Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-06-05
VOCATIONAL PLANS
FOR SCHOOLS HERE
STUDIED BY BOARD
Concrete Program Includes
Twelve Recommendations
Made by Committee.
JOHN B. COLP0YS HEADS
GROUP MAKING OUTLINE
Cooperation With Employers by
Placement officer Among
Work Considered.

A concrete program for the improve
nent of Washington vocational educa-
ton school system is being studied to-
day by members of the Board of Edu-
cation following presentation of the plan
by John B. Colpoys, chairman Of the
advisory committee on vocational edu-
cation, to the board late yesterday.
The program as sent up by the COM
mittee after lengthy research on its own
part and study of the District of Column
bia vocational schooling system by the
Federal Board for Vocational Education
calls for the creation of new position
of director of vocational education.
This officer would be assisted by an
advisory committee together with trade
co-operative committees as recommend
ed in the report made by the Federal
Board and published exclusively in The
Star a month ago.
Twelve specific recommendations are
carried in Mr.. Colpoys committees re-
port. They follow:
Colpoys Recommendations
1. That the trade schools for girls
row In use in the District be retained
Or the present and be improved 70
meet existing demands.
2. That the buildings now housing
trade schools for boys in the District be
replaced by modern structures. sulta-
bly, equipped for trade courses OF train
ing. each provided with an assembly
hall, gymnasium, library, locker room,
shower baths, and grounds for athletic
and recreational purposes.
g. That each trade school offer two
year course of training, such as Is re-
Quired of apprentices, in all trades with
respect to which there is demand for
artisans in the District and its environs,
and for which not less than six pupils
make application, and give to each pupil
of good character completing such
course a certificate of graduation.
4. That entrance requirements to a
trade school shall include a satisfac-
tory completion Of the regular eighth
grade work.
viii Use Skilled Artisans.
5. That one-half of the time spent
in a trade school be devoted to trade
work, for vocational training, under in
structors selected from the trade In
which they are to give instruction, and
that such instructors or skilled artisan
teachers, be required to have working
knowledge of the art and science OF
teaching.
6. That the remaining one-half OF
time spent in a trade school be divided
between academic training related &c
extra-curriculum activities, such as
music, public speaking, theatricals
athletics, etc, and that all teachers OF
academic subjects meet the requirements
of junior high school teachers.
z. That each trade school, In addi-
ton to a two-year course In trade train
ing, shall provide for those who finish
the regular curriculum or are artisans
a continuation school where graduates
tn he
special training to At them for pro-
motions In their respective trades, and
that such continuation school give in
struction at night or outside Of regular
employment hours.
VIII Place Students.
8. That each trade school shall have
q placement officer or department to
canvass at least annually the trades
of the community for the purpose of
acquiring data as to the number of
workmen each trade can probably as
simulate or use, to find positions for
graduates and to give helpful sugges-
lions to graduates after employment
as well as to pupils upon entering
school
g. That only vocational or mechani-
cal training for pupils above the eighth
grade be transferred from other schools
10 the Crade schools, ana Ifdt engineer
ing and commercial courses be not in
cluded In the courses to be transferred
to trade schools.
10. That materials and supplies re.
quired in operating trad. schools, az
well as text books, be furnished free
to pupils.
II. That the Board of Education CO.
operate with employers and labor rep
resentatives in formulating courses Of
study for each trade, selecting vocation
al teachers, determining the number Of
pupils to be admitted annually into
the various trade courses and selecting
the equipment for training in each
trade, and
IL. That special training schools bt
provided for backward or mentally de.
ficient pupils, who shall be denied ad-
mission into the trade school.
The report containing the recon.
mendations was signed by Mr.. Colpoy!
as chairman, Gen. Anton Stephan
Rufus Lusk, Charles H LIE Fevre, Frank
j. Coleman, Mrs. Fred T. Dubois, Alber'
J. Cassell, A. S. Pinkett James G
Yaden and John E. Smith.