The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1921-07-21
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it's failures from 8 per cent to IS per
cent of the entries. Manual train
ing failures have ranged from 81
per cent to zero. Sixteen out of 100
have failed in cooking and again all
but six out Of a. hundred have passed.
For the past four years one out of
every three taking algebra failed,
while chemistry showed failures
down to 2 per cent, 10 per cent and
13 per cent in different years. In
tests to see if pupils were honest in
their efforts at solving problems in
arithmetic, a long list of tests showed
that on the average they are better
at getting the correct answer than
they are at indicating how or why
they got tin other words they can
not do it by the principle governing
the solution. They just do it in some
way and get the answer. The dis
crepancy between the two averages
is about to S, nine getting the cor
rect answers to problems, but only
five of them knowing the principle by
which it is done. Tests in reading
show that something like two-thirds
of their good reading is really COM
pretended. Pupils can read we'll
and yet not grasp the thought 1t con-
tains; can handle more words than
the mind comprehends. In COM
parison of average tests made in
many schools over the state in arith-
metic, Blackfoot averages low in the
scale. In silent reading tests, Black
foot stands as low as it does in
arithmetic.
In the health tests the Blackfoot
pupils stand high in comparison wlCn
national averages as to the condition
of their teeth, very low as to condi-
ton of glands in the neck, very low
in condition of nasal passages and
proper breathing, moderately low a.
to eye condition, above the average
as to hearing, very high in the use
of the tooth brus, very high in sleep
ing with windows open in winter
very low in drinking tea and coffee
Blackfoot pupils entered the
health crusade this year for the first
time, and won the greatest numbet
of prizes of any town in the state,
and only failed in the national score
by fraction of l per cent.
Teachers Employed
Professor Bloom had over sixty
applications for the position of prin-
cipal and out Of them all he pre-
ferred Oscar Christensen of Emporia,
Kan and the board acted on his APP
plication by instructing Mr.. Bloom
to telegraph acceptance.
Mrs. Nellie Caster and Miss Isabel
Ryan sent in designations and they
were accepted. Mrs. Caster will re-
main in the Berkeley Business col
lege of Berkeley, Calf. The board
left the selection of teachers to the
city superintendent and the teachers
committee and they had to fill the
positions of business, first grade,
second grade, one manual training
and two in mathematics. When the
reporter inquired who constitutes the
teachers committee they said it was
like the loan committee Of bank,
it is a business secret and for proper
reasons it's members are not identi-
fed. So many people interested In
hiring or firing teachers make it a
personal matter and it is hard to get
men to serve on the committee unless
they are somewhat sheltered in their
work and their decisions.
There was petition on the table
relative to certain persons whom in
terested individuals wanted hired
again, and about eighty names were |
attached to it. A notation on the
margin, made by somebody who had
checked it up indicated that thirty
eight Of the signers had no children
in the school, seven Of them had
children in the departments con-
cerned by the teachers named, and
we did not check it up to see IL the
other checking was correct. Some
body said they were all tax payers in
the district, and somebody else said
that some of the signers make a
practice of signing all petitions that
are presented for signatures. No
action was taken on the petition.
We will publish the petition in full
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