English: Manhattan Trade School for Girls: straw sewing Identifier: preparationfortr00newy (find matches) Title: Preparation for trades; Manhattan trade school for girls, Vocational school for boys, Murray Hill vocational school, Brooklyn vocational school for boys Year: 1916 (1910s) Authors: New York (N.Y.). Superintendent of Schools New York. Manhattan trade school for girls. (from old catalog) New York. Vocational school for boys. (from old catalog) New York. Murray Hill vocational school. (from old catalog) Brooklyn. Vocational school for boys. (from old catalog) Subjects: Technical education Publisher: (New York, Press of Clarence S. Nathan, inc.) Contributing Library: The Library of Congress Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: eling on the 11 part of elementary school principals and teachers that the tradeschool is the place for their dullest girls, the Board of Educationhas wisely provided for a probationary period of five months,after which girls who prove unfit may be excluded from the school.This is most satisfactory to both girls and parents, since it doesnot encourage a girl to learn a trade for which she is obviouslyunsuited, nor does it encourage parents to make the necessarysacrifice to give a girl the training only to have her prove unsuc-cessful in the end. As a matter of fact, a large number of girlswho imagine they wish to learn a trade find the immediate wagereturn in an unskilled job too tempting and so drop out of schoolbefore the end of the probationary period. The school has tocompete with shops offering pay while learning, and eventhough it is known that such offers are usually fictitious, the desirefor an immediate income frequently overrules the better judgmentof both girls and parents. Text Appearing After Image: MANHATTAN TRADE SCHOOL FOR GIRLS. STRAW SEWING. 12 As to dull girls who are problems in elementary school becausethey cannot learn readily from books, it may be said that, withfew exceptions, they are also problems in the trade school. Whileit is true to some extent that technical skill and the acquisitionof book knowledge require different types of ability, it is not truethat dull and unintelligent girls are likely to succeed at skilledtrades. By far the largest number of problem girls who aresent to the trade school drop out within a few weeks or monthsafter their admission and enter unskilled occupations. LENGTH OF COURSE The trade school course has been made comparatively short.In formulating the course, two questions have been kept in mind: 1. How long can the average girl, who is obliged to leave schoolat 14 to earn, a livelihood, devote to training? 2. What is the minimum amount of skill that girls of 15 and16 must have to gain entrance to skilled trades and have a fairopportun Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.