The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1921-11-05
ATLANTIC CO. PRINCIPALS
MEET AT HIGH SCHOOL.
Organize for Year and Listen to
Interesting Discussions.

The Atlantic County Principals and
Supervising Principals held their first
Supervisors meeting in he Pleasant
! vile High School on Wednesday of
last week and organized for the cur
rent year with N. c. Holdridge, of
Hammonton, as Chairman; Halliday
r. Jackson, of Ventnor City, as Sec
! rotary, and Simon G.. Huber, Of Mays
Landing, as Treasurer.
The following districts were repre-
scented: Hammonton, Egg Harbor City,
Mays Landing, Buena Vista Township,
Somers Point, Egg Harbor Township,
Linwood, Mortified, Pleasantville,
Absecon and Ventnor City.
1t was unanimously decided to hold
at least four such meetings during the
present year County Superintendent
Gresham suggested a number of lines
along which profitable studies can be
made and certain lines of educational
endeavor that should be pursued in
order that Atlantic County may pro-
vide the greatest possible educational
opportunities for children. He sug-
gested that profitable studies might
be made with the view of obtaining a
more accurate classification of chill
dren and a higher standard in general,
that greater opportunity should be af-
forded for the normal child by the
segregation of the more rapidly adj
vancing children from those who are
inclined to retard the group with
which they are identified, that the law
provides for the segregation of chill
dren who are mentally delinquent.
The law makes it mandatory that
such classes be established. In 1919
there were enrolled 2,274 in such
classes. Only 80 of these were seq
regated in Atlantic County. In com
munities having one thousand or more
pupils according to the law of aver
ages there are always a sufficient
number to form such a class or class
es.
1t was also mentioned that in the
more progressive school systems
great strides have been made in the
improvement of the health of children
by the employment of school nurses
and by making medical inspection of
greater efficiency. Malnutrition seems
to occupy a rather prominent place
on the stage to-day. Adenoids, carl
Gus teeth, diseased tonsils are often
times responsible for this. Greater
emphasis in schools where mo nurses
are employed on the part of the teach
ers oftentimes is a means of securing
attention on the part of parents to
such defects in their children. Medi-
cal inspectors usually are capable and
painstaking, but it is not always pos
sible for them to give the individual
encouragement al may be given by
the teacher who feels the necessity
of having children in a normal condi-
ton so far as is practical.
The necessity for dental clinics was
also stressed. An investigation in
n of the Counties OF the State show
ed that out of $4,000 children 81, 900
had defective teeth In hat County
five dental clinics were established.
In another County a travelling dental
clinic vas established at private ex-
pense in order to assist children to
obtain better health.
The matter of a parental school for
incorrigible children was also discuss
ed and the expression was general
that such a school would greatly as
sist in the management of the school
affairs of the County.
A considerable portion of the time
was taken up in the discussion of
standard and intelligence tests and it
was decided that the cooperation of
boards of education be enlisted for
the purpose of securing such tests.
The Helping Teacher, Miss Schaible,
volunteered to conduct such tests in
districts where there are no supervis-
ing principals. Messrs. Rohrbach and
Jackson and Miss Schaible expressed
fhamCn1Vnc ua4u cfronolu II, ,,to, -
these tests, believing that the effieien-
cy of the schools and of teachers
could thereby be greatly increased.
Mr.. d. r. Rohrbach spoke at quite
some length upon the subject Echoes
from the Summer School,. Principal
Rohrbach was in attendance at the
University of Pennsylvania during the
past summer and dila.ed upon the
courses of School Administration and
Standard Measurements which occupi-
ed his time while in attendance there.
Supervising Principal Huber, of Mays
Landing, read a very excellent paper,
reviewing the book entitled "Shackled
Youth, by Edward Youmans. This is
a book of exceedingly great interest.
1t has been placed in all the Pedagogi-
cal Library centers of the County and
1t was suggested that teachers avail
themselves of its contents as far as
practical.
"A Committee consisting OF Superin-
tendent Jackson and of Miss Schaible,
in conjunction with the County Super
intendent, was named by the Chair
man with a view of preparing a pro-
gram that may be Systematically fol
lowed through the yea