Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1915-04-03
WHAT THE LYON
COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL IS
ACCOMPLISHING

The people ought to be kept in
touch with the institutions which they
maintain For this reason | most
heartily approve the policy of this pa
per to let the citizens of Lyon county
know about their high school
Lyon County High School is near
the end of its sixth year. During this
time there have been in attendance all
told, about 10 scholars. OF these
IS have graduated. The enrolment
for this year reached 81. OF which
there are now attending A.
The law provides for the following
courses to be given: General, classi-
cal, scientific, commercial and agricul-
tural. These are alike in many sub
jects, perhaps three -fourths, so that
students in all courses are in the same
classes for about three-fourths of the
subjects For the other one-fourth
each course has special subjects and
require teachers specially qualified.
This is a much larger number Of
courses than was formerly given in
high schools, end shows the trend of
thought toward a high school train
ing that will equip one with special
vocational knowledge. In many places
in the United States they already
have schools that furnish almost the
chance to learn trade.
For many years the entire school
aim was the training for the profes-
sions so that there was nothing there
for the person that expected to fol
low business or handicraft The in
justice of this became apparent. 1t
was not right that the teacher, the
lawyer and the doctor should have his
way prepared for him by the State
while the bookkeeper, the artist and
the farmer should make his own op
portunity or have none.
1t was perhaps in this more than
anything else that the difficulty has
been in keeping young men and wo-
men in school. They were not pre-
pairing for profession and could not
see the benefit of much that was
forced upon them in the way OF
studies
With this object in view domestic
science and manual training are rap
idly being given a place in schools
of the best type With this object
in view we have tried to adjust the
work in Lyon County High School to
what will be tie needs of those at
tending when they get ready to fill a
place in the world. We have tried
to make our commercial course the
equal of that given in any business
college, and we begin to feel that our
efforts have been justified and are
bearing fruit. We fully expect that
quite a number will be competent
telegraphers by the time the school
year closes. Also we are confidently
expecting to be able to equip teach
ers and to make the agricultural course
well worth while for any boy likely to
follow that vocation
If our plans work out we will be
able to place manual training within
reach of those needing it the next
year, including wood work, forge work
and something of gasoline engines.
Altogether we furnish now close
to thirty years work, that is thirty
subjects of a year apiece, so that a
student could take FIVE subjects a year
for six years before he would exhaust
our possibilities.
This is done by a system of alterna-
ton, by which teacher teaching a
different set of subjects, or partly so
at least, each year. For example, the
science department has given this