Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 January 1918 — Richmond School Board Orders German Dropped [ARTICLE]

Richmond School Board Orders German Dropped

Richmond, Jan. 27.—German in the public schools was ordered discontinued by the Richmond school board yesterday following the request of the Commercial Club, Mayor W. W. Zimmerman, the board of public works and prominent business men. German had been taught for many years in the Hibberd grade school, which is located in a section where many citizens of German descent reside. Last year the teaching of the, German was left to a vote of the patrons of the school who asked that it be taught in the grades. At the high school and junior school no students have elected German for the next semester so that the ending of this term will see the language dropped entirely from the school work.