The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1910-11-03
VIC. aa!.II91NAL. SCHOOL FAVORED
Great Industrial Plants in the City
Would Be Ready to Aid Board of
Education in Such Movement in
Kenoshas


In connection with the recent move
Of the board of education to secure
Che erection of additions to two of the
school buildingsof the city the members
Of the board are being urged to con-
slider the problem Of building an in
dustrial school which will be open to
the boys and girls of Kenosha and
which while offering them all the priv
ileges of a common school education
will at the same time train them from
childhood along lines of mechanical
work and turn them out as graduates
with proficiency in some line of work
that will make it possible for them to
go into the great industries Of the city
and take prominent positions with these
great plants. The suggestion that such
q school be opened is coming directly
from the heads Of great industries in
the city who daily feel the lack of
skilled men and women to fill places in
the plants. In many cases the men who
are now filing these positions went
into the factories as young men and
going to work at this time they were
denied the benefits of the common
school education. Mrs. Mary D. Brad
ford, superintendent of the schools of
the city is closely in touch with move
ments leading up to the more practical
education of the children through the
opening of an industrial school in Ken
osha. In speaking of the matter, Mrs.
Bradford said 'FGreat movements along
educational lines are suggestive Of the
time when Kenosha, either through pub
lie taxation or through the philanthropy
of some of it s citizens will have it's
great industrial school, cooperating
with it's shops for the promotion of a
sound common school education, com.
bined with vocational efficiency. Just
when Kenosha will be able to see the
fulton of this idea is not apparent but
movements along these lines are so com
mon in the great cities both in the
East and West that Kenosha can not
long be dormant to the movement
which is so particularly applicable to
the demands of the city.V
The plan that is being used in many
of the great manufacturing centers for
the education of the young men and
women long trade lines is for the manu-
facturers to take the students from
these schools as workers in the shops
for short period during the school
days thus giving them chance to get
the practical experience of the trained
mechanic at the same, time they are
getting their common education and
theoretical instruction along mechanical
lines in the common schools. The man
ual training department of course meets
in measure this demand for the study
the various mechanical trades and
he department of domestic economy
meets similar demand among the girls
but these departments leave off just
where the industrial school begins and
1T is the industrial school that will
make possible the better application of
the fundamentals learned in the man
ual training department Kenosha is
ideally situated for such school, There
are a half dozen great factories IN
Kenosha which would he ready to CO.
operate with the members of the board
of education in making that sort of a
school a possibility in the city. 1t is
probable that the matter will be laid
before the board of education in some
more definite manner within a short
time and before any other large school
buildings are built for instruction of
the Kenosha children.