The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-07-11
CHAMBER FAV0RS LONGER SCHOOL
 HOURS IN CITY
(Continued from Page one.)

(Continued from Page One.) Education, Russell Sage Foundation; w. S. Deffenbaugh, chief of City School Division, Bureau of Education, Davis. Supervisor of Secondary Ed. ucation. Connecticut State Board of Education; Chas. F. Wheelock, Uni- versity of the State of New York, Colleges and Secondary School. We shall be glad to submit original let ters if you are interested. An Elementary School Day of 51z
 Hours.
 The school day varies in the cities reporting from I F hours for the pri- mary grades to hours for the higher grades. There is practical unantmity that excepting for the primary grades , F hours can be used to the advan- tage of the pupil. This is predicated upon a more varied and flexible curri- cllum to include play activities and other forms of exercise and is based upon an adequate equipment and space for such activities. Prof. Chas. H. Judd. director of the School of Education. University of Chicago, says:
 'In my judgment a longer day is on the whole desirable in cities espe- cially because it gives supervision for the children in their play activities and is likely, therefore, to lead to a more wholesome arrangement of their general programs.
 School Year of 200 Teaching Days
 There is not quite the same agree ment upon the matter of extending the school year to 200 days for all pupils though 63 percent of those an swering agree that it would be an ad- vantage to the pupil.
 Leonard P. Ayres, who thinks that the additional efficacy of the longer school day has not been demonstrated, does believe in extending the school year to as much as 200 days Pro- lessor Chas. H. Judd favors extend ing the year even to the eXtert four quarter year that would keep the school going all the time and allow the children to have vacations at different periods agreeing to- their special needs. Many authorities ap- pear to consider it impracticab1e to extend the year into the hot months.
 Seven Period High School Day
 For All Teachers
 The committee finds that there are practically none of the cities respond ing where the teachers hear more than 5 recitations per day, though 76 percent of them require seven periods a day
 There are few schools or authorities larger than 25. though the few do ad- init the possibility of 30 in all sub jects except English and Laboratory subjects.
 Eighty per cent agree that better teaching would be expected where ones recitations were staggered with rest or preparation periods.
 While not unanimo S2 per cent believe that two subjects. or prepar- ation at different points in the same subject, to be an advantage over sim gle subject preparation for five classes.
 Where tea achers must hear 15O stu dents per day, 64 per cent of those reporting recommend that they be in 5 classes of 30 instead of classes of 25.
 If proper and adeuuate' facilities were provided for rest, preparation, or other outside school work at the building, it would seem that practice and opinion would support the ' per iod staggered high school day, pro- vided two periods were used for other than class room teaching.
 Committee on Public Schools:
 Rev. Wm Horace Day, Chairman
 Sanford Stoddard,
 George C. Waldo, Jr.,
 T. J. Pardy.
 Fdw. R. Caldwell, Jr.,
 c. E. Bi1ton,
 Mrs. L. T. Warner,
 Mrs F. R. Feicht,
 By. Seward B. Price, Executive secretary.
 P. s.-cities sending in response to questionnaire:
 Boston. Mass: Cincinnati. Ohio: Du- luth. Minn-: Erie, Pa; Flint, Mich; Fort Wayne. Ind.
 Grand Rapids, Mich; Harrisburg. Pa; 1ndianapolis. Ind; New Britain. Gonn:: Newark N T.; Passaie, N; J.:
 Pittsfield. Mass; Savannah, Ga.; Syracuse, N Y; Trenton. N. J.; Utica, N. Y: Waterbury. Conn; Wichita, Kansas, Youngstown, Ohio.