The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-09-03

tend the school program TO ten
months from the original nine months
custom. The protest Of many citizens.
considered at recent board meetings.
may cause reconsideration of the ten
months intention, It is understood In
order to carry out the months
program the schools would close two
weeks later in June than has been the
custom.
unusually well trained. Stout said, for
the requirements agreed upon last
spring when increases IN salaries were
granted have been maintained strictly.
Except in one or two cases of teachers
who have had unusual ability, all
teachers in the Topeka public schools
are either graduates of a normal
training school. Or have had two years
experience in teaching previous to TAX
ing Topeka positions
Forces of Forty-Five Teachers.
Forty-five teachers are new on the
Topeka teaching force this year, with
five of that number in the high school.
Grade school pupils will report at
their respective buildings at o'clock
Tuesday morning High school pupils
will report at $50 O'Clock Tuesday
morning Principal Cook announced,
instead Of at 3 o'clock as has been
the custom on the first day
All principals of the city schools
will meet in Room COZ at the high
school Monday at O'Clock and all
teachers Of the city will meet for gen
eraI assembly at 3 O'Clock Monday
afternoon in the high school auditor
iunL
All pupils will spend only a part OF
the day in school on Tuesday. being
allowed a part of the day for program
Arrangement and the buying of text
books.
Grade School Additions.
schools Will be the opening of seventh
and eighth graes at Quinton Heights
school and seventh and eighth grades
at Van Buren, school. which will re-
lieve the crowded condition in those
grades in surrounding districts.
The new pre-vocationaI school. to
occupy the Garfield school building
will employ six teachers and accom-
modate two hundred pupils from the
fifth to the eighth grades who are>spe-
cially interested and fitted for indus
trial work.
Buchanan school is not yet ready for
occupation, and the pupils of that dis
trict will be cared for in two rooms at
Douglas school and three rooms in ad-
jacent churches until the school is
completed about october l.
The only teaching positions pot
filled in the Topeka public schools this
fall are those of the ungraded rooms
of Van Buren, and State schools
provided for pupils not successful in
the regular school classes. It was i'm
possible to obtain teachers for these
classes. as the former teachers. with
their knowledge of psychology. have
secured better positions elsewhere OF
have gone back into grade work
Abandon Two Departments
Two departments in the high school
to be abandoned are the normal train
ing department and the agricultural
department.
1T is evident that Topeka high
school students have no desire to be
teachers or farmers Principal Cook
said. for last year We had little or nc
demand for normal or agricultural
work and there is not enough demand
this year to employ teachers in such
departments.
1.-THE Topeka high school formerly
turned out many prospective teachers
but the interest in normal work has
gradually diminished until it is moi
practical to carry on the course" he
said
John L. Harrison, principal o