Annual report of the Board of Education of School District Number One in the City and County of Denver, Colorado . n has been invaluable as a means of instruction in games andother outdoor activities. It has so organized and systematized thework as to render supervision at recesses, noons, before and afterschool, comparatively easy. It has been a great factor in securingdiscipline of the right sort both outdoors and indoors. To the playground department falls the task of teaching fairplay on the playground, where each is his own judge of right with-out the guidance of hard and fast
Annual report of the Board of Education of School District Number One in the City and County of Denver, Colorado . n has been invaluable as a means of instruction in games andother outdoor activities. It has so organized and systematized thework as to render supervision at recesses, noons, before and afterschool, comparatively easy. It has been a great factor in securingdiscipline of the right sort both outdoors and indoors. To the playground department falls the task of teaching fairplay on the playground, where each is his own judge of right with-out the guidance of hard and fast rules. Our pupils, or their par-ents, come from countries where fair play was rarely, if ever, ac-corded to them. We teach them to extend to others privileges whichthey never before enjoyed, and have succeeded so well that our boysand girls play with as much consideration for others as childrenwhose ancestors have long enjoyed these blessings. A playground soorganized as to occupy every moment of the childs play time is ourideal. Plans for such organization are now being formulated. H. T. Cluxton, Outdoor Physical Exercise, Cheltenham School 122 Sixteenth Annual Report Clayton School The center of the school is the child; all activities revolvearound him, with him, for him. Nothing in which he is interestedis too insignificant to merit considerate attention; nothing that,seemingly, will contribute to his welfare is too much to undertake. The unification of the community, the home, and the teachingcorps into a positive force shaping the child toward good and usefulcitizenship is fairly well attained. The parent-teacher association,ever for and with the school safely, loyally, and effectively, is amodel, socialized influence ready and anxious to serve when andwhere service is needed. The government of the school is democratically cooperativerather than pedagogically autocratic. The purpose of the admin-istration is to cultivate a maximum spirit and power of self-gov-
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