Annual report of the Board of Education of School District Number One in the City and County of Denver, Colorado . 19 Number special promotions second semester . 7 2 14 52 31 38 Total number special promotions for year. 30 21 20 85 84 57 The following results may be claimed for this system: 1. The greatest economy of time and energy of teachers andpupils. 2. The pupil feels encouraged to do his utmost in regularclassroom work, and he rarely fails to do it. 3. Pupils are more likely to finish at least the grades beforethey quit school to go to work. 4. Undoubted economy of school administration
Annual report of the Board of Education of School District Number One in the City and County of Denver, Colorado . 19 Number special promotions second semester . 7 2 14 52 31 38 Total number special promotions for year. 30 21 20 85 84 57 The following results may be claimed for this system: 1. The greatest economy of time and energy of teachers andpupils. 2. The pupil feels encouraged to do his utmost in regularclassroom work, and he rarely fails to do it. 3. Pupils are more likely to finish at least the grades beforethey quit school to go to work. 4. Undoubted economy of school administration. 5. This plan tends to prevent the formation of the habits ofidleness and carelessness, and it also tends to correct these habitsif they exist already. 6. Pupils and parents feel that the school is managed in theinterest of the children. 7. With the right kind of special teacher, coming into contactwith nearly all the other teachers of the building, the course ofstudy in its application to the various grades of the building be-comes more unified than would be possible otherwise. James B. Ragan, Denver Public Schools H3 Garden Place School Garden Place School is made up of a foreign the war this school was 100 per cent in the Red Crosswork, sale of thrift stamps, Armenian fund, liberty bonds, etc. Wehave seventy-two stars on the service flag, two of which are stars represent boys who never attended any school exceptGlobeville and Garden Place, and whose parents are foreign born. Our pupils all love music. They are exceptionally good in art,cooking, sewing, and manual training. We have turned out somevery fine work from our manual-training shop. The boys are par-ticularly fond of this work, and sometimes, after finishing theeighth grade, they ask as a special favor to be allowed to do extrawork in the shop. As many of our pupils do not enter high school, we strive tofit them to work and earn their own living when they finish theeighth gra
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