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Roseburg Schools in Need of Adequate Buildings
t.i By M. s. HA mm, superintendent of City Schools
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r"jiE city of Roseburg will booiI flnfl
1 It necessary to construct nnothvr
prhool buildiDg. All Bisns indicate
that Roseburg, after a decade of re
latively slow growth, has now enter
ed upon another period of steady ad
vance. It is highly desirable for such
a building as may be constructed, to
bo in line as fully as possible with
the best present day ideas on educa
tion. To forecast future growth accurate
ly is of course, impossible, but it is
possible to get an accurate view of
things tin they are, thereby to envis
age clearly something of prospective
as well as present need.", and thereby
build more wisely than would other
wise be possible. The following data
must be taken into account in settling
this problem.
In forecasting the future erowtW of
the Roseburg publio schools, there are
HC03i:'JUHa HIGH SCHOOL
two methods: of rjrr-?n,j. Onl t.
these is to tase the lorecufi ujn.ni the
school census with the iiica that the
number of pupils in school will in
crease In the same pr.-poi'fon a a will
the number in the city. The other is
to use actual increase in attendance
as tho basis for estimating future In
crease. The best single Index of the growth
of Roseburg I the annual school cen
sus taken lu the fall of each year.
Tablet.
Roseburg School Census for the Tast
Five Years.
12S1
19H .
inn
19:2
16
... 140
ir,T2
An examination of Table 1. shows
s considerable increase In the census
each year since 191S. If the same In
crease in number is maintained for
the next four years we aliall havo
2009 children in Roseburg In 1926.
The second criterion by which' to
Judge prospective growth is the actuul
increase in school attendance.
Table II,
Enrollment of Schools at the Begin
cin? of Second Week.
Year Hi School Grades Total
1918 193 CSS 791
la 19 2.',0 6S4 90
1920 310 702 1012
1921 317 77 10S4
1922 310 770 1120
At present 357 ' SOS 1209
Same time
1920 317 701 10?I
Same time
- 1921 127 798 1123
High School Enrollment, 1923 21,
1924-25.
1. Seating space lower floor au
ditorium 400
Table III.
2. Present enrollment of High
School ...33G
8. 8 As to enter High Hchool in
January, 1923 30
4. Seniors to graduate from High
Sv hool in June, 1923 Cj
E. St tiller; i s remaining in High
School for 1923-24 S21
(I. S li s graduating In June 192.1 til)
7. Freshmen entering HI School
this year 125
8. Predicted Ili-h School enroll
ment 1923-21 4311-4 IS
9. 7 ' to enti-r High School In
January 1924 S3
10. Predicted high School enroll
ment at the close of 1923-24-440
11. Seniors to graduate from High
School in June 1924 - 73
12. Students remaining in High
School for 1924-25 3G5
13. 7 B's graduating in June 1924 D8
14. From No.'s 7, 8, 12 and 13 pre-
dieted enrollment in High '
School 1924-25 4G5- 85
15. Present size of 6th grade. '99
16. Present slzo of Cth grade 133
Table 111. shows how badly taxed
our present High School will be to ac
commodate the enrollment next year
and the condition thereafter will grow
worse.
Table IV.
Teachers' Load
Building Aver. No. I'upila ITnoccup
per Teachor led Seats
Hlght. - 27 0
Uoso 33 45
llenson 8T H
Kullertop. 31
Table IV. shows that our buildings
nro becoming congested. Several
teachers care for more than 45 pupils.
The greatest congestion Is 111 the
grades above the third with the ex
ception of tho first grade at the Rose
where the teacher works In two
shifts.
If the population cf Roseburg and
the school at tendance remain station
ary our accommodations aro fairly Sat
isfactory but the past four yenrs pro
dirt continued growth. Something
will of necessity have to be done soon
to provide the necessary school facil
ities. Two eoumes are open one to
construct another grado building In
the central part of town to house nil
eight classes. This would be unwise;
first, because it would afford no re
lief to the High School and second
ly because a large enough enrollment
could not be obtained to Justify a cen
tral loratlnn without having most "f
the children come from a grout dis
tance. This Is true because business
houses occupy tho central portion of
the town.
The other ilternntivo would bo (he
construction of a Junior High School
to house the 7th, Slh and Sth grades.
This would make It possible to relieve
tho congestion In all four buildings
and at the same time provide a near
bv school for the little lolks a J at the
present. Tho present High School
would become the Junior High or the
new building could so be used. It
should bo set up on a site with sev
eral acres of ground by it for recre
ational nnd agricultural purposes.
Tho Junior High School has devel
opoid with such amazing rapidity In re
cent years that "no formal building
program a wold be adopted witnout
giving the most, careful consideration
to this tvpe, of school. 'Jim Junior
High Hchool arose as the attempted
soluation to certain weaknesses In
the plan of organization by which tli
eight grades in an elementary school
are followed by four grades in the
High Si hool. Among these weak
nesses are (1) tho lack of closo art!
eulatlon between elementary and High
Schools (2) the resulting high tier-
rentage of pupils who do not enier
the High Schools or who drop out
during their first year there; (3) the
Impossibility of sufficiently recogniz
ing individual differences among pu
pils in the Inter years of tho elemen
tary school work; (4) the expensive
duplication of equipment where 7th
and Sth grades are handled in every
elementary Bcbool.
