Sheridan High School - Bronc Yearbook (Sheridan, WY)

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SELENA MORGAN Office Clerk S. H. S. 1930 Sheridan High School A S the 1931 Blue and Gold has fittingly been dedicated to the parents of the sponsoring class, so the Sheridan High School, its building, equipment, and personnel may well be conceived as a monument to the desires for their children of the parents of all the community and of their faith in the idea of universal secondary education. The present building, erected in 1925, stands at the front of two other buildings, both of which were erected as high school buildings and then became inadequate to house the increasing enrollment. The building is three stories in height, contains eightv-three rooms and is adequate to house 1,000 students. It is fireproof throughout and arranged and equipped for the maintenance of a modern program of secondary education. In Sheridan High School effort is made to have a balanced program of subjects and activities sufficiently varied so that students may select to meet the most rigid college requirement, may prepare directly for vocation in the Normal Training, Commercial or Agriculture Departments, or may follow a general broadening course where the vocational trend has not been determined. Withal it is the objective that Sheridan High School shall be a place where, in conjunction with the home, the boy or girl of high school age may have opportunity to develop himself physically, mentally, socially and morally. In order that responsibility and initiative may be built, there must be freedom and opportunity for choice. So in Sheridan High School it is the policy of the teachers so fast as individuals prove capable, to place upon the student the responsibility for his development. This means the teacher becomes an adviser and helper in the common cause of the best possible development of the individual. This development cannot occur except upon the foundation built in grade school and home, and can function to the greatest advantage now only in full conjunction and cooperation with the home. So Sheridan High School now consists not only in one school building and group of teachers on the hill but in a thousand buildings and double that number of teachers, all helping to equip the young people of the community with the learnings, habits and ideals that will make for them a better life. —(24) — R. W. SKINNER.