The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1903-11-06
NORMALS AND HIGHS
Plan to Bring The Schools in Closer
Relationship.
Normal Board Has Lengthy Resolution
Before It.
From MONDAYS Daily.

From Mondays Daily.
At the meeting of the normal school,
board held in Duluth on Friday, the fol
lowing resolution designed to permit the
closer relation between the normals and
high schools was introduced:
Resolved, That in the opinion of this
board the law relating to requirements
for state high schools should be amended
as follows:
"Amend article 2, section 225, Olsen's
compilation, 1901, so as to read as fol.
lows:
Requisites. In order to be entitled to
state aid as a state high school, such
school shall have first fully compiled
with the following conditions, VIZ:
"First 1t shall have maintained for
the school year next preceding that for
which aid is granted, at least nine
months school.
Second. 1t shall admit students of
either sex from any part of the state
without charge for tuition, provided that
they shall pass an examination, if re-
quired, in arithmetic, English grammar,
geography and United States history, so
far as the same are pursued in the eighth
grade of the graded schools of this state.
"Third. 1t shall have regular and or
Derby courses of study embracing all
the branches prerequisite for admis-
sion to the collegiate department of the
University of Minnesota, and to the
graduate courses of the state normal
schools, and including special instruc-
ton in reading, writing, spelling, geo.
graphy, arithmetic, English grammar,
United States history and civil govern
ment.
schools an optional or business course
of study shall be offered and maintained
in addition to the course or courses of
study required to be taken for admis-
sion to the state university and the state
normal schools, which said course of
study shall be entirely under the direc-
ton of the local board of education.
Fourth. 1t shall be subject to such
rules and regulations, not inconsistent
with law, as may be prescribed by the
state high school board, and such school
shall be open to visitation by any mem
Der of said board, or the high school
inspector, at all times"
At recent meeting of the state high
school board resolution urging certain
amendments to the law describing the
requirements for state high schools was
offered, and the one before the state nor
NAL board is copy of it. No action was
taken on the question and it is for the
present before those bodies for discus
sion.
President Charles A. Morey, of the
state normal board, is also a member of
the state high school board. By virtue
of his office as president of the former he
was recently held by the attorney general
to be member of the latter. President
Morey is taking much interest in the
proposed amendments, and it is said that
the normal board members as body
favor it.
''The high school resolution" said j..
L. Washburn of the state normal board,
twas not adopted, nor was it proposed
that it should be at this time. 1t was
laid on the table for discussion, as was
the case when a similar resolution was
introduced in the state high school board
meeting in st. Paul. The idea of the
proposed amendments is to bring the
state high schools and the normal schools
in closer connection. If the amendments
should be made the high schools will
be required to take up and give instruc-
ton in some of the commercial branches.
These are disposed of in the grades and
at period when the pupils are so young
they have usually forgotten much of it
by the time they have graduated from
the high school,"