The border vidette., 1920-12-25
THE MORALES PUBLIC sHooLs.
Few Educational institutions in State
 Gan Compare With Them.

 Schools. A few years ago there were only few teachers doing a mediocre grade of school work. There was no high school and little to induce the young people of the city to continue their work beyond tke seventh or eight grade. There seemed to be pre- valent the feeling that grade or elementary school education was all that was necessary. In 1912 a few interested parents be- gan a campaign for the estab- lishment of high school dis trict. The contest was short. the district formed, and a re- gular high school began it's work. It at once become appar ent that high school building was necessary and soon there was erected an elegant building equipped with modern furnish in9s and apparatus.
 In the grades the teaching has been improved in the past few years and the work of the class rooms brought up to standard which makes it the equal of any in the state. There are now em ployed forty three teachers in the system.
 The growth of the schools is shown by the fact that in the past ten years, while the popula tion of the city has increased 49 per cent, the attendance in the schools has increased over 300 per cent. This is concrete evid- ence that the people of the city are becoming more and more in- terested in the education of their children and that the schools are living up to the demands of the public.
 The academic requirement. of teachers in the elementary grades is graduation from a State Nor nal School or tho equivalent, and ia the high school, gradua- tion from standard college or university. Ia common with many other cities of the state, Nogales has raised her standard much above that required by the state law.
 The work of the high school is organized on the six-year plan, consisting of the junior and senior high schools-the junior high school comprising the seventh, eight and ninth grades, and the senior comprising the tenth, eleventh and twelfth grades.
 The standard of the work of the high school is evidenced by the fact that the school is fully accredited by the State Board of Education, the University of Ari- zona, and the North Central As sociation of Colleges and Sec ondary Schools.
 Membership in the North Gen. tral Association is an honor. The following is quoted from the directory of the Association: "The Association is, beyond all doubt, the most generally recog- nized standardizing educational agency in the Northwest, if in- prestige in the United States. It includes in it's territory eigh- teen states, and in it's member ship 1855 institutions of higher education and more than 1000 institutions of secondary rank. It is therefore 8 distinct honor for any institution to hold affi. Hated or accredited relationship with this body. Accredited re- lations with the Association bring to a secondary school the same distinction and honor as an Institution that membership in the society of Phi Beta Kappa or Sigma xxi confers upon an in. diyidual or that high rating by Brad street or Dun brings to a firm in business"
 The organization of the high school system on the six year basis has many advantages for the seventh and eighth grades over the old system, chief among them being departmental in struction by teachers who have made a special study of their subjects, and promotion by sub ject instead of by grade. By this arrangement 8 student may have some work in the eighth grade and the same time be talk ing part of his work in the ninth
 Among the courses offered in the high school are English. Latin, Spanish, History, Civics Political Economy, Sciences