As a. result of faulty articulation be
tween tllo elementary and High
Schools, more pupils drop out between
then and during the first year of the
High School than at any other point
In the entire school course. There
aro Several causes for this hlgh mor
tality In the Freshman year of the
High School. In the grades the pu
pils nro under very close supervi
sion and their study in very definitely
prescribed bolh as to when nnd what
they arc to do. In the High School
they aro largely thrown upon their
own resources. Tito teachers in the
olementaiy schools are normal gradu
ate and are trained in methods of
teaching and In child phychology. Tho
High School toncliors are college grad
uates Willi little or no technical edu
cational preparation and they tend to
stress subject matter. Hence In High
School pupils come in contect with a
different t pe of teaching and with
different disciplinary condition. In
ndditlnn they pass from membership
In a small group where they are thor
oughly understood to membership in
a group so large that It may seem to
them Hint they are lost sight or.
Some of thciu are not prepared to use
wisely the grratrr freedom of action
permitted In the High School.
The Junior High School Is a sctiooi
Intended to' be Intermediate in sub
ject mailer. It inkea pupils at th? be
ginning of tho seventh grndo and
graduates Hum into the senior High
School at the end of tho ninth grade.
It aecuiloms pupils to work under
several Instructors Instead of one or
two; to promotion by suliject instead
of by grade; to work on their own In
itiative rather than by slrlct direction.
The Junior High School economizes
tlmo by enabling strong nunils to be
gin one or mot" High School subjects
while still tailing grado work. The
purposes of the elementary achool is
to put the tools of knowledge Into the
hands nt the child. Thi re Is universal
agreement among educators that eight
yoHrs Is unnecessarily long for the
purpose, especialiy In tho enso of the
morn capable pupils. Pupils who fall
must now complete) nil (he work of luo
grade even though they passed in a
majority of the subjects. In thn Jun
ior High School, Finco promotion h
by subject each pupil goes ahead In
all subjects In which he passes re
gardless of failure and repetition of
work In other subject -1.
The Junior High School makes
posihle a betti r reearrnit ion of indi
vidual differences and rapacities by
permitting at certain iimnmit of rhoi"e
as to work caiili d. As compared with
their abiliiy In advance the most cap
able pupils In every els s aro thu most
retarded or- held from where they
ought to be. Tho larger number of
nuDils in the Junior High School
makes nossibln a better arlantlon ii
the work to Individual interests, needl
anti capabilities.
The Junior High School gives bel
ter opportunity for educational an
vocational guidanco because of till
wide range of academic and practlcJ
arts subjects It offers.
The Junior High School gives an or
portunlty for better recognition of th
changes In child nature duo to adole
cense.
Hotter teaching results from th
Junior High School organization b
cause teachers may specialize In th
teaching of one subject as In th
High School. Teachers are relieve
from the ineffective and discouragin
attempt to teach all upper grado aul
jects. lletter teaching naturally pn
duces bettor scholarship. The Junioi
High School not only reduces failur
and Indifference In Its three grade
but also In the later senior HlgS
School work. The Junior High School
has the advantage that comes froi
tho election of courses In line Wit
pupils Interests nnd attitudes.
The problems of discipline are muc
reduced in the Junior High Schoo
More responsibility is placed upon th
child and he Is nllowed more fre
ilmn In self-direction. More opportur
Itles for leadership and the exerci;
of initiative are open to fifth an
Bixth grade pupils In the elementar
schools, when the seventh and eight
grade pupils aro removed and f;
more opportunity of this kind is opi
to ninth grade pupils than when the
nre tho beginners in the four yen
high school.
Tho Junior High School Is growln
v iih pxlrc-ma rapidity throughout tl
t'nited States and may now be said t
havo passed the experimental stag
In 429 out of 9"0 cities in the cou
try with a population of more th:
8O00, the Junior High School w;
seven times as great In 1919-20 8S
was in 1913-14. The Junior Hig
School In the readjustment of scho
work which It represents has the u
.millions support of leading educato
mo country over.
Something of tho holding power i
tho Junior High School is Indicati
by the experience of Somervill
Mass., where tiSO out of 897 8A's In tl
Junior High School entered tho nin
grade. Of 700 who graduated fro
thn ninth grade, 624 entered tho St
lor High School.
Nearly all the disadvantages of t'
Junior illgh School center about (
I he lack of hachcrs properly imbu
with the Junior High School point
view and (2) the added cost. As tlr
goes on of course the first point
be overcome as the schools of e:
cation will train teachers for tl
work.
Thn added cost In wholly duo
added service and Is not. inherent
the Junler High School Idea. In oil'
words if Roseburg were content
have classes as large, and teache
buildings and equipment of the Bfii
kind now tolerated In "even'h a
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