The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1924-05-29
AGRICULTURE IN OUR Hi
HIGH
SCHOOL.


ing subjects taught in the Nezperce
High School during the coming year.
Right now is the time to begin plan
ming how and where your children will
attend high school Recognizing that
this is naturally an agricultural com
munity, that most of the graduates
from our local schools will engage in
farming as life-work, the manage
ment of the Nezperce Pubic Schools
is reinstating this course and the de-
sire is to make it as comprehensive
and effective as possible without in
any way detracting from general cur
riculum
Furthermore, it is remarkable fact
that in state where 506,614 occupa-
tional workers 10 years of age and
over are engaged in agriculture 1,05l
pupils are studying first year agricul-
ture, 1854 pupils are studying second
year agriculture, 481 pupils are study
ing third year agriculture, and 533
pupils are studying fourth year agri-
culture. A total of 1919 pupils are
getting some training for agricultural
occupations in high schools. The to-
tai Of boys enrolled in high school is
1850 The 1913 who are studying
agriculture are 20 per cent Of those
enrolled in high school. Practically
one boy in four of those enrolled in
high school is receiving some training
in agriculture in this state where z
workers in 10 are engaged in agricul-
tural pursuits. For the state to train
as high q percentage of it's farmers
for their jobs as it is training of other
workers for their jobs the enrolment
in agriculture courses must be multi
piled by 2.s.
The ratio of those being trained for
agriculture to those needed by agri-
culture in the state is, however, more
significant. The average tenure Of the
farm Of the 506,614 workers in agri-
culture is to years. If we assume
that the average tenure is years we
then have a demand for 5O6,614 farm.
ers every four years whereas the high
schools are training 2,919. On this
basis one farmer in every 173 would
receive some training for his work in
high school.
Farming has become commercialized
and highly complex. New problems
are continually arising with changing
conditions in the social order. Unless
we do a better job of reaching the
farm boys with training related to
their occupation can we hope to have
self-sustaining agriculture in the I'm
tied Statess
May and June are red-letter months
for thousands of farm boys and girls
because they have received diplomas
emitting them to enter high school.
These have usually been presented by
county or town superintendent, in tho
presence of parents and schoolmates,
at appropriate. exercises held in honor
Of the occasion. The slogan has prob
ably been: "On to high school"
Whether many of these boys and
girls do go on to high school next |
September depends very largely upon
the attitude of their parents towards
education and their ability to solve
difficulties. If there is no high school
within walking distance of home and |
no train or bus service some way will |
need to be devised of overcoming the
obstacle of distance between home and |
school. If there is high school with
in reasonable driving distance the
solution is easy-the family can fur
nish its own. transportation. If there
is no high school within driving dis
lance the child must be either boarded
in town or the family must move to
town. If the family income is small
there must be considerable sacrifice
on the part of both parents and child
rem. But if there is win, there is
usually way.
Parents who fail to provide an OPP,
portunity for their children to secure
a high school education handicap them
in the race of life. Within the last
two years the high school attendance
in this country has been increasing at
The rate of 100000 year. Between
1910 and 1920 its increase was 1OO,-
BOO year. Boys and girls of the
present day will come in contact with
more educated people than did their
parents. They need, at least, high
school education in order to compete
with the generation in which they are
10 live.
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You can buy gasoline in Nezperce
Tor % cents gallon. In fact, it is