Courtesy Massachusetts Child Labor Committee.
CHOSE HIS LIFE WORK AT FOURTEEN
Already a child laborer, this chap is typical of the class for whom vocational guidance is being introduced in Boston and elsewhere.
THE VOCATIONAL COUNSELOR IN ACTION
MEYER BLOOMFIELD
DIRECTOR VOCATION BUREAU, BOSTON
LAURA F. WENTWORTH
SECRETARY VOCATIONAL INFORMATION DEPARTMENT, BOSTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS
[The philosophy of vocational guidance has been often written. But it is from the actual cases of boys and girls, influenced to this course of conduct or that, that the general public can best get an intimate notion of how this new function of the schools counts in the life of youth. The stories in the following article represent typical experiences and services of such teacher-counselors as Miss Wentworth, who was formerly vocational counselor in the High School of Practical Arts, and Eleanor M. Colleton, whose work among the Italians and other children of the North End in Boston has had merit of a high order.
The latter part of the article is a digest, telling of past performances and future plans, of a report which the Vocation Bureau will shortly make public, covering its work for the last three years.—Ed.]
In the morning mail of the Boston Vocation Bureau appeared, not long ago, an interesting letter. It came from a sixteen-year-old boy who had heard of the bureau, but was prevented by his job from coming to it for help. He wrote asking for a special appointment, which was granted.