| Show Sunday Morning June jsalt £akc tribune AT!jc ft ! ' h iA I 1 1 t 4 its 4 and end of high school training have chanued and mere patchwork supplied by vocational and commercial courses doesn’t serve to pay good dividends to students who want woik after fom years in Central High With 4 Xi million young people isolated g between school and the brea between getting ready to work and actually w oi king for pay was never wider And there i wage-earnin- is done everything in a Bert II Davis that’s American hurry Gold" Rush in ’49 Growth of the automobile industry of radio The of air lines The sweep of swing College enrollments multiplied by 10 since this century was born Dut all these recoids ciumble before the tidal wave that has been sweeping American youth into the high schools When McKinley came to the W hite House there were 220000 students taking high school work m slightly more than 2000 public second- ary schools Two years after the Woild War ended American high school enrollment passed the two million mark Increases in high school population have clicked along at the rate of one million gain every five years — until now there are 61 s million in the public high schools Nice going! What business wouldn't rejoice to see the patronage grow at such a rate! i teen-ager- TVUT the grumbling about high school train-m- g grows along with the increased attendance Some complaints come from students more from parents and most fiom educational experts themselves Few students put their indictment of high school couises in as definite foim as one teenIllinois age girl in teachers' magazine Consequently a professional this well worth thought TTELPFUL answers for some of the girl’s In the meantime m sight are questions that with the interthe meet of activities many ests and needs of the high school bunch are No carried out through independent clubs of forms life more American supports group in ft The American fellowship and extra training Youth Commission found 80 distinctive move- ant to know boss to care for our bodies how to rear the children we will soon have to bring up how we can work construe vs r A V ments or types of clubs flourishing among high the best known being school young people Four H and Hi-Scouting Among parents of high school youth the agitation for having high schools bite deeper into life is strongest in some of the slates of ' ''V 'Aa training the far west And no wonder! The country as a whole sends 60 per cent of the children of high school age to these schools but in California that percentage rises to 86 in the state of s while in Utah it’s Washington to 9 In other western states the high school enrollment is correspondingly high Glad to be heard at last progressive school- ' i'h'Yvw rt vV' u A v W-V- -' Y v y A 'v'Vr ' A a 5 ' v ' V' v v 95-plu- n recent point to anv one of a that show high schooling comes nosurveys to where near to closing the gap between books and work between classroom recitation and holding a job The chasm between school and men half-doze- " d AVWWWtV o ww tAxslpi v mMm VilimvA An wv F mployment Service covering teen agers in seven states all looking for their hot jobs The figures reveal a startling situation Right at the beginning one sixth of these couldn't be classed as ready for They any type of work didn't have trained minds or strong backs or skillful hands to offer in the labor maiket One third had to he ii l Gulick v — tint we have curiosity want to nnesligite and grow and learn nroie of life? "Our time in v hool is 6qu irutrred on the dr-- t ills of war generals dr ad kings and queen' chid and unused languages mythology portions of philosophy and econonms and a literature thal is hopt h ss!yout of elite and III i ro priale for the piesi lit time "Why rant we he I night a reilain amount of some appiopmle lilt ratine s lent e psychology how to dr u lop prison ility how to choose a caieer (whether it is rnumgr or religion and how to make the most of our tali nts?" I tiylisli biei-nes- service slated just about as many for srhs wmk a frvv hundred It's for and re nirants ami h ss jo! s in households than 6000 m all loims of u ifl'in inship hat doe'nt sum up wlnt educalois think but it gives an is wrong with the high si bools lie employment I 1 idea and their yrir prve tiers associates ouij research1! and P High schools should give foui ve us in eral 'cience human relations comnuinitv I and world history general matheni itie I liese subjects should he viewed as thf arts relate to the life of the typiial cihen Tli should amount to something moie lh m nedil' bt col le ge enlram t If a pupil has a job to go Ibl him leave school then and then I 11 l j finite job to enter the s Ii ’l ''u hold him to 18 or later at the s inn lnn 8VII1j an extn ytai or two of