Russell High School - Pointer Yearbook (East Point, GA)

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The Diversified-Uccupation Program A new educational irofram ealled diversified eoo nerative t1ainin was started li' the Fulton Count' Schools rv l last fall. Through a cooperative arrangement with employers. parents and selieo's, students in their junior and senior years of high school are placed in various training ageneies. 'llhev sei-ure training in the occupation of their choice under real conditions for four hours a day for five days a week. They spend four periods eaeh day in school, re- ceiving two periods of suhieet matter rf-'ated to the jolt. aid fri-ni two to three periods of regular academic suhjeets which are required of juniors and seniors for high school graduation. l'pon eompletion of his high school work plur- his elected cooperative training, a regular high sehool fllllltllltfl is issued. This vives the cooperative student a delinite vocational training in a sueeific occupation and a higlt school diploma, and sti'l does not eloso his educational pro- gram in the event he desires to go to eollege, provided the eollege entranee requirements have heen made. linder this plan, tho highly skilled liusiness people of the eity train the students in their ehosen work in husi- ness establishments, therehv acquainting the student with natural husiness situations. The training agencies grade the student on his accomplishments, and the sehool gives the student aeu.lemie ert-:lit for his training. The purposes of Cooperative lfdueation are six-fold: 1. To provide a basis for more intelligent seleetiou and pursuit of future edueational training to those who intend to continue their education, 2. To develop in the high sehool student needed soeial adjustments whieh are fundainental for good citizen- ship. 3. To develop cooperation lxetween the work aetivities of the eommunity and the sehoo's so mutual benefit will result. 4. To rovide training for hi h school students under real eonditions so the' will he alile to select intelli fentl ' . L Y and make progress in a chosen oecupation, 5. To provide a lxasis for securing work and making progress therein to those who seek emp'oymt-nt after graduation. 64 To provide in mueh wider range a training experience than is possilvle if all the training had to he given in its entirety within the school, - Through the cooperation of the employer this plan inalies availalvle two years of half-time oeeupational train- ing on a real job plus the necessary related information and required high sehool siilwieets. There is no other way to secure this kind of instruction except hy Wflrlilll! llI1flf'l' real eonditions. Students graduating under this plan have developed skills, attitudes, and habits of work that will he of great value to them as well as to their future employers, This plan gives the young workers an opportunity lo find themselves, and to beeome adjusted to the re- quirements of the husiness world, thus conserving human values hy the prevention of jolt shifting and the saving of time after entrance into full employment, Students completing the first vear of this program at llessell lliuh Sehool are: .lames Wilson, Opal Johnson, Alec Purdie, Euris wiBll3CC, Ralph Cazaway, Clariee Nlelfntire, l7loy Waits, ,lames lloleomhe, Chas, llrock, Eugene Farmer, Betty lll0rriS, .lames Porter, Wylie Nickerson, .lillnes lllowell, Sam llahs, James Killer, Chalmers Orr, ,lim Striplin. Page 89

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Page 88 -h,r,,,:,,, In Appreciation To Mr. I. D. Sewell, Mr. George L. Carroll, Mr. W. B. Pirlcle, Miss Marguerite Dobbs, and Mr. fohn C. Lewis, who have eonlrilnulerl their efforts lo make this flnnual possible, we, The POINTER Staff, express our sincere appreciation.