The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1910-08-02

The state school report of 1907 is the
latest giving statistics on this subject.
In it mention is made Of the following
one-session schools:
Englewood- 30-1.15.
Camden-9 1920.
Millburn-9-2.15, with half hour re-
cess.
Montclair- s. 3O-1.20.
Orange 8. .30-1.15.
East Orange 8.3O-l2.45.
South Orange 3O-145.
West Orange 8 .3O-1.3O.
Bayonne -915-2 10, with half hour
recess.
Kearny-s-22o, with half hour re-
cess.
Trenton-S.45-2, with half hour re-
cess.
Asbury Park k-8.15-1.10.
Bound Brook-8.20-1..
North Plaintield- -82O-1.
Somerville-9-L
Elizabeth-9-2, with half hour re-
cess.
Plainfeld-S.3 30-1 30.
Roselle- -S.20-I.l5.
Summit-8.30-l45, with half hour
recess.
|. Westfeld-S .30-1. 10.
OF these several plans, that in opera
tion in East Orange has some features
that commend 1t to favor. The ses-
sion begins at $50 and ends at l2.45
O'Clock. This interval includes the
necessary six recitation periods Of
forty minutes EACH The relatively
early dismissal greatly diminishes in
reference with the domestic arrange
ments in the homes of the pupils.
There is, in addition, an afternoon
session from two to three o'clock
which comparatively few pupils are
required to attend, and which affords
peculiar advantages for work with
pupils who are slow or deficient for
other reasons.
Some of the reasons that favor the
one-session plan are as follows:
The one session affords a more eco
nomical distribution of time. When
school begins at $50. half hour OF
valuable time for work is saved for
many Of the pupils. 1t effects saYings
too, of large part of the one and one
half hours that constitutes the noon
interval under the two session plan.
The second "Trip to and from school is
done away with, and the scraps of time
that are neither useful for study nor
for play at noon are added to hours
more favorable to work and to recrea-
tion.
At present the high school has one
session on rainy days. This under
two-session arrangement of the pro-
gram cuts off nearly half the recita-
tions on each occasion. This loss
amounted to twelve sessions or twen-
ty-four actual hours during the past
year. OF course such irregular inter-
ference and loss of time hampers the
work of the school. 1t is entirely
avoided under the one-sesSion plan.
The one-Session plan meets with ap-
proval because OF hygienic reasons.
The morning hours are far more valu-
able for energetic and efficient work
than those of the afternoon. Vitality
ebbs and flows like the tide of the sea.
1t is at the highest from $50 to 1890
O'Clock, and is rapidly falling from l.3O
to 3.30 That is why it is desirable for
the lighter and easier work to be put
in the afternoon hours but the COM
plications Of high school program
make it impossible to prevent heavy
work falling in the afternoon hours
/ under the two osesSion plan.
Under the two session plan the pu-
pills are apt to hurry home, to eat
hastily hearty meal, and. then rush
off to school again. At the beginning
Of the afternoon session they are then
in poor condition for mental exertion.
Under the two-session plan home
study of all pupils is inevitably
thrown into the evening hours, when
the eyes are taxed by artificial Light
not always good With one session
careful parents can arrange for the
study to be done largely in the after
noon and still give time for out-of-
door exercise in the daylight. And
other parents will find it possible to
have their children spend good deal
of time in outdoor exercise in the