Show the following Is a brief summary of the recommendations of the vermont ont commission in its report to the governor covering their suggestions of the needed changes in the vermont school system insider in order that the schools may more nearly meet the conditions for which they exist 1 r under our constitution schools schoola must be coine competent tent in number and iri in instruction convenient for athe youth a s duty of athe the commonwealth to all its jy I 1 aduth duth a duty always recognized by the judicial department of the government and in a large rnea mea sure performed by bk the legislative department of the government with the changes in the economical life of the people that have occurred since the founding odthe of the state these fundamental requirements of law respecting schools have buento been to some degree overlooked and present defects in the system of public schools ire are due almost wholly to the failure to adapt such requirements to modern modem conditions elementary schools in the elementary schools want of is especially apparent in the i rural schools not only in their distribution throughout the state but in th equality of their work the commission becom mends that rural schools so far as practicable be consolidated and that their courses of study be revised to the end that the instructions given not only in method but in content may be suited to the daily life and efi environment viron ment of the youth V i secondary schools this lack of appears more prominently d in the states seconda secondary 17 schools due to the fact that the secondary schools are not closely related to the elementary schools and arid that for the benefit of about ond one tenth of the youth of second ary school age they are chiefly preparatory schools for higher education and not for the benefit of the remaining nine tenths of the secondary school youth finishing schools for life to restore the secondary schools to their rightful place as a part of the public school system closely related to the elementary schools and agencies forthe for the convenient instruction of all the youth of the Stat ethe commission recommends a change in the point of division between them and the elemen elementary tark schools asi as follows a that there should I 1 be a junior school maintained in every town township in the staw state where the number of secondary school youth to be conveniently accommodated shall reasonably i warrant it having 0 0 a four idear curriculum elastic in ad m ministration Ini but limited in scope bythe by the number and needs of the local boys and girls 12 to 16 years of age covering the seventh and eighth grades of the present elementary school and the first two years of the present high school b That there should be as many cen central aral and readily accessible senior high schools articulating directly with all the neighboring junior high schools as the number of pupils desiring the advanced instruction given only in this class of schools shall reasonably demand the number and locations to be determined by the board of education these should have a A four year junior curriculum as in the junior high schools but including special vocational opportunities tuni ties particularly in agriculture for pupils from 12 to 19 years of age drawn from the surrounding districts who are fitting for college or are completing a course of general education vocational education the commission believes that the vocational cat ional needs of the state are mainly ag agricultural and that vocational 1 cat ional education should be emphatically directly to the training odthe of the youth of the state iri scientifically practical agriculture 0 1 the instruction in the public schools to be of that character bar acter to educate the youth toward the occupations ons of the communities in which they live 2 the establishment t in the junior high schools of rational cat ional courses offering opportunities tuni ties for instruction in commercial subjects domestic science manual training and agriculture appropriate to the needs and environment of the particular school I 1 |