Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1923-09-09

The public schools Of the city will
open Monday morning, September
10, at 9 o'clock. All pupils belong
ing to the fifth. sixth and seventh
grades will report to the junior high
building. All other grades will re-
port as usual to their respective
buildings. On account of the crowd
ed condition of the primary section
is will be impossible, for the pres
ent, to take children under scholas-
tic age, If after the schools open
these grades are not overcrowded il
may be that we can take those chill
dren who will be seven years old be-
tween now and December 1.
Children entering the two high
schools will enroll and be classified
Monday morning and in the after
noon books will be distributed. Per
haps the most fruitful cause of
failure on the part of children in
their school work IL irregular at
tendance. As heretofore, certifi-
Gates will be given to all pupils who
are neither tardy nor absent during
the term and the best time oenter
the contest for one of these certifi-
Gates is Monday morning.
Because Of lack Of finances as
well as the congested condition in
the first grades of the Grammar
school and Fourth ward it will be
necessary to hold half day sessions
in those buildings. There is moth
ing revolutionary in this solution Of
congested school conditions, since
it is in force in many of the best
schools of the state and country. In
fact, experience has demonstrated
that the entering child really gains
by the intensive use of the halliday
rather than by attempting to scatter
his energies over the entire day, re-
sulting as it does in brain fag and
bodily fatigue.
Several important changes in and
additions to the course Of study of
the high schools will be made this
year. In the senior high CONNER
cial course will be added, consisting
Of shorthand and typewriting. Busi-
ness English and commercial arith-
metic. A course in vocational home
economics will be introduced in the
two highs, the schools having taken
advantage of the aid offered under
the Smith-Hughcs act to secure the
services Of two instructors at the
cost Of one to the district. Miss
Myrtle Jennings will have charge of
the department in general and of
instruction in foods in particular, to
which is added course in the al
lied subjects Of physiology and
home projects. Miss Marie Schleik
er will be in charge of the work in
clothing and teach designing as an
allied subject. A separate course
known as the vocational course, has
been set up in the senior high.
whereby girls may specialize in the
subject of home making and at the
same time carry the required num-
Der of subjects to admit them to
colleges and universities if they
care to 90 there.
In junior high. courses in man
ual training and mechanical drawing
will be offered in the sixth and sew
enth grades for the boys and the
vocational home economics course
given to the girls Of the same grades.
In both highs regular physical in
struction and organized playground
work will be part of the daily
schedule. credit being given in each
instance. The organized play
ground work will be extended to all
grades. This in brief will indicate
some of the forward looking steps
being taken to make the schools
more nearly meet the demands of
the community. In this connection
steps are being taken to insure well
organized s'cafeteria under the di-