The Arizona sentinel., 1910-01-13
Yuma Schools

AS the educational advantages
for children exert such an infiu.
ence on parents who are consid-
ering removal to new country,
the following statement of the
Yuma schools has been carefully
prepared:
Yuma has the distinction of
having organized her public
school system in 1872, thus be-
ing one of the three public
schools organized in the territory
the other two having been or
ganized in the same year. Edu-
cational conditions are keeping
abreast with growing Yuma and,
in fact, these conditions are do
ing much for the upbuilding Of a
better and greater Yuma. Many
improvements have been made
in educational conditions in
Yuma during the past four years.
The entire school system has
been overhauled and remodeled.
The rapidity with which the
school is growing may best be
illustrated by the statement that
within the past twelve months
nearly fifty thousand dollars has
been expended in buildings and
equipment and still our schools
are crowded. The Second ave-
nue. building cost, exclusive of
equipment, $50. coo, and is prob.
ably as modern a building for
school purposes as may be found
anywhere in the Southwest. The
teachers are all professionally
trained and are graduates of the
leading colleges. universities and
state normal schools of the coun
try, and are patrons of the best
educational journals published.
They are all required to attend
the county and territorial insti-
tutes, while many of them are
active members of the National
Educational Association.
There are twelve grades main
tanned in the course of study,
the first four grades constituting
the primary department., the
next four years work being that
of the grammar department,
while the last four years give
the students complete high
school education. In the high
school department. four years
are offered in each of history,
mathematics, science and En-
glish, while three years are re-
quired in FIVE of the six courses
offered in this department in
history, mathematics and En-
glish, the English course requir-
ing four years of English. There
are six languages offered in the
high school department: En-
glish, four years; Latin, four
years; German, three years;
Spanish, three years; French,
two years; Greek, two years.
The courses maintained in the
high school department are: the
scientific, English, classical, col
lege preparatory, general and
business.
In addition to the regular men,
tai instruction given the pupils,
there has been organized a course
in physical training, including
free gymnastics, dumb-bell and
Indian club swinging, basket ball
and base ball teams, etc. This
work in physical culture is sys.
acknowledgements Inexperienced
teachers, and the Improvement
in the physical child since this
introduction in muscular devel
opment is very marked indeed.
To develop the strongest mental
child, it is necessary to develop
the physical child. The interest
manifested by the pupils in the
different forms of physical cul-
ture is SO great that it has added
materially to the regularity in
attendance. There is good
cadet company organized which
meets once week in the armory,
where regular military officer
directs them in military tactics.
A competent instructor of
drawing and painting supervises
the art work and much interest
is manifested in this line of
school work by pupils. parents