3.  The corps of school nurses should be gradually enlarged, and after a time they can be given any needed training for teaching that will enable them, as the work is departmentalized in the grammar grades, to become departmental teachers in this subject for a portion of their time.  Their “follow-up” work will always give them their chief educational opportunity; but to prepare for this the classwork must give some systematized preparatory ideas.

In the high schools, training of boys in hygiene and sanitation is little developed.  The only thing offered them is an elective half-year course in physiology in the senior year of the scientific and English courses in the academic high schools.  In the classical course, and in the technical and commercial schools, they have not even this.  Physiology is required of girls in the technical schools, and is elective in all but the classical course in the others.  While in one or two of the high schools there is training in actual hygiene and sanitation, in most cases it is physiology and anatomy of a superficial preliminary type which is not put to use and which therefore mostly fails of normal assimilation.

The things recommended for the elementary schools need to be carried out in the high schools also.

PHYSICAL TRAINING

The city gives slightly more than the usual amount of time to physical training in the elementary schools.  Except for first and second grades, where a slightly larger amount is set aside for the purpose, pupils are expected to receive one hour per week.

  Table 13.—­Time given to physical training
  ======+=======================+=================
=======
        | Hours per year | Per cent of grade time
  Grade +-----------+-----------+-----------+------------
        | Cleveland | 50 cities | Cleveland | 50 cities
  ------+-----------+-----------+-----------+-----
-------
    1 | 63 | 46 | 8.7 | 5.4
    2 | 54 | 41 | 6.2 | 4.5
    3 | 38 | 40 | 4.4 | 4.5
    4 | 38 | 40 | 4.3 | 4.2
    5 | 38 | 38 | 4.3 | 4.0
    6 | 38 | 40 | 4.3 | 4.2
    7 | 38 | 38 | 4.3 | 3.7
    8 | 38 | 39 | 4.3 | 4.0
  ------+-----------+-----------+-----------+-----
-------
  Total | 345 | 322 | 5.0 | 4.2
  ------+-----------+-----------+-----------+-----
-------