| Show letter to school board explains consolidation the following leatter was to tile the school board blaid of cou county uty from the oil ice of superintendent relative to th the elligh high school situation for the school year 28 alas bettor was one reason why tile the school board wari tied ito try consolidation acil they feel that due to unfair criticism in should he be passed on to the people supt bupt C G N weston and board bard of Edu education catlon rich county school district Le latown town utah gentlemen on my recen n visit to the schools ot your distri district cl 1 I made certain notations with to miu conditions exiting i al 9 in your sour high school which I 1 feel fee I 1 may be of interest to you in none of tie the jour our high schools chui ils did I 1 find and adequate provision pio vision for laboratory oratory work in the sciences neither in the matter of suf suitable table room necessary apparatus nor time allo allotment talent do your seli schools dinvel the state requirements quire ments for science work owing to the fact that your schools are all small jit it seems hat it would not be economical to ito the number of tea teacher cherA in each school yet fet tile the necessity feces sity of 0 ashiking care caie of four y beare ea r oa of high school work with two tc tea cheis is 1 a netious seri oua handicap liandi cap this condition makes for each teacher to teich teach a number of different subject which is 13 not conducive to ni the bess results under ith present pie sent organization the number of 0 pupils per teacher is not excessive in tact fact is lower than the average but the number of subjects taugh by each teacher is far above aboe the average the fact that your schools are very small makes it necessary nece spary to limit the number of subjects offered lintl and a buos the pupils little choice in the selection af pf of subject subjects the building situation at woodruff especially athis ams to 0 o be very unsatisfactory facto Y the residence which lias has for high suitable for it a high school building tn in woodruff and gulden garden city especially specially ally and in other places to some soine extent I 1 noted a very unsatisfactory rendition condition with refer reference erce ho the sequence of subjects in woodruff tile alth grade pupils are arc gauci science with tibe grade oon gan pral science ial 19 now heina being upon in fit moat places as an fth grade subject although it is taught in a few placate in the oth it is entirely entire lr tev ersy for loh and an d alth grade pupils the course in civic being beier given in me alth and grades Is a ath th grade subject and under no circum Far atances cei should be given in the alth and at garden city no system systematic title p plan I 1 an ijo have been fIl owed in ahe enrollment of students tg in the revel al years of high school in looking over the record of some of the seniors I 1 found one student who had botany in he aith grade and who TJ i now taking a course in general bi kl in the the general biology which is now taken in Is a oth grade subject and tb the botany taken in the oth grade should not be taken before tho the or alth in no case calse should it a course in botany precede a course in general biology I 1 understand that there were three seniors endors in this wh grade biology bunge vu one enior had bad a course in sociology and economical Eco nomica in the grade and Is now taking ath grade community civics during iring di h hii hi 19 i grade yar A mix up of this kind Is inexcusable and il 11 I l not at all conducive to the promotion notion of efficiency in your school system some plan for the sequence of and for their flite raflo bould c be adopted ly by the board of education and each prin principal cipa should br instructed to follow flics plan your schools fall so far short ot of the minimum i of the state it will lift be impossible for ii to place thern them on the accredited accredit eI list however realizing thail your finances ire are my limited the schools willbe will he placed for the prees nt on the conditionally dated ll 11 st which will make it possible ble tor cor them to participate tiel pate in state funda provided home froine steps tire hiken to improve ali t condition it if the condit itin I 1 li not improved imin ovel it is probable that the timp time will come when it will vill be am possible to continue them on tile the conditionally accredited list if tibey be on he condition condl tion silly list ifa i will or of course he for them to participate in kho of T state funds this should not he be interpreted as requiring the outlay of an C enormous amount of money but buc rather as the need zor or a commeth coniD lefe the financial resources of your district arri ara among tile the lowest an in the bet mi n have a larger number of than t tip sat 01 n 1 the state A consolita consolida tion of your hapli schools would quite materially material lv reduce the empens o of maintenance and would enable emil ble you to mike make very verv decided improvements in tile efficiency of the schools with the amount of money you sou are now spending it if your schools were consolidated into not more ilian han two yon could remedy most of line ibie defect 4 to which ll I 1 luie have called your attention in this letter without materially your expenditures it ou i 1 not our pi province evince to decide for you y whether N or not you shall i reduce educe the number of your high school but wo do feel that conditions should be w improved by some means layou if you expect to continue in the of state funds VV shall bf be glad to offer off eryou you any assistance in our pi in the formulation of plans plana for the of the schools very truly your 1 I n WILLAMS rN she SH e |
