Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1882-06-09
What the Village school District
RhOuIH In

Another special school meeting of our vii
lage district, No. 2, has been called to be held
at the town hall on Wednesday evening of
next week. The business called fol- by the
several articles of the warrant is the follow
ing To see if the district will vote to build
a new school-house toaccommodate the High,
Grammar and Intermediate schools, and if so
to see if the district will locate and procure
new site or any additional land for such build
ing, and raise money to pay for the same; to
see if the district will build an intermediate
school-house, and procure q site for the same
to see if the district will authorize the COM
mittee to sell and convey any land belonging
to the district.
This meeting has been called at the instance
of the prudential committee, because of the
necessity which exists for the district to de-
eide upon some definite policy in the matter
of school accommodations. The present de-
mand for additional room is not sudden or
temporary matter, which will pass away in q
year or two the increase is permanent one,
the pressure of which has been felt for three
| years or more past. The present number of
children in the six primary schools is 800 a
class of SO will pass into the intermediate
school at the beginning of next year, and as
large or larger classes will follow in succeed
ing years. There will be a constantly increas-
ing pressure on the Grammar school, SO that
| in three years time some 240 children (three
classes of say so each) must be accommodate
ed in that school, and from the Grammar
school the pressure will be felt in the High
school. The thing which the district Is COM
PEELED to look squaroly in the face is the fact
that, not only must accommodations be pro-
vided for 100 or more children in the Inter
mediate school, but that within year or two
there must also be largely increased accom-
modations for the Grammar and High schools.
The committee do not wish to see the district
throw away any more money in temporizing
in matter which must very soon be squarely
met and provided for, and neither do they
wish to take the responsibility of providing
the increased accommodations necessary with
out instructions from the district. 1t is for
these reasons that the meeting has been called.
The warrant lays the whole subject open
and gives the district chance to discuss and
act upon the whole question of school accom-
modations. Under it the voters may decide
whether they will have the three higher
grades all under one roof, or whether they
will have the Intermediate school in a sepa.
rate building. They may also decide whether
they will retain the present High school site
or whether they will obtain a new one. The
thing which it seems to us imperative for the
district to do is to consider the whole matter
dispassionately and decide definitely and de-
liberately upon settled policy in the matter
of school accommodations. If it is decided
to have the intermediate school separate from
the two higher grades, as many incline tC
think advisable, site for a building should
be decided on and immediate steps to erect
building be taken. In such case we thinl
there can be no question but that the present
site should be retained for the High ant
Grammar schools, and that the district SHOULD
take steps looking toward the erection of
suitable building for the accommodation O.
the 400 or 500 children which must soon b.
sent up there.
In the settlement of this matter all person
al and partisan feeling must be dropped anC
the minority must be ready to cheerfully yielC
to the majority when final expression i
reached. According to our view, the sub
jeot can be most satisfactorily and intelligibl,
met and finally decided by committing it Il
the hands of committee of five or seven o
the best men in the district, who should b.
vested with full power to act in the premises