Ogden Daily Standard | 1920-01-24 | Page 4 | More Students Attending High Schools

oo MORE STUDENTS ATTENDING 1 HIGH SCHOOLS. ! The announcement of Superintend ent Hopkins that nearly every student graduated from the junior high schools will attend either the Ogden High school, the Weber academy or Sacred Heart academy emphasizes one feature fea-ture in tho progress of education. Not so many years ago tho graduation gradua-tion of a boy or girl from the Eighth grade in the city schools was a mo- mentous event. There were com-I com-I mencement exercises of a formal na-I na-I ture at which solemn address were I made. Brightly decorated diplomas I - -., i i ... ... were handed out with great ceremony and the friends and relatives looked on with awe. The result of all this ceremony gave Johnny McSplivits or Mary McSplivits the idea that a notable epoch had been ended and that already a great step j in education had been taken and It I was immaterial whether he or she went to school any more. So much I fuss was made over having finished the grammar grades that entering high school was a step never thought of by many. Now the tendency is just the opposite. op-posite. The pupil is shown that tho grades just completed are only pre-j pre-j paratory to higher things. There is no sharp jumping off place. The movement move-ment from the junior to the senior high school is accomplished without a ' jerk. The result is more and more J pupils are entering the high schools ! and the junior school system doos j much to bring about this desirable situation.