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$809.86
William H. Nelson, 720.40
Thomas B. Bartlett,
329.18
Rebecca F. Sampson,
370.48
Katherine E. Sever,
487.39
Mary F. Wood,
155.89
Phoebe P. Ellis,
25.75
Cordelia Savery,
108.90
William Ross,
416.37
Putnam Kimball,
425.09
John Gooding,
636.58
Schuyler Sampson,
275.63
R. B. Hall,
109.80
Fanny Sylvester,
132.72
Geo. E. & Carrie M. Benson,
127.83
E. A. Spooner,
129.30
George Hayward,
410.48
George S. Tolman,
133.87
Elizabeth S. Tinkham,
185.24
Danforth and Thurber,
214.34
William Bartlett,
497.70
Daniel H. Paulding,
354.42
John Morissey,
256.66
Oliver T. Wood,
121.21
Sarah A. Waldron,
205.80
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Sarah V. Kendrick,
65.16
Emma F. Avery,
542.74
Isaac M. Jackson,
1,173.03
Abby B. Avery & Sam. Bartlett,
321.88
Dora Perrit,
175.63
Mary E. Moning,
123.65
Nathaniel Spooner,
149.89
Abbie D. Danforth,
110.70
Georgianna Hedge,
111.90
Elizabeth F. Stoddard,
269.47
Benjamin Hathaway,
268.66
Cornelius Bradford,
126.59
George W. Haskins,
83.96
Annie Martin,
317.29
Henry Farris Stoddard,
125.56
Obadiah Lyon,
202,86
Madeline Harris,
188.05
Lydia G. Lothrop,
330.79
Sarah W. Sparrow,
103.40
Chas. W. Eaton,
335.91
Charles C. Doten,
299.32
Sarah J. Ryder,
252.56
Mary B. Bassett,
115.78
Colburn C. & Chas. R. Wood,
300.03
Henry W. Tillson,
132.02
Caroline Grozinger,
50.65
Joseph P. Thurston,
232.73
Gustavus G. Sampson,
148.60
Amelia Knoch,
119.83
Briggs-Goodwin,
114.82
James H. Sutcliffe,
115.88
Evelyn Louise Perry,
101.30
John Smith, 103.83
Amasa Bartlett & Bourne Spooner,
330.96
Capt. Frederick Bartlett,
124.03
Caroline C. Finney,
115.42
Thomas Cooper,
125.50
Plymouth Seventeen
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Lorenzo M. Bennett,
192.35
James R. Shaw,
141.46
Ernest L. Sampson,
215.56
Truman Sampson,
143.86
Levi R. Sampson,
143.86
Arthur S. Byrnes,
114.71
Otis W. Lapham,
116.79
Francis M. Robbins,
109.42
Lemuel L. Swift,
186.95
George W. Bradford,
236.93
Grace D. Mooney,
54.90
Amasa C. Sears,
107.59
Mary Pratt,
284.81
Henry W. Torrey,
168.09
Lyndon P. Hubbard,
115.76
Stephen Doten,
116.45
Ellen D. Howard,
83.14
Bramhall Fund,
164.91
Thomas Jackson,
113.38
Emma S. Hall,
116.95
Douglas-Hodges,
136.69
Churchill-Harlow,
170.75
Benjamin & Bessie Weston,
59.12
George Finney,
111.13
Horace C. Whitten,
100.00
Edward L. Robbins,
227.57
Henry Buhman,
117.33
John Krins,
119.26
Addie E. Douglas,
104.50
Frederick M. Atwood,
179.67
Ellis Whiting,
111.27
Charles Rogers,
80.99
Helen F. Hedge,
232.51
Robert H. & Rebecca Barnes,
156.97
Charles S. Purinton,
357.17
Isaac H. Valler,
129.89
Esther Hollis,
488.17
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Edward W. Baker,
198.10
Elizabeth A. Howland,
244.37
Harriet E. McFall,
166.79
George E. Randall,
167.56
James H. & James E. Clark lots,
227.14
Eliza G. Hall,
230.93
Emma W. Hedge,
224.14
John Fratus,
166.16
Mary E. Fuller,
109.55
Thomas Pierce,
160.44
Alfred L. Bartlett,
222.94
Martha S. Brewster,
111.48
Henry E. Maynard,
109.23
Edward H. Thompson,
109.67
Benjamin Drew,
171.29
