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

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i --f The American High School Three hundred years ago last April there was founded in the city of Boston the first high or secondary school in the western world, known as the Free Latin Grammar School of Boston. Only fifteen years after the landing of the Pilgrims, the sturdy pioneer settlers of the little Massachusetts Bay colony on the edge of the wilderness at once pledged themselves to providing for their children the opportunity for education in advance of the common rudiments of learning. The admission requirements were simple, the ability to write, to read a few verses from the Bible, both usually learned in the home, and to possess the capacity and industry to maintain their places in class. The school was maintained by donations and land rentals, free to the children of every family, rich or poor, high or low. Thus educational opportunity for everyone who had the ambition and ability was offered, and the school in time be- came the model for all public schools which came afterward, for neighboring communities soon followed the example of Boston. In these public schools then, the citizens of tomorrow were trained, and many of the future leaders of those days came from these settings. What a mighty forest has grown from the seed planted in early New England. In quick succession through the decades and centuries came growth and development. In our own time there are 6,000,000 American boys and girls in 26,000 public and private high schools, The proportion of increase in atten- dance over the increase in population is manifold. As for our own city, fully one-third of the entire school population of 83,000 pupils is enrolled in secondary schools. ln 1893 there was one four-year public high school of 500 students, today we have thirteen high schools of the same grade in whole or in part, plus eight strictly junior high schools, with a total enroll- ment of over 31,000 pupils. The American people is definitely committed to the philosophy that in a democracy there should be equal educational opportunity for all the children of all the people. With rapidly changing types of civilization in our country came many changes in the curriculum, all in response to the demands of new industrial, social, and economic conditions, all necessary for the growing needs of democracy. In recent years, note the addition. of vocational subjects, the extra-curricular activities, continuation schools, adult education, recreational and leisure-time activities. All are a part of the great educa- tional movement to improve achievement, to promote service, and to elevate the standards of citizenship. We of the Bay View High School should all strive after these ideals and make our worthwhile contribution to the onward march of civilization. G. A. Fritsche