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Junior High Basketball:
A formal basketball team was started for the Junior High boys. It is coached by Mr. Leverett W. Gilley. They will play a ten game schedule. Eight girls from the eighth grade are the cheerleaders. It is hoped that in the near future, organized teams in other sports will be established for both boys and girls.
Adult Education:
Two courses were offered this year. The Sewing Class and Typing Class meet on Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday. There is a possibility that a third course will be offered in January. A mini- mum enrollment of fifteen students is required in order to offer a course.
Testing Program for 1958:
Division of Employment Security General Aptitude Battery by the State Employment Office represented by Miss Jennie Hol- brook was given to the senior class; National Merit Scholarship tests to all seniors and juniors in October and May; Scholastic Col- lege Ability Tests to sophomores and juniors; SRA Placement Test to Grade eight; California IQ test to Grade seven.
I would like to remind everyone that Douglas High School is a member of the New England Association of Colleges and Sec- ondary Schools and we are accredited by this organization. How- ever, before 1965 we will have to be evaluated by a visiting com- mittee made up of teachers and administrators from other schools. Our program, our facilities, instruction and administration will be evaluated. If they are satisfactory, we will retain our accreditation.
Respectfully submitted,
RALPH E. DUDLEY, Principal MATTHEW H. TOWLE, Vice-Principal
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GRADUATION EXERCISES Class of 1958
JUNE ELEVENTH
PROCESSIONAL-"Pomp and Circumstance" FLAG SALUTE
Elgar
Robert Vecchione
INVOCATION
Rev. Richard Dee
ADDRESS OF WELCOME
Robert Vecchione
"Your Land and My Land" "Halls of Ivy"
Romberg Russell and Knight
High School Glee Club
SENIOR SPEAKERS
Bruce Dudley Nancy Carpenter Frederick Hastings
"Onward Ye People" Sibelius
High School Glee Club
GUEST SPEAKER Mr. Harold Bentley, Director Worcester Junior College
"You'll Never Walk Alone" Rodgers and Hammerstein, II High School Glee Club
ANNOUNCEMENT OF AWARDS Ralph E. Dudley, Principal
PRESENTATION OF DIPLOMAS
William J. Dunleavy, Chairman School Committee
"Song of Farewell"
Kountz
BENEDICTION
Rev. Richard Dee
RECESSIONAL-"Pomp and Circumstance" Elgar
Accompanist - Eleanor Dunleavy
CLASS ROLL
Janice Carole Ballou Betty Fay Beckham
Deborah Louise Buxton
Nancy Lorraine Carpenter Joanne B. Dargan Bruce W. Dudley Patricia Ellen Dudley Apostol Evangelidis Ronald Peter Forget
Frederick Arthur Hastings Raymond William Jenkins Adele Stephanie Jussaume
Robert Joseph Kalvinek Robert Wylie Lanpher Mary Ann Manyak Raymond W. McCallum Iris Berenice Neil David Allen Prince
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Evangeline George Barbara Gove Anthony John Gressak
Ronald Arthur Senecal Paul Joseph Valliere Robert Carmen Vecchione
HONOR STUDENTS
Nancy Carpenter Bruce Dudley
Frederick Hastings Deborah Buxton
Betty Beckham
CLASS MOTTO
Knowledge Comes But Wisdom Lingers
CLASS COLORS Blue and White
CLASS FLOWER Red Rose
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Age-Grade Table
BOYS-OCTOBER 1, 1958
Age
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
Total
Grade
1
4
27
4
1
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18
2
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1
15
2
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5
16
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8
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17
8
2
1
30
10
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4
18
11
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1
7
1
9
12
Total
4
28
22
21
22
31
27
21 15
27
33
15
12
1
279
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5
28
6
22
7
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23
3
25
4
4
13
3 22
6
2
17
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9