Mary McLeod,
232.40
Catherine B. Morrison,
104.46
Lucy C. Nelson,
231.98
Philip Rudolph,
107.91
Eugenia Lothrop,
110.68
Lucia S. Griffin,
103.78
Anna B. Humphrey,
105.77
Mercie F. Morse,
111.58
Anna M. Shepard,
333.74
Martha A. Morton,
106.52
Nellie E. McCloskey,
226.49
Johnson Davee, May & Simmons,
211.30
J. Sumner Wood,
111.28
Frank Quartz,
224.48
Clarence W. Burgess,
171.72
Emma F. Caldwell,
261.71
Aaron Sampson,
110.42
Robert Thom,
106.99
Ella Bugbee Lee,
108.68
Sophia P. Mawbey,
106.40
Nathan S. Torrance,
111.25
Anthony Atwood,
220.09
Thelma Weston,
217.68
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Robert & Mary McKinnon, 108.46
Charles G. Burgess, 423.73
Sarah A. Bartlett, 102.71
Elizabeth S. McHenry,
106.74
Anna V. Robbins,
101.93
Job Churchill,
210.94
Job Churchill (Burial Hill),
214.02
Abner H. Harlow,
260.47
Rufus Sampson,
104.13
Phineas Wells,
103.97
William B. Taylor,
208.27
John F. Raymond,
103.75
Oliver S. Holmes,
153.99
William Sykes,
102.48
Henry Armstrong,
100.08
T. Allen Bagnell,
205.60
Frank Rogers,
101.14
William Hodgkins,
153.98
Mary B. Shephard,
156.24
Alexander A. Robbins,
102.78
Chandler Holmes,
100.00
Albert Lundgren,
102.75
Ignatius F. Pierce,
152.76
Lucy L. Hoxie,
66.01
Harriet A. Shaw,
102.75
Frank Ellis,
151.12
Harriet A. Corey,
126.03
John M. Kingsley,
101.37
Helen H. Swanstrom,
126.72
Edward Millburn,
101.37
Robert C. Swift,
202.75
Edward G. Ellis,
100.00
Emily E. Campbell, 150.00
Charlotte A. & Winslow Bradford,
200.00
John A. Spooner,
100.00
Warren L. Rich,
100.00
Harrison C. Beckman,
1,000.00
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Gladys J. Campbell,
150.00
Alexander Wasson,
100.00
William Sargent Holmes,
200.00
Annie C. Stoddard,
300.00
Gannett Fund,
200.00
Caroline B. Warren,
100.00
Alice B. Ball,
50.00
Fannie T. Rowell,
100.00
George Asa Whiting,
100.00
George I. Hodgson,
150.00
Rebecca B. Robbins,
200.00
Lucia C. Freeman,
200.00
William S. Robbins,
500.00
Solomon E. Faunce,
200.00
Hannah M. Jackson,
100.00
Lydia G. Bradford,
200.00
William Langford,
200.00
William W. Brewster,
300.00
Henry L. Sampson & Christiana R. Leland, 200.00
Total Plymouth Savings Bank,
$37,378.27
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DEPOSITED WITH STATE TREASURER Phoebe R. Clifford Fund, 200.00
Total Cemetery Perpetual Care Funds,
$81,442.00
NATHANIEL MORTON PARK FUND Plymouth Savings Bank, $2,000.00
MURDOCK POOR AND SCHOOL FUND Plymouth Savings Bank, $730.00
FRANCIS LEBARON POOR FUND
Plymouth Five Cents Saving Bank,
$675.00
Plymouth Savings Bank, 675.00
CHARLES HOLMES POOR FUND
Plymouth Five Cents Savings Bank,
$500.00
JULIA P. ROBINSON POOR FUND Plymouth Five Cents Savings Bank, $300.00
WARREN BURIAL HILL CEMETERY FUND Plymouth Savings Bank, $1,584.76
Plymouth Five Cents Savings Bank, 169.60
MARCIA E. JACKSON GATES PUBLIC LIBRARY FUND
Plymouth Savings Bank, $1,000.00
Plymouth Five Cents Savings Bank, 1,000.00
OLD COLONY NATIONAL BANK STOCK INVEST- MENT FUND
Old Colony National Bank Stock, $5,000.00
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SCHEDULE J.
