Show SMALL attendance at least twice luring during this season articles have appeared in the local newspapers rs urging a corn com bind effort on the part of teachers and parents and school officials fici als in securing a maximum I 1 enrollment and attendance in the district schools of this county with due ackil acknowledgment of the commendable efforts of a few there ars are still many children of school age unaccounted for while the average average attend once shows an all enormous waste in time and means it seems a strange e thing that parents could find any excuse whatever except sickness and ana death sufficiently dently import important importing int to induce them to permit their children to miss miss arii an part of cul cui short term yet a few have haac been brought to t task ik and it seems that others lugt mus t b be the state school law absolute absolutely ay iy requires all children between the ages of 8 and ag years to at it tend the district scho schools at least 20 weeks in jach each school year ten weeks of which must be cori con L the exceptions to this requirement are 1 that the child is physically ormen taUy incapable 2 that it ll 11 has s completed the work of cf the eight grades 3 that the d distance istance of home from school is more than ai miles 4 that the child is being taught it at home to the satisfaction of the county superintendents ants 5 that the childs services are needed to support a widow mother cr invalid enval d father 6 T that 1 at the child is attending a private or other good school under the first two exceptions a few children can be accounted for but not many from tho the arii thild 1 I cause ahou bhough f h a 1 large arge percent cc t of the I 1 lie school population are ri more 0 re than 2 j miles from the schools none none have have r reported ported th that at 1 4 children childre 1 are be being 1 1 g taught at home annd c or three are i etain Fd to s n r 0 ort t w widows lows or invalid 3 while ther is not a private or denomination t al sa school i ill the county in which any arly of the grade pu pupils 1 ms could bs be enrolled will wiil you carefully fully read and consider the follow following i ng report of the D duchesne county county schools fo for the first two mon months of this season av census school V attend atten rpt apt jiin age 76 50 56 mt emmons 46 41 ag west fruitland froitland Fruit land 30 0 25 5 0 37 east Fruit froitland fruitland land 23 24 52 62 cataract 25 15 11 bancia SG 83 66 85 95 hartford 40 85 35 61 utahn 56 39 09 77 blumena 21 18 21 2 antelope 46 0 37 07 56 juanita ua nita 25 5 22 32 strawberry crry 52 44 4 42 myton 16 0 bluebell 96 81 woodbine Wood bina 19 18 23 tabby 93 84 90 46 38 98 J 36 duchesne 1 4 3 redcap 4 43 37 85 95 ithome tt home 88 monarch 48 49 45 51 hai harper per 7 7 13 Lake Lako fork 32 30 42 Altona ah I 1 loka 0 I 1 a 48 43 52 palmer 26 23 62 Stock more 21 18 20 hanna 30 23 31 cedarview Ced arview 63 46 neola 84 78 basin 37 32 ad 30 0 crescent 21 16 18 roosevelt 2231 1897 2791 in the foregoing the census report e ills eills for 2791 enrollment 2213 while the actual attendance is is but 1897 what do these figures suggest 9 simply this 2231 enrollment on a basis of 2791 census report is about 20 entirely absent while 1897 actual attendance on a basis of 2231 enrollment is about 15 0 resulting from poor attendance we lack then of getting what we are paying for in our Cotin jed od on page 8 small attendance from page I 1 schools in other words for the paid out each month to maintain inta inthe the schools we are getting back but in service at this rate we will lose in a term of seven months due entirely to absence and poor attendance to say nothing of the loss resulting from tardiness let us carry it a little further it has been said that a child looses about for each year that he falls fails to pass a grade in the schools under present requirements none non of them can pass in less khalel than seven months and but poorly prepared at that this means that at least of our boys and girls will fail to meet those requirements quire ments this solely on oil account of poor attendance and tardiness with eventually eventual ll a loss to them of more chah th thus u s far we ve ha have e considered only the monetary side of the question which h alter all is is I 1 the least what L I 1 of the multiplied sorrows and vain regrets of these boys and girls in after years K tha inferior citizenship with its added d burden to hoyne home community and state these cannot b computed in figures but 2 b evident to every t thinking mind A terrible waste you will say and surely it is if these figures are at all correct what is jhc thc cause who is to blame lest we should be tempted to cry evils of consolidation and think that condit conditions ons are growing steadily worse the following is given years 1914 15 enrollment 1927 average attendance 1306 loss per cent of children childre n in school 60 1916 17 enrollment 2231 average attendance 1897 loss per cent of children in school 80 from this table it willbe be seen that the loss from poor attendance was with an enrollment of 1927 or almost as much again as it if hav has been for the first two months of this year with an enrollment roll ment of almost as much again but t these ae fi figures agures gures offer no ex cuse fo for r th the present condition of things the shame is that the attendance was permitted to be so low in 1915 and we must look for a present remedy now fellow patrons is some of this responsibility falls on you if every pare parent would keep his children hild in s chool there could ho be no trouble about enrollment and atten attendance attendant dan c e buts but it seems that some one is not keeping keepin g the law in this matter how are we to know exactly who it is and where they live there is but one way to get at the truth in the matter we ve must make a care ful survey of th the count county y to determine this important question are you willing to cooperate in securing this information arid and conditions if so we invite every body in every community to lend all the moral and other support possible in this survey which will be don ducted by the schools during the next two weeks blanks are belne being sont sent to the principals of the va various ious schools calling for the follows following rig inform mation together with lith many a y other items of special interest to the schools and people generally number of children not attending school more than 21 2 mile with nancg 5 r 1 number and names of pupils ing living diore more than 2 miles from the school not attending school 2 number and names of offu apu pils less than 21 2 2 miles from school not in school 3 a number and names of pupils retained to support widows and invalids 4 number and names fo pu pils who have completed grades but on census list 6 5 number and names of pupils p Is whose physical condition pre vents eilts v attendance 6 nur number hber and names of pupils claiming rf to be taught at home 7 number and names of pupils attending private or other oilier schools 8 number ard and names of all pupils out for all other causes 9 number and names of pupils habitually tardy with or without cause 1 main cause of tardiness epidemics that have inter berred with progress of the school buildings kind size feet of floor space cubic feet of air feet of actual light space how ventilated ti number of children in each room py by J A washburn |