Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1912-05-03
Educational Notes in Brief
By State Board of Education

CODE REQUIRES PLAY GROUNDS
The State Board of Education
has decided that hereafter it will
approve no plans for school houses
unless proper provision is made for
Fairgrounds. This seems to be q
move in the right direction. The
physical activity of the child must
be provided for in order to secure
an all round education. If children
are given an opportunity to express
themselves in play, they will not
resort to practices which interfere
with the good order of the COM
munity in which they live. No
educational movement in the last
ten years has attracted as much at
tention as the movement for the
welfare OF the child as it can be
best conserved in giving it oppor-
tunity for proper physical express
sion.
OPEN AIR SCHOOLS
The State Board of Education
has received very interesting re-
port from Supt. Chas. Lose of Will
Transport, Pa, concerning the
establishment of an Open Air
School in that city. About 20
children are provided for in this
school and the results predict that
the children are gaining in physical
strength as we'll as making rapid
strides In their studies. The child
ren greatly enjoy the work and the
prejudice on the part Of the parents,
which was considerable at the out
set, has been entirely removed.
There is no doubt that schools of
this character will be greatly null
tiplied and that children who have
some physical atiliction, who are
enaemic or tubercular can be we'll
taken care of in this way.
PENNSYLVANIA SCHOOL FUND
Pennsylvania is the only state
in the Union that does not have
permanent state school fund. If
the wishes and hopes Of the State
Board of Education are realized,
that deficiency in our educational
system will soon be provided for
Under the new Code provision is
made for organizing such fund.
The state of Kansas has fund of
50, 100000 the income Of which
cannot be used for any other
than school purposes. This amounts
to S6,0O0,00O per year In the
early history of the state, Pennsyl-
vania had a fund of 81, 100000, but
that disappeared many years ago.
CARE OF DETECTIVES
One of the very serious problems
confronting the school communities
is what to do with the defective
children. Pennsylvania has num-
Der of schools taking excellent care
of many detectives but the accom-
modations for the whole number in
the state are entirely inadequate.
When medical inspection is com
pletely established throughout the
state, it will no doubt found
that there are between -, 0 and
$4,000 pupils who ought to be
especially cared for. The state
Board of Education has been asked
to consider the matter of making
adeqate preparation for the care of
these childred.
POOR DISTRICTS
Last year there We're i'll Pennsyl-
vania "a districts, represented by
l49 schools, in which the minimum
school term of months could not
be maintained by levying the min
imun amount of tax under the old
law Many of these schools are in
mountainous regions where there
are few people and where the value
of property is very low. The State
Board of Education will ask the
next Legislature to give consider
alton to the question of providing
proper educational facilities for
these unfortunately situated dis
tricts.