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Supt. Holmes Suggests Radical
Change in High School Methods
Kclicvcs Work Cah Be Ad
justed to Abilities of
Pupils and Recommends
"Laboratory, System."
An offer to purchase the Bartlett
school, mule by liev. Luvyan Uoj
nunski, rsrtor of the Sacred Heart
of Jesus ehuichl was received and
read nt the meeting of the school
committee held yesterday aftermm,
rather ISojnowskI slated Unit tho
children attending the school not
only disturb the services held in the
church, hut that they break windows
und the fence and damage the grass
hank about Urn church. Inusmuch
as tho Bartlett school is vitally
needed at present to hold the over
flow from the Washington school, it
was voted by the school bourd to
take no action on the offer.
Other business brought before tho
meeting yesterday included the ac
ceptance of Superintendent Stanley
11. Holmes' annual report, the re
ports of committees, and several
matters concerning the high school
football team.. Due to the absence
of Joseph M. Halloran, cliairmun of
the committee on school aecommo-
1 dnlions, the report of that commlt
: tee was tabled to be taken up at a
j special meeting on Friday, Septem
j ber 2G.
Ci. W. Trnut, chairman of the
finance committee, reported bills
totalling S3S.8S6.2S, which were ap
proved. He also reported bills
totaling $S2.ii2 which had been
paid to secure discount. The meet
ing accepted the committee's recom
mendation to purchase 13 window
guards for the basement of the
Walnut Hill school of tho Hartford
Wire Works for $105.- It also
authorized the purchase of four
compound microscopes for the high
school biological'' laboratory - for
$2r,9.12-. The request for the pur
chase of i)0 chairs for the Walnut
Hill school auditorium for a price
not to exceed $ l,50tt was tabled as
not immediately urgent.
An expenditure of $31fl for ad
ditional radiation at the Walnut
Hill school was authorized as being
urgent. The Teachers' club was
granted the use of the Walnut Hill
school auditorium lor club purposes,
provided that such use docs not on
terfcre w;th its use for general au
ditorium purposes. The club was
reported as willing to spend $1,000
in furnishing one side of the room.
Although tho report of the com
mittee on school accommodations
was laid, over, one item was acted
upon, the action of the committee
in entering into a contract with A.
A. Mills for $0S5 fcr laying water
and heat mains undir Wells street
being approved. M G. . Vibberts
explained that the work of paving
the street had progressed to a' point
where further delay In laying the
mains would mean tearing up the
concrete pavement and incurring ad
ditional expense. The report or the
school physician, Dr. V. J. Smith,
was accepted.
Evening School Faculty
The report of the evening school
committee was accepted as printed.
It recommended the opening, on
September of three evening
schools, at the Central Junior High
school for elementary and grammar
grades, and the Washington school
for elementary grades. Sessions
will be lielil Mondays. Tues
days, and Wednesdays from 7:30 to
D:30 p. m. The salary of the
principal of the Central Junior High
evening school will be $4.50 per ses
sion, those of the other two prin
cipals $3,50 per session, and those
of the teachers $3.00 per session.
The following teachers for the
evening schools have been engaged:
Washington school. Fred H. Andres,
principal: Mrs. Anna Crowley, May
P.egley. Mary Kelch, Mrs. l.illiam
Mayo, Hattie K. Oaten. Mrs. Helen
B. liawlinss, I.oretta McKeon.
Elihu T'.urritt school, Henry J.
Ziegler, principal; Angela McDonald,
Elizabeth F. Daley. Hose S. Welln
sky, Helen Milkowitz, Sarah Choti
ner, Minnie Clark.
Central Junior high. Edward E.
Weeks, principal. Paul Wiggln,
Elizabeth Cahill, Caroline Stearns,
Mary O' Council, Katherlne Itoehe;
j beginners, foreign classes, Lillian
Chambers. Mary Finneran. Mabel
j Wallet), Mary Meehau, Margaret
i Collins, Doris Bradley: intermediate,
I Mabel Hipclius. Cecila Dickey; ad
j vanced, Mary McAvay.
; The teachers committee then re
ported. In connection with the
opening of the Bartlett school. Su
perintendent Holmes said that this
was occasioned by the attendance f,f
1,72j children at the Washington
school, forcing some 4M0 children
to be held in idleness in the audi
torium. Eleven rooms in t lie P.art
h tt school have already been opened
and it is 1 bought that two more will
be needed. The staff was organized
by transferring two regular teachers
and gathering substitutes tem
porarily, while Miss Adele Bassett
was transferred from the Central
Junior high school to become prin
cipal. The arrangement is tem
porary, so that there will 1,e n0 in
convenience if the pupils transferred
from the Sacred Heart school return
to that institution.
