El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-03-10
NEW EDUCATION LAW To FORCE
MORE SCHOOL ROOM FOR FL PA5O"
Superintendent R. J. Tghe Says School Facilities Now
Are Inadequate and Compulsory School Attendance
Law VIII Necessitate Much More Room; Gary Sys-
TEN May Be Installed in Three More Schools.

Tighe. superintendent Of the public
! schools in the city.
The present facilities We're not suf-
ficient for the school children who
wished to attend school before this law
was passed" said Mr.. Tighe
-All the schools are taxed to their
I utmost capacity. In one, the Franklin
I school, three sessions a day are held
in each room in order to teach all the
! children who want to 80 TO school
/ This law may result in the building Of
I additional school buildings. but even
with additional buildings erected dur
/ ing the summer. a greatly Overcrowded
condition will have to be met by the
! school authorities.
Gary System Works Well.
AS the modification of the Gary
! school system has been working so well
I in the Aoy school the same system win
! probably be adopted in the large
! schools south OF the tracks, the Alamo
! Bean and san Jacinto. If portable
I houses for manual training work shops
! and domestic science work rooms
/ could be erected unon the Franklin
{ school ground, the Gary system could
! be used very well in that school also.
! II is highly probable that the Gary
/ system as modified for the Aoy school
( viii be introduced into one of the big
! schools on the north side of town also.
This viii mean greatly increased
teaching force for schools next year"
Attends National Meeting.
Mr. Tighe has just returned from
attending the National Education as
ISOLATION superintendents' convention
in Cincinnati. Ohio. He said The
| Gary school system was the subject OF
much discussion at the convention.
: Leonard Ayers, OF the Russell Sage
Foundation, discussed the pros and
Z cons" Of the Gary plan in a very sane
and unbiased way He classed this
system as the only system Of the pres (
ent day which made logical and up
to date attempt to realize modern |
educational ideals
The Gary plan has received a good |
deal Of adverse criticism from school j
superintendent on account of its I
change from the older systems. but /
most Of the criticism against it has /
been from people who knew little !
about Ii and were poorly informed (
The one objection TO the Gary system is /
that IL cannot be transplanted in its Il
entirety TO other places. It has to be I
modified to meet the needs OF other I
places The discussion Of the Gary
plan so interested great many Of the (
superintendent Of public schools at
tending the convention that thev went
20 visit schools in Gary. Indiana, to
study the system at first hand.
ask ard Six" Plan Interesting.
Two other topics shared interest in
the convention These were the Six
and Six plan and vocational education.
In the Six and Six plan. which is
heartily endorsed by the United States
commissioner Of education. the first
six years Of the pupils school life are /
sDent in the elementary school work
Ihen three years are spent IN the
junior high school and three years in
the senior high school This method {
gives the pupils the chance TO differ
entiate in the courses of study so that i
they may work TO a definite end in I
preparation for their life career
More children leave school after the 1
sixth grade than at any other time. /
The seventh and eighth grades have
been called marking time for the
school pupils In this new plan. the ele-
mentarv course Of six years gives the
pupil the working foundation. Then /
I'm the junior high school there are
three courses. one giving commercial /
work in training for business life. one
teaching Industrial work in preparation
Tor career as an artisan and one Civ
ing the preparatory work necessary il
the pupil intends to enter college
Nay Try Plan Here.
This plan viii probably be adopted IN
FL PasO," continued Mr. Tighe. but IL
cannot be taken up until the new high
school building is completed NOca-
uOnal education is growing steadily in
favor II is also growing in size as
a problem. and educators are beginning I
10 believe that in this the federal gov T
eminent should aid in the same way
that the government helped the estab-
ishment OF agricultural schools.
1t is necessary that children should
be equipped for good citizens by being
taught way in which they may be
self-supporting but this educators are /
beginning to believe is becoming 4
national problem besides a state
and municipal problem"
On the way TO and from the con-
vention Mr. Tighe visited the high
schools, night schools. vocational
schools and many OF the elementary
schools in Kansas City. St Louis, Gin
eoia,nnati, Houston. Dallas and New
orleans. taking notes on the equip
ment that might apply TO the new
high school I'm Fl Paso.
As the new school VIII include all
modern and up TO date features. NIr-
Iighe did not discover any radically
new feature in the schools visited but (
secured a great amount df Information !
about the practical working out Of the I
equipment that viii be useful in the
completion OF the new high school. He Z
viii give his Impressions of these |
plans Of the next teachers institute, 1
on Saturday.
FL PasO Needs Schools For Detectives.
THE best elementary school I visited
was a new building in Kansas City" I
said Mr.. Iighe- Each room in the
come an open air school at viii There
was q splendid play ground on the
roof with room for games, Eymnastic I
exercises and folk dances With FL I 7
Paso's climate, this plan would work
admirably here (
I was particularly interested IN the
schools for detectives. FL Paso needs I
a school Of this kind wherein the Z
children who are backward. mentally 3
or otherwise deficient, may be given
specific and Individual instruction, e 2
which is not possible in a general
school However with the other press
ing demands upon the school board, I Z
do not believe il Will be possible to !
have such a school for some time"
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