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Show Cilizens Invited to MeeSing to Discuss School Problems on Wednesday, September 28 The people of Pleasant Grove will be given an opportunity on Wednesday, September 28 to express ex-press themselves on school problems prob-lems in general. Principal Calvin Walker announced Thursday morning mor-ning that such a meeting would be called at the Pleasant Grove High School auditorium 7:30 to 9:00 p.m. on the above date. The meeting is a part of the national movement to improve the schools and to make suggestions from the "grass roots" level which might be helpful in President Eisenhower's Eis-enhower's Whitehouse Conference on Education. Mr. Walker stated that the following fol-lowing questions would be discussed discus-sed : 1. What are our basic school problems in Utah? By 1960 for every 100 persons now in the classrooms class-rooms in Utah there will be 123. The youth who will attend are already al-ready bom. By 1!5 the figure will jump to 112. How can we best meet the challenge of numbers? 2. What should our schools accomplish? ac-complish? Does the present curriculum cur-riculum fit the iic-ds of modern youth? Have the "Three R's" been neglected in recent years in favor of fads and frills? 3. In what ways can we organize our schools more efficiently ami economically? Are we getting all that we should expect out of the facilities we now have? 4. What are our school building needs? We have the children now, how can they be housed to best advantage to themselves? and to the taxpayers who foot the bills? 5. How can we get enough good . teachers and keep them. Are our I best young people going into teaching? teach-ing? Are the best we now have I going into jobs that pay more , money ? I 6. How can we finance our ' schools? How can the "50 cent I dollar" be made to go further-? Are ' there new sources of sc hool rev-, rev-, enues ? -I 7. How can we obtain a continuing continu-ing public interest in education? A school usually is no better th:!ti I the community it serves. How can public interest be aroused in basic '; school problems ? These are all basic problems. , and upon the degree to which they are solved, rests the future of edu-! edu-! cation locally and nationally. If j "the schools belong to the people," ! then the people should assume the responsibility of seeing to it that the schools are good. Every parent in the Pleasant Grove area, who has an active interest in-terest in the educational welfare of his boy or gi-1, should attend I this meeting on September 28. |