The state herald., 1921-04-01
Management Of
Phillips County
. High School

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regard to athletics In the Phillips
County High school. The article met
with such response that thought
It i4eht be well to explain to the
puh!tc the various phases of our
school work. for from the unjust
criticism that has often been circu-
laten I am very sure that great
many people do not know much
about the work accomplished In the
County High school.
-Four years ago the High school at
Haxtnn was taken over as a branch
Of -She Phillips County High. school
and has gradually grown from a
school Of is students to an enroll.
ment of so.
Last spring a new high school COM
mitece was elected on the platform Of
sstsb blishing branch schools in other
part Of the county, and I. as super
inteNdent. was ordered to make reg
ulas trips to the schools that were
established at Highland Center, a
complicated school, II miles south
weN Of Holyoke: at Amitie school.
10 miles southeast OF Holyoke. and at
Amherst. making total of five parts
to the Phillips County High school.
besides the dormitory to manage in
detail. have been ordered by my
committee to make regular trips as
often as possible to these branch
schools, and keep them running on
the same basis as the Holyoke
school. OF course, the Holyoke and
Haxtun schools require more time
than the other smaller schools. I
check their work regularly to see
that no one school gets out OF line
and when n student leaves any one
OF our schools he has had the same
work that he would have had in the
main school as far as IL is possible
to give II.
In order to save money carry
with me to these branch schools prac
tically all OF the reading material
which they do as outside work. /
also keep these schools supplied with
text books and what material they
need have one Of the most COM
plicSted sets OF books 10 keep that
ca'ri be found In eastern Colorado.
since we order all text books for the
students. maintain dormitory and
keep our records In such a shape that
II Is possible TO tell any moment how
much money has been spent on any
one school and any department.
IL is my duty to see that each
teacher In the system does his or her
duty and along that line. decide hun
dreds Of details every week. Every
question In the school is referred to
me and must be on my guard at all
times for fear OF making Il mistake In
an important matter
There is vast amount OF CORE
spondence connected with any mod
err high school or school system. to-
gether with the numerous records
that must he kept. such as the rec
ords of attendance. the record OF the
I work done by each student as he pro.
crosses In his course. the record Of
library books, the records OF outside
reading done by each student: In fact.
II would take so much space to enum.
crate the duties OF n superintendent
ths; the papers would no, ce-e 10 pub.
iish II.
Darling the last few years the ex.
pcnse OF maintaining any kind OF an
institution has Increased tremendous.
iy, but With the return OF normal con.
ditions we are hoping to reduce the
expense OF running the county high
school as much as possible, and I
wish TO assure the public that az far
MS I am personally concerned. I shall
do everything within my power to
bring about an economical admins.
tration Of school business.
! nm carrying out my duties as I
have been ordered TO and shall con
tinuc TO do no until am ordered not
to- The public Is entitled TO know
something OF tho management OF the
school and wish 10 state In this
connection that the doors OF the
County High School or any Of It's
branches are never closed TO tho pub.
lic and II you want TO know what we
are actually doing. you are invited to
cali nj any time.
In later articles ! shall explain our
library system. school government,
vocational and tradc courses.
RALPH ROBB.
Superintendent p. c. II. s.