Evening Star Newspaper, April 2, 1937, Page 46

- ISCARDS EPIRT (o] SCHOOLINROSLYN _Whole Stern Atmosphere of &% 0id Institutions Is Abandoned. (This is the second of a series of tories on the clash of “Progressive Education vs. the Three Rs” in the little town of Roslyn, N. Y.) BY the Associated Press. ROSLYN, N. Y., April 2—The eld-fashioned “whaling” expedition “to the family woodshed—the inev- itable climax wher papa scanned junior's report card and found it studied with “Fs"—has no place in Roslyn today. Because papa, in Roslyn, has no re- port card to scan. Junior, indeed, never “flunked,” un- der the town's progressive education system. Nor does he suffer any school punishment—no standing in corners, | no staying after school, no writing the declension of a Latin noun 100 times after “muffing” it in class. | In fact, the whole stern atmosphere of “Little Red Schoolhouse” days has | been discarded as outmoded in the | experiment in modern education which “Is now splitting this Long Island com- | munity into two camps. System Is Defended. In defense of the system, Supt. of | = Schools Frederick Robert Wegner has | launched a campaign to “educate” | parents, inviting them to the schools to see for themselves what is being done. | He showed them youngsters writing | poetry, listening to & radio broadcast | of a Walter Damrosch symphony, dis- | cussing music, art and science and ¢ learning about life at first hand by going on frequent tours to airports, factories, markets, the zoo, the plane- tarium, bakerfes, public utility plants | and newspapers. He showed them how third-grade children, out of the study of milk, derived a knowledge of spelling, science, health, geography, home eco- nomics and life on the farm—by a tacking the subject from every con- | ceivable angle. “Where the old-style text book left | the child with the simple and unsat- isfying statement that ‘the cow gives milk,” we try to give him a complete, intelligent picture,” he said. Study of Constitution. Similarly, a “progressive” study of the Constitution - includes public | speaking, literature, history and other branches of learning which ordinarily would not enter the single, simple task. ‘Under the progressive system, teach- ers write individual monthly reports to the parents—describing the child’s \ interests and achievements but not“ grading the child on a comparative basis with his classmates. “There are three prime reasons for l discarding the old report card,” said | Wegner. | “First, the card gave little informa- tion about actual achievements. Sec- ond, & quick-learning child might go all through school with a smug, self- satisfled feeling o° being above aver- age achievement—on the old com- parative grading system—without ever having exerted himself to the best effort of his capabilities. Third, we believe the child should struggle to improve his own record, not to im- prove upon the record of some other child.” As for punishment, Miss Martha Seeling, principal of the Roslyn Heights Elementary School explained: “In the old system, children who were backward were kept with their noses to the curriculum grindstone day after day, trying to learn some- thing in which they had no interest and which they were not mentally THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, FRIDAY, APRIL 2, 1937. fitted to do—and punished for that inability. “From a standpoint of mental hygiene, the old-system school was a breeding place of morons. Here we give them something they can do— something that interests them—and they go ahead by leaps and bounds. “We teach them to think for them- selves, not merely memorize, We try to fit thre school to the child, in con- trast to the old-type school, where every child had to fit a set pattern.” Some of the “progressivized” chil- dren may be a trifie hazy about the routine “mind-training facts” which their parents learned in school 20-odd years ago—“and promptly forgot,” added Miss Seeling—but their youth- ful minds, still shy of their teens, are busily engaged with ‘“progressive knowledge” their elders never learned until years later. Lowest Prices on Foods SAVE at KIDWELL'S Pork Loin ROAST ».23¢ VEAL CUTLETS FANCY LEG VEAL _ SHOULDER ROAST VEAL LOIN VEAL ROAST CHOICE MEA Faney Sugar- Cured SMOKED HAMS Extra Fine » 23¢ SHOULDER LAMB ROAST ____ Grade A MILK Full Quart. Bring Bottle 11c BREAST LAMB PLATE BEEF FRESH HAMS, half or whole FANCY SAUSAGE MEAT. 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