Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1913-03-13
School Board
Makes Plans
Gives Serious Consideration to Re-
trenchment In Expenses-Considers
Ways and Means of Securing Clos
er Relationship Between School
and Home Education.


At the regular monthly meeting o
the Board of Education last MondaI
night, the Board considered various
means of retrenchment in schoo
expenses for the next year. Retrench
ment, of course, means lessened ef
ficiency, but an earnest effort will
be made to lower the budget with
out seriously Gripping the work.
Some of the grades wall probably
ibe combined so as to lessen the
number of teachers and increase a
little the average number of pupils
per teacher. This will add burdens
TO some teachers to be sure, but the
teachers are probably as wiIi4g as
any other class Of people in the
community to help tide over the
hard times period that seems to be
upon us just now.
! In many other schools where Do
mestic Science and Manual Training
are offered workshop fee is i'm
posed to cover the cost of material.
Such fee will probably be fixed for
next year and in this way the cost of
material used would be borne only
by those who are getting the direct
benefit of the work. In this way
these departments wifi zappo1t -tn,,. ille
selves. The salary of the instructors
can not be considered as added ex-
pense, for in order to put these SUBJ
jects in number of other subjects
were dropped from the course last
year.
A reorganization in the plans and
methods in the local schools was al
SO discussed. The purpose of this
organization is an enueavor to
make the schools of this community
more nearly fit the life and needs OF
the community.
High School courses all over the
land have been and are yet planned
and conducted almost solely in the in
terests of the few who graduate and
go on to college, with but little ref
erence to the masses who drop by the
wayside. If we are to educate for
efficiency and achieve the best re-
suits, we must shape the policy of
the schools so that those who for
any reaosn cannot, or do not go on (
to the university shall drop naturally /
into useful lives for which their
has somewhat definitely
them. Our American High !
or rather their constituent
cy, are suffering cruelty at this point
today. The chief object in too many
ambitious high schools is to get on
the accredited list of as many uni
versities as possible, graduate as
many students as may be and get
them into college. So intense is this
purpose that in too many instances
The course of study and the meth
DDS of work are largely shaped in
he interests of those who go to
college, though we know only too
we'll that their ratio is very small.
Up to the present tmie high school
courses and methods have been DOM
mated too largely by the universities.
t is time the high schools served !
he interests of their constituency
irst of all, and if they will do that ,
thoroughly the colleges will manage !
o connect with them on some terms +
mutually satisfactory. Let US protest i
gainst the reduction of the Ameri- I
an high school to the basis of q c
ollege preparatory school unless it f
5 first built upon what is a rational {
ducation for the masses who are a
ot headed for college. We have no G
light to reduce, impoverish, or dis v
ort the educational opportunity of I
be great mass of people in the in a
erests of the few who go to college, /
Now the high schools, if they JUS t
lfy their existence, are to admins Y
er useful education to as many in G
iyiduals as possible. They reach t
nd touch the boy and the girl while v
hey are yet members of the fathers ?
ousehold and l protest that their. S
usiness is to teach these young pee t
lie to get ready to live, and that e
vithout much reference to college ad- q
lission. High Schools will not be on y
ound ground in the matter Of effic- c
sncy and service until things are so s
xed that when boy or girl comes Il
ito contact with the school they k
Ill carry out into life something IL
hich will make them more efficient a
some point and also more cutivat- cl
1 because the schools have taught
lem something of actual life not on fC
in the abstract, but in it's applica- p
on This is education for effic- tf
ncy whether 1t earns high school W