Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 176, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 July 1912 — URGES FULL YEAR AS SCHOOL TERM. [ARTICLE]

URGES FULL YEAR AS SCHOOL TERM.

State Superintendent Favors Laws Providing Twelve Months Work For Pupils in Cities.

Laws providing for continuing the terms of the public schools of Indiana cities practically throughout the entire twelve months of every year, and doing away with the summer vacations now customary, are favored by Charles A. Greathouse, state superintendent of public instruction. He declared that he believes the taxpayers will welcome such an innovation, and said that he is strongly in favor of proposing some such legislation before the 1913 General Assembly. Wholesale reforms in the methods of regulating the length of terms in the city schools of Indiana may be provided in legislation contemplated by Superintendent Greathouse and the state board of education. ” Mr. Greathouse argues that the ancient system of breaking up the school year into ‘terms and allowing the school buildings and teachers to remain idle for long periods in the summer months should be abolished, and that a new era, embracing a system very nearly akin to the German system of school government, should be instituted if Indiana is to keep its rank in the forefront of the educational circles of the United States. Mr. Greathouse says that at least a half-day school session during the summer months, particularly In the larger cities, should be devoted to industrial and domestic educatiofi.