Show NEW SCHOOL PLAN LIMED LI KED I I Platoon System Declared I to Meet With Great Success DETROIT March farch 29 2 A The W Pla Work StudS Pia plan upon the platoon school sy system tem temIs Is based ha has pd ei sen eel not only to cut the cost o ot education but to In Increase In- In InI Increase toI I crease Its Ls benefits benefit in the opinion j I ot of Rose Phillips super Isor I of platoon schools In Dh olt She Sho I describes the purposes of ot the pla- pla platoon platoon pla platoon toon s 5 ste mas the teaching ot of fundamentals the ee R Rs 5 s the training of ot children for WOI 1 In the affairs o ot of the home and the training o ot of dien chit chit- child d dien en In the duties and an 1 responsibilities Illes of ot citizenship to make alce them conscious ot or their social relation relation- relationships relationships ships rOt roi the attainment of ot these pur- pur pur-po pur poe e the th pupils arc are ell divided Into t 0 platoons While one ono group I Is In the home rooms be- be beIn belog be In log taught reading wrItIng arith- arith arithmetic and penmanship the other I or platoon pIa loon Is In the spec pec tat ial looms 1 Ing training In secial courses not regarded under the old as fundamental but according to Miss MIs PhIllIps los lo's nt in the devel dovel- development of ot the child for his I dyel home and citizenship I The system 5 stem Miss PhIllips says gl es more time for tor the Inculcation ot of fund than Is possible under the tIle old Although the thc horn homo loom oom teacher has two of ot pupils pupil to handle handl during the div dis she he has less fe fewer feer er subjects 10 0 parc fe fewer fener er Interruptions arid and thus Is it I able aNe better to check cheek the ability of nf r f the ilio chIldren In tho the for for- for mal mat subjects An tant feature of ot the pla platoon pin pla- platoon toon system stem In Miss PhillIps opinion opInIon ion Is I the auditorium It adds to the school sh she s1 main matis- maintains tame an entirely new and Im- Im Important Important Im Important so unit which the platoon thenon-platoon platoon non 5 system tem did not ha hase e When Its it po possibilities S are finally worked out she eq it will ahll be J found to be b th the most effective I edu- edu educational edu educational In the entire organization dU There are arc various a s In the auditorium ma mabe ma be used to fur further fur fur- further ther the educational program Miss s fur I Phillips asserts assert Platoon schools ha hase e been In successful since 1918 HI I Oo 00 |