Ventura College - La Revista Yearbook (Ventura, CA)

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1 fl Qt, 3 Ci l alt? 1, Eseiii -,fi 5, e Four Year lan By D. R. HENRY, Principal HE DISTINCTIVE feature of the Ventura Junior College is its organization as a four year school. Ventura is among a score or more communities and private agencies in this country which are experimenting with this type of organization, The idea of combining grades ll to 14 in one administrative unit is not especally new. It was advocated by Mr. George A. Merrill, a San Francisco principal, as early as l909. Practical experimentation began about ten years ago. Pasadena is the best known public school system organized on the 6-4-4 plan, having inaugurated their organization in l928. Stephens College, Columbia, Missouri, and the University of Chicago training school are outstanding among the four year pri- vate junior colleges. Ventura launched the plan in l929, Compton in l932, and Oceanside in l935. Parsons, Kansas, and Jefferson City, Missouri, are introducing the 6-4-4 system next school year and a few communi- ties, in California and outside the state, are seriously considering its adoption. The four year junior college, as an administrative unit, is based on certain basic educational consider- ations. ln the first place the nature of the subjects taught and the maturity of the students who attend, tend to make the first two years of the traditional college secondary in character rather than collegiate. Physiol- ogically and mentally, students of the grades l2, l3 and I4 constitute a homogeneous unit, leaving grade ll for the orientation, guidance, or transition year. The fouriyear junior college tends to effect a more unified and integrated educational program for the particular grades covered. lt eliminates the break between high school and college with the result that fewer students drop out or change schools. ln Ventura more than 80 percent of the students who complete the l2th grade enter the l3th grade and of those who continue their schooling beyond the l2th grade, 90 percent or more remain in Ventura Junior College. For California as a whole only 40 percent of the high school graduates enter universities or junior colleges. Economically, the 6-4-4 system is advantageous for a community. The eight upper grades require one less school plant than they do in the 6-3-3-2 plan that now prevails in the cities of the country. The criticisms of the four year junior college are, it appears, largely practical in their nature. They arise out of the school's conflict with the traditional school organization a n d certain educational practices. They relate to such matters as the elimination of high school graduation, disadvantages in athletic competi- tion, relations to neighboring secondary schools, and the maintenance of collegiate traditions-matters which have only indirect bearing on learning results. ' ' From an educational point of view it may be safely asserted that the four year junior college involves a most significant idea-a fundamental conception which is receiving particular consideration in a nation- wide movement to reconstruct secondary education. page forty-two