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18
15
3
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Age-Grade Table GIRLS-OCTOBER 1, 1958
Age
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
Total
Grade
1
6
14
4
17
2
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1
18
2
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7
12
19
Total
6 18
18
23
16
27 22
25
17
17
22
16
13
240
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Attendance for the School Year Ending June 1958
SCHOOL
TEACHERS
No. Pupils
5-7 Years
7-14 Years
14-16 Years
Over 16
Average
Membership
Average
Attendance
Per Cent of
Attendance
Number
Tardy
Number
Dismissals
High
Seniors
Matthew H. Towle
24
24
23.98
23.31
97.22
14
5
Juniors
Germaine Dalpe
35
8 28
3
29.59
28.56
96.51
15
20
Freshmen
Norman Duprey
47
6
40
1
42.97
41.92
97.56
9
3
Grade 8
Agnes Lucas
35
24
10
1
33.12
32.03
96.69
18
18
Grade 7
Elinor Dunleavy
30
28
2
28.00
26.84
95.86
14
17
Grades 7 & 8
Roberta Wagner
31
28
3
29.36
28.35
96.57
5
5
Elementary
Grade 6
Edith Marsh
35
35
31.41
29.99
95.50
25
9
Grade 5
Mary U. Dunleavy
37
37
33.31
31.52
94.63
18
0
Grades 5 & 6
Zaven Dagirmajian
29
28
1
28.41
27.32
96.19
15
9
Grade 4
Alice Samborski
27
27
26.36
24.97
94.71
9
20
Grade 4
Edith McTeer
29
29
26.71
25.16
94.22
15
3
Grade 3
Florence Seagrave
36
36
29.53
27.50
93.13
28
9
Grade 2
Edith Hill
31
4
27
28.86
27.53
95.41
31
6
Grade 1
Mae Dermody
34
31
3
33.05
30.69
92.84
6
2
D. C. Grades 3 & 4
Edith Dixson
21
21
24.04
22.84
95.05
4
16
D. C. Grades 1 & 2
Thelma Murphy
27
14
13
25.92
24.53
94.63
3
16
27
34.33
32.87
95.79
30
15
Sophomores
Elizabeth Frigard
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List of Teachers, January, 1959
NAME
SCHOOL
HOME ADDRESS
GRADUATE OF
WHEN APPOINTED IN TOWN
Ralph E. Dudley
High
Douglas
Worc. Poly. Inst .- B.U.
1940
Norman Duprey
High
No. Grafton, Mass. East Douglas
Boston College
1952
Algert Lukshis
High
Worcester. Mass.
Marietta College
1956
Kirwin Matthews
High
Worcester, Mass.
St. Anselm's College
1957
Elizabeth Frigard
High
Auburn, Mass.
Univ. of Massachusetts
1957
Barbara Saunders
High
Worcester, Mass.
Worcester State Teachers
1958
Leverett W. Gilley
High
East Douglas
Maine Voc. Tech. Inst.
1958
Eleanor Towle
High
East Douglas
Miss. Bacon Bus. School
1957
Margaret Monahan
Grade 8
Whitinsville
Emmanuel College
1958
Elinor Dunleavy
Grade 7
East Douglas
Boston University
1932
Roberta Wagner
Grade 7 & 8
Douglas
E. Naz. Coll. & Boston U.
1944
Edith Marsh
Grade 6
Dudley, Mass.
Worcester Normal
1942
Mary U. Dunleavy
Grade 5
East Douglas
Worcester Normal
1956
Grade 5
Whitinsville
Arnold College
1956
Grade 4
East Douglas
Tufts College
Worcester State Teachers
1939
Florence Seagrave
Grade 3
Woonsocket, R. I.
R. I. College of Education
1953
Margaret Walker
Grade 4 & 6
Whitinsville
Worcester State Teachers Worcester State Teachers Worcester Normal
1949
Mae Dermody
Grade 1
East Douglas
Elizabeth Allard
Grade 1
Whitinsville
Simmons College
1958
Edith Dixson
Grade 3 & 4
Douglas
Worcester Normal
1942
Thelma Murphy
Grade 1 & 2
Douglas
Lowell State Teachers
1948
Jay Sheldon
Music Supervisor
Framing'm, Mass.
Boston University
1958
Clarice Lunt
Art Supervisor
Uxbridge, Mass.
Mass. School of Art
1948
Frank O. Dodge
Band Instructor
East Douglas
1931
W. L. Rinehart
Writing Supervisor
Weston, Mass.
University of Pittsburgh
1933
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Boston University
1948
Matthew Towle
High
Worcester State Teachers
Worcester State Teachers
1958
Edith Fleming
Grade 2
No. Grafton, Mass.
1944
Zaven Dagirmanjian Alice Samborski
Worcester State Teachers
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REPORT OF THE PRINCIPAL DOUGLAS CENTER SCHOOL
To the Superintendent of Schools:
I herewith submit a report as teaching-principal of the Douglas Center School.
Our school which has two classrooms, serves the pupils from South and West Douglas and Douglas Center, Grades one though four. Recently the classrooms were very attractively redecorated and equipped with movable desks and chairs.
