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Board of Education J. E. EVANS President DR. G. H. HOSKINS Treasurer T. S. BOYLE Secretary MARY L. MORRISON Clerk
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The Whiting Public Schools If the boys and girls of a community are its greatest asset, then the means of their training, the schools, are the community’s most important enterprise. This is the conception we have of the schools of Whiting and it is the high standard by which we try to measure every factor that enters into their character and affects their progress. Although the schools of Whiting have gone on modestly from year to year serving the community without seeking notoriety or publicity, they are unique in some respects and merit distinction. So far as I know, it is the only consolidated system of city schools in the country. The different schools of a city system are regularly distributed over the city, but because of the size and compactness of our city we are able to group all of our schools on one block, except a small three room school located in the southern extension of Whiting. This consolidation has many advantages. It makes possible a central heating plant. One auditorium, one industrial and one physical education equipment are easily made to serve the entire system. Buildings are used interchangeably and special teachers and supervisors can more conveniently and economically be provided where help of this kind is needed. Whiting has perhaps the one outstanding example of a system of schools that is not seriously handicapped by a lack of resources. Although the spirit of the school administration has been to use strict business methods in all of its dealings and to practice the kind of economy that relates to efficiency, it is also true that there has not been the need or the disposition on the part of anyone to hamper the work of the schools in any of the departments by withholding funds, and when a legitimate need of any kind has been demonstrated the resources for providing for that need have always been forthcoming. Our school organization has not departed so far at this time from the traditional ideals and standards as to be impossible of recognition, which may be a virtue. Our system includes the usual kindergarten work, elementary grades, Junior High School and Senior High School. When our housing facilities will permit, these divisions will be grouped as follows: Elementary grades, six years; Junior High School, three years; Senior High School, three years. At present the sixth grade is grouped with the Junior and the ninth grade with the Senior High School. In the Junior High School the problems of differentiation and adaptation of subjects, electives and subject promotion have only partially been attacked. The Senior School, though having a small annual enrollment of approximately two hundred, undertakes, and successfully, to meet the standards and opportunities offered by the largest schools. Indeed, I think it may safely
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