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Show COMMUNITY-SCHOOL EXPERIMENT ATTEMPT Can a scnool change a community? commun-ity? That's what Baltimore officials offic-ials feel- and they are embarking on an extensive experiment to prove (or disprove) the point. A model elementary school, where everything was carefully chosen except the children, has been opened in Baltimore. At the Mount Royal School all the teachers are fully qualified there are no beginners, no substitutes. Classes are limited to 30 students. There is a separate gymnasium, cafeteria, cafet-eria, auditorium, library, health suite. There are 24 classrooms, and 2 kindergartens. Outside is a large playroom. Last month 480 -students started school at Mount Royal. The question is: "How much impact will this model school have on the neighborhood?" For, you see, the neighborhood neighbor-hood is not a rrfbdel one. Blight has begun. There are many transient tran-sient families. An urban renewal renew-al program is tackling various neighborhood problems. Dr. J JI .Fischer, Supt. of Public Pub-lic Instruction, comments :"We 're trying to show the relationship between a good school and the total life of the neighborhood." Students will be compared with the norm for Baltimore. If they show more than usual progress, then the model school will be a success. |