Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1909-10-07

There being so many newcomers
in this section Of Idaho this fall that
a synopsis Of the Idaho school system
is given here for their information.
The Idaho public school system
consists of the common schools in
which eight grades are completed. In
most cities there is the ordinary high
school carried on in which three
four and in some cases FIVE years
work is done which prepares the pu-
pills for entrance to the university.
There is but one state university
in this state. 1t is located at Moscow
in the northern part of the state. 1t
is a splendid institution and is the
equal of any western university. On
account of the vast mining interests
in Idaho there is a mining depart
ment to the university which is of
unusual excellence.
For the training of teachers there
are two normal schools. One is To-
Gated at Lewiston. in northern Idaho.
The other is located at Albion, in
Cassia county. Both schools are
finely equipped for their line of work
and have no superiors in the east or
west.
At Pocatello is a state institution
called the state Academy. It is real
ly a sort of excresence on the state
school system and has no logical po-
sition in it. 1t is made largely bus
mess college and manuel training in
stitution 1t articulates in fashion
with the university and also with the
two normal eshools. 1t has an ex-
cellent faculty and is doing a good
work along its line, but as stated, it
has no logical position in the state
school system.
At St. Anthony there is located
school for incorigible boys and girls
1t is intended to fill the place of the
usual state reformatory and is get
ting into position to fill its missoin.
The institution is new and the state
has pursued the wrong policy to the
present in its management In that
the state has attempted to use
pupil during his stay in the school in
the manner that will bring the larg-
est immediate returns to the state.
For instance, the Leader knows of
one boy who spent several months in
the institution. During that time
the boy was worked for awhile in
the laundry, the bake shop, the farm.
He helped to build the cement walks
about the grounds and was kept at
such jobs all the time as would bring
the state the largest return for his
labor. AS a result when the boy was
dismissed from the school he had not
sufficient knowledge of any one trade
he had worked at to enable him to
make living. The state of Idaho
had surely handed that boy a lemon.
It had stolen two years of his life
and left him in a worse condition,
so far as ability to care for himeslf
is concerned. than when he entered
the reformatory.
The state maitains a school for
the deaf. dumb and blind. At present
that school will be conducted in a
leased building in Boise until the
new building selected can be erected
at Gooding, where the state board
recently decided to locate it, It is
expected that the school building at
at Gooding will be ready for occu-
pancy by the first of the coming year.
There are a number of church
schools in the state to supplement
the public schools. The Mormans
have an academy at Oakley. They
also have a fine school at Rexburg.
and another at. Paris, in Bear Lake
county. There may be others but
the Leader is not acquainted with
their location.
There is a fine school at Caldwell,
the College Of Idaho. Weiser has
church school and Boise has several
such institutions. Most Of these
schools are conducted by the Episco-
/ palians.
Altogether there is no special rea-
son why any citizen Of Idaho should
send child out of the state to re-
ceive a drst-class education from
the primary grade through the uni
versity and the technical schools con-
nected with it.-Gooding Leader.