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Show UINTAH COUNTY LIBRARY REGIONAL HISTIRY CENTER KINDERGARTEN MOVEMENT A kindergarten Christmas receive formal training to teach.58 In 1904 the Salt Lake City Board of program. Education established a public kindergarten in the Union School at the corner of Third West and First North Streets making the first time that “...children under six years of age were admitted to the public schools.” 59 D. H. Christiansen, Salt Lake City School Superintendent, proposed that in order to deal with the large number of children of kindergarten age in the city several short sessions be held in the same room for rotating sections of children or, alternatively, that the different sections be offered for a part of the year.60 Funding remained the basic problem as state law per mitted kindergartens to be established by local school districts, but state lawmakers failed to provide any monetary support for kindergartens. With the support of the State School Superintendent, the Utah State Parent-Teachers’ Association, the Daughters of Utah Pioneers, the LDS Primary Association, and the Salt Lake Federation of Labor, the Utah State Kindergarten Association proposed legislation in 1913 to address the funding problem. But the initial initiatives were not successful because of opposition by local superintendents and school boards concerned about the increased financial burden they would incur for their districts.61 58 Third report of the Superintendent of Public Instruction of the State of Utah, for the biennal period ending June 30, 1900, (Salt Lake City, 1901), 24-25. 59 Fifth report of the Superintendent of Public Instruction of the State of Utah, for the biennial period ending June 30, 1904 (Salt Lake City: Star Printing Company, 1905), 52. 60 Ibid., 53. 61 Report of the Kindergarten Association on work completed in connection with house bill #82. Anne Marie Fox Felt Papers, box 1, fd. 11. 147 |
