The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1917-01-25
ANOTHER ARTICLE
In Regard to the Mid.Year Promo.
tiens-New System viii BE In.
augurated Monday That is
Now Being Used in
All Of the Lead
Ing Schools.

One advantage of city over rura.
schools is that in the city plan, as
usually administered, the teacher has
one or two grades while in the coun-
try school the teacher, has from five to
eight grades. Under such manage
ment it is easy to appreciate the diff
ficulties of the country teacher as
well as the unsatisfactory work upon
1.-The part of the pupils. Maysvlle be-
cause of the physical features of the
valley, three blocks wide and three
miles long" has been divided into four
dife yeut districts. In none of these dis
tricts are there sufficient children for
eight teachers or one for each grade
as 1t should be. AS an accommoda-
ton to the people the children have
been allowed to attend the building
nearest them which has forced upon
the administrative department of the
schools the plan of having the list,
End, 3rd, and 4th grades taught in
four different places.
If there were enough pupils in each
building for a unit, that is for eight
teachers, the present distribution of
children, would be admirable, but
when as at present, the 3rd grade for
example, is taught in five different
rooms when there are pupils enough
for only three, there is too much lost
in efficiency-time and money-at the |
expense of having a school building
at ones door. Miss Yancey has been
lighting nobly against the same prop
osltlon-the one-room school at each |
farmers door with insufficient money,
not enough children in any grade to
arouse the least bit of enthusiasm and
class rivalry-the other side of the
picture-the consolidated school with
directly opposite conditions that make
for progress and efficiency.
Maysville has four splendid school
buildings--three white, one cu,ored.
That are as good as any city it's size,
BY using the First District and Cen
ter Graded Buildings as one unit and
the Forest Avenue and Sixth Ward as
the problem is solved very
satisfactorily. The West End build
lngs adapt themselves to the plan
much better than the East End. The
only real good solution for the East
End is to add four rooms to the For d
est Avenue Building. West of Lime Z
stone Creek we purpose to have
ISL ana md grades in both buildings
o meet the objection of forcing little ?
'hildren to walk so far. In reality the D
objection could not be well founded I
Is in the majority of cities this size, g
hey have only one school building s
while we would have two different II
lnits under the suggested plan with u
10 children walking unreasonable D
distances fl
feel quite sure that we have no e.
'arents so unreasonable about the a
question of what building they will Il
ttend as to stand in the way of their u
hildren's successful progress in the u
chools. In the last analysis the F
Thole machinery of the public II
chools exists for no other purpose p'
han the child's welfare, which must
e interpreted in the light of "the W
reatest good for the largest num- CT
er." 81
In tomorrow's paper we will give M
ne exact placement of children to I'll
Ike effect Monday, January goth. fo
w. J. CAPLINGER. tn