Meadowglade Intermediate School, Manor, Wash.
By G. E. Johnson
OUR school opened September 4, with an enrolment of seventy. In a very few days the enrolment had reached the limit of the capacity of the school, not only of both dormitories, but also of the schoolroom. This is three and one-half times the enrolment at the beginning of last year. From the first, our new three-story building, forty by fifty-two feet, has been crowded to the limit. Our work is conducted on the pupil-teacher plan, all teachers taking studies in connection with their teaching work. We have, besides the principal and matron, seven student teachers, and we find that this plan, with proper supervision, brings excellent results. The plan of discipline is for each student to control one—himself. The spirit of the school is very good, each student trying to make as good a record for himself as possible. Communication is eliminated, the ideal being for no one to disturb his neighbor’s study periods. We believe that the exhortation given by the Lord through the spirit of prophecy, “It is the duty of principal and teachers to demand perfect order and perfect discipline,” is necessary in order to have a good school; and the only way to maintain perfect order is for each student to control himself; hence, as long as the student will control himself, he is given the privilege; but when he fails, the teacher’s work begins, and he soon finds that this is not so pleasant as doing the work himself. We have had a number of scholarships turned in by students as the result of their work in canvassing. One seventh-grade pupil sold over eight hundred dollars’ worth of books in less than eight weeks’ straight work, and he is not yet twenty years old. Another boy sixteen years old earned a scholarship for himself, and one for his brother also, over five hundred dollars’ worth of orders being taken. The Lord is blessing in this work, which has been in a measure neglected, and we are praying that it may be so conducted that he can continue his blessing. G. E. JOHNSON.