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PHOENIX H|CH SCHOOL
 LEADS ALL IN SUCCESS . OF TEACHING BY MAIL


 Phoenix Union High school so far as local school authorities have been able to find out. is the only school in this country that has met any degree of success in it's efforts toward car rying on the regular school work by correspondence.
 When the first assignments were sent out last week, containing a week work for each student, more than GOO were said to be. enrolled. This number represents at least tWo-thirds of the total normal enrolment of the school.
 As far as can be learned from com ments by students and teachers, and taking into consideration that such a large number of students enrolled themselves. the work will be a success from the start. By some 1t is believed that the students will put even more genuine effort into their studies than they would if they were in school, for when they work by themselves they must always be on their metal, the teachers say. They must do their best for fear they will be left behind by the rest of the class. and as the rest of the class is scattered all over Phoe- nix, and as no one knows how far his classmates have gone in their studies, most everyone is expected to work the harder to avoid the possibility of being ! left behind.
 1 The seed of the idea of continuing i on the work of the high school by cor respondence was sown at Phoenix High school when Acting Principal D. F. | Jantzen observed an article in the Los 1 Angeles Times telling of the resolution i of the Los Angeles school officials to continue the work of that school by mail. Immediately Professor JantZen set to work to formulate a set of plans. With the aid of several members of l the faculty it was but a few days un- til complete plans were drawn up These were then submitted to the high school trustees for their approval The plans were met with instant favor on the part of the school board, and within a short time the announcement that
 work would be carried on by core
 spondence was made to the student body.
 Shortly after the announcement was
 made. applications by the hundreds
 poured in until two-thirds of the stu
 dents were enrolled These were i'm
 mediately sent their first weeks as.
 signments, which had been prepared
 meanwhile by the faculty.
 Due to the rain of the past few day.
 quite a number of the 600 could not bt
 reached by automobile These student.
 will receive copies of their assign
 ments today, if it is possible
 The teachers, who are working or
 the assignments and correcting the pa
 pers of the students, are busy every
 day, but not for as long as during thu
 regular school sessions. It is optiona
 with the teachers as to the contents
 of their assignments They may choos their own methods in filling the stu dents with learning.
 Some assign their students lesson by topics, others by pages or a hal dozen other ways that differ slight!
 and mostly only in detail. The teach CTS of mathematics, of course, onll have to assign .a specified number O problems each week. A whole week assignment is given out at once, and il divided into five parts, one part to b. studied and completed each day. Schools in Los Angeles tried to adop the correspondence method. but onl, succeeded in keeping going for
 short time. They soon gave the worl up as impractical. Acting Principa Jantzen of the Phoenix High schoo feels perfectly confident. however, tha
 the work here will turn out to be great success