The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1915-09-02
BIG ENROLMENT IN
THE CITY SCHOOLS
Five Hundred Thirty Three Pu-
pills Report for Work During
the Opening Days
Especial Correspondence


School opened this year with a
large enrolment in both grades and
high school, there being Ill high
school students and 422 grade pupils
registered the first. day. This ex-
ceeds last years enrolment by seven
in the high school and 10 in the grades
and there are still number Of high
school pupils who will not enter for
the first two weeks on account Of the
press of farm work at this season.
This would indicate total enrolment
for the year considerably above the
600 mark.
The popularity Of the new CONNER
cial course as revealed by the large
numbers enrolling for that work
shows that the school board was am
ply justified in deciding last spring
to install such course in the high
school. There are 80 enrolled for
the first years work and "a for the
class in bookkeeping. The latter work
will be given for 80 minutes each day
throughout the year and will be fol-
lowed next year by years work in
] advanced bookkeeping. Stenography
and typewriting will also be given
next year and each year hereafter.
\ Classes Divided
It has been found necessary to di-
vide several of the high school classes
owing to the impossibility Of hand
ling in one division all the students
enrolled in first and second year Eng
, lish, plane geometry and first year
algebra. While these divisions will
add to the number of classes to be
i taught it will insure more individual
, attention to the students owing to the
smaller numbers to be handled in each
: 45-minute period. Work in Latin
: German and music will not be started
until the beginning Of the second week
of school owing to the absence OF
t Miss Nelson and Miss Shier, who have
i charge of that work. Miss Shier ant
r Miss Nelson are both detained owing
: to the serious illness of their mothers
n but have written to say that they vii
be here for the beginning OF the sec
2 ond weeks work.
t In the advanced grades located II
the high school building the depart
e mental system will be followed thi
r year instead Of having all the worl
for each grade taught by the tache
y in charge of the room. This plan Q
u work is widely followed throughou
It the country, particularly in the lare
r. er cities and offers several advantage
to the older method, perhaps the mos
e. pronounced advantage being that
,e serves to bridge over the break whic
f. usually occurs between the u1pe
IS ,rades and the high school by gettln
10 the pupils used to having differer
subjects under different teachers. .
D. particular advantage to the loc'
,) schools is the provision it makes Il
c; supervised study periods. the childre
t. under arrangement as now complete
having full 3O-minute study periot
he for each subject during which tin
no they are supervised by the teach'
us under whom the subject studied it la
m. er to be recited. 1t is hoped that tn
of plan will do away with the necessit
ho which heretofore existed for some
at the more difficult work, such as Sc
to enth and eighth grade arithmetic,
be studied at home. Provision is
ill so made for three hours work ea'
ed week in manual training and dome
his tic science for the pupils OF the slxt
ry seventh and eighth grades. Und
he this arrangement Miss Showers W
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