Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1920-01-28
was irregular during a geriod of four

was irregular during a geriod of four
months. In general school work suffer-
ed unavoidably. It is worthy of note
that the minimum loss of time and the
speediest recovery to- normal conditions
was found in those districts employing
a school nurse or health supervisor, or
both. Will other communities take this
lesson to hearth"
Relative to the teacher situation, Mr.
Phillips says: THE most serious diff
Guilty this year has been the shortage
of qualified and efficient teachers. This
shortage has been the most, marked in
elementary. schools and in those posi-
tons in which men are needed About
one-half. of the departments Of agricul-
ture and manual training had to be dis
continued. There is a degree of ,compen-
sation in the fact that the teachers SAL
aries have been advanced to a point
which will attract many capable young
people into training for this work."
Mr.. Phillips also discloses the depart
ments's intention of presenting to the
next legislature a bill requiring school
attendance on the part of every child
until he has attained the age of 18.
This will make attendance in high school
a requirement. He says, mo longer
than thirty years ago the elmentary
school was taught to satisfy all needs
of the state in the education of it's
children. Now neither the state nor the
local community is satisfied with this
Standard After showing that the aver
age community spends more than cents
on the dollar of valuation-and this
amount is in addition to the two millions
state aid-he continues: mo one will
contend that this tremendous state and
local expenditure for the support of Sec
ondary education is made for any other
reason than a belief that it is vital to
the welfare of the state and of the indi-
vidual that high school training should
be placed within the reach of every
child: The high school now occupies the
s3me place in the esteem of thinking
people of this generation that the ele-
mentary school did with our American
forefathers. The conviction is growing
and taking strong hold upon the popu-
lar imagination that an American child
has not been dealt with fairly unless
he is kept in vital relation with the
public school until he has reached the
age of eighteen. Laws to this effect
have already been passed in several
of the states, and it is safe prophecy
that Minnesota will be found in this
column following the next legislature
session. We are in the process of NOV
ing to a standard under which some
form of secondary education will be
made compulsory.
This conclusion is based not only
upon the needs of the coutry for citi-
zenship more broadly intelligent than
elementary school training can ever
make it, but also upon the growing con-
viction that the Individual child should
be guided and directed by the state,
through the agency Of the school, to a
point In his training where he can
choose for himself, with some degree
OF intelligence, the field which he will
enter in his capacity as a mature wage
Garner"
Another point discussed is the modi-
hcation Of work required for graduation
from Minnesota high schools Previ-
ously the state has merely required that
,16 credits be earned, four of which must
be English. Mr.. Phillips proposes for
further consideration the desirability
of making a statewide requirement
embracing English 3 credits, History 2
credits, citizenship 2 credits, science 2
credits. -: ~, - = - Il,
y The children in the second grade are
studying Eskimo life and making Eski-
mo scenes. 81 - - =. 10y
. The following children in the first
grade, Lincoln, have had one hundred
in Spelling every day since Christmas:
Kathleen Fitzgerald, Kyle Montague,
Luella Rose. Roland Dalhefm, Marie
Sletten. Hazel M6nesmith, Katherine
Peterson, Lovah Wakefield, Margaret
aymepd Chew 49, 49,: ;Sss,5s..
The first and second grades ut GAR
Held are taking the subject Of winter
and snow for languAge,-music and draw
Ing. Stories have been listened to and
poems learned about snow. This
thought has sbe6u beens carried ont q the