The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-11-29
SEND OUT SECOND
/ SERIES Of GRADES
hIah School Students and Their Par
ents Will Know This Week What
Records for Six Weeks
Have Been.
USE INTERESTING CHART
( This 10 showing Pupils That They
Arc Part Of Society and Must
Work to Advance Gen.
era Standings.
USE INTERESTING CHART

Grades made by the high schoo!
pupils in the second six weeks OF
the present semester will be mailed
to the parents tomorrow. The tabu-
latious are all completed and the
figures will be sent out to the mother
and father of the student by the enc
of the week. These grades are al
ways interesting-that is providing
they are of the right sort. This year
the program being tried out by Prln-
opal Reid and the faculty members
is making the reports doubly inter
esting.
A chart showing the percentages
of the 1900 grades sent out Is posted
in the lower hall. The line for the
first ak weeks is traced in red ink.
For the second six weeks the line
will be made Of green ink. A record
of attendance and hardness for each
month by classes is also shown on
the chart. But the chart Is not slmp-
" for the purpose of showing that
some people made higher grades
than others. 1t is for the purpose OF
showing the necessity for team work
in the school, and In the various
classes. and the necessity for social
cooperation.
The slogan on the chart Is:
Aim. for Better Grades.
"Our Aim to Skew the Curve 70
the Right" The curve starts at 5o
per cent and goes to 100 per cent.
The swing for the first six weeks
starts at the bottom Of the ladder
and ends a little past the 95 per
cent mark. It is urged upon the
pupils that they bring their grades
e<o NJ ffniQhinR
points will be to the right OF the
present terminals.
For the last six weeks, out OF the
500 grades sent out. 179 grades
showed IS to 100 per cent. or e."
Two hundred were on the lines de-
noting an average of 80 to IS per
cent; 275 on the IS to 80 lines; 240
on the 80 to IS lines; 220 on the IS
to so lines; Is on the 70 to Is part
OF the chart: Is were as low as 10 to
10; 81 grades averaged 50 to IS, and
II were between IS and 60.
The attendance figures will show
90 for each class, but there Is larg-
er percentage Of hardness for this
month.
= :
=t Show Pupils Responsibility.
This is the first chart Of its kind
in existence in high schools anywhere
in the country, and it is believed that
it will help to bring up the general
standards of the school. Patrons
and students both should be interest
ed in it.
It is being shown to the pupils that
they are q part of society. that they
owe it to their parents, to the city,
the county, the state and the nation
to make as good uses of the advant-
ages OF the educational system that
these diversions Of society are pro-
viding, as possible. It is being drum
med into the pupil that he is part OF
a great scheme of social activity and
that he is not alone in his actions.
The pupil who is blocking progress
because he prefers to fritter away his
time on Main street, rather than at
tempting to make good grades. is be-
ing shown his relationship to the
social mass.
: DR.. Reid has talked to the pupils in
assembly and the members of the
faculty in their class rooms are
touching on this subject daily.