Valuation for 1927 less abatements on $290,000
$26,447,375
Valuation for 1928 less abatements on 129,675
25,222,650
Valuation for 1929 less abatements on 78,300 25,061,325
Total,
Average,
$76,731,350 25,577,117
3%, 767,313
Total Debt incurred and outstanding, $367,167
Less :
Plym. County Hospital Loan
(Acts 1916, Chap. 266), $10,000
Water Loans, 24,667
Total Debt outside limit,
34,667
Total outstanding within debt limit, 332,500
Borrowing Capacity, January 1, 1930, $434,813
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APPROPRIATIONS ON WARRANT FOR ANNUAL TOWN MEETING
March 22, 1930
Selectmen's Department,
$3,650.00
Accounting Department,
2,600.00
Treasury Department,
2,050.00
Tax Collector's Department,
3,400.00
Assessors' Department,
7,000.00
Law Department,
4,500.00
Town Clerk's Department,
1,700.00
Engineering Department,
1,000.00
Planning Board,
200.00
Election and Registration,
1,600.00
Maintenance of Town House,
2,500.00
Maintenance of Town Hall,
7,000.00
Police Department,
32,700.00
Fire Department,
35,714.00
Inspection of Buildings,
800.00
Sealing Weights and Measures,
3,347.00
Moth Suppression,
5,000.00
Tree Warden's Department,
3,000.00
Forest Warden's Department
(For preventing and suppressing fires)
3,500.00
Inland Fisheries,
300.00
Plymouth County Hospital Maintenance,
8,489.36
Health Department,
18,000.00
Public Sanitaries,
3,400.00
Sewers,
6,000.00
Street Cleaning,
5,000.00
Roads and Bridges,
40,000.00
Hard-Surfacing Streets,
7,500.00
Gurnet Bridge Tax,
838.52
Sidewalks,
7,000.00
Sidewalks; Granolithic,
5,000.00
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Snow and Ice Removal,
8,000.00
Street Sprinkling,
5,000.00
Street Lighting,
21,000.00
Harbor Master, 450.00
Pensions for Town Laborers, 1,225.00
Public Welfare Dept., Including Mothers' Aid, 35,000.00
Public Welfare Dept, for overdraft in 1929, 1,201.56
Soldiers' Benefits,
10,500.00
School Department,
253,850.00
School Department, for Travelling Expenses
Outside the Commonwealth,
150.00
Park Department, for the Parks and Training Green,
9,386.00
Park Department, for Public Playgrounds and Public Camping Place, 7,400.00
Park Department, for 1929 bills,
162.93
Sexton,
200.00
Miscellaneous Account, 3,500.00
Water Department Maintenance, 28,000.00
Water Department Construction, 15,000.00
Town Forest, 1,500.00
Oak Grove and Vine Hills Cemeteries,
13,000.00
Oak Grove and Vine Hills Cemeteries, for Sur- facing Drives and Paths, 1,000.00
Burial Hill Cemetery,
2,000.00
Chiltonville, Manomet, Cedarville and South Pond Cemeteries. 500.00
Town Debt and Interest,
78,000.00
Total for Article 5, $718,814.37
Art. 6. Plymouth Public Library, $10,000.00
Art. 7. Manomet Public Library, 750.00
Art. 8. Plymouth County Aid to Agriculture 250.00
Art 10. Memorial Committee, 2,500.00
Art. 11. Rifle Range Expenses, 125.00
Art. 12. Memorial Day and Armistice Day, 750.00
Art. 13. July Fourth and Forefathers' Day, 1,250.00
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Art. 14. Band Concerts, 500.00
Art. 15. Dredging Harbor,
16,500.00
Art. 16. Fish Wharf Repairs and Dredging
Art. 17. Dredging at Sewer and Fish Wharf, 2,000.00 5,000.00
Art. 18. Traffic Signals,
Art. 19. Survey on Sewerage Disposal,
6,000.00
Art. 20. Standish Avenue Improvement, 20,000.00
Art. 21.
