The Republican., 1924-12-04
KITZMILLER HIGH SCHOOL
It's Needs and Accomplishments
for the Year 1924-1925


The Kitzmille High School started
the year 1924-1925 with an entirely
new faculty-not a member of the
former faculty returning for this
school year.
Aims for our School for the Year
1. To organize the different depart
ments into working whole.
2. To make the work interesting
and pleasant for those attending.
3. To make our high school a fac
tor in our community life.
4. To keep as many as possible of
those enrolled in the freshman class
in high school until they finish their
course. So many in the past have
dropped out before graduating.
5. To have our school better equip
ped to take its place as a first group
high school among the other high
schools in our county.
6. To give each child an opportun-
ity to take part in the games spon-
sored by our Public Athletic League;
to give each child sometime during
the school day 45 minutes of health
full recreation.
7. To take part in interscholastic
athletics.
8. To place before the child the
best literature and to get him to
read it.
8. To make our Home Economics
Department function to its fullest ca
pacity.
10. To lay the foundation for char
acter, morals and religious training
for the students.
What we are doing in our courses
as prescribed by the State Board of
Education:
Biology.
The general and specific aims in
biology are the development of the
proper scientific attitude in the pupil,
the ability to observe facts accurate
ly, to think about them clearly and
to form true judgments based on the
facts observed, The pupil should de-
velop the power Of recognizing the
problem, of anaIyzing it and of dis
tinguishing the important factors
connected with it. We get our conclu-
sions by results given by the pupils.
Glass work is an important factor to
US. We take an active part in class
discussion and we try to have the
pleasant and irquiring attitude in the
class. When the weather permits,
our instructor and his class go on a
field trip which means so much to US,
as it teaches us much of the outdoor
life. We also have our laboratory
work in which all the class has taken
part. We have had some good reports
on subjects given by the teacher. One
of the best was, "How can I improve
my own environment" We are fur
ther helped to improve our reasoning
False-True Tests.
History and Economies.
Vests Modern World and Ameri-
can History are being taught respec-
lively in the freshman and senior
classes. We have completed the AM
erican History through the American
Revolution; the Modern World thru
the Restoration. By means of lesson
plans, false-true tests, special reports
and socialized recitations in addition
to one period per week of the Liter
ary Digest for Current History, the
work has been vitalized, interesting
and effective.
The junior class with some of the
sophomores and freshmen have been
studying Thompson's Social Econom-
les with Lang used as a reference
text. Subjects studied to date have
been production, law Of consumption,
distribution and or, anization. A trip
to the coal mines (Hamill Coal &
Coke Co.. taught us to apply certain
economic principles-agents Of pro-
duction, division of labor, problems of
ventilation, actual mining of the coal,
weighing of coal and dangers of the
miner. Advertising has been stud
led by means of our merchants store
windows and they have allowed US on
different occasions to dress their win
dows. In both history and economies
the students viewpoint has been held
uppermost.
French.
Miss Sirbaugh has made the study
of French very fascinating for the
junior class this year. This is the
first class that has ever studied this
language in Kitzmiller high school,
and we have had French only eight
weeks to date because our order for
books was delayed. This class is the
shortest class in the school day, but
we suppose it is because we like it
the best. We have learned the conju-
cation of "avoir," read some short
stories and from the first day we
have had French conversation. We
have learned MANY French terms