tunning m idi'llor 'kills It would fit him for mote linn one' ha'n I u a de of employment As to voi ation il schools the New VA”11 °'fI committee accepts the findings tint they 'pecidie aiming to pul a boy int ' lf palion in which no real opining' "' Regents want each high school to hue t!rnf n voi ation d couises so that cvrry gt uhialf i i er I educational lie CO’t I book-Inrpr- educ- the high schools of New York N ilr I very child is entitled to high 'elionl Iran'1! — that i' at least 12 years of sell lineal some rent fewer slrnogr iphers At any rate would think that job pi icemeut in tlie seven you stales would discover many youths ready for But only 5500 of the 80000 were office jobs found qualified to put down as rmluyo typists ami offue nhclunr oprratois th sho I si srlfhrlp organizations will bring them into better paid ranks O n e f i f t h of the 80 000 (ould be rerommended for semiskilled work largely in factories Many such youths r ome ftom vor Uional couises Others have gone in foi summer tune woik and there they got prutire whilr the sc hool night them theoiy In a the registration in short rrrrnj period han I cl uses in public schools rose 108 pr r rent while at the sime tune business employed six of propose a new enlarged program to make schools more practical and add to adult cation The cost of these additions to student bodv and to courses would be ju t about IK same as the wastes the Regrnls ire stri'l to check without system the skills that acquiring world can use — working and employers’ only classes or night schools or lively together and for whit r nd we shall live "We w ant the lac ts of life "We grt so tiled of being ignoird and made to be quirt1 We want to be rrcngnied as inclividuils who can think vuflei and feel "( mnot you adults undent ind that we want to build invent ante think for outselvrs wasteful ssary school Learning how to look one's best is a regular part of the course of instruction at a New York high school Erprt d 80000 A'-- - three year Regents’ Inquiry into the needs and possibilities of high school I wh Directed by 47 year-olLuther Gulick and with a $500000 budget this oflunl inqumr announces a piogrim of school rr forms that of unnecewould scrap $40000000 a They passed through the rA ork State Board of Regents school standards in the high supervises State and then to the chairmanship ’i i ation put down as ready only Infor physical labor these youths creasingly will have to compete with labor saving machines ' High school studies go far beyond Above those of a decade ago youths perform practical expert merits with light New Vfi 1 1 v 'X Vn WV ilji vocation lies wide and deep and the 18 year-olor 20 year old is almost entirely on his own when he lues to get from one brink to the other And as to piepaiation for any definite type of bread w inning — here are records taken by the United States printing "We 7 A Van Hoinesville in Central New York sort of cential school faculty and courses lied like to see in every American community Appiopriately Young was apixunted to tin And why are their graduates jobless? Recent surveys may give the answers LMOST ' P plenty of evidence that the unemployment for all th in itself is not responsible trouble Gwen O - Young -- of the- - elmncat Industry" recognizes defects in schools and schooling so cleaily that he gave to the town of his boyhood What's wrong with the high schools? By h FWIILIAR criticism of loach rs parr nts emploveis— in part confirmed by Walter B 'll km teuher of jounnhsm- - is that hoys ami guts in tin fifth and sixth glades 1 am! 1 read much betlir show moir miriest spill in new and more accurate ly fuls thin high s hool JHIplh Voc itiniia schools aie also untie r lie ivy fue hey tend to over spicuhe m tlu ir in struction ami the winker lobe nowadivs might 1 better come job seeking ns a ( r i v yv i k M a g m n - I'l tnplrlbiral n ' i rl n C 5 man A ) with skills m several kinds of woik handle Jo common tools icael a blue'ability fen and m print simple liboratoiy tests are pet I) a sic all oilg the) e basic 'kills I he prim iple s of pi inning and ten lung high s hool oil si s air about what and where they we’re win n this feniii of e location was alllie s sillily for college High prepiritinn i 'luele nts diel not 0( gieally outnumber col hge students 40 yens ago but now time aie five times as nnny It’s obvious tlit the hint e I definitely fitting himself for mill h' learned at Ii nt such skills ns home Imri ' we uld woik ami siiimin r ex cupalnms taught his pare nts ‘'o lin illy the gep In tween the woikshop is oflienllv heir and their 1 j rtmgnui it will be ' tl nulnU'l I w lU J j I he in day chaws nr net when the rmi or the ilnn union will plume to the lugl'1 for (he next week’s job rriruils I |
