The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1901-11-14

for the rest of the summer. The time
is coming when there will be school all
summer with an entirely new corps of
teachers.
New York has done some of this
work and New York had its reward
last week. New York schools are a
blaze of light at night with something
going on in every story, clubs, cook,
ing schools, etc. The votes of the East
siders elected Low.
"A word about the curriculum. 1t is
far from what it ought to be. 1t IS
not humane enough. The whole argu-
develops the imagination and the crea-
tive faculty. Worcester begins manual
training in the ninth grade Il studied
some of your methods this morning).
Boston, which has the system almost
as nearly perfect as it can be, carries
the work through from the kindergar-
ten in various forms.
How often have I seen boys and
girls of IA drop out and not go to High
School. There is a good reason for this.
! They must work and have no need Of
the fandangoes of French and German;
these have no relation to the family
budget The thing that's got to be done
Is to provide trade schools for the
children of the working poor. Not
merely to fit for the Polytechnic, which
/ was informed is done in your high
| schools.
"Pittsfield is making no provision for
! the boy who has to work in the mill
! but it has made provision for the boy
whose father sends him to college. The
alternative after the ninth grade must
| be the High School with it's smatter-
! ing or the factory or dressmaking. The
American democracy will not stand this
| long.
You have successful evening class
es in Worcester for, as | understand
you have a separate set of teachers for
! them. You do not do your cooking
! work right as it is elective. One of
your teachers said that she was handi-
capped because the pupils could come
or not as they pleased.
1.-THE American working people are
| not underfed the way our English cou-
sins are, but the American working
man is paying too much for what he
eats. What you need to teach is not
only how to broil a steak but how to
buy and how much to pay.
1.-THE ideal in all vacation work
should be to hitch it on to the other
schools. You should make them Sc
good that the public schools would bear
the burden. Let Worcester be the first
city In Massachusetts to throw open
its schools during the summer.
For a child to be interrupted before
he has carried out the scheme of his
play is wrong. Why not give him the
right kind of place to play in? Every
school ought to have it's place where
the child can play and play we'll
1--WE all have our theories about
football but we might as well abandon
them. Football is here to stay. Play
ing to the grandstand is wrong but
there is no other game in which the
boy has to subordinate himself to the
gang as he does in football.
There is no use of a city's having
a park in which it does not have q
playground with trained instructors.
understand that this club is eager tC
open Fairgrounds. Open them and rur
them for a while but get the city tt
assume the burden of them.
THE winter problem is the problem
of indoor amusement and of clubs
Every school building ought to have it:
room without desks for club purposes
A gymnasium ought to be in every
school. If possible do your club worl
in a series. Have a series Of clubs
Don't do it at arms length but by act
uaI residence where the club is carried
on. A club solely for amusement goe'
to the wall. There must be some Sc
rious purpose. A club of over 10 with j.;
single worker is not good"