Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1915-03-10
WOULD OPEN THE
SCHOOLHOUSET TO
citizen BODIES
Action Looking to This End Ex-
pected by Board of
4 Education.
WANT VOCATIONAL WORK
KEPT IN PROPER BOUNDS
Plan for Ten-Month School
Term May Be
: Launched.

Important action looking to a gen.
eraI opening of the schoolhouses of
The city to improvement associations
neighborly organizations and such
bodies of citizens interested In COM
5nunity and school work is expected
80 be taken tomorrow night at spe-
sial meeting OF the Board Of Educa-
iion, and IL the program goes through
It will mark new epoch in the af-
1airs Of the board as well as radical
departure from long established rule.
The proposition will be discussed
and q motion to carry ont the scheme
viii surely be made according to the
statement of one board member to-
day. This man said there was a SEN
timent among the commissioners
strongly in favor of the departure,
and this he believes will crystalize
into action. The feeling is that the
taxpayers do not get as much use Of
the school buildings as they should,
and nowhere near what could be con-
money invested.
The question of many changes in
the studies may also be touched upon
and vocational work, which appears
10 have very many advocates among
the school principals and other edu.-
Gators, may be subject of much dis
cussion The commissioner who is
m favor of opening the schools for
citizens meetings is not one of those
who will go in for vocational work
on a large scale, SIS ne does not be-
lieve In the methods being carried to
extreme.
Three RS Needed Most.
vocational work is all right If it
Is intended to bring out the adapta-
bility of the pupil so that he may OBJ
tain a guide for vocation in after
iife," declared this man, "but to try
70 teach either a boy a trade while
viii In school II wrong In principle
and effect Two periods OF vocational
work a week, permitting pupil to
have some manual training in order
20 ascertain what he would be most
proficient at is all right. BY this ne
.an get a line on what he might be
successful in when ne leaves school
and not waste his time IN some po-
sition which didn't require special
skill and advance no further. Voca-
sional work of an extensive nature.
though is not to be desired. The
fhree RS are much better"
Another thing which may crop up
N; the meeting is a proposition for a
longer school year and shorter va
cation period. 1t Is predicted that
notion to have the school open Sep
tenlber and close June 30, no matter
what the day, unless 1t should be
- M "
through, hut the sentiment Is said to
7,e crvsta1izing towards that end.
''The idea Of starting school Sep
tember IA. as we did at the beginning
of this term is wrong" is a senti-
-nent expressed by one member OF
he hoard. "Taking this and the hol-
sdsvs which the children lose from
school. why the term Is not long
enough to get out the required work.
There can be no objection to ten
months of study, and two months OIL
vacation is long enough"
Tta runor that President johnson.
~ rhe hoard would resign because
az his appointment to the bench, Is
being com mbatted. Strong influence is
neine used to convince the president
hat he should remain on the board
Z md continue as it's presiding offlcer.
|. nd II is said that he has practically
decided to do so.
Kick on sale Of schooI-Made Goods.
To solve the problem Of disposing
of the products made at the Girls
Industrial School special commit
zee was appointed last night az
meeting of the committee on instruc-
zion and educational supplies or the
Board of Education. The special
committee will endeavor to nno a
way of selling the goods without an
tagonizing manufacturers.
When Judge Frederic L. Johnson.
president of the board. suggested tnat
the finished product Of the school ne
aold, there was considerable opposi-
ion from Commissioners r. Elmer
ThrosseI and Charles p. Taylor. me
,ormer announced he would not stand
tor the "exploitation OF child labor
or any attempt to commentaries the
local public school system.
"You will antagonize the manuiac.
eurers of the city IL the product or
The school is sold in the open mar
xet," said Mr.. Throssel. ut will place
the pupils of the school on the same
footing with child labor and conv'ct
labor. AS soon as the public schools
20 in the manufacturing business
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