New Britain Herald Newspaper, May 4, 1923, Page 20

TELLS OF VALUE OF PLATOON SYSTEM U. §. Commissioner of Education Claims It Is Economy Method Eom—— The present platoon system wogue In the New Britaly Walderably reduces the of ing the schools, ac from the United Bt of Edueation, in a statement by Btan- Jey H. Holmes, superintendent of the Joeal sehools. In an article headed “Educational Yalue of the Platoon Plan of Sehool Organizatio Mr., Holmes quotes ' warious authorities on a comparison between that system and th e tradi- tional or old.fashioned method of keeping children in the same room all day long. ‘The article from the r port of the United States Commission- er of Education reads as follows “No plan of school organization is Justified merely because it is cheap, for what the Ameriean publle wants first of all s the assurance that it ehildren shall have an opportunity tp socure thelr education in ways which are pedagogically sound and effective. The platoon plan of school organizas- tion, if it had no merit other than mere economy, would not deserve serious consideration. However, hap- plly it combines both economy and pedagogical effielency. Advantages Explained, “On the educational side those who have had experience with this form of organization are nearly a unit in claiming for it the following advantages: It keeps every part of the plant working full time. ; It provides a flexible program of study, making it possible for each gommunity to adapt the program to to a report school s Commissioner . ts partiou Ity make § eds of pupils It pre work and pla ghving back to 1t conditions of from him Iy y for wor tunities and the tr schools organi basls, assuming, of sehools have e ever, seems clea school organization is ganization whi vislen in its prog otlvity which traditiona! type @ spasmodic, and of schoo! pro plan has heen ¢ press purpose of making sueh activi ties an essential part of the worl Furthermore, it must he ohvious that opportunities and advantages of an all.round education of this character can be secured by this in of organs fzatlon at a greatly reduced cost a8 compared with securing the same re- sults under the traditional plan or organization, DI'assiac, N, J,, for ex. ample, reports the per capita cost per student-hour for puplls in the tradl tional school to he $0.045 while for those in the schools organized on the platoon basis the cost is $0.034 per student-hour. On grounds, then, of cconomy and of pedagogleal sound- ness, it may confidently be expected that this type of school organization will be given Increasing considera- tion. “That the platoon plan of school integral part v Indeed, the iived for the ¢ NEW BRITAIN exthooks r hooks and equipment sery eral groups of s pupila Capacity Incveased One-Half Inerease in the capaeity the sehoo! from 33 per cent is in sured by the of Tuetior tHpg to nt ¢ children whe o attend part-time was f mington hoe v o A Ward, superintender f woom, My Ward said that a comparatively small fture was required to remodel » school for this purpose “Initiative is developed in children under this plan, said W, W, B superintendent of schools, Rend, Ind, He found that children and teachers are happier and more 1 In their work than in the v type of school. As parents more and more that the work {8 more attractive when organiz in this way, e plan Is spreading, and #4 schools have now been organized fn Detroit in favor of the superintendent oon Parents in Detrolt ar plan, sald Frank ( of schools in that eity. The educa- tional advantages of the platoon schools are widely recognized, and Detroit people are glad to see the plan extended, “The auditorium work gives the pupils self-confidence, sald Dr. Wil- DAILY HERALD, FRIDAY, MAY 4, 1023, “'SOLVE MURDER MYSTERY visual tigation, and de- auditorium programs o, Port Arthur, according to Leonard Power, ineipal. Every ehild in the sehool a8 a 42.minute auditorium period every school day, and the work fs graded, so that eaeh of the six audi- torlum groups into which the 8,000 hildren are divided may have a suitable program socializing Influence Noticeable, *Phat the platoon plan INCreases the secializing inthuence of th was maintained by Graee Bom principal, First Street school, ren, Ohlo, This soclalizing may he especially noted in chi home training has heen eted,” sald the speaker, “This idea further developed hy sa president of Carson college, phia, who told how a school an girls who operated success- the plateon plan These advantage from which g when musie school will vhose I | hil for orp fully on girls received gre the manual training pared them to ed work, N oa livi opportunity for play wh hey en- selally needed on account of thelr| nck of home life The eduecators attending the con- forence requested the United States commissioner of edueation to ap- point & committee of three to study the possibilities of auditorium work, This committee will report at a con- ference to be ealled in 1024, An ex- hibit showing the various activities of platoon schools in Detroit, Akron, Mount Vernon, and other cit examined Among the buildings pictured 24.soctlon school in Detroit, bullt cspecially for use under the platoon Svictim# had been gouged out the first member Every year new members are enrolied, but applicants pave to pass & severe test providing Henpeeked Club” had recently n a8 the plar The secretary of the confer a year outing e was Allee Barrows, of the United ' their “ones Htates bureau of education To an isolated hamiet, miles to the ahsolute proof that en every day in iay of thelr out the apron president of the ow bondsmen of THROUGH BYE SOGKET 7% £, s 3 not disturbed by the year exeept the ing they ar aves strings and domestic drudgery. — were henpecks the flattest and most hilly of Eng- Lineoinshire |is . 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