. Report of Committee on school inquiry, Board of estimate an apportionment, city of New York .. . example, the machinisttrade, molder trade, pattern-maker trade, plumber trade. This is be-cause the cooperative system contemplates a deliberate life choice of atrade on the part of the youth; and no boy or girl deliberately selects anautomatic machine-tending job as a life job. It is selected haphazard,usually from necessity; nearly always the immediate cash return is theonly consideration. Cooperative plans have been devised for the moreautomatic trades, where these are the only trades availabl


. Report of Committee on school inquiry, Board of estimate an apportionment, city of New York .. . example, the machinisttrade, molder trade, pattern-maker trade, plumber trade. This is be-cause the cooperative system contemplates a deliberate life choice of atrade on the part of the youth; and no boy or girl deliberately selects anautomatic machine-tending job as a life job. It is selected haphazard,usually from necessity; nearly always the immediate cash return is theonly consideration. Cooperative plans have been devised for the moreautomatic trades, where these are the only trades available and wheredeliberate selection of a more energizing trade is out of the cuestion;but these are just being put into operation, and hence there are no datato show whether or not they are better adapted to these trades than thecontinuation scheme. Cooperative courses vary in detail to meet local and trade details of cooperative courses follow: The duration of the course is determined by the length of time re-quired for a thorough apprenticeship plus the necessary coordinated. A a rt -J CJ -i-> ^ rt a s VOCATIONAL (INDUSTRIAL) SCHOOLS 793 schooling—usually four years. The first year is sometimes spent whollyin school and the next three years in alternation weekly between shop andschool. In some cases, the full four years are spent in weekly alternation. The manufacturers take the student-apprentices in pairs, so that theyhave one of the pair always at work, and likewise the school is providedwith one of the pair. Each Saturday morning- the boy who has beenat school that week goes to the shop in order to get a knowledge of thejob on which his alternate is working, so that he will be ready to takeit up Monday morning, when the shop boy goes to school for a week. Shop Work.—Shop work in the commercial shop consists of instruc-tion in all the operations necessary to the particular trade. The apprentices receive pay for the weeks they are at work at theprevai


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