Evening Star Newspaper, September 11, 1924, Page 21

CHOOL BOARD IN DEADLOCK ON INTELLIGENCE TEST PLAN Debate of Three Hours Leaves Big Problems Still Unsolved. Congestion in Suburbs Brings Suggestions From Patrons. A three-hour debate, punctuated by sporadic verbal tilts, Tulled to bring the Board of Education yesterday af- tersoon any nearer a solution to the two outstanding educational prob- lems scheduled for disposition on the calendar of its special session. tinuation of the intelligence te introduction of the platoon s ation at the E. V. Brown and Ta- Koma Park schools, the two questions on which action was expected, were for the second time shunted aside for further considerati Discussion of the advantages and disadvant of the platoon method of education occupied a greater por- tion of the board’s time. ill it was decided to postpone action until every person interested is given an upportunity to voice an opinion on the proposal to establish the work- study-play plan at the Takoma Park and Brown schools. As a result a special meeting of the board called for this purpose at the Frank- lin School next Tuesday night at § o'clock, Criticize Superintendent. Capt. Julius 1. Peyser, leader of the prosressive “bloc” on the board, apened the arguments on the intelli- 8 and proceeded to criticize nk W. Ballou for assigning lle to conduct the work " in ational measurement | and research without authorization by the board. “There is nothing in | w minutes to show that Miss La authority to conduct the Pe The_ques- nsidered now is whether Miss La le should continue this work during the new school year.” Dr. Ballou immed ely took the floor and showed by the records that the board had apvroved the appoint- ment of Miss La 1 < supervising principal of the second division and her assignment director of the de- Partment of educatio res and measurement. Furthermore, Rallou maintained that under riles of the board he had the authori- v to assizn school officers to special | work Ernest of the controvers Ta Salle wa reenwood, vice president »ard then leaped into the contending that Miss appointed for the pur- Dose of makins a research in child psychology. but not to srade pupils in'a wholesale fashion through the system of intelligence tests. He al- 50 questioned the wisdom of an “un- | trained and incompetent” staff of | teachers applying the tests. | Defending Principles. Both Capt. Peyser and Mr. Green- wood did not attack the fundamental | principles of the intelligence tests. | Capt. Peyser said, personally, he ap- proved of them, but believed that some changes should be made in their | zpplication. Likewise, Mr. Greenwood | contended that it was an excellent iiea to turn the schools into a labora- | tory to study child psychology. The arguments over the applicaticn of the tests were waxing warm when Supt. Ballou, in the role of arbitra- tor, urged the board to give more consideration to the subject, which he characterized as of utmost im- portance. “It is surprising.” he said, “that so few complaints were made az the intelligence tests in view of the fact that they are something | new in Washington.” | Consideration of the establish_the platoon system Takoma Park and E. V. Brown Schools | was started by the board at 2 o'clock, | meeting as a_committee of the whole | behind closed doors. When Capt. Feyser arrived and found the mem- bers closeted in Dr. Ballou's office, he refused to participate in the proceed- ings and walked out. Capt. Peyser contended that the board does not have authority under the organic law to meet in committee of the whole. “I can't sce the difference between a meeting of the board and a committee of the whole,” he declared heatedly. “It's only juggling word Discuss Platoon Plan. | Besides a number of communications | from parent-teacher and civic organ- | izations indorsing the platoon plan iich was adopted at the Park View | School more than four years ago, the Loard took a volume of verbal testi- mony concerning the work-study- play system while meeting in com- mittee of the whole. Henry C. Clark of the Takoma Park Parent - Teacher Association, who proposed the introduction of the work-study-play system at the Ta- Xoma Park School as a means of re- lieving congestion, explained why the organization was supporting the proposition. Stephen I. Kramer, yrincipal of Central High School, and former assistant superintendent of s Ppearing as a parent and a school official, vigorously op- posed the plan on the ground that it is mot falr to the child, because it