Denver labor bulletin., 1917-01-06
YOUTH
GIVEN EQUAL START
Denver'S Opportunity School
Fills a Unique Field
Over l,500 Scholars Enrolled at Open
ing Of Second Term This Week
Who Choose Own Study Hours

Denver's Opportunity school opened
for its second term Tuesday OF this
week with an enrolment OF over /, 500
students. 1t is conducted in the Manual
Training high school at Twenry-seventh
and Franklin streets. The school is open
to adults and all others, being especially
equipped for teaching foreigners Ameri-
can ideas.
In September last the Opportunity
school was established thru the efforts
OF Miss Emily Griffith, principal. and
Carlos NJ. Cole. superintendent OF the
Denver public schools, with complete ap-
proval OF the board OF education. This
school is an extension OF the idea of the
night school which was organized to
assist those whose regular schooling was
interrupted by economic or other causes.
Old and young attend the same classes.
4 person can come or go at any hour OF
the day or night between o'clock in the
morning and Gals o'clock at night except
on Friday nights, Saturdays and Sun
days, when the school is closed. No
fees are charged for tuition and much OF
the material is furnished free of charge.
The attendance now is 500 day students
and 900 night students. All nationali-
ties are represented and the old work
with the young.
OllAZe oPdIe 4lInt
The great majority of the scholars are
people who work and have a few hours
during the day or evening in which they
take advantage OF the opportunity to
learn and develop. Attendance Is purely
voluntary. The institution is a part OF
the public school system OF the city.
The aim of those in charge is to get
practical results as far as possible ana
the teachers are people who come in con-
tact with the subject they teach.
In the manual training department
where hair dressing, manieuring, cookery
and other courses along similar lines are
taught instructors are obtained who
have done or are doing the same class
OF work in the commercial world. This
opens the way for students and teachers
to cooperate in placing the former i'll
good positions. This has, in effect, de-
yeloPed large employment bureau.
Business and Cooking Taught.
Glass instruction is given wherever
possible. Because OF the irregular hours
in which the students attend, individual
teaching must often be given. In the
business courses instruction is given in
typewriting, stenography, bookkeeping
shorthand, business English, business
spelling, business arithmetic, etc The
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classes daily. Nurses are taught invalid
cooking A course is provided for house
maids and another for housewives
In the manual training department
students are taught to handle the ordi-
nary tools that are required for every
day repair and construction work. Auto
mobile repairing and other branches are
TO be started soon. Mechanical drawing
is part OF the department. Also,
beginners practical electricity class.
Glasses in Citizenship
Instruction is given in salesmanship,
sewing, millinery, manicuring, hairdress-
ing and various other subjects. There is
a foreign department where English is
taught. also class in citizenship where
foreigners are instructed in United
States history and biographies of great
national characters. Three hundred
members OF this class, which was origin
ally started in the night school, have
secured their citizenship papers.
Academic studies are not sighted in
the school. The sixth, seventh and
eighth grades in the regular grammar
schools are included in the courses \
student can receive a promotion from the
eighth grade into the high schools. One
OF the most valuable assets of the school
Is the cooperation it has secured from
the manufacturing concerns, associations
and various organizations thruout the
city