Central High School - Booster Yearbook (La Crosse, WI)

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Page 8 Sufzeainlencfenl M Ballad Marshall G. Batho assumed his duties as superintendent of the La Crosse public schools on July l, l948. Mr. Batho was born in Maiden Rock, Wisconsin, attended River Falls State Teachers College, received a bachelor of science degree from the University of Wis- consin in l934, and has nearly completed work toward his doctorate. The new superintendent's experience in Wisconsin and Illinois in- cludes work in rural, grade, junior, and senior high schools. Previous to his six years as superintendent of the West Bend public schools, he was high school principal there. He also served as supervising principal at Lodi and Cumberland, Wisconsin. Mr. Batho succeeds Dr. R. W. Bardwell, who resigned to become director of vocational education at Madison, Wisconsin. In a message to the student body, Mr. Batho had this to say: That purpose should be substituted for coercion, wherever possible, is one ofthe fundamental tracts of modern education. Purpose gives reality and rneaningfulness to classroom work and is ono of most important incentives for good high school work. Through personal conferences between pupils and teachers, through faculty conferences relative to particular students, and through wide reading and regular classroom work, we are constantly trying to develop within the pupils an insight into how they can use their high school education to advantage.

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N M QWMMQQS 3 p,g,ff ' s p s A school will sfudy every question fhat afects human welfare, but it will not carry a banner in a crusade for any- thing except freedom of learning. L. D. COFFMAN Q.v 'gJ-Q, Af,,.a91 wkjdjf Page 7

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pafnapaz Q. 2. swf: 'ii When lVlr. Scott was asked for a statement of the democratic philosophy underlying life at Central, he kindly responded with the following: To be free is to conform to the will of the people. The motor- ist has the freedom of the road when he obeys traffic regulations. In sports, freedom of action is determined by the rules of the game. Social etiquette limits social action. Freedom in every phase of living is circumscribed by rules guaranteeing against infringement by the individual upon the rights of the group. ln Central there is freedom in the use of the corridors limited only by special safety demands for one way traffic and by the demands of common courtesy, Students are free to control the honor study hall as long as their conduct pat- tern equals that of any other study hall. Each student is free to choose his course of study and his electives within established limits. Should undesirable group conduct occur at or after athletic contests, at school dances, during school assemblies, or under any similar cir- cumstances, such conduct is called to the attention of the student body, and group responsibility for the behavior pattern is pointed out. Group response then becomes the restraining influence upon the conduct of all. So does democratic action based upon democratic responsibility and judgment become an outgrowth of freedom. Page 9