The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1878-07-29
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BOARD OF EDUCATION.

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one Hundred Beatless Children
In the second andThird Ward
SchooI-Letter from Or. J. O..
HuppTAA Remedy cailedr for.
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4 Amaiority Of the Board Of Educat ION
has persistently and repeatedly refused
10 accord seats 10 about one hundred eur.
plus Of pupils In the Second and Third
Ward School. These seatless children
are 10 the D department, which Is the
Lowest primary school. By rules and
regulations Of the Board Of Educltion,
the Third Ward School and all other
public schools Of the city are, graded
schools-that 10, children who are, begin,
.ners enter the rooms In the respective
schools Of the district having the lowest
grade, ID which the alPhabet and i'll 9th.
or first studies are taught, and vEea pre-.
pared, are promoted to the nextroom oil
higher grlae, thence, upward untilthey
pas through the highest department,
which lathe Grammar School, Thna 1t
will DO seen that by rules and regulations
of the Board ofLdnca,ion, one child or
one hundred children Of D grade, who
cannot find seats inthe D department Of
any Of our schools, ,eiii not BE- permitted To-.
90 and occupy The, empty seats 10 any Of
the higher roomS, although, in these
higher rooms, there, may be .lcofcs Of
empty seats! Hence, the Board has wisely
deereed, that each department and sub.
Departmental our schools shall be taught
In separate rooms!- But when room
will not contain one-hali the pupils Of q
certain grade, what shall be done with the
lurplus7 Justice demands that adequate
accommodations be provided. But q
majority Of The Wheeling Board Of Edu.
cation have repeatedly refused 10 do any.
thing for the Second aad Third Ward
school, whose resident pupils are. now
subjected to similar untoward circum.,
stauces lssitt rsEssg 9. -.- .tslt .nll
I The following facts, which for a long
time have been patent 10 the Board OF
Education may not DO known to the ed!
uestionsl and general public, to.wit:
In the" D''department OF the Second and
Third Ward school building, there Is q
room Having seating capacity Tor less
than sixty pupils, in which there are en-.
rolled nearly one hundred and forty resi.
dent pupils, sggregatingan
ussEATED SURPLUS,
10 this.room alone, OF nearly one hundred
pupiia,whom the majority OF the Board ,of
Education compels 10, hunt seats about,
the halls and stairs Of the school build,
ing, or, In humiliation, return 10 their
honest .5y gAstl-t-atB .de gts d:
For. along time these children, resi-;
dents Of the Second and Third Wards
have been subjected to this grods injus=,
dee. Appeals. for their redress, from
time to time, came before the Board Of
Education, through the Committee on
Buildings and Grounds; through Super
intendent Hervey; and, also, through the
Commissioners Of Clay sub-diatrict lex
cept; one Commissioner Of Clay,Iwho,l
with remarkable uniformity, voted every
time aodina seating the children whose,
common school education Is, officially, to-
his care, especially committed but these
appeals have not received favorable con.
sideration from 3 majority Of the Board
Of Education, Thus, during the school
year last past, the Board Of Education
has been repeatedly asked 10 grant relief
in this behalf, aud as repeatedly q major
ity OF said Board has been deaf 10 the
voice oil Justice. That the motives Of the
Committee on Buildings and Grounds
the motives Of the Superintendept-the
motives OF two OF the Commissioners oil
Clay snb-dis.rict are misjudged, misrep.
resented, assaulted. But
airline whose milliou'L accidents >. .a.
.reep 10 't.izs VOW, aad change deeFee' q
Tan Sacred Beauty. blunt thesharp'st Iulcn,s,
Divert strong minds 10 the course Of altering
thlnga." tsGl v ~ ~ - laNaI lE
The Committee on Teachers and
Schools, consisting Of one member from
each sub.distriet, will, at the next meet
Ing Of the Board, make their annual re-
port on The attendance Of pupils for the
preceding year, andoalso the number oil
teachers that will or may be required 10
each division Of every sub district ut the
OF the school year next
ensuing. Composed, "a this committee lie,
Of men OF Independent integrity and hon.
esty OF purpose, and the demand for re-
dress Of grievances 10 the Second and
Third Wards being just, a favorable re-
port and recommendation OF this com.
mittee will be confidently looked for.
viii decent respect be accorded TO q
favorable report OF the Committee on
Teachers and Schools on this subject?
Such respect was not accorded 10 the re-
port Of The Committee on Buildings and
Grounds, when, at the June meeting Of
the Board, they recommended the needed
improvements IN Clay sub.district to ac-
the school, going population:
Many children, residents OF the Second
and Third Wards, are now.
DEPRIVED THE PRIVILEGE OF ATTENDING
IN - THE CLAY SCHOOL. a5.
by the persistent refusal Of said minority
70 allow them the privilege Of sitting
down TO study their lessons. The exclu.
siorr, Of non residents from this school
will not affofd relief as there are "yery
few, II any, nom residents in the D de.
partner. OF Clay school, -.
And here IL may be promised that the
law aud the rules OF the Board provide
that the admission Of pupils residents,ol
one Subdistrict to the schools oil another,
shalt rest with the Board OF Education.
Al the meeting in September, 1877 on.
motion Of Judge Cochran. Of Madison
sub district, residents Of one pub-district
were excluded from the schools Of an
other. Al the October meeting this
order was very wisely rescinded and the
Board literally used this option and
granted etery petition for admission ,of
pInpils residents Of one sub-dlstrSct to the
schools Of another. With this happy
change, teachers, parents, children and
every body else, except Judge Cochran,
seemed TO be9Well pleased. During the
scholastic year last. past, about thirty
applications Of non.residenta were made
10 the Board and granted, for admission
10 the Clay schools. Applications were,
also, made for admission to the schools
Of other. sub districts, which likewise