The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1900-09-06
ow ManitowOc System Compares Will
Other Cities,
|oys and Girls About Equal in our
High School,
MALL PERCENTAGE GO TO COLLEGE.
he Committee is Strongly of the Opinion
that Manual Training and Commercial
Courses Ought to be Embodied ia
the Courses in the High School
The Attendance in the
Higher formsis Large.

The High School Investigating com
ittee at its meeting Tuesday evening
bcided to issue a printed report in the
bar future. The committee has been
1sy during the past two months col
citing data from high schools i'll all
lrts of the state. Very many points of
terest have been brought out. AT the
(tset the committee took the stand
at the school should exist to meet the
mands of the masses, and any system
lat would tend to take the school away
Dm the people should be carefully
arded against.
About that Break.
1t was commonly believed at the time
al the break between the eighth grade
d the high school tends to reduce the
gh school attendance, and indeed
ite number of school men of high
andinS in this city welded this argu-
emf vigorously to defeat the move
Fub lOI al CtHtIdl nlSl SCnool. lut
Stistics gathered by the committee
bve conclusively that the fears of the
hool men We're entirely without ma
rial foundation.
n the following cities having central
gh schools the fall in attendance is
tually less than in Manitowoc: Beloit,
nd du Lac Kaukauna, Madison,
nesville, Oshkosh, Portage, Sparta,
htertown, Waukesha, Wausau, Mon
and Amigo. In a number of other
les the difference is so little as to be
no consequence.
Standing of Manitowoc.
Che investigation shows that in Mani
voc about as many boys attend the
III school as girls In most other cit
especially in the manufacturing cit
the girls outnumber the boys five to
ee, and in some cases two to one.
is no doubt is due to the large demand
boys labor in these cities, and is en-
bly, independent of the school system
vogue
Boys Should be Kept in School.
The committee, however, is of the
nion that many of the boys could be
bt in the schools if the curricula were
lpted to their needs Inasmuch as II
Rrge majority of the people earn a
Plihood outside the professions, and
be a very small percentage ever go to
ege, the course of study should be
de to meet the wants of the masses
her than be strictly college prepara-
y. The committee is strongly of the
hion that manual training and com
fcial courses ought to be embodied in
courses of all high schools
High School Attendance Large.
he statistics further show that the
h school attendance is very large in
hitowoc when compared with the
ulation of the city. But the differ
e in favor of Manitowoc is by no
sns SO great as commonly supposed.
huite number of cities the percent
exceeds that of Manitowoc, and i'll.
uch as these cities have central
Dols. it seems evident that the en-
ment is IN no respect dependent up
system unless the schools are so To-
ed as to be inaccessible to many.
:, of necessity. is true in very large
es. In Milwaukee hundreds of chill
b must take the street cars to go to
pol. The many who cannot afford
additional expense naturally stay
ly
Enrolment in Mauitowoc.
b show how absurd is the idea that a