Identifier: garyschoolsgener00flex (find matches)
Title: The Gary schools; a general account
Year: 1918 (1910s)
Authors: Flexner, Abraham, 1866-1959 Bachman, Frank Puterbaugh, 1871- General education board
Subjects: Gary Public Schools Educational surveys
Publisher: New York : General education board
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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s, the firstfour grades ordinarily have two hours of physical train-ing and play daily, and all upper grades at least one hour.Even the very smallest schools give some time to dailyexercise and physical recreation. The facilities for carrying out this program are un-usually extensive. Of the nine schools, all except twohave gymnasiums, ranging from 600 square feet at 24thAvenue to 7,956 at Froebel. Two schools—Emersonand Froebel—have swimming pools. All have play-grounds, ranging from 5,300 square feet at the two room24th Avenue school to 84,496 at Emerson. Three—Emerson, Froebel, and Jefferson—possess athletic fields,^the smallest, at Jefferson, containing 32,130 square feet,and the largest, at Emerson, 173,602. Thus, howeversmall the school and humble the plant, there are out-side provisions for play. For detailed account, see report on Physical Training and Play, byLee F. Hanmer. ^Those of Emerson and Froebel are owned by the city, but operatedby the board of education. IS2
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PHYSICAL TRAINING AND PLAY 153 Fifteen physical training teachers, as a whole wellequipped, have charge of the play activities. Theyreceive from $600 to $1,000 per year and average $859;by assisting in special activities outside of the regularday schools they bring their average annual compensa-tion up to $998, The entire amount paid to them forregular day school services amounted in 1915-16 to$11,825.25, making the per pupil cost for teachers alone$2.09 on total enrollment, or $2.86 on average dailyattendance. There is also a supervisor, who, in addition to regularteaching duties, has general jurisdiction over all. Hissupervisory duties are, however, ill defined, and he hasneither the time nor the authority to organi2e and stand-ardize the instruction, with the result that teachers workmore or less independently of each other. The staff thus made up covers everything done inphysical training. Classroom teachers are not requiredto give any attention whatever to the subject.There is no

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