Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1915-05-25
GERMAN IS ONLY
FOREIGN TONGUE IN
CITY HIGH SCHOOLS
Director Barnes Effort 10
Divide Course unaVailIng
Junior High Adopted

Just why a full siyycar course IN
German should be provided for the
Junior and senior high school students
of the public schools, when no provision
whatever had been made for elther
French or Spanish in the culture
courses, was more than Director Barnes
was able to understand at last night $
regular meeting of the school Doaru
when the course of study for the JUNIOR
high was submitted by City Supern-
tendent Elliott and adopted. AT tlrst
he tried to have part of the time as
signed to German devoted to something
else of more useful nature (spelling
and penmanship, for instance; then he
wanted the time divided between
French and German, and finally moved
the German be eliminated from the
elective course in the Ith grade, but
his motion failed of second, and the
course as outlined and recommended by
Superintendent Elliott was adopted.
Under the new course of study for the
three grades of the junior high for next
year at least 81 hours per week will be
required for the 9TH and Sth grades and
% hours per week for the 9th year, and
a total of Ga hours will be required as n
full junior high course in order to en-
title the student to a certificate Of en-
trance to the senior high school. In the
7th and Sth grades the total hours per
week Of the required studies will be u
hours and the elective 10 hours, but in
the 9th year the required studies only
total 7 hours per week, while the cleo
tive studies aggregate 4b hours, from
which latter the students is supposed to
elect Is hours to met the requirement
in this grade.
The full program Of studies as out
lined and adopted for the junior high,
with the hours per week required of
each subject, follows;
First year (seventh grade)-Required
studies; Spelling and penmanship (5)
English (5), History yCiyics (3), physi
cal education (D, arithmetic (5), and
science (2.) Elective Studies German
(5), manual training @ 10y, home econ
omics Sewing, 2 ~, drawing q l-2)
music q 1-2). 81 hours per week re
quired.
Second year eighth grade) - Re
quired studies; Spelling and penman
ship (5), English o., history-civics (3)
physical education lD, arithmetic (5)
science (2), Elective studies: German
(5), manual training @ 1.2), home econ
omics Cooking, 2 l.2), drawing q l.2)
music q 1-2.) 81 hours per week re
quired.
Third year ninth grade Require,
studies: English ~, physical cducO
tion (2). Elective studies: Latin o.
German (5), ancient history (5), scicnc
(5), algebra l5I manual training (5)
home economics sewing 81, DRAWN
t5), music a. penmanship and spellin
T (5). 90 hours per week required
Director Barnes objection to such a
extended and complete course in Gel
man to the exclusion of all other Gu
ture languages brought out an interest
ing discussion Of the future policy O
the board in the encouragement of fol
eign language instruction in the publ
\ schools and it also developed that II
foreign language except German wa
t taught in the higher grades Of the S,
lem schools The subject of teachin
Spanish, in view of the prospective clo
, er relationship of the Pacific coast pc,
. pie to those Of the South American r,
publics, due to the opening Of the Pal
anna canal, also came up for considers