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Show Jensen Sends i ! Answer BOARD OF EDUCATION JORDAN SCHOOL DISTRICT. D. ('. Jensen, Superintendent of Schools. Sandy, I't.ih, Fub. 17, 1;)2. Editor Bingham Bulletin ntnglmm, Cia'... 1 ar sir: In jour isatte of y.:i;s-. day, miller ihe caption ". Want Fair I'lya," an article which is written in the spirit of anything but fair play. In fairness to yours vim, to the good people of Bingham, to others who habitually read your paper, pa-per, as well as to the Board at Education, Edu-cation, we ask you to publish this article ar-ticle in your next is.;ue. The article In the Bulletin was evidently evi-dently written with the deliberate purpose of stirring up ill-will rather than of presenting facts. There is not now, and there never has been, so far as we know, a desire to "ignore Bingham and the entire west end of the dbtrict," either in the matter of new buildings or in any other inspect. in-spect. To substantiate this statement let us go back to the beginning of the present building program which was resumed after a few years of building inactivity during the world war. Thi ; building program was begun in 1923. and has included the following, up to date: Place Year Cost Bluffdale 1923 $ 22.018.00 Butler 1923 102,300.00 i Bingham High 1924 102,300.00 West Jordan 1925 S9.230.00 Riverton. (Jr. High 1926 (Grade 192(5 116,704.00 Highland Boy 1926 28,238.00 Upp-r Bingham 1926 24,475.10 Lark 1926 7,870.00 Herriman 1926 8,642.00 Crescent 1926 8,388.89 Granite ' 1926 9,201.74 Jordan Hieh 1926 4.666.57 Midvale 1927 91,663.00 Sandy 1927 44,606.00 The five year program has cost the district a total of J681.021.30. Of this amount $207,489.10, or almost one third, has been expended, in the west end of t' e district.' On the pre:-tnt pre:-tnt per capita basis, the building program for the Bingham end of the district during the past five year? has amounted to $137.08 per child, while in the other four districts the per capita cost of new buildups ha.' bean $112.36, for the same period, a difference of $21.32 per child in favor of the Bingham end. It will, therefore, be seen that no attempt has been m;ide to discrimln- ate against the Bingham district, ar- the writer of the Bulletin article unjustly un-justly leads the people to believe. The reverse seems to be true, but we are willing to concede that, school buildings build-ings in Bingham naturally would b? somewhat more expensive than in the valley districts. The next inaccurate statement of your informant is that the nsw Sandy and Midvale High School building., cost approximately $200,000.00 each. These are Junior High buildings, they were very much needed, and they cost less than half of what the Bulletin article says they cost. As to the comparative needs for -enlargement at Bingham and Union, suppo e we submit facts, instead of opinions, and let the facts speak for themselves. At Union, we are at present transporting trans-porting the 9th grade to Midvale, and Ihe building at Union is so overcrowded over-crowded that the Board found It ne-cesv-ary to secure a room in a church 'building some distance from the rschool in which to accomodate an overflow group. This room was not 'built for school purposes, is not -adapted for such use, and children should not be compelled to be so housed, but it is the best available at "present. At the time of taking the 'cenBUs, the five-year-old of Union we listed for the purpose of determining deter-mining what the situation would be nfrxt year, a-id it is found that there will be a grcup of 60 children in the first grade next year, necessitating additional room. That raean3 that the first six grades will fill tq capa-'City capa-'City the present building next year, and grades seven, eight and nine will be without room unless a new building build-ing is erected. Union is the most rapidly growing community in the (Continued on page 8' to the Dingham High this year, but the Board says it cannot be done in addition to the other two building) upon wl ich a decision has already been reached. One of the Valley board members, after the last meeting meet-ing of the Doard, asked the writer to draw up a resolution which he wlnh-es wlnh-es to present at the next meeting of the Board, to the effect that the contemplated con-templated addition to the high school building at Bingham, which shall roppt every present and prospective need, so far as human eye can nee. be entered as the next building project pro-ject to bo undertaken by the Jordan District. The resolution has. been prepared as requested. We are convinced that when these fM-t-i are known, the Wei.t end of tin-district tin-district will find no .ground upon which to complain about not bavins "Fair I'lay." Respectfully yours, I), c. ,!i:nsi:n , j siipt. '.Ionian District Schools. (Continued from page 1) JENSEN SENDS ANSWER. district, as shown by the last census; It has no auditorium in which u conduct con-duct fcchool and community activities; activi-ties; and Its people feel that, in all fairness, they are entitled to relief. At Bingham, the grade schools will he relieved by taking out the Copperton children. TVere are five unoccupied rooms available in the middle prod--, building; the auditorium auditori-um in the old High School building can be converted Into class rooms; so that It aeema that the matter of congestion can be solved very easily for the time being, with seven unoccupied unoc-cupied rooms available. The fact that the home economics department is not In the hiih school building is a disadvantage, hut not a r-erloiis one sine,, it Is only a minute's walk Irom one building to the other. The equip-m"!it equip-m"!it is not moilvrn, but neither i.i that of tlie Jordan High at Sandy. These departments were equipped b lore the lat;:-t. devices were Invented, but both are doing very fine work.j Tho shop at. Bingham i. Inndenuat. -. j but it is at least twice as large, an.! much better lighted and far better equipped than that which the department depart-ment previously occupied, in fact the equipment Is of the very best.. At the time the building was constructed, the shop was amply large, because few students had Iwen in tho habit of calling for t:.e practical work. To our present teacher must be given the credit for making that work popular pop-ular and of immense value to the boys of tne camp, and provision must be made as .00,1 as practicable to enlarge en-large the shop to accomodate all the boys who may desire to secure training train-ing in the practical arts. Now as to your informant's criticism criti-cism of the high school building at Bingham. Th changes and elimination elimina-tion 1 spoken of, so far as we know, are pure Inventions. The Lui'dliu? covers almost every foot of space the Board was in possession of and since tbe lateral space wa,-, so small, advantage ad-vantage had to be taken of the space-skyward. space-skyward. The strongest cad was for nn auditorium in which school and community activities could be 'h Id. " tie auditorium waj .nc of tnf liniM i!i the Mate when completed, and i. i ci edit to any school. There Is not a better equipped science room in any high school or college in the ftate than the os'.j in the Bingham Ilit'b. The faculty roo'n was to serve a dcuble pnrposo. faculty and rest room, as is done in r..a iv b'MiooU of the district, and on-? of the most commodious rooms i- the building wa assigned ab .1 libra' y room. Neither library, nor ret room, nor domestic arts, nor an automeehanics department was" 'elimiiiatel" from 'the "original" plan. The plans were made to fit the needi of the s-.'' ool at the time. The building did so very well. All through the cistrict, and the state, and the nation as well, there has been a tremendous Influx of pupils into Junior High nnd High Schools and the. present building programs everywhere are made necessary ne-cessary because of this condition. Bui with several unoccupied room: available' in Bingham, and with three large grades absolutely without any : room whatever at Union, it .b"ul-J not be difficult to a fair mi't-1 to de- - termine which is in greater need, of ', Immediate relief. ; Personally, th. writer was rxtreme-' rxtreme-' ly anxious that the addition be made |