If a boy should, for any cause, fail to
graduate from the high school, every patron of the school would regard
it as a personal calamity. They would feel that he had, somehow, been
dropped off the train before he reached his destination, and the whole
community would be inclined to wear badges of mourning. Every parent is
vitally interested in each child of the community, whether he has
children in school or not, and thus school taxes are paid with pride and
elation. The school is regarded as a safe investment that pays large
dividends. Patrons rally to the calls of the school with rare unanimity
and heartiness. Differences in politics and religion evaporate in their
school, for the school is the high plane upon which they meet in
fraternal concord.
=The course of study.=--The course of study is flexible, and because of
its resiliency it adapts itself easily and gracefully to the native
dispositions and the aptitudes of the various pupils. If the boy has a
penchant for agriculture, provision is made for him, both in the theory
and in the practical applications of the subject. If he inclines to
science, the laboratories accord him a gracious welcome. The studies are
adapted to the boy and not the boy to the studies. No boy need
discontinue school to find on the outside something that is congenial,
for, within the school, he may find work that represents life in all its
phases.
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