Many of us won't go to college and want to go out of business.
The commercial course prepares you for business.
You learn typing bookkeeping another thing.
Some of the fellows who are planning to take the industrial course really opened
their eyes to the shops we saw.
The boys were glad to see the girls learning how to make those pies
and homemaking glad the general course is a lot of interesting subjects in.
Some of us visited this special high school. One was a technical high school.
It has wonderful laboratories. They work very carefully in that school.
First they make their blueprints then they build their house from them.
It's a real life size house.
They learn about a lot of different things before
that house is built.
They not only learn our houses build.
But they learn about the metals that go into building.
We saw them test Iran to see how strong they were we were startled
when this they arrived snap.
There was a class called industrial chemistry lab.
I always thought chemistry had only to do with test tubes and bakers.
Do you know was glad they were mixing colors when we were watching them.
In this lab they did things just the way they do them in factories.
Then we saw something that really surprised us.
You can cool our metal just like water.
We saw them heat metal an electric furnace and then they poured it into molds.
When the metal cools it takes a shape of the mold.
This way they can make metal into any shape they want.
That was an exciting disappearance for us.
Another school we visited was a school with special classes in music.
You can take a complete music course there for four years
and get a high school diploma. We heard the senior officer play.
They were good especially one of the girls violinist.
We talked to her afterwards and she told us
that she's planning to go to a Special Music School after she graduated.
I wouldn't mind playing it drums myself.
The drama usually has a chance to tear into some of
that music.
In all the schools they really didn't work out me again.
I found out. So
when you're in high school the teachers give you health issues in your cause.
These high school seem big
but I guess you get used to them then they seem like home.
Another school we went to was a boy who wanted to go into the automobile feel.
I wasn't so sure that I like that kind of work.
But some of the other fellows were very much interested in it.
There was a lot of noise in the shop. But the boys weren't bothered.
There were many different things to learn in the graphic arts shop.
Designing and messiest
and yet most satisfying of all there was silk screen printing.
Preparing the design to go.
A lot of skill and you know said you had to be mighty careful
when you edged out the design but after that mass production was easy.
They made the covers for the school magazine and
that chap.
Joe like this around mix teacher.
But he found the clay pretty tough stuff to handle.
There was one boy in the class so. Who was really an artist.
When he was turning the part as we'll. Nothing else in the world seemed to matter.
Everyone felt pretty proud of what he had made after it was glazed and fired.
Even the girls in a junior high school Shabbes seem to like learning a little about
electricity. Joe said all the boys
and girls like Martha because even though she could work with tools.
Just as well as a lot of the boys she never tried to show off
more so Joe was teachers seemed to be so well he said Mr Palumbo the radio teacher
had a grand sense of humor
and was awfully fair wise
when Joe told me that the boys learn to use a sewing machine in the school.
You just have to learn everything.
It's pretty important reading body to learn to sew I guess my sisters can make
their own clothes and I know it saves Mom and Dad money.
My sisters would like it.
I wanted your school where the boys have to learn to set the table to old
girls seem to like all that fussing better than boys. Anyway.
There was one girl.
At the Intrepid.
Elementary school. We have to call we don't call them. We stay long.
On the same.
My teacher told us
that while the shops are important to help us choose our live work the other
classes are important to kids like the art class
kids
and science classes and demonstration.
And yes even our mathematics English
and other classes to the teachers says
that the clubs we take pride in the books we read the radio programs we hear the
television we see and a lot of other things help us to find ourselves.
I guess she's right. I learned a lot about how hard it is to take.
When I was proper dramatic Laplae.
And I know that when I read books that tell you about different jobs.
Sometimes I learn about jobs that I never even knew existed.
Within the next few weeks.
William and his classmates work together in group guidance class
and they had innumerable questions about high school.
Committees were formed and sought information about high school.
Some of the things they wanted to know were what kinds of high schools are there in
our city to which high schools can graduates of our schools go.
How do we apply for admission to the high schools we to.
Where can we get all the information we need they planned a great variety of
activities visits to libraries to different high schools to industry.
They thought about all the various ways they might learn about schools and John.
Jones suggested
that some of the committee make an appointment to see the principal Jones
that Mr Scarborough was always an interested in knowing what they were doing.
And Joan was right. He was very glad to see them.
He showed them copies of the directory of public high schools of New York.
He told them that in a few days he would visit their class
and spend some time talking over high schools with them.
He said everybody in the class would get a copy of the book read.
The boys and girls found out
that there are eighty five public high schools in our city.
And ninety one junior high school boys
and girls appreciated
that they were faced with important decisions they realize
that choosing a high school and the chorus affects their future.
