The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1913-03-30
NEEDED REFORMS IN
THE CITY SCHOOL

A called meeting was held recently
at School No. l. to consider a report
of the committee appointed in January
TO investigate needed reforms in the
city schools.
Following are the recommendations
which were found
We, the committee of the City
Teachers Association, beg leave 70
submit the following recommendations:
THAT steps be taken to secure
the appointment of a committee to
frame a course of study based upon
the state uniform text books to be in
troduced in 1914.
2.-That promotions be made semi
annually, if any satisfactory way can
be found for doing it.
4.-That. in certain districts where
four-year elementary schools are now
maintained, provision be made for the
establishment and maintenance of ele-
mentary schools for six years.
5.-That intermediate schools for
grades seven, eight and nine be estab-
lished as the needs of education may
demand and that one central high
school be maintained for grades ten,
eleven and twelve.
6.-That a step toward the reaiiza
ton of the object of recommendation
A. one or more sections of the fifth
grade be maintained in the primary
schools during the year 1913-14.
THAT industrial work begin in
the seventh grade and extend through
out the remainder of the course, en-
phasis being placed on such work in
the ninth and twelfth years.
". S. CAWTHON,
PAULINE REESE,
KATE LOFTIN.
Recommendation of the Minority.
I recommend that two intermediate
schools be established this year, one at
the high school and the other at school
No. 1. This would mean the addition
of a ninth grade to school No. l, the
housing of one section of the seventh
grade pupils and one section of eighth
grade pupils in the high school.
Following are the opinions of those
who have tried the new organizations:
Kalamazoo Mich.
S. O. HartwelI, Supt.
Convinced that the distribution OF
high school centers increases enroll
ment.'
Charlottesville. Ind.
L. n. Hines. Supt.
practically all our pupils under
the seventh grade change buildings for
Nhe last time before they are old
en- SsaGhgto quit school.
with our eighth grade students
there is nothing new or strange about
the high school. They have been liv-
ing in il for two years and know the
teachers and their ways.
1.-THE grammar grade boys who take
manual training, take it IN the high
school shop and the grammar grade
girls who take sewing. take it in the
high school building. The results are
highly satisfa ctorily.'
Lead. S. Oak.
Arson H. Bfgelow, Supt.
1--WE are completing our fifth year
under the So plan and believe results
more than justify such an organiza-
ton. For city Of our size it would
seem TO be the better plan. For large
cities it would seem to me that the
6-3-3 plan might be preferable to the
So plan
Goshen, Ind.
Lillian z. Michael, Supt.
1.-The building has a large study
room and separate recitation rooms
and is conducted precisely on the high
school plan. being under the charge of
a principal and a number of assist
ant teachers. Each teacher gives in
struction in two subjects and has
charge Of the assembly room one study
period a day.
when pupils are promoted to the
high school they have only new sub
Ladies and Misses Dresses