. Rural centralized, graded and model schools . ect to all grades taught. The seventh and eighthgrades being removed from the outlying schools, the teacher has moretime to devote to the first six grades. When we consider the fact that (54) the seventh and eighth grades have a greater number of studies thanany other two grades in the common school and they consume morethan one-third of the teachers time, we can appreciate the advantagegained by the other grades in having these seventh and eighth gradepupils removed from the little district school and the time gained bysuch removal distributed a
. Rural centralized, graded and model schools . ect to all grades taught. The seventh and eighthgrades being removed from the outlying schools, the teacher has moretime to devote to the first six grades. When we consider the fact that (54) the seventh and eighth grades have a greater number of studies thanany other two grades in the common school and they consume morethan one-third of the teachers time, we can appreciate the advantagegained by the other grades in having these seventh and eighth gradepupils removed from the little district school and the time gained bysuch removal distributed among the lower grades. The problem ofdiscipline is reduced by at least one-half. The seventh and eighthgrades profit equally as much by becoming members of larger classeswhere there is more competition and interest, since, during these years,the pupils from the entire union graded district are thrown together inthe same classes. There is an additional advantage in having thesegrades come into direct personal contact with the pupils in the high. TTnion Hig-h School, aarmou County school department, serving to bridge the gap between the commonschool and the high school. Many of our best city schools are nowreorganizing their gradation in such a way as to place the seventh andeighth grade pupils in a junior high school with the ninth grade, inorder to tie the common school and high school work together just asit is done in the union graded school. Some teachers are especially adapted to and trained for primarywork, others for teaching the higher grades, while very few can dofull justice to all grades. The Board in the union graded district shouldselect teachers adapted to and prepared for the work assigned teacher or principal of the higher grades, being also principal ofthe outlying schools, furnishes closer supervision than is now possiblein the rural schools. (55) Because of the closer gradation, each pupil receives more time andattention from the teacher and, as a res
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