Each person must make his own decision
and he can't be led by what his friends are doing.
Right after they have received copies of the directory's they began to count the
different courses given in the high school but there are so many.
A That they soon gave that up.
Many of the schools give the courses needed for college entrance some subjects such
as English and history are taught in all high school in vocational high schools.
There are classes in beauty culture barbering building trades machine shop printing
needle trades food trades auto mechanics woodworking electrical work stenography
typewriting but keeping
and many other subjects another committee reported on the official directions for
unrolling in high school.
They learned that they had until April to fire applications
and a change of mind was possible.
Any time before graduation parleying emphasized
and all would choose wisely.
So after months of personal and group investigation on their
and well defined plans on the part of the school each pupil made his high school
choice. There was William his decision was to go to the neighborhood high school
and take the academic course William his mother.
The teacher in the principal talked it over together like many of his classmates
William hasn't fully decided on his wife's work
but thinks he'll probably go to college.
He hopes he'll make up his mind soon in this he will have the help of his high
school teachers and the guidance that of the school.
William has made a major decision regarding his future with pray
that he will have to make he has thought carefully. He has had help.
He has learned much about making decisions.
There was Cousin Joe whose mind was all made up.
Joe was lucky because he not only knew what he wanted
but he prepared himself thoroughly Joe had work.
I read about the entrance exam just as a lot of the boys had
but he found the questions were very similar to those he had had in his own school
one or two of them gave him a little trouble but Joe's parents soon got news
that made Joe
and his family very happy he had been admitted to the school on his choice
then there was Joan and all around girl if there ever was one.
Joan did most things well as her committing visited the various high school classes.
Joan could easily picture herself working in almost every one of them the mysteries
of the business machines fascinated her as did the skills of the trains the novel
the special school for music appealed to her creative ability.
The ideals of service to others attracted her to a career in nursing
science seemed exciting too and she knew
that women were needed in science all this made Joan's decision a difficult one
in the assembly periods.
Joan
and her classmates learned Still more about various occupations these assembly periods
opened up many new and different occupations guest speakers from the business
and industrial world told about their work.
The students presented many programs of their own in which they show different
people at work the things they did the satisfactions they found in their jobs.
Joan received help in a variety of ways toward reaching her decision.
She learned about the opportunities for employment in various occupations.
She was given Apted.
Two tests which helped her understand her own abilities better.
Joan also learned a lot about her own interests by answering many questions about
the things she likes to do.
She took advantage of even a few minutes time between classes to ask the teacher
some questions
that she needed answers to
and she took still more tests to learn a little bit more about the things
that she did best she measured her ability to be both quick
and accurate on a clerical aptitude test. Finally in an interview.
Joan and her teacher talk together about John's interests our abilities.
Our school record our plans for the future but teacher urged Joan to think
or entire problem over and to talk about it with her parents so
that together they might make the all important decision parents including John's
mother visited the school in groups so
that they might learn more about the high schools.
Together they learned about the offerings of the various schools as Joan sees the
fashion displays she thinks ahead to the possibilities of the cooperative course in
which she could both earn and learn during her third and fourth high school years.
There was so many things the Jones wanted
that she felt earning money was important
when all things had been considered Joan and her family felt confident
that she was choosing wisely as she applied for a co-operative course leading to
secretarial work.
She had shown an interest in clerical things how marks in language arts were graded
and her attractive appearance all index.
Finally both she and her family felt
that she needed to earn her own way as soon as possible so that she would be a.
Able to she learned.
Eileen had admired her friend Joan all through school and had felt
that she would follow John's footsteps through high school too.
But had discovered during this long period of guidance that her real interests
and abilities indicated that she had special qualifications for service to others.
Plus a deep interest in the health sciences for her the choice to narrow down to an
exploratory first year at the local vocational high school with a view to a
possible career in practical nursing she knew that she would Miss Joan very much.
But she knew that she would make new friends as Joan would they both knew
that they could still see then new interests
and then new friends.
These boys and girls have made their decisions
and they're confident about them on this their graduation day hopes fears all
are merged in the happy glow of a job well done the future lies ahead.
Milian Betty will be beauticians Andy loves Toulouse
and is going to a general vocational high school.
John is following in his father's What steps
and will enter the special school for printing.
Now there are else some I can earn money who look forward to continuing their
schooling together at the same neighborhood academic school.
No where else does a boy
or girl have the educational opportunities which are available in New York City to
choose a high school wisely isn't
and yet the student future depends to a great extent upon this choice
with the assistance and encourage parents teachers principals
and guidance personnel and the interest.