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These school records, written by the classroom teachers from Copious daily notes, are organized according to a plan that has been adopted after much painstaking study and co-operative effort on the part Of the school staff. They are in themselves experimental. Their publication invites criticism and suggestions in matters of form as well as of content. Indeed, as Miss Pratt has stated, the purpose Of the school in publishing its records is to secure discussion Of them, and Of the school procedure pictured by them.

TO those readers to whom the story of The City and Country School is as yet unknown, the following details will be of interest. Miss Pratt began her experiment in 1913 with a small group Of children Of pre - school age gathered from various homes. In the neighborhood. Dur ing the early years of its development the experiment was maintained through the generosity Of a few private donors. In the beginning tuition was entirely free, but parents who were interested and able to do so, from time to time con tributed to the school funds. Recently, at the request Of the parents, tuition fees were adopted, but at the same time it was agreed that a large percentage Of scholarship pupils Should at all times be enrolled. In this way the school's original purpose, to serve children who would normally be found in the city's public schools, has been preserved, at the same. Time that its growing reputation has attracted many parents whose children would otherwise have been sent to private schools.

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