During 1958 the testing program was as follows: Pintner-Cun- ningham Primay Test administered in Grade I in September. Also in September the California Short Form Mental Maturity Test was given in Grades two, three and four. In October the Metropolitan Readiness Test was given in Grade 1. In May the Metropolitan Achievement Tests were given in Grades I through IV.
Courses for professional improvement were taken in 1958 by Mrs. Murphy and Mrs. Dixson.
I wish to thank Mrs. Murphy: the art supervisor, Mrs. Lunt; the music supervisor, Mr. Charles McCabe; and the writing super- visors for their fine cooperation.
Respectfully submitted,
EDITH DIXSON, Principal
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REPORT OF THE PRINCIPAL EAST DOUGLAS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
To the Superintendent of Schools:
This is my report as principal of the East Douglas Elementary School.
The primary business of the Elementary school is to further the intellectual growth of each child in accordance with his ability and readiness. An effort is constantly being made toward this end with the aid of new textbooks and new methods of teaching.
The main addition to the curriculum during 1958 was the educational television Science program via Channel 2. The fifth and sixth grades participated in the viewing of these televised lessons. The Science lessons proved to be enjoyable as well as profitable in the formation of the scientific background necessary for further science studies. The televised lessons alone are in- complete. Preparation for the televised lessons and evaluation following the lessons supplemented the T.V. program and were faithfully carried out by Mrs. Edith Marsh and Mr. Zaven Dagir- manjian. Experiments to follow up the program were performed by several high school students assisted by pupils from the fifth and sixth grade classrooms. Reference books needed for this science program were purchased and are available for both the teachers and pupils.
In September 1958, the T.V. lessons were extended to include grades two to six. One television set is used for the viewing of Music by grade two, Literature by grade three, Social Studies by grade four, Natural Science by grade five, and Phyiscal Science by grade six.
The pupils of the Elementary School participated in the following extra-curricula activities: Glee Club, Band, Junior Red Cross, Poster Contests, and a Hobby Show.
The physical appearance of the school has been altered by the addition of a principal's office and a teachers' lavatory. Both were greatly needed and are most genuinely appreciated.
The addition of cafeteria service for the pupils of the Elementary School was accomplished during the past year. The tasty hot lunches are enjoyed by the pupils and teachers.
The faculty of the Elementary School has endeavored to keep pace with the current educational demands by taking courses and
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by attending the Health, Arithmetic, and Reading Workshops during 1958.
I wish to thank the teachers; the art supervisor, Mrs. Clarice Lunt; the music supervisors, Mr. Charles McCabe and Mr. Frank Dodge; and the writing supervisors for their fine cooperation and for the high type of work performed.
I also wish to thank the school custodian, Mr. Paul Rawson, for the splendid appearance of the building at all times.
Respectfully submitted, ALICE E. SAMBORSKI
Principal
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REPORT OF SCHOOL NURSE
To the Superintendent of Schools:
It is a pleasure to submit my twentieth report as School Nurse in the Public Schools of Douglas. For the past twenty years I have been striving to improve the Health status of every child and every adult in the Town of Douglas. Looking back over these twenty years I feel that much has been accomplished in obtaining optimum health for the citizens of Douglas and those employed by the Town of Douglas. Up to this point I have been supervising as well as actually doing all the ground work and follow up in a generalized nursing program for this community.
A general family nursing service such as I have been carrying is recognized to be more adequate for a school health program. With the continuous demands made upon me and facing up to the fact that more time is needed for an adequate school health pro- gram, I question whether I should try to continue to function as I have in the past. I believe my report will confirm the foregoing statement.
The center of a school health program to the child is the child. The childs mental and physical health and development are molded by these influences:
1. Parents
2. Teachers and school authorities
3. School medical personnel
Each has a responsibility to the child and all have a responsibility to each other.
Teachers' Role: As detectives to uncover mental and physical defects; as teachers to uncover truths and present them as such; and as athletic directors, to supervise safe athletics by safe athletes. The teachers also share with the nurse the responsibility of health education of the child.
Nurse's Role: By educating teachers to look for defects and reminding them of this obligation; by teaching teachers and child- ren truths about health matters; by helping supervise the athletic directors and insisting they provide safe athletics for all. A good school nurse is essential for the management and accomplishment of any adequate school health program. The school nurse assists the school physician, Dr. R. H. Spooner, in all matters of health pertaining to the school child. He functions as her consultant at all times.
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Parents' Role: Most parents are delighted to assume the res- ponsibility for the mental and physical health of the children in our school system; most parents will cooperate and assume their obligations provided they are shown the need and are taught what to do; parental co operation cannot be obtained by sending home a slip hurriedly checked with a suspected defect. In many instances parents must be stimulated to co-operate. This can only be done by personal professional contact of the parent by the school nurse and/or the school doctor.