takes considerable time from traditional studies. New York spent thousands of dol- Jars experimenting with the work- study-play system, Mr. Kramer point- ed out, and subsequently completely threw it out of the echools. Ques- tioned by James T. Lloyd, president of the board, as to whether he would prefer to send his children to a pla- toon school or to a part-time school, Mr. Kramer replied that he would choose the latter because tho studies | would not be distracted. Mr. Kramer voiced the opinion that the congestion problem at the Ta- Joma Park School could be relieved by barring Maryland children. “The District cannot undertake to Build schools on the District line to acom- modate the children in the grawing residential sections of Maryland,” he declared. “The emergency should be met by organizing the schools to ac- commodate the childrden of the Dis- trict first and the Maryland children afterward. Miss Frances S. Fairley, principal ©f the Park Viek School, contradicted the statements of Mr. Kramer that the platoon school distracts the study of the pupils. She emphasized that her school had been unusually suc cessful operating on the work-study- play plan, and advocated the exten-: sion of this system to meet congested | conditions. Miss Katherine R. Maec- queen, principal of the Takoma Park School, explained that conditions at her school for the introduction of the platoon system are entirely different from those at Park View. The question of placing a portable _— proposal to Phone Us For Information Concerning Chevy Chase Homes QUINTER, THOMAS & CO. | Main 8416 arch | | poned action t the | - CAPT. E. H. PULLMAN, President Manor Park Citizens’ Asso- ciation, who headed delegation before Board of Education asking for porta- ble school for Manor Park. school in Manor Park, already side- tracked several times by the board, again bobb up, when Ernest H. Pullman, president of the Manor, Park Citizens' ociation, appeared at the meeting with five young children and their parents to stress the need of school facilities! Pullman intro- duced each of the children as well as their parents to the board, and em- phasized that unless a portable was erected the youngsters would be forced to travel considerable distance to the schools of surrounding commu- nities and brave the dangers of traf- fic, Defer Manor Park Plea. Dr. E. G. Kimball, supervising prin- cipal of the third division, cited sta- s to the board showing that the ildren in Manor Park could not be mmnodated in a single portable. As a result, the board again post- until the proposal to tablish the platoon system at the oma Park and E. V. Brown schools has been disposed of entirely. A. Il Gregorv. representing the Stanton Park Citizens' Assoclation. filed another complaint with the board regarding the unsatisfactory condi- tion of the heating plant at the Hilton School. Mr. Greenwood told the board that he has followed closely the con- dition of the Hilton heating appa- ratus, and expressed the belief that when all repairs are completed it will ba “quite as good as the heating plants in other school: The board, on rec Supt. Ballou, appointed Miss Janet McWilliam, principal of the Force chool, to be supervising principal of the fourth division. Miss Adelaide Davis, supervising principal of the fourth division, w: subsequently transferred to the sixth division to fill the vacancy caused by the retire- ment of Miss Flora L. Hendley. R. W. Holt was appointed chief account- ant of the school system, succeeding . Raymond O. Wilmarth, who was recently promoted to be business manager. Changes in Personnel. Resignations—C. B. Roberts, teach- er, elass 1A, now on leave of absence; B. M. Brackett, teacher, class 1A, physical t , class 1A, John Eaton School: A. Alexander, teacher, class 3A, East- n High School: M. H. Riess, teach- Addison J.el mmendation of er, class 1A, | Tomlinson, teach r. cl. leave of absence; H. T er. class 1A, Blair- Albert Kaiser, coal-passer, New Last- ern High School. Leaves of absence—M. S. Elliott, teacher, class 1A, Maury School; D. O'Neil, teacher, class 1A, H. D. Cooke School; Carolyn Faris, teacher, class 1A, H. D. Cooke School; Rosalie Walker, teacher, class 1A, Peabody- Hilton School; G. B. Riggins, teacher, class 1A, Pierce-Webb School; M. I Riggi teacher, class 1A, Taylor School; James MeNiff, laborer, Brook- land Scho. Promotions—Alma Barker, teacher, from class 1A. Johnson-Powell School, to class 2A, Hine Junior High School; M. D. Reed, teacher, from class 1A, Allison Street Portables, to class 