Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-05-03
A PARENTAL SCHOOL
One May Be Established By The Board
Of Education In This City.
A NEW EXPERIMENT HERE.
II is One, low YER, That Has Worked
splcndidly stwhrre-ProvisioOs
by the Last Legislature.

Parental schools arc foreign in Utah
-ihst IL they have never been in
cluded among the Institutions CT In.
struction OF the Territory or State.
But they will soon be recognized, in
fact are 60 now, the Last Legislature
having made provision for their estab-
llshment.
Salt Lake, in all probability. will bs
the fitst Utah city to give enforcement
to tue statute. Az result cohsider.
able number OF cnlldren who are per-
sisteDtly dihobe dent and who play
truant and get beyond the control
OF parents, guardians or teachers will
DO provided for and enved from tho
humiliation OF being com :Ditteu to the
reform school, proceeding which
often makes the refractory child worse
instead Of better. For long time the
leading Utah educators have ieit that
tho Reform scnoui was too severe q dis
ciplinariaD for any but the most hard
eneu caset; that unless child gave
manifest Indications OF crimiuslity no
should not be harshIy dealt with.
Parental schools, wherever estai-
llsheJ, have proved a decided SUCCESS
In the way OF iu0ucing the rdiDary
bad boy or girl" to lead better
life. In this city particularly the
board OF educatOn anu superiD.
teDtent has seeh the peed Of
,uch an institution. The Legislature,
too, recognized the want OF 1t and
enacted u complete law thereon. Toe
percentage OF pupils ''eligibe" TO en-.
try In SAT- Lake would be very small,
but too large to allow 10 roam about
until they became criminals by prac.
tlce MS well as wrong doors by inciina-
ton. A parental school 10 often con.
Quoted In a family residence with one
or more teachers IN charge. In
salt Lake The school would
not be large nor very expensive,
though more expensive In proportion
than u regular district school. The
cost, however, will not fall upon the
public, got being paid out OF the gen.
efBl iuud, but must be- paid by the
parent or RusrdiHu OF the boy or girl
~ mmitt.d to the school, except Ia
cares where the boards OF education
shall otherwise uirect.
lp the event that enough refractory
pupils cannot he "weeded oup' from
The schools oil one city TO justify the
| establish ment OF parental school
| then 1t may Join with others and Il IL
not improbable that Salt Lake may do
that very thing vt tho beginning OF
the q ext school year Tue law on the
question 10 Is follows:
SECTION /. The board OF education OF
any city of the first or OF the second
class, or the boards OF education of any
two or more such cities, under contract
to be approved by each of such boards,
may provide Tor The establishment and
maintenance OF "paIenta schools" and
for tho support anu education OF the in
mates thereof, coniormAbly with the pro-
visions OF this chapter.
Sec. 2. Any child between the ages OF
eight and fourteen years, residing within
the city or cities maintaining such
school, adjudged guilty of being
habituul truant, or OF wandering about
In The streets and public places OF said
city or cities without lawful employ
inent or business, shall be committed 10
the parental school provided for the pur-
pose for term not extending beyond
the age Of fourteen years.
See 3. Any child committed as pro-
vided In the next preceding section may
be released from confinement at such
school either conditionally or absolutely,
before the expiration OF the term OF COM
mitmenL, in accordance with the bylaws
established by the board or boards OF
education maintaining the same.
Sec. 4. Children under sixteen years
of age who by reason of neglect, crime,
drunkenness, or other vices OF parents,
or by reason OF urphanage, are suffered
to grow up without salutary parental
control and education, or In circum-
stances encouraging them to lead Idle
and dissolute lives, may be committed
to the proper parental school" for n
term not extending beyond the age OF
sixteen years.
Soc. 5. When the parents OF child
committed under the next preceding
section have reformed aud are leading
orderly and industrious lives, and are in
Il condition TO exercise salutHry control
over such child, and 10 provide him with
proper education and employment; or
when, said parents being dead, any por-
son offers to make such suitable proyi-
sion for tho care, nuture,aud education OF
such child IA viii conduco 10 the public
welfare, the board Of education may dis
charge him to The parents or other such
person.
SEQ. g. The district courts of the
several counties shall have Jurisdiction
within their respective counties 10 en-
force the provisions OF this chapter, upon
such notice to the parents or guardians
OF the children whom It is proposed to
commit to the parental schools as the
court may deem just and proper.
Sec. I. Any board or boards OF educa-
ton maintaining a parental school in
| accordance with section l OF this act
shall estimate and determine as near Us
may be the average actual expense per
month OF keeping and taking care OF the
| boys and girls who may be committed To
| the parental school, and tho average cost
OF keeping such boys and girls shall be
wholly paid by tho parent or guardian
OF each boy or girl committed to the
school unless for cause said board or
boards OF education shall otherwise
| order and direct. The board OF education
of the city in which the parent or
guardian OF any such committed boy or
girl resides may bring suit 10 enforce This
| provision.
Soc. S. ON tho tender OF payment
| which will meet all costs of support at
| tho parental school, the board or boards
Of education maintaining such school
| may receive into Il on equal terms boys
| or girls whose residence Is in the State
| outside OF the ~ or cities 10 which the
| school belongs.
Sec. 8. The board OF education OF each
such city may appoint and tx the COM
pensation OF a truant officer, whose duty
IL shall be to make complaints and ar
| ,asta in eases contain nj Rted nv this chan