctuality LIBRA the libraries are growing crowing the details t I 1 of the a libraries anes at carowan parowan tf rs and d cedar city ll 11 are well known the new move eye this year for a coun county t abr heis has b hcan enst et we coastal in 1 addition to the t he fifteen cents per pupil appropriated ald for the 1 library by the school board the fol lowing contributions contribution a were made by the communities sahara 11 ad 00 stateline Stat eline elme 6 00 paragonah Para gonah nall 12 2 00 summit to 10 50 new castle 13 50 new castle hotel 7 00 hami fort 4 00 cedar city 31 BO 50 22 00 buck buckhorn horn 1 ada 00 total 1 8 25 contributions on t but of books have been he made by anoch L on and 8 buckhorn III all ail at the present tinie time there are in cincu ciraula 1 dona about volumes these are arc exchanged two or three time a hearse ear so that in time all will have ba S access S to th the set entire list next year we should work to lo reach reaal the ideal now set act for us a book for every child in every school PAROWAN HIGH SCHOOL any district rainy anny well be proud of the work done by the forty five young people who enrolled this year in the high school at some same were young some older than ban the average high school student but all worked hard and accomplish ed good results both in school and in the community this group of young people assumed leadership FINANCES the financial finai cial report shows that the district is in good financial con this is especially pleasing at this time when school dOtric districts ts are struggling to keep running un do der the tax laws of 1915 the tier per capita cost coltof of education in the count timed based on school operating and ad nomi expense is 31 98 the attention of the p id is called to the cost of aducat educating ng each each child in each school of the c county arty this information is given oo on the statistical table at the end of this report this coit cast does not include depreciation on buildings and furra furni ture as these items are not definite ly recorded NEW BUILDINGS at modena prout sahara and malval toy ley this year these are comfort able and pleasant with the addition of some equipment these schools w wil ill compare favorably with any one teacher schools in the state at the present new buildings are being erected at enoch summit and parowan no long recommendations are in eluded in the because the following improvements have been decided upon one at a time when the board has been in session I 1 an increase in teachers salaries 2 adoption of li a short hurt teachers contract 3 change ch inge in of dividing janitorial lamto anit orial responsibility between Cu custodian bodian and janitor by condia ing these odices 4 increase in school equipment for nt n t sear ear 5 six three and thise plan of school organization 6 organization timi of ninth trade grade work in cedar city and the addition of tenth grade work wall in carowan parowan both schools are to have bay limme in home economics and mechanic arts arta 7 em pi oy men t of for summer work in agriculture the public should know that the school board has decided on a policy of 1 equipping ing all schools with land for 1 practical in agriculture 8 the employment of a primary 1 supervisor I for far the county 9 the adoption of a budget for go fm no lo 10 fire it t ot of per berc 0 ent 0 lea teachers T athera ment gracca red att alt proms broms 1 2 3 4 5 to 7 8 8 gd grad grach cedar der 35 15 8 93 i 68 6 73 70 ill 91 73 T TT 71 79 69 41 25 27 57 par far III hi sc 47 2 27 farolan 10 8 99 0 44 55 48 68 40 43 38 41 28 27 15 kanbara 3 92 8 93 94 7 12 12 1 14 7 11 11 12 12 5 pe I 1 aginah 3 89 09 8 9 99 2 92 8 18 17 15 11 8 36 16 6 31 11 11 30 34 summit 2 48 8 93 h b 97 3 9 15 4 6 4 5 3 2 0 45 93 buckhorn 1 37 7 au 8 83 7 6 5 7 0 6 a 5 1 1 31 62 enoch 1 37 7 64 9 7 h b 4 5 4 6 0 5 5 28 52 midvalley Mid valley ll y 1 26 7 SS 8 5 5 1 5 3 2 0 5 0 33 17 ham fort I 1 it 11 a 8 97 9 1 0 a 3 0 2 1 1 3 3 68 21 new castle 1 37 6 87 5 75 6 7 7 7 0 4 3 8 0 0 N castle hotels hot ell 14 6 58 y 36 4 1 3 3 1 0 0 2 0 I 1 1 15 5 b 1 80 4 0 1 4 3 0 1 2 2 made meliena al elme eline 1 14 5 9 6 4 0 3 5 0 1 0 1 1 4 5 stateline Stat 8 1 16 6 9 17 74 3 12 1 4 2 3 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