The following teachers have been
encage, for the Bartiett setiool:
Mrs. Astrtd Kliason, .Miss Helen Co-fronci-seo,
Mrs. Josephine Leghorn,
wj.Miss ilcien Forsythe. Mrs. Georiia
39te'H. Dunne. Miss Margaret Koplo
lt. witz, Mrs. Lillian Pllz, Mrs. rciiza-
i nein Momer. Mrs. Jennie llr.rlrni.-it-'
Mrs. KstHIa K. Pinches, Mrs. Esther
Wampler.
H. S. Football Schiidiile
The football schedule of the High
school was approved. Two dates
on the schedule were open, and the
committee voted that when these
are filled the bookings be submitted
to Superintendent Holmes for ap
proval. A letter from Superin
tendent of Parks Ralph B. Waln
wright was read. It granted the
use. of Memorial field in Willow
Brook park to th High school foot
ball team. Where admission, is
charred, in per cent of the receipts
are to to the parr dparii-nt.
The park department will mark the
Mold and keep tt clean, will grant no
concessions, and will make no park
ins arrangements, while the High
school must furnish Its own police
protection. The offer was .ac
cepted, as the football team has al
ready shown Its approval of the
south end Held. The matter of
liability Insurance for the school
department, to cover possible claims
arising during the use of parks by
the schools, was referred to the cor
poration counsel.
The name "Walnut IIII1 School"
was adopted for the former normal
school as being appropriate and an
i easy means of placing the school.
Teachers Favor New Pay Schedule
A letter was read from the teach
ers' council with reference to a
change in the method of payment
for teachers. It stated that a ma
jority of the teachers favored twelve
monthly payments Instead of ten as
at present. The letter was re
ferred to the finance committee.
An Invitation to Superintendent
Holmes and members of the com
mittee, In which Principal Marcus
White offered to show them the new
Normal school In Belvldere, was
read and accepted. A petition from
parents living In the vicinity of the
Vlets lot, on Clinton street and ad
joining streets, In which they asked
for a school lu that district, was re
ferred to 'tho committee on school
accommodations. Mr. Holmes said
that conditions were reaching a
point where a school would be
needed there.
Supt. Holmes' Report
The annual report of Superinten
dent Holmes was accepted and or
dered placed on file. In part, it
was as follows:
"Th workv of the elementary
schools has been generally satisfac
tory and successful during the year.
This had been due to the skill, the
energy, and the faithful work of a
contented teaching staff and super
visory staff, and to the Intelligent
direction and support of the school
committee.
"Tho platoon plan of organization
has now been used in certain of the
elementary schools for eight years.
It is now in operation in the East
street, Smith, Washington and Na
than Hale schools. These four
schools accommodate approximately
one half of all the pupils in our
elementary grades. We now know
from experience that under this plan
the standards of work in the funda
mentals of reading, writing, arith
metic, and English are as satisfac
tor as in schools which are not using
the plan, and at the same time the
work in special subjects of music,
and physical education are consider
ably improved. The expended trial
which this plan of organization has
thus been given has confirmed our
original judgment of its value and
our opinion that it should be con
tinued and extended as fast as larger
school units are developed, which
are so planned as to lend themselves
to the successful operation ef this
p'an, 1. e., with auditoriums and
gymnasiums, and with class rooms
specially adapted to science work,
library work, art work, and music,
as well as regular class rooms.
"Medical inspection by a full time
school physician has now had a trial
extending over two school years.
There is no question as to the. im
provement over the former plan of
employing the part time service of
several physicians. The employ
ment of two full time' nurses in
stead of one haValso proven much
more satisfactory. It has been
evident, however, that even with this
Increased amount of service, the
medical inspection and nursing serv
ice was still Inadequate. In order
to secure more satisfactory results,
it has therefore been planned to
provide another full tlrnc physician
anu one more school nurse. These
additions to the inspection and
nursing service will make it possible
to provide for the inspection of the
parochial schools and of the girls
of both Junior and Senior High
schools, which up to this time have
not been adequately provided for,
As soon as possible, however, two or
three more nurses should be em.
ployed in order to satisfactorily pro
vide for such follow-up work as is
absolutely necessary to assure the
most, effective and satisfactory re
sults. Because of a cut In the ap
propriation for health work in the
schools, it was necessary to discon
tinue the dental hygiene work at
the close of the school year, June,
1'.U. There can be no reasonable
question as to the value and need
of this work for the children, and it
is hoped that a sufficiently large
amount of money may be provided
for J 3 2 5 -2 to make possible the
resumption of the dental hygiene
work.
