Show what shall we do about our schools get the facts clearly in mind and then express your will at the poles march ath j in order that the parents and voters of iron county might have a more definite understanding of the school situation as it confronts us at the present time the following statement is presented for there careful consideration owing to conditions over which we have had bad no control it has cost considerably more to complete the buildings that were started nearly two years ago than tham was anticipated this has necessitated transferring about from the maintenance fund to the buildings and sites fund this deficiency was caused through cuttin gout the mill and a half levy for buildings and sites in our estimate of funds needed to run the schools this year in addition to this we are short about of our estimated revenue for this year on account of uncollected taxes there is also a deficit of about carried over from last year due to uncollected taxes all these combined have left our maintain ence fund just short this year the board is therefore asking the people to authorize them at the election called for march esth to incur this additional indebtedness in order that they might legally borrow the money to to pa pay y back the used for the buildings and sites funds and have an additional to continue the schools until within at least two weeks of the regular clos ing period all of us certainly realize the im porta and economy of keeping our schools running the full term this year for with the two broken years back ef cf us on account of the flu it will be impossible for the children to make their grade if we cut off two months of this year this would mean a great increase in the number of retarded children and a consequent loss to the district for it can readily be seen that if it costs the county say sixty dollars to keep a child in a grade for one year then for every year he repeats his grade it is costing just 60 additional to educate that child if we can run our schools to within two weeks of the full term this year most of the children will be promoted and the schools will be in good condition for next year we could then cut down some during the next two years and save enough in that way to meet this indebtedness without having to raise our tax levy on the other hand if we close now we would practically be ef compelled m to run a full year or suffer still greater losses through retardation and in order to run the full year it would necessitate an additional tax levy of at least two mills in other words if we continue this year we can spread the indebtedness over two years and handle it out of our regular revenue while if we close we shall have to raise extra re venue next year for the iron county school board by supt bupt H CLAUD LEWIS |