Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1916-10-16
LEGISLATION PROPOSED BY THE
! STATE BOARD Of EDUCATION
At COMING SESSION

, with the state board OF health. Motion
carried"
The department of education is
working constantly in conference
and cooperation with the state board
of health in this matter. A bill will
be submitted to the state board of
education.
FOR THE FEEBLE MiNDED.
This problem is as yet unsolved in
Idaho. The feeble minded are scat
tered throughout the state; in the
homes, the schools and on the streets;
the worst cases, about a hundred in
all, are consigned to the insane hos
pital-Where of course, they do not be-
long. A certain proportion get into
the state industrial training school.
Moreover, the most serious fact Is
that feeble -mindedness and related de-
fects are strongly hereditary, and the
detectives. when left at large are ter
ribly prolific. Thus a constant stream
of the socially unfit is kept up.
The department of education receives
many calls for help IN this matter, but
cannot offer anything effective. We
have, however, collected some data
and information as to the extent and
seriousness of mental defects in the
state, and are also collecting infor-
nation concerning the best plans and
! organizations of other states, so as to
benefit by their experience, which in
some cases extends over many years.
The state board of education deter
mined at this meeting to urge the leg
islature at the coming session to make
provision for the care of the feeble
minded, and in particular to plan the
institution in such a way as to prevent
the further propagation the mental
ly defective
JOINT ACTION.
In the various communities in which
state institutions are located the work
of the state institution interlocks at
some points with that of the public
schools. This is particularly true in
the case of the normal schools. which
maintain model or training schools at
tended by elementary pupils, in which
the normal students observe and
teach. AT Albion the number of chill
dren of elementary school age is not
large enough to permit of two schools
"a training school for the normal and
a village school; hence the normal
school conducts the village school sys-
TEN, the district paying a fair share
Of the cost. The result is profitable
to both the district and the State Nor
NAL school,
At the other institutions actual and
possible helpful CO. operative activities
exist.
The board voted to introduce a bill
to authorize the state board of edu-
cation to join with district school
boards In cooperative direction and
support Of grades or classes of the
public schools of the districts of the
whole school work of the said district.
FISCAL YEAR and BIENNlUM.
In addition to these strictly educa-
tional items the board passed a reso-
luton inviting other departments OF
the state to Join with the department
of education in movement to change
the state fiscal year and biennium.
AS the fiscal year and biennium be-
gin the first Monday in January and
all appropriations for the previous BIZ
ennium terminate ct this time, the re-
suit is that all the departments of
the state, including the educational in
situations, go without funds for salar-
les and expenses until the new appro-
priations are obtained. This usually
entails starvation period of three
months. 1t is generally agreed that
the state fiscal year and biennium
should begin July first.
This would have the additional ad-
vantage of coinciding with the practi-
cally universal fiscal year of educa-
tional institutions.
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To protect his rights, man at one
time was conneIled to ,taa q ol,,h Nou,