Over 50 years ago the school had instituted the Davis School State. It honored a superintendent and its purpose was to give the children an opportunity to learn live civics by having them select judges and mayors for the upper grades and a governor. secretary of state and prosecuting attorneys. In a sense it catered to the desires of the immigrant population that was so anxious to do things the American way. As alumnus Harry (Only in America) Golden said in his New York Daily Column. "P.S. 20 is more than the repository for the names of successful sons sprung from the lower East Side. It represents one of the most visionary experiments in the history of human relationships. the making of an immigrant population into a citizen body politic. The teachers in public school 20 not only taught American History but shared it." Note should be taken of the program of recognition and awards which were effective as an incentive to building alumni interest. The creation of the "Our Teacher Award" called attention to the service which retired men and women had given in a lifetime of teaching of children.
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