Much of the reading matter is selected by the professor and used on
reserve charges. The modern equipment provides these reading fac-
ilities in conjunction with the instruction unit fn the building.
The common practice is for each school to have its own library fac-
ilities. There should be a commodious apartment for this special
library.

THE TRAINING SCHOOL

The training school is a unit of the School of Education. Its main
divisions consist of a student body of high school pupils, a teaching fac-
ulty for the high school, and a supervising corps in charge of the educa-
tional laboratory work done in the school. The chief function of the school
is to provide practice teaching facilities for University students who ex-
pect to be certificated for teaching in Kansas and other states. Schools
of this type are often called laboratory schools for the reason that they
are the laboratories wherein the cadet is taught how to teach. Supposedly,
the best of conditions prevail and the best practices are demonstrated.

Oread Training School with its limited number of one hundred high
school pupils represents this training school unit in the University. The
limitations in equipment and school facilities are so numerous that the
school exists almost entirely on temporary arrangements. Only under rig-
orous, emergency conditions would any community put up with arrangements
for a school similar to those under which the campus high school is con-
ducted. This school carries on thus:

1. Plant
a. The only building available is a small five room building with a

finished attic of two rooms. The structure is often mistaken for
a private dwelling. Inadequate to meet the needs in every detail
is the only way to describe this plant.

bd. Classrooms for several departments of the high school are lecated
in all parts of the campus each hour of the day. This school has
to share in the crowded conditions prevalent in the larger ins-
titution.

c. Auditoriums and other extracurricular facilities are complctely
wanting. Plays, assemblies, concerts, and all forms of special

group activities suffer curtailment, interruptions at crucial
times, and often complete abandonment. The teachers and pupils
frequently lose heart over disappointments due to a lack of a
place to perform. University functions necessarily have first
call on all facilitics.

d. Library room is not known. Books are stored as best they can be
in classrooms.

e. Laboratories are limited to one small attic room.
f. Office space and conference rooms available for the corps of
supervisors are next to nothing. The corner of one of the small

classrooms is as near to a place of privacy as a supervisor can
find to counsel with the cadet teachers he is coaching. Group

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