Hamilton's Proposal For Quick Education Finds Little Support Among Teachers, Parents Here
by Stanley Meisler
Commentary by Stanley Meisler
July 5, 1953
July 1953
Middletown, Ohio
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Hamilton may soon rush its children through ten years of 11-month, long-day studying. Most Middletown educators, parents and students contacted by the Journal, however, want this city's boys and girls to continue moving leisurely through 12 years of curricula packed with long vacations. The Hamilton proposal would keep the children until 4 p.m. each day for 11 months. Two years of study could be spread through the extra hour a day and six weeks a year, and Hamilton High School students would be graduates at about 16. Hamilton's plan surprised Middletown citizens, and their immediate reactions ranged from thoughtful consideration on the teachers' part to the emphatic head-shaking of the pupils...
Hamilton may soon rush its children through ten years of 11-month, long-day studying. Most Middletown educators, parents and students contacted by the Journal, however, want this city's boys and girls to continue moving leisurely through 12 years of curricula packed with long vacations. The Hamilton proposal would keep the children until 4 p.m. each day for 11 months. Two years of study could be spread through the extra hour a day and six weeks a year, and Hamilton High School students would be graduates at about 16. Hamilton's plan surprised Middletown citizens, and their immediate reactions ranged from thoughtful consideration on the teachers' part to the emphatic head-shaking of the pupils...
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