The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-07-15
"Six-Six" Plan Should Not
Now Be Adopted, Com
mittee Says
FUEL OUTLOOK
is ENCOURAGING
Tax Rate of II or 50 Cents Recommend
ed, According to Amount of Tempo
rary Debt it is Desired to Pay-Re-
view of Bonded Indebtedness.

Voters in the incorporated school
district are warned to meet tomorrow
night at s clock in the high school
room for the annual meeting of the
district There are seven articles in
the warrant, and although all are rou-
tine they are important. DIR. A. 1. Mil
Ter g term as member of the pruden
;ial committee expires this year. If re.
elected DIR. Miller will serve again, and
so far as is known no other name will
be presented. He has taken a deep in
;erest in school affairs and has been a
valuable advisor concerning them.
One important change contemplated
is an advance in tuition rates from
$50 year in the first and second years
and SOL year in the third and fourth
years to $50 year in all four years in
the high school, and advance from $l2
to $ls in grades l, 2 and 3, an advance
from $1s to 1927 in grades and 5, and
an advance from $27 to $50 in grades
/ : and s. Grade 6 would remain as now,
S27, and grade 9, which has been $27,
| is eliminated.
The annual printed report of the
prudential committee takes up a vari-
ETY. of questions. In regard to fuel
the report says: ''The outlook for the
coming year. as regards fuel, we are
glad to report as encouraging. Already
sufficient coal has been placed in the
bins at the high school building to
last the entire season, and we are as
sured that in all probability, the needs
Of the other schools in the district will
be adequately provided for. We shall
90 back TO the wosession system when
the fall term begins, although assured
from our experience that, if eircum
stances demand it, we can safely re
sumo the plan which has proved so sat
isfactory the past winter and spring.
Mention is made of the various
changes in teachers in the high school
and the graded schools all of which
have been reported in The Reformer.
1t is presumed that the committee
makes its last statement relative tC
the so-called "six-six'' plan, which
has been advocated by f. b. Smith
he retiring principal of the higf
school, and their statement is printed
in full herewith:
"Mr. Smith in his report refer:
again to the advantages of the six
six plan so called, or to the equal di
vision of our twelve grades between
the high school and the elementary de
partment below. 1t may be well t,
state in this place why we consider tn,
. present arrangement the best for ou
schools
As the case stands now the stud,
of French and Latin, along very sim
. pie lines, has been brought down t
the seventh and eighth grades, respee
/ tively,-one language to each grade,-
: and possibly some other high schoo
i subject may be brought down in tn
i future, if such an innovation seem
!, practicable and for the best interest
: Of the pupils. With such plan, look
8 ing to an ever closer connection o
: these grades with the high school, W
.. are in cordial agreement. But sine
:, at least nine-tenths of the work O
these grades will for the time bein
{, be concerned with elementary studie
q such as geography, arithmetic an
: history, it appears to us wiser for til
< administration and practical oversigf
:; of these comparatively immature chi
D. dren to remain where they have r,
manned, with such benefit, in charge c
/. a skilled grade supervisor, than I
have them transferred solely to tn
d head of the high school Close co-opt
t. ration is necessary, of course, betwee
y The high school authorities and tho:
that have these grades in charg,
"a friendly consultations are needed, fro
ID time to time, in order that these high'
= courses of study may be mapped OF
e and carried into effect; but all this
n. possible with the system now in vogu
"a and which is so exeellently serving Il
" needs of the pupils as they advan
IS: through the eight grades, one graz
:. after another, to the threshold of Il
IN, high school.
n "Your committee has spent mu