The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-10-14
THE TEACHERS INSTITUTE.
Mr.. MOret0n on School Discipline
Other Exercises.

The meeting comm snced with Super
intendent William NJ. Stewart in the
chair. Opening prayer by J. j. Walton.
No minutes we're read because of the
secretary's absence.
Prof. J, B. Moreton, who was on the
programme to give an account of the
School Discipline in San Francisco
said there was regular course Of edu-
cation provided, and the instruction
was free. 1.-The supervision of the city
and county is vested in a board OF edu-
cation. There are three grades-Pri-
mary, Grammar and High. The XII: =
dergarten is a special feature. Pro-
motions occur yearly. passing through
four readers of two grades each, making
eight grades in all.
Upon completing the eight grades of
the grammar school the boys aud girls
are admitted to the high school, then
the commercial school, following up
with the State University.
Besides the day schools there are
eVenln= schools where pupils are ad-
mitted from IL years of sge up. Adults
are also admitted. Every tie cher Is
provided With circular OF instructions
for the cOnduotion of lis class five
pupils constitute the class. The sacn-
ers are compelled to attend the Teach
ers' Institute, and no teacher is allowed
to teach in the high school until re has
taught N the primary and grammar
grades.
The school hou es are not handsome.
ont are we'll furnished. The ooys and
girls have separate play grounds. Al
8 30 am. the gates are opened and
the pupils allowed to enter. AT so the
bell SOUNDS and the pupils fall in line
for ten minutes exercise III ca'esthenic
drill. At9 am. they all pass into the
schoolroom where they occupy separate
seats. The pupils are required to keep
the striotest order and no careless re-
marks are allowed in the schoolroom.
When dismissed after school they are
required to go straight home. For an
absence of three days, without written
excuse, the pupil loses his seat in that
and special police
arrests all truants All the COM
mon branches Gle taught with
drawing and singing as special
features. Calesihenlcs are required to
be taught by law. Pupils are also
drilled once each month in the fire drill,
by which the whole building 1.-TWO or
three stories hIgh) is emptied in two
witho any excitement. Fri
day afternoon the girls are taught plain
sewing, ard the boys are taught decia
nation and industrial drawing
Monday is devoted to oral or written re
view. Pupils must be Sc It out at recess
and noon, but can be kept in at night.
No pupil Is admitted 10 school without
q doctors certificate of vaccination.
The schools OF Utah are behind IN
everything except energetic, hard
teachers. Our teachers are
not to blame for the condition of our
schools, for We lack the support or the
State, and our city schools snould by
all means be under one b Dard Of trus-
tees. A special feature of the exhibit
during thz late convention was the kin
rearten work. Our sister States and
territories had their exhibits there.
Utah was lacking Why can't she
with all her boosted and advertised re-
sources make as good showing as dry,
barren Nevada?
Mr.. G. M. Sorensen mentioned
numb..r of general exercises that might
be introduced into the school loom.
Mr.. D. K Allen exf lalneo the plan of
the author OF Mind Studies TO. Young
Teachers"
Neeing adjourned to meet in the
same place OCTOBER q, 1888 at 10:30
N. J. B. Hoes,
Secretary Pro Tenn.