Fairport High School - Hourglass Yearbook (Fairport, NY)

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'O THE HOUR GLASS l ll !O ship with the French people because of his sportsmanship. Try and realize the seriousness of good sportsmanship. It spreads a friendly feeling among schools, colleges and individuals. It should be encouraged by all because good sportsmanship is a display of one 's character. --Donald Holtz and Arthur Steffen Why Do Pupils Leave School? One of the great tests of a school is the degree to which it is able to hold its pupils until graduation releases them. Par- ticularly is this true of those pupils on Whom the compulsory attendance law no longer has a hold. Therefore, it may be assumed that the school functions less satisfactorily when large numbers of pupils abandon their courses and leave schooling behind, than when few pupils drop out. 1. Pupils leave school before graduation because of their lack of interest in subjects or in the school, courses offered by the school are not useful, there is no direct beneficial return, and no definite goal to Work for. For both present and former pupils, lack of the interest in school accounts for nearly all of this. 2. Failure to appreciate the value of an education accounts for pupils leaving school. Warren W. Coxe presents these reasons such as Self-satisfaction, Lack of ambition, Monotony of high school interests, Desire for a job,', De- sire to earn money,l' and Too many outside activities. The desire for a job seems to be the most important of these reasons. More boys offer this reason than girls, so it must be that the offering of the high school course is of less value to the boys than the girls. 3. The financial problem is the third reason for young people leaving school. It is significant that more girl pupils than boy pupils say that they leave because of financial difficulties. One reason may be that boys are better able to earn their own spend- ing money. The girls feel more keenly than the boys the in- ability to dress as Well as their schoolmates. 4. Health is sometimes the cause for stopping school. Under the heading of health should be included: C11 personal ill health, Q21 illness in family, and C35 discouragement due to absence. Therefore one major division of the school's educational ac- Page Twenty-two

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0I li l THE HOUR GLASS l ll l0 Sportsmanship Do you really know the meaning of sportsmanship? It is defined the ability to win or lose with the same feeling in your heart. As you know, somebody must lose, and if he takes it smil- ing he wins in another sense. A person who loses and is afraid to take the beating is not a sport. A person who takes the defeat bravely will succeed in later life if he keeps on trying. Sportsmanship has other phases. The person or team that wins should not go around and brag about themselves or think themselves better than others. Whenever you play a game, it matters not what kind, or what the odds against you, you must always play fair and hard. Play with the determination to win and never let the other person know when you are licked. Many a game has been won in the last minute of play. If you are un- able to make the regular team, wish the other fellows luck and cheer them on to victory. School spirit is linked with sportsmanship. A team without the student body's support, even though they have much ability, can not do as well as they could with its support. Therefore, every person who does not participate in athletics should cheer and boost his team t.o fame and glory. That is classed as sports- manship too. Sportsmanship should start early in life and be developed as you go along. In college, sportsmanship is different from that in high school. In college you must be more independent and do as you think best. College athletics are different because there are more persons as candidates for the teams. Therefore you need more courage. After the person is out of college and enters into the business world he should still use sportsmanship. The modern business world is full of competition and a person with personality, good judgment combined with sportsmanship will succeed. One of the greatest rewards of sportsmanship is the friends it brings you. lVe all need friends. lVe come into this world alone, we pass out of it alone, but there is no one of us who lives his life alone. It is wise to know many people, but it is also wise to be intimate with but a few. We build friendship in with our lives. 'We must select the people with high ideals and brilliant minds, who can inspire us until death forms a separation. We can make this superior type of friends if we have real sports- manship. There are many cases where sportsmanship can be used. When Bill Tilden played tennis in France he established friend- Page Twenty-one

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0 THE HOUR GLASS i ll l0 tivities should be concerned with individual and community health. 5. Teachers are the fifth reason. Sometimes it is Htoo much discipline, and Mfailure to get along With the teachers, Hdis- couragement by the teachers, and 'tteaehers who are not de- pendable. The main reason that should be remedied is that teachers do discourage pupils directly and indirectly. G. Under mental adjustment comes these reasons given by lVarren XV. Coxe for pupils leaving school : too much homework, too many subjects, and discouragement due to failure. The following conclusions and remedies may be drawn: 1. The high school course should be so arranged as to offer some subjects useful to thc pupils. If the pupil does not get along Well in mathematics, a course should be had in school so that the course would not contain geometry, commercial arith- metic, and intermediate algebra. Since mathematics is hard for the pupil, he Would never take it as a life Work, therefore it is not going to benefit him greatly in taking such a course in his school life. Courses should be arranged so that a person may study on only the subjects that will benefit him in his career. If this method would be carried out pupils would see that school is help- ful and they would be more apt to make a success of high school, instead of feeling that in certain subjects time is being Wasted. 2. The value of education should be taught in the school. In this Way it is forever before the pupil's mind Why he needs ed- ucation and of What benefit it will be to him all through life. If emphasis is not put on Why tl1e pupil is attending school, the pupil will soon have other aims and Will not think education is of importance. 3. Although the high school cannot directly control the economical conditions of the pupil's family, it can control in a small Way. The school can cut down on expenses entering the school by having a. special fund in the school devoted to buying books for students. A school does not usually have such finan- cial funds, but if the school could look into the homes and find out just what families are in need, then school supplies could be given to these pupils by the school. 4. Examinations should be given more often in school so diseases Will be discovered before they are spread to other class- mates. A community nurse should be secured by the town so that diseases which start in the pupil's family Will not be brought into the school. Page Twenty-three