New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-05-27
CROWDED PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
INCREASED ACCOMMODATION NEEDED.
CHILDREN TURNED AWAY FROM THE DOORS
PLANS FOR INCREASED FACILITIES.

CHILDREN TURNED AWAY FROM THE. DOORS
PLANS FOR INCREASED FACILITIES!
During the school year which has Just closed, says
superintendent John Jasper. in hts yearly report Iust
Issued, only one school building was conlpienu
and opened-Grammar school No "a, In West Fifieth-
ST. 1t was opened last June, and the female pupils
Of Grammar School No. o. with primary department
which had been occupying a leased building, were
placed in IL This did not materially increae the
total seating capacity Of the schools, as Tue leased
building given up, and the new school served
merely 10 better not to enlarge, tho school accom-
modauons.
AS an actual fact there was hardly any increase
in such accommodations during the year, and only an
almost impercepube increase in the actual attendance
Several new departments organized, and others
we're consolidated 20 that the whole number OF pubic
schools In the city remains the same as In the previous
year Notwithstanding tho fact that the grown oi inc
cy's population for tho year Is placed az hot less
than so 900. The total number Of primary and
grammar pupils taught during the year was lS"'oes'
and the number taught I'm all public and corporate
schools sharing in the school fund was 24oo3o an
Increase OF 1859 over the year before The average
daily attendance IN the primary and grammar s'"oois
was I34248, against 1894 for the previous year
An increase Of but 30<. This was gain OF Only -"
DER cent, against 90 the year before, ana &'oo
per cent in 1856 The increase was wholly Ia 'he
grammar schools. whore II reached AL While IN
r. ,r,r,arv departmcpts there was q failing Of Of
lT3.
In Juno, 1885, o $40 scholars were graduated from
the grammar schools, and about 2O,Ooo "oro pro
noted from the primary TO the grammar departments
Allowing for tho vacancies caused by deatn'
promotions and voluntary Withdrawals, not
less than 5000 r'w pupils were ieHNtriu
betwsen tho Battery AID Forlham, while i4,Ooa app-
Giants who desired TO attend school could not DO re-
cciycd owtns to want OF The lack OF accomno-
dalton was almost wholly IN the primary departments
and Mr. Jasper estimates that OF least Eo'oOO PuP'N
could be takea into tho schools To-Day u moro was
sufficient class 10 hold them. Tho la'k oi new
buildings has been the result OF tho delay dat stopper
~ ~ schools four yeats ago, and sIGat delays
in securing funds or sites for buildings prevented
more schools from being completed last year. An
other cause OF ho falling OF In the primary depart
ments has been the strict Interpretation which ''o
Board OF Educ alton has enforced OF Classroom accom-
modator Glasses Of more than sixty children have
been prohibited, and any ovcTcrowdIns has oech
promptly checked While seventy or moro scholars N
Classroom are certainly too great number Tor tue
advantage OF Individual pupils, II Is sian question
whether even fifty sixty arc not an excessive mum
bcr for good results IN teaching. hDd II Is A"' an
omen question whether I'm the large "ciEVoh'Ha''
ard wen-lightrd uptown buildings, whore ue soh'o'
accommodations are most limited, temporary over
crovanc which will permit Of slight excess wi'h-
out actual bad effects Is not preferable 10 refusing III
| mission to so largo number q pupls.
| A good deal Is being dUno by Euihing snpcrlhNhd
| cnt Dcbevolsc this year 10 meet tie difficulty ok
| new structures are TO 30 finished ard Taby mr.
occupation during the present year. which VIII nave
accommodation for al least 10000 new schoI''s anu
c,evcn moro are under way, ~ be completed next
| year; giving accommodation for about ION" an
| dlonL pupils Thus within two years II these o".h
| lngs are all finished, the school Acoon'n'"'"'h VI
the city should b increased fully 250oo Ihis would
permit tho reception Of al ihsc Who arc k'R our W
| The schools today; but taking the gown W eN''s,
| Of accommodation a 1000 y"Ariy, II WI rNinr'
least thre yea!., with the Same extra cHnrt luf var
hoard o. Education to place - school acc 'm0 lLoa
once more pbreast OF tho demand and give place
| M tho schools 20 every child Who appIra Tor u -
Reform In methods Is necessarily slow 10 - !a'fp
a system and new methods can BE- introdn"ed N only
The r1cSt craiual manner Mr. Jasrc"s IMPORT d!;'''
abortion TO some Of these reforms which have beoh
a,temptcd, among them the introduction OF maona'
training and improved mothCdS OF eARnilnau ms lic
ca Attention ao 10 the skeleton classes IN The hght
erammar grades and the a1iyisAbllity OF nNlIg Us
humber OF pups necessary for the formation oi snch
risssos Tits Is a subject long talEci OF among
srh~oi cflclsk; and II has been calculated thai
sp,fsoiOry plan for forming them could be hechHG
| u,0n now Il would give IN incraSe OF room IN me
schools equal 10 the seating capaciL OF thtee ne
tuIbngs not 10 mention other results OF cqnai I'm
| pOrtanre arising from u.