The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon., 1917-08-16
MASS MEETING TO Be HELD
TOMORROW NIGHT TO TALK
OVER NEW school PLANS

A mass meeting is to be held Thurs
day evening ttonighD at 8 p. m.
in the Harrison school building to dis
cuss the proposed plan Of the school
board OF district No. /. with reference
to the Park Center school.
The board has had in contemplation
for some time the transfer of the pu-
pills OF the Park Center school to the
Harrison school in town in the inter-
est of greater efficiency and more
centralized school system
The plan in detail is this: The
Park Center school to be closed and
the pupils of that territory TO be
brought by bus each day TO the down
town schools. The school in Park
Center is ungraded. The new change
would mean that the seventh and
eighth grade pupils along with the sew
enth and eighth grade pupils of the
Harrison building would be sent to
the Lincoln building where they
would get the advantage of the de-
partmentaIized system in operation
there. The other Park Center pupils.
those OF the lower grades would be
sent to the Harrison building.
The advantage of the proposed plan
is this: II gives more efficiency thru
more centralized school system. It
gives the Park Center pupils of the
seventh and eighth grades the bene-
mt of the Junior high school plan
which is in vogue there For instance.
as the Park Center school is now con-
Quoted the students have teacher
over them constantly. telling them
when to study and when TO recite.
When these pupils graduate from the
grade school and go to high school
they find an entirely different plan in
operation. They find that they are
placed upon their own initiative in
the matter of study TO large extent
and il is difficult for them, often. to
adjust themselves 10 the new order
OF things. This is one reason for the
rather high average of freshman fail
ures.
4 Under the junior high school plan
the students are gradually placed on
ttheir own initiative nom the seventh
/ grade up. They are gradually taught
\ the high school plan of individual
study and class recitation so that
when they do enter high school they
are more at home and can easily ad
| just themselves TO the broader field
of activities. The Park Center stu
dents under the proposed plan will be
given the advantage of this system.
The board believes that the people
of Park Center will save money in
that they viii not have a school anG
its equipment TO keep up and theii
children will have the additional ad
vantage of the more advanced teach
ing. 1t is understood that the Parl
Center folks. some OF them. thinl
that the change will effect the valu,
of their property in that they viii
have no school property.
The board is OF the opinion that tn,
move will not effect the value of tn,
property one dollar in depreciation
because the Park Center children will
in reality have better school advant
ages than ever before The bus whicl
will carry the children win be furn
isheS and paid for by the district
Tire board is anxious TO have ever
4 parent interested. and especially tn,
residents OF Park Center. present a
the mass meeting Thursday night
They want to talk the situation owe
thoroly and discuss every phase OF i
before any defnf1e move is taken.
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