The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1916-05-23
SCHOOL ALL THE YEAR ROUND, AGAIN.

The trouble with most specialists IS
that they get lop-sided. cross-eyed.
marrow gagged view OF life in the
tarre
They get 50 Immersed with their
subject that they soon begin 10 De-
lieve that the earth and all SIS people
were created mainly, y not solely, to
furnish material for the rracticins ~
their peculiar hobby.
And school specialists are very
much on a par with others We have
Mr.. w. S. nefenhsuEh, specialist In
school Administration Of the Bureau ~
Education. Department OF the IN.
terror. saying that the all-year schools
I OF Newark. y. T.. are shown to have
saved time. prevented street loafina
and conserved health.
His report indicates that the chill
dren speak enthusiastically % the
aIl-year schools.
A bulletin Issued by the department
says:
'fThe children In Newark who have
attended school for the past year OF
Y two or the all-year school plan speak
enthusiastically Of IT. The bureau in
/ vestigator asked the pupils In the
seventh and eighth grades to write
com positions telling why they attend
ed school during the summer. Neariy
all the pupils stated that the acho5i-
room was much cooler than the
+ streets and their rooms at home; that
they were glad 10 have something to
do besides running in the streets and
that they hoped to gain grade or two
BY the time they were old enough for
I their work certificates Parents who
were interviewed favored the plan
because their children were unm0ole TO
L yet more sch ooling than otherwise.
One parent said:
III there were no summer schools
We would not know where our chill
4 dRen are. They would leave homa
early In the morning and run all over
the city. Now We know that they are
safe in the schoolhouse and In no
! danger of being run over by automo-
biieS or street cars
THE attempt was made to fnd out
how much time the children ast;sa!4s
saved through the aii-year schools
OF All pupils In the sixth. seventh and
eighth grades twenty Ave made nc
gain, sixty-seven showed a gain Of
one-third Of year. fift5' nine gain
of two-thirds Of year. sixtyseven q
gain Of one year. and f'fty-thr a gain
Of ore and one third years.
1T was found that thu pupils fr
the all-ycar schools not only made
more rapid progress through ths
grades, but maintained AS good
1 scholarship as the pupils In othsi
schools Many OF the pupils We're able
to enter high school as a result of thu
{ time gained in the all-year school. and
these pupils have had no difrculty II
keeping up witt their work It is ex-
pected that MANY moro pupils vii
now complete the elementary grades
Al twelve years Of age. enter high
I school and attend for al least two
years once IN high school they are
4 likely 10 remain even after the com
puisory age limit Is passed"
Think Of 81, feliow-youngsters
Think of civilization q system Of
living, In which the boys and girls
must be kept housed for fear of auto
mobiles and street cars, Think. 100
III the kind ~ parents who delegate
Il the control of their children so com
& p1esely TO others that but for ths
I schools. '%he children would leave
home early in the morning and run
! All over the CITY,
Says Mr. Deffer bauEh:
zone school physician stated that
III the children could 60 into the
country and live normal life with
5 70 As