HEALTH EXAMINATIONS
There were 57 examined by Dr. Spooner in the primary and elementary grades. There were 44 parents present or 77.7%. This figure represents a very high percentage of parents attending the health appraisal of their children. The number of pupils examined in the Junior and Senior high school was 144. This examination is very time consuming due to the physical education program now in effect and the athletic program. Individual examinations are given each of the students with an average of eleven minutes spent on each pupil. Mr. Kirwin Matthews, the athletic coach, is present when Dr. Spooner examines the boys, so that he will be aware of any defects and the degree of the defect in a boy who is active in the athletic program. The nurse is present when the girls are examined and interprets the findings to the girl's athletic coach. Both boys and girls are instructed and given time to discuss their individual health problems both physical and emotional with the physician. An approximate percent of defects corrected or under treatment through 1957-58 was 88.6%.
The number of children found to have defects classified under physical, dental and emotional is as follows:
Dental
31
Nose and Throat 1
Emotional or Social
20
Cardiac
3
Nutritional
5
Posture 14
Eyes
7
Feet
2
Ears
11
Spine
1
Skin
8
Speech
2
Orthopedic
2
The Well Child Conference report and the report on com- municable disease, polio and small pox vaccination, and the im- munization clinic may be found in my report to the Board of Health to which I refer you.
VISION TESTING
The Massachusetts Vision Test was used in screening the vision
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of the children on the Secondary level. Pupils in the Elementary level have not been tested this term.
Number tested 200
Number retested 27
Number failing retest 27
Number failing test seen by eye
Specialist as correct referral
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HEARING TESTING
The pure tone audiometer is the instrument used to detect hearing impairment.
Number tested 228
Number retested 23
Number failing retest 7
Number referred to Otologist 7
Of this group two have a large degree of hearing loss, one child is using a hearing aid.
EXCEPTIONAL CHILDREN
The annual census of physically handicapped children reported to the State Department of Education and State Department of Public Health was 26. Many of these children are registered with the State Crippled Children's Clinic in Worcester. All of them are either attending a clinic or are under the supervision of the family physician or specialist. One child has been referred to the Massachusetts General Ear Infirmary for evaluation.
HOME NURSING
Fifteen girls in Senior High School received Red Cross Certi- ficates in Home Nursing. Two credits are given for this course, which includes 40 hours of theory and practice. Health education is correlated with this course. Field trips were taken to St. Vincent Hospital and Rutland Veterans Hospital, Worcester State Hospital where the students were oriented to day care centers.
SCHOOL HEALTH WORKSHOP
On March 15th a School Health Workshop was held at the High School. Both Sutton and Douglas Teachers participated. The School nurse in Sutton and Douglas were co-chairmen of this workshop. Over one hundred attended the workshop.
HARVARD-BOSTON UNIVERSITY EXTENSION COURSE
Following the School Health Workshop it was suggested that a course in Mental Health be given. This course was held at the
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Douglas Memorial High School. The instructors were Dr. Joseph Weinreb, the Director of the Youth Guidance Clinic in Worcester and Dr. Martin Gluck, a clinical psychologist. Thirty-three teachers and public school nurses from Douglas and surrounding towns at- tended.
PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTING
I accompanied fifteen children to Wrentham State School for psychological testing. This facility is the only one available without charge where the Stanford Binet Test is given. It is mandatory that at least one parent accompany the child when he goes to be tested. A physical examination is also done at this time. A con- ference is held with each child with a team of specialists. To do proper follow up on these cases it would take weeks of a trained social worker's time. Two parents refused their children to be tested at Wrentham. A psychologist from the Framingham Public School System came to Douglas to test these two students.
HEALTH EDUCATION
Several group discussions have been held with the girls in the high school building. The girls have many problems to discuss per- taining to the physical education classes, the shower system, etc. I have attempted to guide and counsel some of the students re- ferred to me through the teachers.
PROBLEMS
The following are some of the services not adequately covered because of the element of time:
1. Health instruction for boys on the secondary level.
2. Nurse-pupil individual conferences on all levels.
3. Nurse-teacher conferences on all levels.
4. Baby sitters' course.
5. A planned program for visual aids in health teaching.
For professional improvement I attended a series of lectures in Worcester for Public Health Nurses sponsored by, the State De- partment of Public Health, State Health meeting, Massachusetts Public Health Association Conference at the University of Massa- chusetts, School Health meetings and the American Public Health Association meeting in St. Louis, Missouri.
