Maple Avenue Evening High School - Progress Yearbook (Los Angeles, CA)

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For face lotions and cosmentics ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,--,,,,,,,,, 750,000,000 F 01' public elementary schools .... ...............,.....................,.....,.. 7 62,259,154 There are in operation at the present time in Los Angeles 181 regular elementary schools, 14 parental schools, and 27 junior and senior high schools, including the Part-Time High School. There are many more in process of construction. Interesting facts indicating the size of the Los Angeles City Schools as a business institution show that: It takes thirty clerks and stock men to handle school supplies, hard- ware and electrical repair material. Fifty men are kept busy refinishing desks, building supply cabinets and tables, kindergarten tables, playground apparatus, basketball courts, painting and finishing. There is a clock man to take care of school clocks, a head key man and two assistants to take care of locks. The warehouse and business department covers 41,000 square feet, in a five floor and basement building. The shop department employs one head and four foremen, with three hundred men of different trades in general work, repairs and improvements. All education is coordination and correlation of related qualities. Training and Life are equivalent terms. When both producers and consumers can join in insisting that the problem of life training is neither a question of how to produce the great- est number of an article at a minimum cost or of how to obtain it at the lowest price, but rather of how to so base our production upon brains, that quality shall count for more than cost or quantity, then we shall have made a beginning.-The College President. A man educated in the modern sense will forego the somewhat doubt- ful mental discipline received from formal studiesg he will be contentedly ignorant of things for learning which no better reason than tradition can be assigned. Instead his education will be obtained from studies that serve real purposes. Its content, spirit and aim will be realistic and ge- nuine, not formal or traditional . Abraham Flexner. Page Eighty ,

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Educational Facts and Figures Los Angeles City Schools From report issued from the office of Superintendent of Schools: 6 The total Los Angeles school enrollment for 1923 at the present time is 154,164. The average increase for the last 4 years has been 20,000 per year. For the last four years, Los Angeles has shown an increase in school enrollment just double that of Detroit, a city with a population of approximately a million, as the schools of Detroit show an annual increase for the last four years of slightly more than 10,000 per year. The area of the Los Angeles City School district is somewhat more than 900 square miles, as compared with that of New York City school district, which is approximately 315 square miles. J ' There are 16,668 students enrolled in evening schools at the present time, This shows an increase of slightly over 1,500 over the preceding year. The subjects studied range from vulcanizing to economics, and the ages range from 15 to 65. There are also day classes for immigrant women in which approximately 3,000 are enrolled. During 1920 there was about 357,900,000 spent for schools in Los An- geles. During the same year, the Los Angeles' amusement bills totaled S,S40,000,000., according to Scott Carter, Chief of Income Tax Division of Local Internal Revenue Office. This included admission to amusements, and such luxuries as chewing gum, candy, cigars, cosmetics, etc. N The schools' share in the nation's wealth as shown in Survey, July 16, 1921, was revealed by the following interesting facts: For joy rides and pleasure resorts was spent ...................... 33,000,000,000 For all departments of education in the entire nation ......,. -.1,000,000,000 For sundaes, sodas and drinking fountain delights ....... V- .- 0 350,000,000 For higher education in the entire nation---.. ,.......,.., 137,055,415 For chewing gum in one year ................................... 50,000,000 For Normal School Training Teachers ...... ........ 2 0,414,689 ' ' Page Seventyenine

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Adult Schools Responsive To the Needs of the People From report of the California Commissioner of Industrial and Vocational Education for the biennial period ending June 30, 1922: In general, the school authorities do not attempt to decide beforehand, and finally, just what subjects will be offered, and just what the exact content of these subjects will be. In this type of school and class, such matters are usually decided by the students themselves after advising with school authorities. If they were otherwise decided, no one would attend the classes. After a school has once established one or more adult classes it usually adopts the policy of providing instruction in any subject, if a certain number of persons desire the same. The local school district must bear the entire expense of maintaining such instruction during the current school year. However, during the fol- lowing year it is partly or fully reimbursed by state or county for the cost of such instruction. Thus, any expansion of the program for adult education must depend upon the balance of local funds that may be legiti- mately applied to the work. As a matter of fact, few, if any, high school districts of the state have been able to meet all of the legitimate demands made for adult classes. Subject to financial limitations, some of the high schools have adopted the policy of setting up, at any time and for any period, instruction in any subject desired by at least fifteen residents of the district qualified for the work. These schools also follow the policy of discontinuing any class maintained, if the number of persons belonging to it falls below the num- ber mentioned above. s Without doubt, one of the greatest factors leading to the rapid devel- opment of adult education has been the policy of consulting the wishes of the prospective students as to the type of work to be maintained. Yield- Page Eighty-one