The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-08-08

cago, which is a technical and trade
school combined. Providence, r. l.,
mas the plan in operation, but no re-
port has as yet been received. The
summary of the reports is that the CO.
operative plan is highly successful and
IS really doing what is claimed for it.
MY personal observation of the work
ing OF the plan in Cincinnati confirms
all that IS said about it by the reports.
1t may be added that the industries
of Topeka are so vel. concentrated that
It would be difficult to find d city in
the United States better suited for the
successhui operation of the plan
Recommendation.
1t is recommended that in conHec-
tlon with the high school The co-opera-
tlon be adopted and that an attempt
De made to arrange with the manufac-
turers and employers of labor to en-
ter INTO cooperation with the school
under the plan proposei If such CO.
operation can be arranged. it is my
recommendation that inquiry be made
among last years graduates as to how
many desire to enter upon the coop
erative course and that if a sufficient
number Is secured an additional in
Structor be employed who shall be Z
practical machinist with technical
training.
When a course of this description IS
in full operation the amount Of addi-
tiona1 teaching force required would
depend upon whether the pupils sak-
ing the course are those who otherwise
would not have attended or whether
they are largely from those who would
in any event have attended high school.
1t is probable that large number of
those who would enroll in that course
are those who would not have attended
high school at all, but experience may
not bear this out entirely.
mo more teachers would be required
for the additional number Of pupils at
tracted by this course than would he
required if they were attracted to at
tend any other course, except some
additional time that shop practice al
ways requires Ie more pupils by any
means are attracted to the high school
the public is always ready and willing
to provide the instruction required for
them Any enlargement due to the
enlargement of the high school due to
its ability to attract pupils to any other
course
Mr.. WhittemOres Suggestion.
| superintendent L. D Whittemore in
| the course of his report and after hav-
ing made some Investigations as a
member of the educational committee
of the Commercial club concerning the
trade school proposition in Topeka,
made the following suggestion:
Il suggest that small building be
provided, or that one or Two rooms be
Temporarily set apart Tor the Degln-
ming of a trade school; and that boys
who show decided aversion to the or
| binary school branches and regula-
lions and those who have an apparent
ly limited capacity for academic in
struction be placed in such school as
I have described, where the teachers
should be peculiarly gifted in dealing
with such cases.
LAS the boys inclination and adapt
ability to some certain trade or occu-
patton is discovered, an effort could be
made to secure for him an opportun-
ity to spend part of his time in some
shop learning the mechanical practice,
while still responsible to his teacher.
AS such cases increase in number, a
school will gradually be built up which
will in time become a trade school of
the most practical nature"