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be heated so that these rooms can ne
used as p%layrooms by the children at
recess during the stormy weather in
winter.
Some painting should be done this
year. The hall and class rooms at
the West Ward. the first floor hall
at Central and the High School, as
well as several OF h class rooms at
Central are badly in need Of paint.
X. The High School
Our High School has been on the
accredited list Of the North Central
Association for three or four years.
This year the State Department of
ducation and the State University
adopted standards for accredited
list of the State Department Of Edu-
cation and of The State University,
The only change that we had to
make In Il requirements was that
of requiring 80 credits for gradua-
ton instead of 81.
In accordance with a law passed
by the last legislature wt are en-
titled to collect tuition for non-resi-
dent high school students. This
tuition must be paid by the district
the student m from providing
there is no high school in that dis
trict. The board decided to make
the tuition charge $500 a year.
which is considerably less than the
actual cost to us pei pupil for main
tanning the high school. This year
we have eight nonresident pupils in
the high school.
The department of the high school
which now needs most attention is
the science department. and particu-
larly the laboratory. We are Sc
riously crowded for space. The lab
oratory as well as the science lecture
are both in the basement at
Central and are poorly lighted and
ventilated. More equipment is
needed. especially two large labOra-
tory tables and a compound micro
scope as we'll as smaller items OF
equipment and apparatus.
The crowded condition Of the Com
mercial Department has already been
mentioned. The library is also
greatly in need of additional room.
The library also needs additional
hook cases to care for the books that
are added to the library every year.
The room used by the classes in
Foreign Languages needs to be
equipped with individual high school
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the othar high school class rooms, in
stead of the rickety and disreputable
old benches that are now being used. !
New sewing machines have been
added to the Home Economics De-
partment this year in order to take ,
care OF the increased enrolment in
the sewing classes.
The Manual Training Department
has installed this year a tool room,
in charge Of the boys, who take turns
at issuing tools from the tool room.
This has been a good plan because
the tools have been kept in better
condition and there Is less chance of
tools being lost. The Manual Train
Ing Department has helped out from
time to time by making things need
ed for the school. At the present
time the Manual Training Depart
luen1 needs more than anything else
a room for glueing and finishing
work. AS we have no more room
whatever, 1t is impossible to supply
1t.
This year the high school has for
the first time published a monthly
high school paper. The Exhaust un-
der the supervision of the English
Department. This paper is a credit
to the school and we hope that 1t
will be continued from year to
year.
This year Rawlins participated in
the High School Tournament in
basketball as we'll as in some of the