2A, Jefferson Junior High School; L. P. Hester, teacher, from class 1A, Web- ster School, to class 2A, Jefferson Junior High School; Adelaide Field, teacher, Macfarland Junior High School, from class 2A to class 2C; M. F. Clifford, teacher, Hine Junior High School, from class 2A to class 2C; V. H. Johnson, teacher, from class 2A, Langley Junior High School, to class 2C, Columbia Junior High School; S School; B. Waters, teacher, Macfarland Junior High School, from class 2A to class 2C; E. J. Soelberg, teacher, from class 1A, Curtis-Hyde School, to class 2A, Langley Junior High School; M. E. Blandford, teacher, from class 1A, Jefferson-Amidon School, to class 3A, Western High School; A. C. Schwing- hammer, teacher, from class 1A, Smallwood-Bowen School, to class 2A, Jefferson Junior High School; M. M. Marsden, teacher, from class 1A, Smallwood-Bowen School, to class 2A, Jefferson Junior High School; Ida Harmel, teacher, class 1A, Smallwood- Bowen School, to class 2A, Jefferson Junior High School; H. E. Bundick, teacher, from class 1A, Kenilworth School, to class 2A, Langley Junior High School; Mary Stewart, teacher, from class 1A, Wheatley School, to class 2A, Jefferson Junior High School; A. C. Trennis, from class 1A, physical training, to class 3A, East- ern High School; H. E. Bonell, teach- er, Columbia Junior High School, from class 2A to class 2C; M. L. Wood, teacher, class 2A, Hine Junior High School, to class 3A, BEastern High School: Irene Minear, teacher, from class 1A, domestic art, to class 24, Jefterson Junior High School; A. C. Blandford, teacher, from class 1A, do- mestic science, to class 2A, Columbia Junior High School; Otto Scheldel, teacher, from class 1A, manual train- ing, to class 2A, Jefferson Junior High School; M. M. Carraher, teacher, Jef- ferson-Amidon School, class 1A. to class 2A, Jefferson Junior High School; Virginia Woodin, _teacher, from class 2A, Macfarland Junior High School, to class 3A, McKinley High School; S. T. Hart, teacher, from class 1A, Corcoran School, to class 24, Jefferson Junior High School; Duncan McLaren, teacher, from class 1A, Smallwood-Bowen School, to class 24, Jefferson Junior High School. Transfers—M. F. Simonton, teacher, from Columbia Junior High School to Macfarland_Junior High School; Ger- trude G. Brown, teacher, class 2C, Columbia_Junior High, to class 3A, Central High School; R. M. Fogarty, teacher, Pierce-Webb, from grade 2 to grade 2; J. T. Ggllahorn, teacher, class 1A, from Smallwood-Bowen School to Jefferson Junior High School; T. R. Dowling, teacher, class A, from Smallwood-Bowen School to Jefferson Junior High School; F. M. Brage, teacher, from grade 3, Emery Sckington School, to grade 7, Blair- Hayes School; Evangeline Thurston, teacher, from grade 3, Abbot-Twining School, to grade 7, Maury School; M. L Benoist, teacher, from class 2C. Columbia Junior High School, to class 3A, Central High School; E. B. Bd- monston, teacher, from Phillips School to Garrison School; V. P. Snowden, teacher, from Chain Bridge Road School to Wilson School: O. R. Rogers, teacher, from Wilson School to Chain Bridge Road School; J. R. Bush, teacher, Wilson School, to Mont- zomery School; M. F. Fletcher, teacher, from Montgomery School to Wilson School; §. F. Clarke, teacher, from Wilson School to Montgomery School; R. O. Robinson, teacher, from grade 7 0 grade 6, Garrison School; J. C. Grant, teacher, Garrison School, from grade 5 to grade 6; A. G. Parks, teacher, from Sumner-Magruder School to Garrison School; J. C. Smith, teacher, from Montgomery School to Sumner- Magruder School; S. J. Janifer, teacher, from New Bell School to Montgomery School; M. E. Wilkinson, teacher, from Montgomery School to Phillips School; G. T. Waters, teacher, from Phillips School to Montgomery Sehool; H. A. Dawley, teacher, Bruce School, from grade 3 to grade 4; M. R. Lewis, teacher, Bruce School, from grade 2 to grade 3; E. A. Palmer, teacher, Bruce School, from grade 1 to grade 2; A. M. Burwell, teacher, from Smothers School to Bruce School; E. S. Horad, teacher, from Garrison School to Phillips School M. S. Early, teacher, from Crum- mel School to Slater-Langston School; S. N. McGinnis, teacher, from Smoth- ers_School to Crummel School; E. J. Hawkins, teacher, from Old Bell School, to Smothers School; H. J. Gray. teacher, from Bowen School to0 Old Bell School; E. C. Butcher, teacher, from Smothers School, to Wormley School; R. 1. White, teach- er, from Wormley School, to Smoth- ers School; H. J. 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