Kaukauna High School - Papyrus Yearbook (Kaukauna, WI)

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Superintendent The past few years have presented our American society with a distinct youth problem It is not a new problem nor is it un eye upon the activities the philosophy and the attitudes of its youth It has happened to every generation of youth and it is safe to assume that it will continue to be thus with every suc ceedmg generation It s a situation in which the critical members of the older generation do not or will not recognize that youth always is confronted with a changing and more complex social political and economic order The more optimistic however grant that our present day youth are a more intelligent a freer and a more self ieliant group than it has ever been the privilege of American society to know Pabe 6 If there is any reason for pessimism about this genera- tion of youth, it is because they face in their adult life a compli- cated social condition an un predictable economic future and a serious threat of a chaotic world They are confused and bewildered by the present day national and world conditions Just as much as we adults are They are not able to foresee what might possibly be in store for them when they leave school If there is to be found a prac tical answer to this youth prob lem it must come through the combined efforts of all public and private agencies Greater and fuller understanding of the complexities of the society into which our young people go when their school days are Jver 1S a responsibility to which the schools and the community must dedicate themselves To do otherwise will inflict the penalty of thrustmg them, com pletely unprepared into a world which we adults with amazmv efficiency have almost destroyed and in the doing of which our youth can fortun It is rather apparent that there is a youth problem because we have created one for them Some of us have the faith and the confidence in them to be lieve that they will find the answers to their problems be fore we bungling adults will solve our own problems .7Jvf'23 i l . , . usual to have the older generation look with a none too friendly ately, Claim H0 responsibility-

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Principal Kaukauna H1gh School IS at present gomg through the process responslve to ever Changlng patterns of hfe The admlnlstratlon and faculty are hard at Work at the Job of re-evaluatlng and re v1s1ng holdmg on to the broad and good baS1C fundamentals es tab11shed ln the past and taklng out the phases of the program Wh1Ch no longer f1t the present day needs of puplls Your school IS mak1ng seven league str1des forward ID such areas as curr1culum rev1s1on 1nd1v1dual guldance expanslon of aCt1V1t19S supplementary to those wh1ch center about the class room and student cooperat1on 1n pohcy formmg Slnce the school ex1sts for the educatlonal needs of 1ts constxtu ency the adm1n1strat1on and faculty of Kaukauna H1gh School are now engaged 1n a long term program of study evaluatlon and curr1culum rev1s1on To accomphsh th1s we are endeavormg to become fam1l1ar wlth the dxstmctxve characterlstlcs of the com mumty such as ltS soclologlcal composltlon 1ts soclal economlc rellglous recreat1onal and educatlonal agencles and the educa t1onal needs of both youth and adults Kaukauna Hlgh School lb po1nt1ng 1ts future development along th1s llne that the educa tlonal program IS to be con cerned Wlth more than the ac cumulatron of knowledge d velopment of sk1lls and 1m provement of understandmgs lt IS to develop mterests, tastes appreclatlons 1deals and at txtudes blended and functxon mg rn a democratlc soclety to estabhsh a curr1culum chxefly concerned Wlth the orlentatlon guidance 1nstruct1on and par t1c1pat1on of our students 1n those areas of lxvmg for wh1ch educat1on should supplement the work of other soclal 1nst1 tutlons and to develop a pupll HCt1V1ty program almecl at es tabllshlng deslrable soclal tralts and behavlor patterns Qilzpifzrz, 1' r 'E Page 7 . 7 e- , - Z , . . 7 9 a ' ' 1 . . . , 1 1 ' 7 A VVIM,-,,,,, ' of change and alteration so necessary in a school if it is to be , - Y Y , . 7 . . . . 7 7 . Y, . . . .. 7 . . , . , x s . . va 7 ' l