State Highway Land Damages, 1,000.00
Art. 22. Vinal Avenue Construction,
1,000.00
Art. 23. Manomet Avenue Construction, 250.00
Gray Avenue Construction and Side-
Art. 24. walk, 1,500.00
Art. 25. Land for Sidewalk at No. 10 Court St., 770.00
Art. 26. Forest Avenue Land Damage, 300.00
Art. 27. Hedge Road Construction,
2,500.00
Art. 28. New High School Building, 40,000.00
Art. 29. Acquiring Land on Union Street for School Purposes, 7,500.00
Art. 30. Acquiring Land on Bradford Street
for School Purposes, 1,200.00
Art. 31. Court Street Sidewalk from Murray Street Northerly, 1,000.00
Art. 32. Macadam Road on Town Wharf, 1,000.00
Art. 33. Head of the Bay Road Improvement, 500.00
Art. 34. Court Street Drain,
1,500.00
Art. 35. Mt. Pleasant Street Drain,
750.00
Art. 38. Sandwich Street and Main Street Ext. Land and Construction, 4,800.00
Art. 39. Beaver Dam Road Hard-Surfacing, 1,000.00
Art. 40. Warren Avenue Sidewalks,
1,500.00
Art. 41.
South Street, East of Playground,
500.00
Art. 42.
Doten Road, Hard-Surface, 7,000.00
Art. 43. Remodeling at Police Station, 20,000.00
Art. 44. Clearing Brush from Woods Roads, 2,500.00
Art. 46. Pipe Line at White Horse Beach for Fire Protection, 1,300.00
Total Appropriations on 1930 Warrant,
$883,809.37
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INDEX
Abstracts of Records of 1929
6
Appropriations on Warrant for Annual Town Meeting
264
Assessors' Report
103
Balance Sheet
244
Births
56
Board of Health
126
Bonds
249
Building Inspector
146
Cemetery Department
142
Cemetery Funds
250
Deaths
62
Fire Commissioner
137
Forest Fire Warden
161
Forestry Committee
162
Inspector of Milk
134
Inspector of Plumbing
136
Inspector of Slaughtering
132
Jurors
163
Licenses Issued
70
Marriages
48
Measurer of Wood and Bark
153
Memorial Committee
39
Moth Suppression
159
Park Commissioners
122
Playgrounds
122
Police Department
97
Public Library
111
Public Welfare Report
106
Report of Advisory and Finance Committee
18
Report of Supt. of Streets and Town Engineer
42
Report of Town Clerk 47
School Report opp.
268
Sealer of Weights and Measures
147
Selectmen's Report 36
Tree Warden
160
Town Accountant
167
Town Officers, 1929
3
Town Planning Board
156
Water Commissioners
71
Water System - Proposed for Manomet
71
Special index for school reports at the end of the School Report.
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PLYMOUTH
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SCHOOL REPORTE
1929
M. ANDERSON
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Report and Recommendations on
Building Accommodations
for the
Junior and Senior High Schools
PLYMOUTH SCHOOL COMMITTEE FEBRUARY 1930
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Report and recommendations with regard to the necessary building accommodations for the Junior and Senior High Schools as determined by the School Department.
INTRODUCTION
School conditions in the Junior and Senior High Schools are exceedingly serious and need immediate remedying. The fact that the Freshman class, numbering 192 pupils, is deprived of twenty-five per cent of the usual school hours and the upper three classes, numbering 332, lose ten per cent, should be evidence enough to show that a high standard of work cannot be main- tained.
Frank Morse, Supervisor of Secondary Education in Massa- chusetts, in reply to a question as to the effect of shorter hours for the high school writes as follows :-
"A good school will run on its momentum for a little while but I am quite sure from my experience and observation that it is practically impossible to maintain for any length of time, the proper standard of work when the school has a session as short as is now being employed in Plymouth. The short session is espe- cially serious for those pupils who most need help. It may also be said that the afternoon group probably suffers worse than the forenoon group because the afternoon, especially the late after- noon, is probably not so good a time for school work as the earlier hours of the day."
The conditions as described in the school reports of 1927 and 1928, are approximately the same today in the Junior High School but are intensified in the Senior High School by an increased enrollment of 64 pupils. A full discussion is contained in the re- ports for the years 1927 and 1928.
