ABSTRACT
We, therefore, recommend a reorganization of the school system whereby the first six years shall be devoted to elementary education designed to meet the needs of pupils approximately 6 to 12 years of age, and the second six years to secondary education designed to meet the needs of pupils approximately 12 to 18 years of age. The six years devoted to secondary education may well be divided into two periods that may be designated as the junior and senior high periods. (pp. 12-13)
What is important to remember from this junior high period is the recognition that schools were to understand and respond to the particular nature of the adolescent while attempting to continue the influence of the home. According to George and Alexander (1993), “The junior high emerged, originally, as an attempt to satisfy the call for a richer curriculum than the elementary school was able to offer, and a more personal atmosphere than the high school was able to develop” (p. 285).
