The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1913-06-05
Board of Education May Of
fer Plans for Delinquent
Students in Summer.
superintendent SEES NEED
School f Opened Would Provide an
Opportunity for Backward Pupils to
Make up Work in Which They failed
During the School Year.

Does Kenosha want a vacation
school2 Last spring the school board
granted request made by one of the
ward principals to conduct vacation
school in the Durkee building; but the
summer plaas of this principal were
changed and the movement was aban-
doned.
The all year school is coming. AS
carried on in other cities, there seem
10 be two distinct purposes in view in
these summer vacation schools. First,
there are the review schools for the
benefit of children who have failed in
one or more subjects and who by sum-
mer study can make up these .defcien-
cies and win promotion with their
classes. These schools also provide an
opportunity for the ambitious average
child who is ahead of his grade in some
branches to make up what he lacks and
move ahead a half year. The child
whom sickness has kept from complet-
ing his regular work can go to the re-
view school to make up what he missed
and so pass on. The review school al
SO allows the thirtee3 year old boy or
girl who must leave school at fourteen
and go to work, a final chance to get
a little more education.
The vacation school may also take
an another purpose. Children may at
tend them in order that they may be
kept off the street. and be given some
thing to do. These schools do not aim
so much at promotion or at the &C
complishment of definite step in school
progress as at furnishing interesting
and. profitable occupation, good for
children to have, things for general
benefit, physical, mental and moral.
In such schools much attention is paid
to hand work of all sorts, to physical
training and games under supervision,
to music and nature study, to excnr-
sions iBto the country and to reading
and writing correlated with these ex-
periences.
Now, the question put to the people
of Kenosha is this. Do you want such
schools? They can not be free schools
at first, because the school board bud
get for this year did not provide for
this expense. This summer, at least,
vacation schools, if run, must be self
supporting by the payment OF buttons.
The plan proposed is to run the school
from s or $3.50 to IL or 1890 o'clock,
five days a week, for a term of six
weeks. The dates will probably be
July 7 to Aug. Is, thus affording two
weeks of vacation before the summer
school and two weeks before the fall
term begins.
School boards are coming more and
more to realize that the long vacation
is very wasteful time, and, if COM
partnership cannot be controlled, very
dangerous time. All teachers know
that it takes until the middle of Oc-
tober to get children back to where
they were in their school habits and
studies when school closed in June.
Children need plenty of play time, but
when conditions are right, no strain or
harm will come from a few hours
spent in school work, and in keeping up
the habits, which the school year form
ed, and which so readily deteriorate,
when neglected.
The school will be under competent
supervision and qualified teachers will
be engaged for the work. But the
whole project depends upon the demand
for it.
Any who would like to send child
to such school will please let me know
or make it known to the principal of
your district.
Mrs. Mary D. Bradford, Supt.