Bay View High School - Oracle Yearbook (Milwaukee, WI)

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DR. BERNHARD C. KORN, Principal

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The old proverb of the Athenians, Nothing in excess, is still a watchword to the educator of today, for the essence of its truth is enduring. Those who live in a democracy and have undertaken the training of its youth know this full well. They recog- nize the ever-present danger that in providing for all the children of all the people they may sacrifice for the many, opportunities they should offer the few. They cannot in conscience allow those who come to them to be frustrated by struggles to at- tain intellectual standards beyond them, or dulled by never being challenged to mental effort. For all there must be both the discipline and the pleasure of learning. Bay View has experimented for some time with a two-channel approach in various subiects. In math- ematics, for example, parallel courses are given. The one is completely practical, the other ap- proaches the practical through the theoretical. Every course is open to all who qualify for it, and the student chooses in large part on the basis of his interest or his recognized need. Always, as ours is a school in a democracy, there is not culti- vation of intellectual snobbery. The fluidity of the American social structure still continues here. 1

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The administrative staff at Bay View. working under the principal, is organized with a vice-principal, a dean of girls, and four counselors. The vice-principal su- pervises the work of all new teachers and tries to help them to understand the nec- essary regulations, and to get the feel of the school. lt is his task, too, to check on all absentees, for it is obvious that only if students appear regularly in class is it possible for teachers to give adequate in- struction. It is necessary to check any tendency to malinger, and at the same time to urge no seriously ill student to attempt to keep going at school. Every- one is made to understand both by his class-room teacher and by the vice-prin- cipal that all class work missed by ab- sence must be made up. MR. WILEY, Counselor Chairman Page Twenty-eight Vice-Principal MR. DONDLINGER Each freshman who enters Bay View from the Milwaukee schools has had an opportunity to visit his new high school and has had his program planned care- fully for him. This has been done by his counselor in consultation with him, his eighth grade teacher, and his parents, if they desire to be present. The counselor is the first Bay View teacher to meet him and one of the last to bid him farewell when his four years are over. As soon as he is enrolled, he is sent to a homeroom teacher, who then un- dertakes to help him adiust to a new en- vironment. This teacher plans with him a four-year program, which, of course, is subiect to change as he develops new interests, or the original seleciions seem unwise. Parents understand the entire four-year plan and request changes when they are desired. As far as possible, a student stays for four years with the same counselor and the same homeroom teacher.