Evander Childs High School - Oriole Yearbook (Bronx, NY)

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RANDPA ROBERT GROSSBAUM was tailcing to his son, Robert Jr., a handsome man oi about forty. A Son, i've had a happy and suc- cessful iiieg and i am proud oi my children and their children. But it is becoming harder and harder for me to adjust myself to-H A Here Ruth, a sweet sixteen, came bouncing into the room. Uh, Dad and Grand- dad, i'm to be graduated from Evander with honor. isn't that wonderful? Just ioolc at my report card. A Grand- pa Grossbaum tooic the card nervously and iooiced at it. Tears almost came to his eyes as he said, My poor crazy darling. Here you have three subjects. You have zer all three: and you expect to,-1 A Oh, Grandpa, d you see that D up there? it means deficiency. Zero me i have no deficiency. i have three zeros. That's perie PREVIEW ASTORY ..... YET TO HAPPEN H g -5. E 5 jfjlsz: 1 X A VVeii, well, well, said Grandpa bewildered, K what may these subjects be? A Oh, i. F. means intei- iigence Function. i always use all the brains i have. E. F. means Emotional Function. i always have interest in the things i should be interested in, and at the right times, and in the right ways. S. A. means Social Adjustment. i have no trouble with my ieiiowsf, A But how do the teachers lcnow ali this about you? A Uwe don't have teacher-guess-woric. That,s old stuii. We have ma- chines. A Here Robert Jr. broice in. NYou remember, Dad, the old lie detector they were experimenting with about sixty years ago. Vveii, the schools have extended the principle for use in objective measuring. The machine is rather complicated, but the general idea is simple enough. A Yes, said Ruth. The students' seats are connected electrically with the teacher's desi: under which is a great revolving drum to record and time all the reac- tions oi the students during the period. At the end ot the term. each student comes to the desic, inserts his bianic re- port card in a slot, presses a button over his name, puiis a lever, and out comes his card with his record. The teacher doesrft even have to copy marks. A HiViy, my. my, gasped Grandpa. HVVhat does the teacher do?U A UVVell, Grandpa, it's like this. On the front wail is a great roii-chart, turned electrically and displaying, bit by bit, the material to be mastered during the period. On the teacher's deslc is a icind oi egg cup with a little bali in it, iiice a ping-pong bali. When we are ali quiet in our seats, a bell rings. Then the teacher presses a button: the iittie ball rises and moves in a smooth circle above the class. The chart begins to unroii. The first thing displayed is a great cipher. Any students who have not prepared their lessons, are terrified at the sight. Their emotions are re- corded and the little bali bounces down on their heads. The teacher notices this, stops the machine, and sends these

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' 1 pupils down to the Learning Deficiency Room, where they are taken care of. Then he presses the button, the chart unrolls slowly, and the hall moves in its circle. When any student has trouhle reading the chart, or is inattentive and gets behind, his co usion registers, he is hit hy the hall, and is sent down to 5 e L. D. Room with the others. Any personal emotional i bouncing hetween t and a little time do at fault are sent to isturhance is indicated hy the halts e heads concerned. If a kind word ot remedy the situation, the students the Emotional Adjustment roo for ,9 W kindly care. A HO e in awhile, the hall strikes the t 1 , - er's head and houn es at a great rate. And that's h , 1 e Chairmen move r ' I the halls on ruhher-tired r Her ' tes. If a Chairm n, s he sal A Q a room, sees a te ch- A 1 . head being hou ce , he comes in, ops the mac 1 e, ' ' d with the sweete 1 g ntleness in the w d tries to lp A e poor teacher rec er is head. If he can e takes he - s and sends the e her to the Teachers' I djustm nt R e where, I thin , ey give him tea and a W s et wa rs. But, as a le, we ave comparati ly ii Ie hal ouncin . Bei g - ruck giv . e students . a ul hotle feeling, an he try to . ?o So it is ll v y simpl The machi - 3 es an : 1 1 1- ccurate nd N i- entific ly objective co , ll o 1 1 an men : reaction to our edu ati e 1 xert o utmost nest effort ' o I li 0 f r ha looking re hewil re ggi' n ghten 1 angle 1 s fingers fro w his lov y giglly r . d almost hed, HY , yes, my de , hut h c no ' ch ' Q ch, 1 History, or them ics :A:1'i - .a A Oh, . charmingly n ive y : ul.: o ok. If ' has the same hili : 'Q . d tri s as hard as Q won't he do the sam . 0 0 orlc a B in the same ti 7' A VVell, I gue ell t n. We don't hav 0 icnow how ch - a Hist or Mathematics have Iearne It : 1 n on I e chartf, A HVVhat chart?', A K arlin 1 1 a Boh ikins, you know ahout statistics, d 't you I, innu erahle statistics tahu- lated on a s art we : school, how just how much of everything . studen ave lea ed in a given time, if we have his tellige1 . f uotient, 5? 1 0 1 istri tion Quotien and is cial Adj K ent. 1 his functional effi nts for each - at is e Imo his ahiliti a o the extent t ' he -- m. We I have here 1 this paper m f otien - oeffi- cients . d the chart - nces. E 3 ish: 1a umes 1- 20, Engli Achieve 1 K c - . ee volumes 1-4, French Achi ement Units: and so on. All I have to do now is to go do 1 to the lihrary take out the volumes and then I can find out at it is I have learned about ever