Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1917-05-25
Macon to Have a Standard Four.
Year High School, Beginning
With Next Session.

changes and improvements for next
session. Instead of just a three
year high school course four years
will be offered and the course OF
study broadened to take in new
subjects and admit of electives 50
that each pupil can get those
courses which will be best suited
for his development and future
usefulness. Then, instead of fif.
teen units being required for grad
uation sixteen units will be re-
quired and the freshman class OF
next year can graduate with pos
sible eighteen or nineteen units.
Next years senior class will meet
the requirements for graduation
under the new course, as all of the
members now have eleven or twelve
units to their credits, with the
completion of this, their Junior
year.
The advantages of these changes
are numerous. In the first place,
there is a distinct advantage in
economy for parents who keep
their children in high school until
they complete the four years work
will save almost a years expense
in college. At present the colleges
require only fourteen units for en-.
trance, and it has been possible
for graduates of the Macon High
School to be admitted without ex.
animation into all standard col.
leges, but due to the fact that our
school has been three year high
school instead of four year high
school our graduates who had
made sixteen units were not given
credit for this advanced work.
After next session all Macon grad,
yates will be given credit for all
units above the fourteen required,
and in the state colleges announce
ments have been made that ad.
vanced standing will be given.
This means that girls who gradu.
ate with eighteen units should
graduate, from the I. I. & G. in
three years instead of four and
that boys who have to their credit
sixteen or seventeen should gradu-
ate from the A. & M. college in
three years.
Another advantage is that it
brings the high school one step
nearer to being what our United
States Commissioner of Education
says it should be, 'The Peoples
College" A high school should
not be planned wholly for the ben.
eft of the boy or girl who will 60
to college, but it should be organ,
lied to give every boy and girl the
best possible preparation for life.
Many boys and girls will not 60 to
college. The high school should
offer courses that are not merely
college preparatory but courses
that prepare the pupil for efficient
living. This is what the four year
high school does. 1t must have,
therefore, courses in sewing, cook |
ing, household management, music, |
agriculture, manual training, book.
keeping, typewriting and as many |
other vocational subjects as it is
possible to give, and in addition
to these the languages, sciences,
mathematics and those studies
which have been the bone and
flesh and blood or the traditional
high school.
One of the chief advantage from
a community standpoint is that it
increases the opportunities offered
to the children of the community
and therefore makes the commu.
nifty a more attractive place to
A town can not rise |
above its school and city can be
measured by its school, for the
ideals of a people will work them.
selves into the training of its
young. The undermining of our
local high school makes Macon and
vicinity a better place for people
to live in.
In a miraculously short time the
effects of a good school can be seen
in the lives of the people; in
greater efficiency in living, bust
ness and society. The most direct
way to build up town is to build
up its school. And in democratic
America every community can
have a high school after it's own
heart. The high school ispeculiar
to America. There is no school
like it in its scope and administra-
tion in any other country on earth.