The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1913-04-10
ARE LEADING STATE SCHOOLS
Special Writer for Well-known Trade
Paper Spends Several Days in Keno
sha Looking Over Schools and De-
clares Them Worthy of Following.

The continuation schools of Kenosha
are attracting wide attention IN the
country and the last issue Of the 'fDry
Goods Reporter" one of the most nota-
BILE trade papers published in the coun-
try gives double page to the descrlp-
ton Of these schools. A special writer
for the paper was sent to Kenosha to
make an examination of these schools
and he spent more than two days IN
visiting the different schools. The
article says in part:
The continuation schools system OF
Wisconsin, because of it's effects upon
The social and economic development OF
communities and its great potential
benefit to the retail trade, is assuredly
"a subject which every live retailer IN
She state or out of it should be deeply
interested in. 1t is probable that the
average reader does not understand the
exact meaning of the continuation
school system, and for that reason a
brief explanation IS necessary. These
schools are simply continuation of
the GRAMMAR courses of the public
schools in domestic science and manual
training.
For instance, there are many children
bf the working classes who either from
inclination or necessity discontinue
Lheir education after leaving the gram
mar school, and for children of this
class who desire to work and are called
sfpermit children,' the State of Wis
consin has passed a law compelling
them to attend the continuation schools
for FIVE hours every week until they
ere sixteen years of age. The working
week for permit child in Wisconsin
Us 48 hours, five of which must be spent
En school. The schools are held every
day from in the morning until in
the afternoon, and from z until in the
evening.
Six Cities in Wisconsin Hold Continue
ton Schools.
There are six cities in Wisconsin that
have adopted the continuation school
system, namely Milwaukee, Racine, Ke-
nosha, GAINESVILLE, Beloit and Madison.
The continuation schools were organized
in the fall of 1912 under board con-
stituted by Wisconsin law. The board
consists of two employers of labor and
two employees. The continuation
schools for children of permit age over
IA and under 10 years were opened in
Kenosha October 9TH, with r. w. Tar
bell and Miss Laura E. Hahn as teach
ers. One of the public schools where
there was a good manual training shop
and well equipped school kitchen was
used for the permit school. Here each
morning from Z to II o'clock, for six
days in the week, each day different
group, the boys come for instruction.
They have manual training from z to
9 O'Clock, after that mechanical draw
ing and the other studies prescribed
by the law.
The girls come from l to 6 D. m,
sewing and cooking taking the greater
part of the FIVE hours of their time.
The total number of~children enrolled
in the permit school is 272, the boys
and girls being about equal in number
These children come from toeal of 81
different employers of children in Ke-
nosha.
Girls Bemoan the Necessity of Leaving
1t was the intent of the law that
these children should be paid for the
five hours of time they are released
from work for school, but some am
biguity in the phrasing of the law re-
leased the employers from paying for
this time In spite Of the unfavorable
effect of this upon the feelings of par
ents and children the interest In the
school has been surprisingly satisfac-
tory. Pupils whose sixteenth birthday
falls within the term bemoan the ne
cessity of leaving school, Kenosha has
but one registered apprentice and an
other whose employer has given the
promise of one. These two boys come
to the permit school for their five hours
of instruction.
The Evening Schools.
The evening school was opened No
vember 9TH in the high school building.
There are enrolled $50 evening school
pupils who meet on Tuesday and
Thursday evening of each week. The
subjects taught are English, in which
there are five classes. bookkeenino