New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-04-25

seem entirely undisturbed by this natural variety
of activity, but il is doubtless disconcertng TO
the visitor. Certainly, such school is great
advance from the day when the school superin-
te1dent boosted tia. at given hour on anyid
in any school he would find every class studying
geography.
Mr.. Shadows references to vocational edrca-
ton in Gary very slight, and yet they are cal
culated to leave the impression that vocational
work in Gary means teaching every occupation,
trade, art, science, recreation and pastme
under each and every school roof" that only
few pupils take vocational work, and that this
vocational work is expensive.
Mr.. Writ does not believe in what he calls
Especial vocational school hospitals to repair the
moral. mental and industrial cripplos made by
the school before sending them into industries"
As he SAYS: "No amount of money spent on these
special school hospitals will ever atone for the
waste of life of the child Gtrepped to school seats
and loafng in the city streets for eight or twelve
years.
ave do not need special types of schools so much
as we need a reorganization Of the schools that we
have so that they will train children for COM
pete living"
FUNDAMENTAL ACTIVITIES OF THE COMMUN-
ITY FOUND IN SCHOOL.
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changed conditions is brought about in Gary
schools by making the school self-sustaihlhg
community. All the fundamental activities that
o,o found In anv community are found in the
school and they are there because they are needed
70 keen the community going But the stroke OF
oenius on Mr. Wirts part is his plan by whlch
tbie work becomes real and financially practlcal;
frat because only few children work with any
mechanic at one time, and, second, because skilled
nnion mechanics are employed to do repairs ana
construction work on the buildings, thereby earn
inc their own salaries. This plan OF Mr.. VIRUS
does not involve having the same shops ana the
same eauh pment in every building.
Az for The number of students taking shop WORK,
there arb fully as many in Emerson or froe0e'
schools Is the usual separate trade sehool accom-
modates But they have a. much greater variety
If work. than As found in the usual trade schooi'
and most Important of all, they get the se'enee
and academic work necessary to round out 'ne
shop work And they get all this IN an elementary
school whose per capita cost 10 tne Guy 70 "S
Greater than that of the old traditional type u
school H..
In hisfreport Mr.. Shallow states that the pa"
of housing two schools in one buldlhg ana a'''
mating CLASSES between work and play ala not
nr,cinite in Gary. but was first worked out IN
~, Kork Citv. in 1904. together with the change
n longer school day. and that now 1t comes PACK
f,oA Gary. but requires a different type oil oulu-
INCL with spacious shops, swimming pools, gym
! n aIums and adjacent parks TO carry 1t out
a. matter Of fact, Mr. Wirt's duplicate school
An il radically different in origin, aim ana
Iotbod from Mr. Ettinger's 1904 attempt 10 re-
Eov. mart time or his 1914 modified Gary plan
I Tho urinary aim of Mr.. Wirt's plan is TO en-
! ,.ra the function OF the whole elementary school