-Monroe School District Problem.
The problem of providing school
room sufficient to adequately ac
commodate the constantly increasing
number of pupils is one that Is
continually before the school com-
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mlttea. The provision of new Ad
ditions to the Osgood Hill, Stanley
and Smaller schools, and the erec
tion of a new school to draw from
the East street and Smith' schools
will give much needed relict In the
districts In which these new build
ings are to be built. There still
remains unsolved, however, the
problem of relief for 'the Monroe
school district. The considerable
number of new dwellings erected
withki the post year in this district
has created a very pressing need for
action In providing additional school
room. . . .
"Attention should also be given as
soon as possible to the problem of
additional school rooms for the Lin
coln district by tho erection of a
new building upon the Steele street
plot recently purchased.
"The district In which the Bart
lett and Washington schools are
located would doubtless be taken
care of much more satisfactorily if
the Bartlett school building were
to be abandoned so far as further
use for school purposes Is con
cerned, and a new building were
erected upon the Vlets plot on
Clinton street, a location much bet
ter situated for the accommodation
of the school population of that
portion of the district.
"A series of teachers' conferences
wero held in the fall for the con
sideration "of the most important
problem of .administration and 'ln
struction. In these conferences,
the courses of study for the vari
ous divisions of the schools were
given special consideration,, with a
view to better understanding and
possible improvement. Tho meth
ods of teaching the different sub
jects were carefully reviewed, and
special attention was given to the
problem of securing better and
more effective modes of Btudy by
the pupils, particularly In the
junior and senior high schools.
"Attention is called to the fact
that these were teachers' confer
ences, not teachers' meetings, and
that they w era led and conducted
by the teachers themselves, with
full opportunity for the full expres
sion of opinion and experience, as
it has been developed through ac
tual, class room work. For this
reason, their value was many times
greater than it could otherwise
have been for both the teacher and
the schools.
Improvement' At High Schools
"The improvement of the work in
senior and junior high schools is a
matter of great Importance. There
is serious need for its consideration
and it is for this reason that the
following extended statement is
presented.
"At the conferences before men
tioned, and throughout the year, it
has been gratifying to note a live
ly interest on the part of the jun
ior and senior high school teach
ers in the problem of Improved
plans for organization of the curri
cula, better assignment of work,
and more mature and effective
modes of study on the part of the
pupils.
"It is no doubt true that the
traditional ways or handling sub
jects In high schools can and ought
to be improved, and that modes of
assignment of work by the teach
ers, and study by the pupils now in
use in nearly all high ' schools
should be so modified as (1) to bet
ter adjust the work to the abili
ties of pupils of varying degrees of
ability (2) to train in more, ma
ture habits of study and thought
and (3) to secure more thorough
and effective work by the pupil.
"The usual curriculum and ' the
procedure usually followed in as
signing lessons in high schools has
been and still is based upon the
assumption, that there is In each
subject a medium or average
amount of work which each pupil
can or ought to accomplish In ?
given period of time, regardless of
the varying interests and abilities
Of different pupils.
"For the teacher, 'the work Is laid
out in the course of study in large
units covering a year or a term, but
the pupil never sees this course of
study. in completed form in any sub
ject. He may be studying history,
aigebra or Latin, but the only oppor
tunity he has to view the subject as
a whole is through the text-book
which gives little or no information
or help In determining as to the rel
ative importance of different points
or topics. The class receives from
the teacher each ,day an assignment
of work for the next day only, which
all are expected to cover in their
study and be able to recite upon.
This assignment is entirely a class
affair, based upon the assumption
that all are or ought to be able to
do the work assigned for the next
day's lesson.
No Two Pupils Alike
"Each class, however, is made up
of twenty or thirty pupils, no two
of whom are exactly alike, all with
differing backgrounds, differing abil
ities, diffeiing interests, aims and
purposes, differing temperaments,
differing attitudes toward effort and
work in general, and differing physi
cal and mental conditions, which
vary even from day to day.
