YUBA COUNTY Nuggets Miss Jennie Malaley J. C. Ray, Prinicpal THE
FUNCTION OF THE HIGH SCHOOL Owing to the fact that the high
school system as the last of our educational institutions to be
developed, there has not been that unanimity of opinion
concerning the real function it is to perform, as there has been
concerning other units of our educational system. Until recently
the courses of study in our high schools were largely
traditional, and at the present time, many still have earmarks
of mediaevalism, due in a large measure to the conservatism of
the community and to certain requirements for matriculation in
the higher institutions of learning. As a result, the high
school in its early development became only a ‘feeder’ for the
college with little purpose or plan for the students who did not
intend to enter the university; and since only a small
percentage of the students graduating from high schools entered
colleges or higher institutions, and the large number who did
not graduate, could not enter, there a