I wish to express my appreciation to you, Mr. Hoyt, the School Committee, Dr. Spooner, the Uxbridge Lions Club, Salvation Army Service Fund Committee, the Red Cross, Mrs. Kelly and her co-
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workers, the volunteers who assist with various projects and to all parents, principals, and teachers for their loyal support.
Respectfully submitted, MABEL A. BROWN ,R.N. School Nurse
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REPORT OF THE SUPERVISOR OF MUSIC
To the Superintendent of Schools:
With the submittance of the first annual report by the under- signed as Supervisor of Music in the Douglas Public Schools, it seems advisable to state both the present situation of the music program as well as the intended developments for the near future.
It is a generally acknowledged fact that music in the public schools should be an enjoyable experience as well as a learning experience. Music should be for everyone; everyone should have the opportunity to participate with the ultimate aim of personal ex- pression through a musical procedure. In order for one to express himself in a musical manner, he or she should acquire the knowledge needed to do so. This knowledge must begin in the early years of public school and grow continually through the end of the educa- tional period. With the gradual increase of knowledge of good per- formance standards as well as high-quality level of music reper- toire, we may well expect students to acquire a liking for music representative of artistic level and, too, a liking for production of a finer sort.
Commencing with Grade 1, it is entirely possible to present musical experiences through song, record listening, and creativity in such a way that the youngster will take hold of the meaning of music in his daily life as well as the proper way to express himself. The student must become aware of the link betwen the music he hears or sings and the message it brings. In doing this, he will realize the importance of singing the music with proper expression, or of listening to it to derive the message intended. Once this has become a natural response, music has taken hold and the student will consider the world of music a vital part of his existence all through later life. Right down here in Grade 1, the individual must see the value of meaningful presentation of whatever he hears or sings, and, quite naturally, this will include the matter of proper use of the voice to bring forth a pleasing sound. Attractive tunes for singing and distinctive melodies for listening will result in the youngster's acquisition of good taste at even this early age.
Now as we progress into the upper grades, the process of using highly-acceptable music to sing and listen to will most certainly give us a student who will have acquired more and more of that ability to distinguish "good" from "bad". It is, in this way, that the strong aim of the music teacher toward overcoming the TV and recording influences of inferior performers and song writers will be carried out. All music instruction in the public schools must, of ur- gent necessity, be so directed with intensity and persistency ..
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Here, in Douglas, the music program is being developed toward the goal of good musical tastes both in the so-called "serious" fields as well as the commercial so-called "popular" fields. There is a wealth of high-level popular performances even today for our ears. Why not emphasize this instead of allowing the student to believe that anything that makes a commercial recording must be good, or it never would have been produced? This goal is being accom- plished in the elementary classroom and the Junior High general music class by means of (1) singing, (2) recordings of representa- tive music from the wide scope of music in all phases, (3) discussion of the link between musical sounds and the meaning they are in- tended for, leading to (4) creation of one's own songs and lyrics. Through a pogram of both active and passive experiences, the stu- dent is receiving the chance to express himself both as a performer and a receiver.
One main feature has not been mentioned up to this point, and intentionally has it been avoided. This is the matter of attention to musical theory, that phase which is purely a learning process. There are pros and cons among music educators of all ages as to the advisability of much or even a little presentation of theory in the public school. This writer firmly believes that, through knowledge, comes appreciation as well as competency. When the student UN- DERSTANDS what he is doing with music, so much the easier will he perform and so much the more intelligently. And so, without question, a good amount of time is spent at all grade levels starting with Grade 2 in the acquisition of enough knowledge to handle the music that each particular grade is performing.
To return to the "theme" of this article which was presented in paragraph two above: "Music is for everyone". No one. certainly in the public schools, should be denied the chance to take part in music. Thus, the elective chorus or glee club fits into the picture as a catch-all for everyone who desires to sing with others. As long as a person is willing to give of his or her best in each rehearsal session toward the betterment of the group's perfomance standards with regular attendance and constant interest in the group's suc- cess, no barriers should be erected to prevent any one from partici- pating because of mediocre or even less-than-average voice quality or knowledge of musical theory. Where there is only one group that the individual may join, he should not be excluded providing his interest is great enough to warrant the opinion that he is not hind- ering the group's results. Every school of higher grade level, should, however, ideally possess two groups, the one for average or poorer ability students, and the other for those people who have better vo- cal quality and greater reading ability.
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