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LETTERS Science High Schools DEAR SIR:

Many proposals have been made to increase the output of science-trained manpower. Many may help, but the list is not complete. For instance, how about the teaching system that is preva­lent in most high schools?

I refer to the unavoidable necessity of watering down science instruction to the level, or perhaps below that, of the average student. Classes include the whole range, from dull or uninter­ested youngsters to the bright boys and girls who are our hope for the future. The alert and interested student all too often is rated as a screwball or an egghead by his less intelligent com­panions. He becomes bored with the repetition and the slow pace and fre­quently acquires bad study habits. Ask college admission officers about high school preparation in science. Talk to high school chemistry teachers—in strict privacy.

Λ very large high school can run advanced courses for the bright young­sters, but the school with around 1000 can't. It seems to me that one solu­tion lies in the establishment of county science high schools. Admission to such would be determined by thorough screening of candidates from the whole county.

Such science high schools work; they do a wonderful job. Witness New York's Bronx High School of Science and others. Their graduates are wel­comed with open arms by colleges and universities, often with advanced stand­ing.

Unfortunately, such proposals may be bitterly opposed—with a lot of double-talk—by departments of educa­tion, school superintendents, principals, etc. The only hope for getting such schools probably will l ie in convincing parents and taxpayers. They hold the purse-strings.

P. W. P U N N E T T , Ph.D. Leonia, N.J.

Bouquet DEAR SIR;

I find C&EN more interesting as the succeeding issues arrive. More power to you.

GEORGE C. ARONSTAMM Los Altos, Calif.

8 C & EN D E C . 2 2, 1958

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