La Porte High School - El Pe Yearbook (La Porte, IN)

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The High School Departments j8T a system of schools (he size of LaPortc’s it is practically impossible to keep a clearly defined separation of the departments in High School work. Even if it were possible from a financial standpoint and practical from the point of class attendance it is still questionable if the genera] welfare and interests of the whole school could be so well cared for under a scheme when the departments were isolated and the workers in one department have no vital or necessary interest in the workers of another department. The fact that a teacher acts as head in one department and as a»i»:an: in another gives the teacher a double view-point of the school work and compels a social and co-operative spirit frequently wanting in the faculties of higher schools. Par-'y by necessity and partly bv plan the high school is so arranged, with, one exception, that each teacher serves as responsible head in some one line of work and as assistant in another, thus giving a double bond of unity and a greater harmony of action. The names of those who have served as departmental teachers in the city high schools will be found on pages 11 J and I t 4 Many of those who have served here as high school teachers have gone on in their professional careers to positions of influence and prominence in tate and national educational affairs. The attendance in the high school during the past decade has more •sn doubled, while the teaching corps ha remained practically the same in number. To keep pace with the educational progress of the country at large, course» have been modified and extended so that the work of the various iepartmen- -and.' accredited with that of the best schools in the nation. The La Porte City High School offer to its students four years’ work in each of the following lines: English, Science, Commercial Bran.he», l-atin. Art — Pictorial, Decorative, or Technical—and .Music, and offers three year courses in German, Mathematics and History. Teachers specially qualified by- scholarship and experience for each of these lines of work have been secured. Ample equipments in the way of laboratories and libraries arc provided, and opportunities equal to the best are offered to all wishing to do high school work. Entrance to the I-a Porte High School may be had upon examination and assignment by the Superintendent, or without examination on pres- entation of certificate of attendance in other high schools of good standing, upon evidence of satisfactory completion of work from the eighth grades of the City Schools, or on diploma from the Country Schools of Indtana. Advanced standing and credit will be given for work done in the Township High Schools of LaPorte County on presentation of certified copy of pupil’» record on entering the IjPortc High School. To meet the different tendencies and ambitions of students the six years’ work offered has been divided into three lines of four years each, named by the leading subject and entitling those completing any one of these lines to a diploma of Graduation. These courses are the Latin, Scientific and Commercial. The Latin Course admits to Literary or Scientific Courses of the leading Colleges and Universities of the Central States without examination. The Scientific Course admits to the College Scientific without examinations. The Commercial Course gives no Col- lege entrance without examinations. Those contemplating this course, however, have recently been admitted on all work done here, conditioned in University of Michigan in Iumguagc. In case students do not wish to take all the prescribed work of any course, a diploma may be earned by successfully completing elective work for not less than thirty credits, the minimum for which diplomas arc granted. This diploma docs not entitle holder to college entrance without examination. 16