The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-02
TOO MUCH LATIN.
Women Protest Against High
School Course.
Mass Meeting to Discuss Situa-
ton Next Week.
HALF DAY SESSIONS.
Want the School to Continue
Throughout the Day.
Claim That Present System Is
Not Practical.

The women of the city are on the
war natb. Next week in the auditor
inn, will be held mass meeting OF
the feminine portion of the population
with the view of launching move
mont which will entirely revolution
ize the present system in vogue in our
nublic schools. 1t is felt that the
methods now employed are anything
Int nractical. and hence the calling OF
the big meeting
&C Pierson. the city treasurer OF
1xapsas CITY recently made a state
mont before the members of the Civic
club of that city to the effect that the
,,,,bltc schools are to blame for the
iob1ess men. He asserted that the
children are taught Latin, Greek anu
everything else they will not be likely
TO have any use for in lie.
at seems strange that IN practi-
cal hard working community tho
schools should not have the shsntes'
relation to life or that they 90 not uo
one thing to fit the boys ana slrls -
he useful citizens" This was d coli-
ment recently made in the LlteralS
Digest. and the women of Topeka are
commenting in the same manner
The idea of those who are planiiIns
70 make the system at present 1ollOW-
cd in the schools of Topeka look IKE
two cents in the eyes of the puphc pc
lieve that the object of educalloh
should be to make industrldlly iti
cient. mentally alert, ana souhu clll-
zens. IT,, :. ,o1,
q lack of definite ideals and hHlty OF
purDOse which leads to chaotlc anu
desultorv training. They further pc
lieve that the high school IS atteIhpt-
ing TO do too much and as conse-
Cnenca is doing nothing thoroughly;
that il aims exclusively towards IN
teIIectuaI cultivation rather than the
formation of character
Object to Half Day Sessions.
A number of those who are advo-
eating a new deal feel that the nan
day session in the high school mas
been working a serious INJURY on the
young people of the city. oo
The girls must leave home at 1850
infthe morning possibly rushing away
after boiling down an Inaccurate
breakfast and returning at l:6O ahter
all the domestic work has peen dohe
nv the mother. After four years OF
absolutely getting out of having TO DO
anv kind of domestic work just at the
important period of the girls LIE,
they leave the high school with an
attitude of contempt for anything so
the care of children.
AT the mass meeting resolutions Will
be presented for discussion and adop-
ton 1.-The women are going to see
that a radical change is made in the
public schools" said one enthusiast
this morning. I'm Germany" she con-
tinued, mo child is allowed to leave
a school without first having the
foundation for some sort of trade.
81 was talking to a mother the 9TH
oh & 5v~nr IN cob
two in the high school and two in
the grade schools. She has to rush
around to get the breakfast and then
when her daughters come home the
work is done. She says thas she is
worked to death and yet she has two
grown daughters. The public schools
are depriving the mother of every as
sistance in the high school.
zone amusing feature about it was
that on Saturday evening this mother
told her two high school girls that as
they were studying domestic science
they should get supper. They went
to work and made dreams" out of
toast and other ingredients which
were rich and extremely expensive"
Another thing that the women men
ton against the present system In
vogue in our schools is that the chill
dren are not taught patriotism. In
the Topeka high school the study of
civics is optional, whereas in most
cities it is an eighth grade study and
compulsory.
persons from the ages of Is to 80
years who have not had the proper
advantages in their youth.
1t is not as yet known on what date
the mass meeting will be held, but
it will take place some evening next
week if plans work out
r.