Three years ago the School Committee engaged Dr. Jesse B. Davis, Professor of Secondary Education at the Graduate School of Education at Harvard and at the School of Education at Boston University, to make a survey of the educational needs of these schools. For many years Dr. Davis was principal of one of the large high schools in Grand Rapids, Michigan, where he made a national reputation as a school administrator and did pioneer work in moral and vocational guidance. In 1919 he was appointed Super-
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visor of Secondary Education in the state of Connecticut and held that position for about four years, when he accepted a professor- ship in the Department of Education at Harvard College and Boston University. He has been called in to make school sur. veys or act as building consultant in many towns and cities, such as Somerville, Woburn, Medford, Norwood and Reading. During the past year he was employed by the Boston Survey Commission as an expert in the school building situation. He has been recog- nized as an authority on Secondary Education throughout the country, serving on many national committees. He is also called in consultation by several school architects to check building plans against school needs. Under an act of Congress the U. S. Com- missioner of Education has recently appointed a committee of thirty to make a nation wide survey of secondary education in the United States. Dr. Davis is to serve on this committee.
PLAN OF 1928
The Davis plan for reorganization for the schools is printed in full in the School Report for 1927. In this he recommends the division of the schools on the 6-3-3 plan, that is, six grades for the elementary schools, grades 7, 8 and 9 (the present freshmen) are to be in the Junior High School unit and the upper three grades -10, 11 and 12 in the Senior High School unit. He recommended an addition to the present Junior High School to consist of several classrooms and also a gymnasium, an auditorium and a cafeteria and special rooms to be used by both schools.
However, owing to the limited borrowing capacity of the town January 1, 1928, it was not possible in the plan above to adequately satisfy the needs of the Senior High School. This prob- lem was left for later solution. The plan had certain weaknesses which were frankly admitted.
PLAN OF 1929
One year later with an increase in the borrowing capacity and with a further study of building possibilities to overcome objections raised to the first plan, a second plan was submitted which would meet the needs of both schools and provide a new senior high school. This plan placed both schools in one large building but at the same time kept the two units distinct as far
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as their organization and administration were concerned. Both schools would use the same gymnasium, the same cafeteria, the same assembly hall and the same special rooms. For all practical purposes the two schools were as much separated as though in adjacent buildings. The Junior High School pupils would enter from Sandwich Street and the Senior High School from Lincoln Street, with practically no mingling of pupils during the day, as each would use the auditorium, gymnasium, cafeteria and special classes at different hours. Even their recesses would be at differ- ent times.
The building and floor plans are shown on the accompanying pages. The rooms facing Lincoln Street were for the Senior High School, the rooms in the present Junior High School together with those adjoining were for the Junior High School; the gymnasium, auditorium, cafeteria and special rooms for sewing, cooking, shop and drawing were to be used by both schools.
APPROPRIATION REQUESTED IN 1929
To execute the above plans the following items were asked for at the Town Meeting held in March.
1. Construction of New Junior and Senior High School including heating, ventilation, plumbing and electric work in accordance with estimate of John W. Duff, Inc.
$282,000.00
2. Remove furnaces in present Junior High School, enlarge boiler room, substitute steam heating in- cluding boiler power, build new outside coal pocket and make necessary construction changes in present Junior High School
27,500.00
3. Run heating pipe in conduit to present High School building
5,000.00
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4. Outside grading and approaches (Estimate) .
15,000.00
329,500.00
5. Architect
19,770.00
6. Equipment
30,730.00
380,000.00
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7. Contingent Fund 10,000.00
8. Pope Property
7,500.00
9. Frim Property 1,200.00
Total $398,700.00
Note 1. Items 1 and 2 were based upon estimates secured from reliable concerns, based upon architect's specifications.
Note 2. Item 6 was based on analysis of room needs according to the floor plans.
Note 3. Item 8 was the price agreeable to the owners.
Note 4. The Pope property is sometimes known as the old lum- ber yard and contains 1.1 acres. The Frim property is a narrow strip of land between Bradford Street and the Junior High School property. The acquiring of this would permit easy access to the rear of the school from Bradford Street.
SOME REASONS FOR REJECTION OF PLAN
The above plan was rejected at the town meeting because of several different objections, among which were the following:
1. Are gymnasiums, auditoriums, cafeterias and special rooms necessary ?
2. Cannot the present high school be added to or remodelled ?
3. Can the town afford to build at the present time ?
4. Is it desirable to have a combined building ?
SPECIAL COMMITTEE
A special committee was appointed "to work in conjunction with the School Committee to investigate the needs and building conditions at the Junior and Senior High Schools and recommend such alterations, additions, reconstruction or new construction as may be necessary in their judgment to give proper educational facilities for the present and future."
