Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1917-08-24
Keep The High School.

marks pertaining to Junior High Schools
The Carnegie Foundation Report adj
vised suppressing Norwich University,
The Medical College at Burlington, and
cutting down the number of High Schools,
in the state to fifteen, or some such small
number; and substituting, for the High
School, the Junior High School. II we
had only fifteen high schools, they would
be located in the larger towns, and Essex
County would be deprived of any school,
where an ambitious student could get
preparation for college. Don't forget the
long line Of boys and girls, who have
found their way to the colleges of YER
mont, headed by George Storrs who blazed
the trail to Norwich University; and the
latest recuit is Louise Lawton, with her
splendid record for scholarship, at "Ver-
mont.
The Board Of Education is not placing
these Junior High Schools alongside the
standard High School; but appears to be
trying to introduce them, in small towns,
like Island Pond, as a substitution for
what you now have.
We realize that the educational situa-
tionis in a liquid state; that we are being
experimental with; that various theories
are being tried out; but let them be tried
out in the larger towns, and then the
smaller towns will reap the benefit.
The classics and higher mathematics,
which are being cut out from the schools,
are still taught in preparatory schools;
and in private schools for the rich peo-
pies children; and the colleges demand a
knowledge of them in the entering student
so why should they not be free to all?
The vocational subjects are being car
red to the extreme. What child of four
teen (the average age of graduation from
Grammar SCHOOL, knows what he wants
to do?
In Germany at this age, only the
notceably bright children are allowed a
cultural course of study. The child, who
appears reluctant to exercise his grey
matter, is put on vocational subjects
Everything is strongly unitarian in their
educational system, and see how they
seem to forgotten their old ideals, and
have transformed themselves into the
Devil and all his works.
A prominent Vermont educator was ap-
pealed to a while ago, by Grammer
School teacher She had come from
Mass. and could not teach Vermont In
terest." She seemed hazy on cube root,
the educator said, those subjects need
not be taught in grammar school,, anC
the following year, this same educator,
when he made the list of examination
questions for district school students tt
enter High School, included in tnest
questions, two examples in Vermont In.
terest, and one in Cube Root!
Along the same line, what an effort wa
made to abolish the Agricultural Schoo
. at Randolph, leaving only the Lyndor
School. They centralize on Agriculture
; instruction; but stick the teachers training
courses in everywhere.
Then, too, the Domestic Science. Al
right in large town, but in the small
towns, where every mother has gooc
kitchen, let the mother teach domestic
science In Heavens name what is Their
) to be left to the mothers and the home
: There's only the time from 9 a. m. to p
m; and if these vocational subjects are tt
be allowed full sway, what is to becom
of the old fashioned order of study t.
train the mind?
To the class entering High School thi
fall, the course to take is the hard course
You can follow the line of least resistance
and take bookkeeping, geology, agricul
, ture or some such subject and spend mos
of your four years dreaming; or you ca
buckle down to good stiff course; OBJ
serve study hours, at light; exercise you
grey matter; realize, as never before
with this awful war abroad, that ever
minute counts; and that your country an
{ your flag demand your utmost endeavor
that you can be trained thinker or
drone. Its up to you! Your town
generous with her school. She furnishe
. you with well TRAINED instructors. &c
all you can, from them. They will gladl
give.
In 1890, on seeing the class pin Of th
first class ever formed at l. P. H. s., Col
n Dale remarked, does I. P H. S. mea
Il presume he studies?" Let there be n
doubt about the studying this year.
, l. P. H. S. Graduate.