The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-06-26
GRADED SUNDAY SCHOOL
ST. Johns Bulletin Scores
"Fogies' and "Cranks"
Who are Unpro-
gressive.

lS lOilOWiHS liltEt Stlh6
day schools appears in this weeks issue
of ST. john Church Bulletin
1.-THE clergy hope that the teachers will
LEND themselves to a system OF grades
for the teachers as well as for the schol7
ars In all secular schools the children
as they pass from grade to grade change
their teachers. No teacher thinks for a
moment Of carrying her pupils all the
way through a grammar or high school.
But the old fashioned way in Sunday
schools has been to have no grades ana
no change of teachers This system -
fast becoming obsolete. at least In the
up to date Sunday schools.
.'We have a graded school and 70 a
certain extent a graduation Of teachers.
That is. scholars pass from the Junior
Primary teachers to those in the primary
division. from there they come under the
Junior teachers and so on into the main
room.
There can be no good reason. we thnk'
why the grading should stop there. Inc
best authorities on the Sunday scnool
think that it should not stop.
wye hope to begin with two grades IN
the main room, one teaching pupils from
10 or II to IA or Is. and another grade
taking them after confirmation and carry
ing them on till they are ready to enter
the Bible class at IS. We imagine that
there will be no more feeling abou pass
ing from one teacher to another in the
church school than there is in passing
now from the lower to the upper grades
of the school,. We hope to begin the two
grades of lessons in the fall. and we here
by ash all teachers who intend to remain,
and the new ones who are willing to come
in, whether they prefer the older or the
younger grade.
Some foolish clerical cranks, if we may
be allowed so to express ourselves, seeing
that in the past the Sunday-school has
not been all 1t should and might be, have
raised a howl against the Sunday-school
as a worthless Institution. It would seem
wiser for them to devote their energies
to making it all that the modern Sum
day-school reformer believes 1t can be
made. We ask the sympathy and help
of our parents, teachers and scholars in
this new reform.
t.A1l the steps forward which we have
so far taken haye been approved by all
interested. We believe this will be. 1t
is a step commended by the men VINO
have given most study to ~Sunday-school
education. Let us not be too old fogy to
welcome the trial and let the clergy know
as soon as convenient in which grade you
wish to make a success.
A the new school books date now from
the last Of September, the new classes
with their teachers a to be arranged
during the summer. The rector asks,
therefore. if all teachers who are certain
h they nno keep their classes nexf
fall will not LET him know now. viii all
the graduates of the Bible class who are
willing to take classes in the fall let him
know at once that he may plan to call
on them If necessary
1.-The following changes in the main
school are already planned. The classes
Of st. Hilda, ST. Anna. st. Peter and st.
cyprian will pass up into the Bible class
and constitute the graduating class OF
1902.
mabel Donely from st. Simon and jude,
and Eya Broas from st. Elizabeth, will
enter the Biole Glass.
1.-THE classes of St. Simon and Jude and
st. Elizabeth will be combined, constitute
ing the first class Of the main school, re-
tanning the teacher of st. Simon and JUDD
Mrs. Adams, but taking the name OF st.
Elizabeth. AS neither class has a banner,
this change of name will cause no trou-
BILE.
.The Rector wishes the new st. Eliza
beth Grass to start in on its last year
and win a banner to take with it to the
Bible Glass next year. II their record is
all right, he will give them this banner
when they enter the Bible Class, October,
1900, instead of waiting till Christmas"