Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-12-17

Twcnty-trst East and near Twelfth
south; the Sherman school. II new
tour-room building on Twenty third
East near Twelfth South the Whit
tier school. new four-room building
AT Hunter, have been built. ono room
has been finished at the Woodstock,
Eighteenth South and Thirteenth
East. The Irving school, n new six
room building ut Big Cottonwood, and
the beautiful new Granite high schoo!
on Fifth East ana Fourteenth South
have been completed. The nigh school
building has six large class rooms.
numerous cloak and nall rooms and
splendid, gymnasium. Tho gHmna-
sum Is GS by IS feet on the inside and
is provided with Il theatrical stage
ana proper dressing rooms. Besides
this tho board has erected an office
building on state and Fourteenth
South. Altogether the board has cX-
pended Sill. 351.92.
For the various expenses of the year
an expenditure OF $25TL306.26 was
made including salaries and expenses
tor text books, school supplies, etc,
The largest item in the list Is taat for
building account. which amounted TO
Sill,35I92.
erintcndcnt are engaged by the board
namely: Primary supervisor, Miss
Libbie Edwards; drawing supervisor,
Amor Nhipple; and music supervisor.
Mr. NJ. +. Christopherson. The pr!-
mary supervisor has supervision over
the beginners, the first, the second
and the third grades. The drawing
and the music supervisors have
charge of their respective subjects.
The supervisors visit the schools reg
ularly once 8 month and report on
the work in their respective subjects
to the board of education The board
holds its regular meeting every
Thursday ut $50 pm. Supervision OF
the upper grades is left to the super
intenaent,
Each teacher attends grade meet
ing once month, The program for
such grade meetings Is made at the
beginning of the school year. Prin
cipals also hold a raon:h!? meeting.
The attendance and the punctuniity
of pupils are very satisfactory. The
first months report OF attendance this
year showed a total enrolment of
a,927 and 1gs rardy marks for the
month, an average of less than 10
day for the entire district. The total
registration Of the district is 4,S3l.
The enrolment Is therefore about 81
per cent of the enumeration. Many
Of those represented in the remaining
IS per cent are only and I years old
and therefore exempt from the COM
pulsory school law Many are also
going to higher schools. So that the
enrolment is almost complete.
Tho enrolment in the Granite high
school has risen from 80 last year 10
lal The high school is now doing
four years of regular high school
work besides sewing, cooking, and
shop work,
The high school grounds contain IA
acres. About four acres OF this has
been set aside for an athletic cam
pus surrounded by fence eight feet
in height. and provided with seats for
spectators. Most of the work on this
fence and seats was done by pupils.
People who at first looked upon the
county consolidation Of schools plan
with dsfavor now see the advantage
of such plan. Everything is based
upon n business and methodical basis.
None but the best recommended
teachers are employed in the district.
And the matter of compulsory attend
ance is SO promptly attended 10 that
non-attendance is practically thing
OF the past
Every child in the district is placed
,lpnn nearly the same educational
basis Of graduation a:ll attendance,
Long distance pupils and pupils in
sparsely settled districts can now get
to school on time. The county COM
missioners have en- willing to help