The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-09-30
NEW SCHOOL F0R1
SUB-NDR|MAL d
Board of Education Plan,
ter Care for city's b
fective Pupils.
PROFIT BY sEPARA1
Development of Unfortu
Hindcred by Lack Of s
cial Teaching. \

Al a meeting in superintena..,
christensen's office yesterday t..
the teachers and school work i.
Of the board OF education A..
recommend to the board tha,
Twelfth school building on F,r.,
street between Fourth and M,
streets be renovated and ove,.'
special school for the subnorm.I !
now in the city schools. Tho -
taken BY the committee on ~,
OF Sam e, Park. seconded /.
Bradford
The committee Is OF the oo,s.
the benefits 10 be derived a.
establishment of a special .ch..s
care of students who. for y,u,.
sons. are placed under the hs.1
the spnnormal class caano, be a.
mated. The unfortunate stoss~|
are not up 10 the normal child
better taken care Of II they ar.
gated. Il is thought, as the n.
can give them more and better I Z
and pay more heed To their =.
needs.
Special Care Required
The question OF establishing
for this class or students has
der consideration for several go
and recently the subnoTmaI childr-
been placed under special fesc;
rooms at the Sumner, Riveri{
other schools, While this vas
Improvement over the old cdl
placing them IN the rooms
other students. II Is thought tha}
them in p special building viii
more beneficial. When ths u.
students are merely Segregated
clal rooms In the same onIldI1r
other students, It attaches n
a stigma TO them. as the room.
times referred to- BIZ the other 4
in the school under terms Of
This tends to obstlTct the pro<
the children IN these special
whereas In q separate building q
be given more and better care.
IL is estimated that there are f
mately sixty subnornal chlldrsn
public schools of the city and
Twelfth school building is IarRs
| to take care OF the needs OF a
ber The building, which Is a
erty OF the board OF education.
been in use for a number OF y11@
and IL Is felt by the comm!s,ss
could not be put 10 better g
this.
Cost Will Be Small.
The building can be renossi*
moderate cost, and a few new
furniture. Including u plano, w1I| |
essary. However, the esisblLsh1
the new school vii! not incur a.
pense,
Under the arrangement which
recommended by the COMMITTEES
tion by the board. the ftudentg
furnished transportation 10 The
school from various parts OF fhe
the board of education The DO
purchase the street car ticket
will be distributed to the teac1|
instructors OF the school. who. Ia 4
distribute them daily TO the
This is held the most economical
Of conducting the school, and
mittee will recommend thai ~
give il n fair trial. Supen1|
Christensen is heartily In faSor
scheme. as RE has advocated eo1
od OF taking care of these ch1l1
n long time past.
1t Is maintained that II IL not
essary for the benefit OF the defecu
that ne he separated from
students, but IL is better for
children also. When there are
in a class who are backward Z
some defect. perhaps in sight p
speech. il naturally tends TO e
development and progress OF
students in the class. IL IS
for this reason best that tne2
arated,
The cornmitte also decided u
mend to the board OF education
two upper grades OF the Lak
school be closed and the stuoe1
ferred to the Eranklin school
Breeze school is q long Wal
city and most of the studenl
go long distance 10 and no
For this reason proper instiue
rot be given the students Oh
grades, and the COMMITTEES
il will be best TO transfer
provide transportation for esna
10 the Franklin. where tney
proper instruction.
4 number OF other matters ~
nature were considered by w
tee at its meeting yesterday =
The buildings and gronnds
of the board OF education
meeting early next week. i
finally passing upon the MI
for the new high school oui'ua
taken up at this meeting,
board finally adopts the -
for the building. the genera u
Immediately he advertiser T"
OF the board.