The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1919-11-06
SUBMIT ALL PHASES
OF QUESTION TO PUBLIC
Matters of Importance Trans
acted at Monthly Meeting
Yesterday - Superintendent
Appoints Teachers to Fill Va
cancies Since August APP
pointments.

CRY members OF the county board
of education yesterday recommended
that the petition of a large number
OF patrons of the schools urging the
adoption of one-session school day
be granted as relates to the first
second and third grades.
The action of the city members
Is said to have been entirely salts
factory to the petitioners, who deem
the solution of the. problem all that
they could have asked for. In fact
It was to relieve the younger element
from the arduous, long g-drawn-out
session that the patrons of the schools
were seeking to eliminate.
The board met in regular monthly
session yesterday and the first mat
ter taken up for consideration was
the report of the city members or
the petition for a change in school
hours. The report to the full board
on the subject was as follows:
AL.1 ~
To the Board of Education.
Gentlemen:
Your committee to which was referred
the petition of certain citizens il pro-
test against the present two sessions
in the grammar schools in the City
of Brunswick, beg to make the fol-
lowing report:
Your committee has very carefully
gone into the question in an effort to
reach such a conclusion and make
such a recommendation as would best
serve the interest of the children or
this community.
We realize that the support of the
public schools is heavy expense TO
the tax payers, and that therefore
every effort should be made by this
board to secure the maximum OF re-
= suits in the operation of our schools.
We are confronted by the fact tina;
our schools operate 1870 days in the
year: that is to say that IN THIS Sc
rious and important work ana Cuty
of educating our children that hey are
nermitted to attend school less than
every other day in the year Unce-'
tbs one session plan it is only possible
to yoperate the schools for about fiV3
hours in the day including all recesses
After that length of time the chlld
should have substantial food and re
Taxation period. In other words. IL Is
evident that under the one session
plan the child has only about tour
and one-half hours actual school wol:i
for les. tina every day in the year.
The board in changing from the
one session plan felt that in TINS age
of intensive effort, where stat'stlcS
plainly show that it is only the trained
mind that can successfully meet the
issues and problems of life that the
old program was not giving the poys
and girls such an opportunity to Sc
cure an education as would be pos
sibla under longer school hours.
Your committee feel that the adSl
tional school time made possible by
the double session will be OF the
greatest service to the pupil as pc
riod for supervised study. Under the
Z old schedule with the number OF. SUD
iects that necessarily haze to be Gov
cred under the law it was 1mposslp' {
3 to proyide a period for supervised
q study. And the result of this was
q very unfortunate to the pupil. because
.isSreouired the preparing of lessons
home. A child requires certain
H,apervision of study, and STUDY a.
home places this burden not only upon
the parent, l>rt%'e majority OF i1stau
ces to the hufS If she child. Teacn
ing is a technical science, just as teen
nical as the practice of medicine; an
this supervision or home work canno
he successfully done by the parenI
Fhe double session in the grammar
schools should relieve the pupil oi
nearly all home work, takes this bur
den from the parent, relieves the chifo
mind of all school problems save II
school hours, and the period OF super
vised study under the trained super
vision of the teacher should be oi