It should take no longer than five minutes to vacate a building holding fourteen hundred pupils. COMMENTS Miss Walker could not expect order in the line when she had taught no definite procedure. The only thought in the minds of the children in her room was to get out of the room as quickly as possible; the manner of doing it was a matter of no consideration to them. Children are naturally un-orderly; it is the teacher’s duty to train them. In this case, she should draw up an order of marching that the children could follow habitually and without confusion. ILLUSTRATION (SEVENTH GRADE) [Sidenote: Dismissing School] The bell rang for dismissal in the Bronx Park Grammar School. Miss Forbes, the seventh grade teacher, took her place at the door of her room leading out into the hall. “Rise!” “Pass! First row, second, third!” etc. One row after another filed out of the room in perfect order. She stood where she could see the line march down the stairs out-of-doors. At the same time she watched the line formation in the room. Before the last row had passed out of the room, she had taken a second stand at the head of the stairs leading out of the building. Looking back she saw the last child in the last row close the door of her room. After her children, came those of the eighth grade, while on the other side of the staircase the third grade followed the second and the second followed the first. Then the four upper grades came down the stairs, from the second floor, the boys on one side, the girls on the other. Just two minutes had passed from the time the bell rang for dismissal until the last child left the building. The foregoing method of line formation may be used on every occasion. By keeping a rigid form of discipline in moving lines up or downstairs, the children may be depended upon to march quickly and in good order in case of fire. This matter of perfect handling of the orders of march cannot be too strongly emphasized. Any lack of firmness in such regime will be sure to bring disastrous results in a fire. CASE 139 (SIXTH GRADE) [Sidenote: Passing to Classroom] It was just eleven o’clock—time for Miss Finch’s sixth grade class to pass from her room to one further down the hall where they were to have their music lesson. “You may pass, children.” “Albert, I’ll help you with your problem now if you will come up to my desk.” The children literally fell over one another to get out of the room. Miss Finch was interrupted in her work with Albert by a great confusion of laughing and talking in the hall. She hurried to the door and saw the boys pushing each other out of line, bumping into the girls, and, in a word, doing everything but what they should have done, namely, march quietly and in an orderly way down the hall to the room in which they were to have their music lesson. CONSTRUCTIVE TREATMENT