Stockton High School - Blackhawk Yearbook (Stockton, IL)

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 Our 1958 BLACKHAWK broke precedent by including a division devoted to the “subject-cen- tered 9 phase of school. But yearbooks have gen- erally been “extra-curricular centered ' since the Neanderthal period and this precedent is too big to buck. Nevertheless, there would seem to be some wisdom in risking popularity every third or fourth year to make some trifling attempt at recording new educational trends in our own Unit 206. We intend to editorialize on that topic below and on the next few pages. Among the elements that seem particularly significant are: 1 The departmentalization and co-ordina- tion moves; 2 The effort to re-vitalize - put new guts into - the basic academic subjects which had been victims of strangulation from numerous directions; 3 Title III, application for federal science subsidies for facilities instrumental to an effective program; 4 Ability grouping in nearly all Junior- Senior High classes in order that more reasonable use may be made of varied speeds and approaches; 5 The long-awaited addition of desperately needed library materials - the life blood of a good educational program; and the conception of a County Film Library for use by this school and the other six units in the county. We ll venture only one wild prophecy and then turn the pages. Our prophecy is that three years hence, when the next editorial is due and the present freshmen are seniors, school will again be educationally-centered. This is not to suggest that the building will be creeping with bug-eyed book worms who squirm bleakly from class to class. It only means that a hint of serious learning climate is noticeable, though in a very formative stage, and the likelihood of a renaissance seems reasonably predictable.