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Show 8th Graders Must Work Now Superintendent McCarrey Gets Big Schools to Assist Him in County Work. Following the suggestions ol Superintendent, Super-intendent, of Schools, J. L. McCarrey, the H. YeCh and A. G of 1 7, haver- dd-elded dd-elded to not. accept as students next year any fight h grade pupils from the county sclioo's" who huvr- not passed this tegular examination given them at. the nd of the present school year. Heretofore these big schools have accepted ac-cepted practically any applicants and without entrance examination. As a result, the eighth graders In the county schools usually slackened In their work about the middle of the school j ear and refused to lake the examination ex-amination at the end of the year. They knew they could enter one of the colleges without examination, and of course they need not run the risk of tailing to pass the eighth grade examination. exam-ination. Agreed Readily. Thlsdllllculty was broached to the authoiltles of, the big schools and after af-ter listening to explanations they agreed to co-operato with Supt. McCarrey Mc-Carrey In this cHort to make tho pupils pu-pils In the county reach a. .higher standard before entering tho colleges. They must now pass the regular eighth grade examlnatlbri, and secure their certificates, or clso pass an examination examina-tion equally as hard for entrance to the b(g schools. " " r s " The Result. The laxity In the past in one instance in-stance resulted fnonly two of a certain i graduating class taking the examination), examina-tion), yet the following year most Of them were In the schools heic. In another an-other Instance out of a class of ten that took the examination, but two passcd.yctthc next year found many of those who failed in the colleges here. The eight graders, having a rather natural disposition to slip through as easily as possible, found tho way open and took advantage of the situation. Thlsdllllculty Is now obviated and If the boys and girls expect to get Into tho colleges tl,icy will havo to work hsud In their eighth grade work and pass the examination. As to High Schools. Supt. McCarrey Is an earnest advocate advo-cate of the high school, and Insists that the need Is imperative. Scarcely more than two per cent of the students stu-dents graduating from tho eighth grade over enter college, and It is true that ulnc-tcnt.hs of them havo not reached such an age that It Is advisable advis-able for them to go away from home to school. As a consequence an extremely ex-tremely small proportion of our school population gets the advantage of schooling bejond tho eighth jjradc and In later life regret It deeply. 'With high schools In tho various towns, most, if not all, graduates from the eighth grado would continue going to school. Tho graduate frort high school work is but fairly equipped yet could pull through life to better advantage with thlsadditlonal schooling. |