Xo Two Pupils Alike
"Each class, however, is made up
of twenty or thirty pupils, no two
of . whom art exactly alike, all with
differing backgrounds, differing abil
ities, differing Interests, alms and
purposes, differing temperaments,
differing attitudes toward effort and
work In general, and differing physi
cal and mental conditions, which
vary even from day to day,
"Some' of the members of the
class would do the work assigned If
they could, but because of perma
nent or temporary mental or physi
cal unfitness or both, they mupt fall
of accomplishment nd, are marked
as failures fdr that day's work at
least. Other members of the class
because of failure In earlier lessons
or because of previous absence from
class are unable to fully understand
the new work assigned and come to
the next day'a recitation period In
adequately prepared. They general
ly hope to escape, being called upon,
but if they do not escape they arc
certain to bo marked as partial It
not total failures, so far as that day's
work Is concerned. Still other mem
bers of the class are of the slow
moving mental type, which needs
and takes considerably more than
the average amount of time to ab
sorb new material and new ideas.
They cannot keep the average pace
and so are marked as failures. Tlicre
ore others, too,- who are lazy, indif
ferent, und uninterested. They are
to be found in all classes. How long
they should be tolerated In any high
school Is a question of serious' Im
portance. And then there are those
who can and will do tho work as
signed in a way fairly satisfactory.
OFPOETONIT
They are the joy of the tsacbsr and
the hope of the school, for It i they
who. help to keep up the averagt
class rank and the reputation of the
school for good work. I
. "This, statement of conditions is
fairly accurate for any class In any
high school which ti following the
traditional modes of assignment and
study. The fundamental defect In
this way of'dolng things lies In the
fact that the Individual differences
in abilities, Interest and conditions
are not taken Into account and no
provision made (or them. The re
sult is a percentage of failures which
is too large and a standard of ac
complishment much too low, and
teachers and school administrators
are more keenly aware of these re
sults than anyone else.
"Group and individual Intelligence
tests as well as subject tests have
been employed and. have no little
value, In that they, reveal the exact
situation so far as the native abili
ties of the pupils and their actual
accomplishments In etch subject are
concerned, but they "So not provide
a means for reducing the percentage
of failures or Improving the stand
ards of accomplishment,
"Attempts at a solution of the dif
ficulty have been made In some
schools by arranging the pnplls In
separate groups according to their
apparent native abilities, with sep
arate classes -for the bright or able,
and other classes for those who are
slower and less able, but the solution
cannot be found In this way, for the
modes of assignment by the teacher
Knocks But Once
That Once Is NOW,
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A small cash deposit is all that is required, the balance
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and of study by the pupils still need
to be modified and Improved,
"The solution ot the difficulty, If
there be any possible, la probably to
be found (1) In . abandoning the
practice of dally assignment of les
sons, and substituting therefor ss
slgnments of larger and more com.
plete topic or unit ef work, la
written' form,' covering several week
so that the pupil may know and see
the end from the beginning of' hi
effort, accompanying each assign
ment with carefully drawn notes and
written directtoni and references to
guide the pupil In the prosecution of
his study, and (1) in partially aban
doning the regular dally recitation
and substituting therefore a labora
tory plan or research plan ot work
or study, thus giving each pupil an
opportunity to complete the assigned
work at his own pace and In hi
own, way, but under the supervision
and guidance of the teacher of the
particular subject, provision being
made for periodical reviews, quizzes
and class consultations, arid (t) re
quiring each pupil to complete the
assignment already given before a
new assignment Is undertaken, and
(4) giving full credit to each pupil
for all work when and as soon as it
Is completed.
"This plan, sometime called the
laboratory plan, has already been
given a limited trial In certain classes
in the Central Junior high school. It
Is planned to give a limited trial In
the Senior high school also, begin
ning In September of this year. We
hope to prove by this trial (1) that
the percentage ef failures can be
considerably reduoed (I) that pupils 1
can be trained to mere mature and
Independent way ef study and work
and (I) that the sense of Individual
power and consequent satisfaction
and Interest la work can - be In
creased. "We do not expect to eliminate all
failure, tor w shall (till have, as
must all publto schools, a certain
number of pupil who are either
misfits In high school or too Indolent
to do the assigned work, and who
must for their own good and the
good of the school, sooner er later
be dropped from ' the membership
rolls." . ,
Manning Meets Farmer
In Golf Semi-Fina!
C. W. Manning and Malcolm
Farmer were scheduled to batli.
thla afternoon In the ternl-flnai at
play for the golf champotnshlp of
the Shuttle Meadow club. The
winner will meet D. K. Manning In
tbj final I6-hoie match, which will
be played Sunday or Monday. -
The only match) played yesterday '
was In the M.conl aixteen, where
C. W. Upson downed I. R: Hyatt,
t up and 1 to play. In the last sec
ond round match. The wlnper wm
carded to meet Robert Russell In
one semi-Ana! today.
Thirty tons'' of coral have been
Imported from the Bahama by
the. American Museum of Natural
history.
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