The recently issued "School Building Survey of the Town of Plymouth" was made by Mr. John R. Fausey, Superintendent of Schools of West Springfield, for the Special Committee of Nine.
POINTS AGREED UPON BY SUPT. FAUSEY and DR. DAVIS
1. The Junior and Senior High Schools need more adequate
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PROPOSED BUILDING AS RECOMMENDED BY THE SCHOOL COMMITTEE. NOTE .- The Senior High School would occupy the front of this building. The Junior High School would use their present building (seen in the rear) and rooms odinining it. See floor plans.
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GROUND FLOOR PLAN JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL AT PLYMOUTH MASSACHUSETTS FRANK IRVING COOPER CORPORATION ARCHITECTS BOSTON MASS.
NOTE .- Rooms on the left end are for the Senior High School, those on right for the Junior High School, and the special rooms, lunch room and showers for both schools.
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FIRST FLOOR PLAN JUNIOR- SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL AT PLYMOUTH MASSACHUSETTS FRANK IRVING COOPER CORPORATION ARCHITECTS BOSTON MASS
NOTE .- The rooms on the left end are for the Senior High School, those on the right for the Junior High School, the gymnasium and auditorium for both schools.
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CORRIDOR
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NOTE .- Rooms on left end are for the Senior High School, those on the right for the present Junior High School, and the special rooms, gymnasium, and audito- rium for both schools.
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facilities to include an assembly hall, a gymnasium, a cafeteria and special rooms.
2. Any plan should include the essential features of what is known as the 6-3-3 plan, that is, the upper six grades should be divided into two units, the Junior High School to consist of grades 7, 8 and 9 (freshmen) and the Senior High School grades 10, 11 and 12.
On page 7 of his report Superintendent Fausey states : "The problems connected with the education of the pre- adolescent children of junior high school age are important enough to challenge the entire effort of a junior high school principal and his staff." This provision will be fully met by the Davis plan. Superintendent Fausey and Dr. Davis disagree as to whether it is necessary to have two school buildings widely separated. Further discussion of this point will follow.
3. Any plan should provide for 700-750 pupils in the Junior High School (grades 7, 8 and 9) and 350-400 pupils in the Senior High School (grades 10, 11, 12).
4. The old high school building should be abandoned for high school purposes and used for elementary grade activities or special class work.
5. Plymouth is financially able to pay for reasonable school accommodations.
POINTS' AT ISSUE
There are three main points upon which there is disagree- ment, (1) from an educational point of view are two separate schools preferable to one, (2) the size of the lot required and (3) the center of the Junior High School population.
1. ARE TWO SEPARATE SCHOOLS PREFERABLE TO ONE COM- BINED SCHOOL WITH THE JUNIOR AND SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL UNITS ENTIRELY SEPARATED?
(1) Supt. Fausey recommends two separate buildings- the present junior high school to be remodelled into a senior high school by a few changes, together with the
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addition of an auditorium, gymnasium and cafeteria on the south end of the present building. (2) a new junior high school on the Holmes Field to accommodate 700 pu- pils, to include an auditorium, gymnasium, cafeteria and special rooms.
(2) The School Committee, upon the recommendation of Dr. Davis, planned one large school to accommodate the Junior and Senior High School, yet separated into two distinct units so that each school retains its full identity and its own administration, with all the advantages of separate buildings.
Supt. Fausey does not analyze his plan in terms of educational values so that it is necessary to take the opinion of others.
Dr. Jesse B. Davis states :
"I am so positive that the educational policy of a combined junior-senior high school for a building to house less than 1,200 pupils is the best, that I would recommend it even if it cost more rather than less than the separate building plan. I also know that the leading educators of the country will agree with this state- ment."
To check up this latter statement the School Department has submitted the following question to many educators :-
"Plymouth is considering a future building to provide for increased numbers in the junior and senior high schools. There is no prospect for growth during the next ten years. In the two schools are approximately 1,000 pupils.
Would you recommend from an educational point of view a six-year high school or two separate schools ?"
Among those who endorse the combined school are the fol- lowing :
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