Milford chronicle., 1926-09-03
CONSOLIDATION OF
SCHOOLS AND REPAIRS
DISCUSSED BY BOARD
Continued from page y

SCHOOLS nave uOL Deen kept III uISl-
class condition.
Practically all of the cOlored
schools are new having been con-
structed through the generosity of
Pierre S. du Pont and it is because
, of the fact that keeping them in
condition is a matter of economy
and will make them last longer that
some members of the Board of Ed
ucation believe. some other method
than the one now in vogue should be
used.
1t is expected that any move along
this line will meet with some Oppo-
sition, because, at this time, repairs
to school buildings are left to the
local boards of trustees to look af-
ter. Each school is allowed $50 a
teacher a year for repairs and main
tenance. Under the present plan of
keeping the buildings up the State
Board has no jurisdiction over the
repairs only to provide the trustees
with this safe appropriation.
AS most of the trustees are en-
gagged in agricultural pursuits, and
consequently are busy through the
summer when the repairs should be
made, little if anything is done about
needed improvements until few
weeks before the time to start school
in the fall, and then there is a grand
rush to make the needed repairs. AS
a consequence, it is physically i'm
possible for the various boards of
trustees who have neglected the mat
ter of repairs, to make all that are
necessary by the time school opens.
Repairs Department
Under a suggestion made to the
State Board of Education, if the mat
ter of important repairs, involving
carpenter work and painting was
placed in the hands of the state
board, a department comprising one
or two men might be obtained to
look after all of the work during the
summer. AS it has been suggested,
two or three mechanics who COM
bine the ability to do both carpenter
work and painting could start on
the repair work just as soon as the
schools close in May. 1t is believed
they could load up their tools on a
truck and start on regular route
of inspection and work, travelling
from one town and one school to an
other throughout the summer months
and making whatever repairs are
needed to each building. To do this
would involve an act of the legisla-
ture, changing the authority from
making repairs from the local
Boards of Trustees and placing it
with the State Board of Education.
Vocational Training in Schools
The place of vocational education
in the schools of the state in its
program of public education, was the
thought of chief prominence in the
address made by DR.. Harry V. Hol-
lOway at the meeting of the Voca-
tionaI Training Instructors of the
Eastern States at West Chester the
past week.
In his address DR.. Holloway point
ed out that there should be all types
of education for all kinds of chill
dren. If all parents are to be taxed
for education, then education must
be so diversified as to meet the need
of everyone. In vocational education,
DR.. Holloway said he believed some
of the needs in. the public school
system, not met by the traditional
forms of education, could be met. He
said that vocational education should
not be looked upon as a separate
education, but rather as part of
the whole scheme. 1t must take in
the needs of every one.
No one is educated, DR.. Holloway
said, until taught how to earn liv-
ing. In vocational education, with the
other fundamentals, he considered
help to make up a balanced ration
in education.
1--WE must learn to earn the living
that is worth earning in order to
have life worth living" he con-
cluded.
Supervisors Must Teach
At the conference of elementary
supervisors in which plans for get
ting out the attendance on the first
day of school year which is Septem-
ber Z, DR.. Holloway gave the super
visors some advice concerning their
jobs and what he would like to have
them do this year. He told them that
he expected each supervisor to ar
range his or her schedule so that
he would have the opportunity to
teach at least three days in one-tea-
cher schools. In other words these
supervisors will be the teachers on
three different days in three schools
under their supervision.
DR.. Holloway told the supervisors
he wanted them to pick the least
efficient or worse school, one of
medium ability and the best elemen-
tary school under their jurisdiction.
By teaching in each of these three
grades of schools the supervisors
would learn more possibly then in
any other way concerning the needs
of each.
DR.. Holloway urged more frequent
demonstration by supervisors of tea
chers in their charge for the benefit
of the teacher. He suggested that as
many of these demonstrations as
possible should take place at confer
ences or meeting of teachers so that
more than one could benefit. He urg-
ed the necessity of supervisors
spending more time with teachers
that needed assistance rather than
divided it impartially between all.
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