The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1919-08-22
CALDWELL SCHOOLS OPEN
: SEPT. 8 FOR JUNIOR GRADES

Work for Seventh to Twelfth
Grade Students Will Be Con-
solidated at High School Be
ginning September 20.
The local school year 10000, for
.be elementary schools, grades one to
civ civ inclusive, will begin Sept. l. The
SIX fnmni in high school grades
seven to II inclusive, will open Mon
day, Sept 20. The first week of the
elementary school year will be given
to the Teachers Institute at Boise,
and regular school work in the ele-
mentary schools will begin Monday,
Sept. 8. -,
The school wards will be the same
as heretofore. All elementary pupils
who reside on the west side of 10th
street and on west to the district
limits. and south of the o. S. L. rail
road tracks will attend the Lincoln
school. All pupils living on the east
side of Tenth street, east to the dis
trict limits and south of the o. S. L.
railroad tracks will attend the Wash
ington school. All elementary pupils
living north of the 0. S. l.. railroad
tracks will attend the Van Buren,
school. All pupils in the entire school
districts who are in grades seven to
II inclusive will attend the high school
on Dearborn street.
Must Be Six Years Old.
The minimum age for entrance to
the elementary school for the first
semester is six years before Septem-
Der /. Children that become six years
of age after September l and before
the beginning of the second semester
of school may enter at the beginning
Of the second semester. Parents who
have children that are to enter the
first primary grade should see that
these pupils are taken to the proper
ward building and left in charge of
the principal of the school Monday
morning, September 8, at $3.50 o'clock.
The schools will work under some
what different plan of organization
than heretofore in that all grades from
the seventh to twelfth inclusive will be
operated under one organization in
the high school building, while grades
from one to six inclusive will hold
their sessions as usual in the three
elementary ward buildings
Junior High School
The seventh, eighth and ninth
GRADES will comprise the Junior high
school. Boys and girls of the Junior
high school will be placed in a more
salutary environment for boys and
girls of this age, while they will be
given advantages that are not feasible
under the old plan. The high school
building will afford better laboratory
facilities for the science work of the
Junior high school and opportunities
to take courses in the vocational de-
t. partments will be given. An appor-
\ tunity will be given Junior high school
pupils to enter the musical organiza-
tions Of the high school which will be
simulated during the year. Junior
high school pupils will be given the
advantage of physical education and
athletics. Plans to extend athletics
ana physical education to Junior high
schools pupils will be perfected.
The Caldwell high school will con-
tlnue to uphold the high standard that
1t has already attained. Work will be
given that will prepare for the best
coileges and universities in Idaho and
other states. The vocational depart
ment will be encouraged. Courses in
the mechanical arts will be elective
throughout the high school and the
introduction of more practical courses
than heretofore are contemplated. The
department of domestic arts will meet
.he requlrements of the provisions of
the Smith-Hughes vocational law and
me school district will receive the
financial benefit provided in this law
Strengthen Departments.
The commercial department will be
strengthened by the addition of an
o!her teacher. The aim will be to
give pupils an intelligent appreciation
VI tne principles of trade, some con-
effplion OF the dignity and importance
y, commerce, and just notions of the
Unics OF business, as we'll aseto thor
,sGcuehiy prepare stenographers and of
nee clerks. The commercial curricu-
,uln VIII be four years in length. Pen
thiahshIp and business arithmetic will
b Ie given early. in the course followed
uy bookkeeping, commercial geo
srs;pny and industrial history. Type
n Th,a.ing and stenography will be en-
p pns during the junior and senior
LIARS sn and immediately before. the pu-
p,s enter the practical world. The
remaining studies of the mmercial
q curriculum will be elective.
:, he health department. will continue
Tue Splendid work of previous years.
AS realized that the health con-
u ut OF the public schools are just
n ~Iat we make them and the Caldwell
pubic school authorities are disposed
S h. provide the very best sanitary and
,; ,s''n conditions possible by correc-
Steanc:hine and training pupils In right
"aDitS of Thought and act;o,