The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-07-11
They Create Trouble i'll
the Schools.
Parents Besiege the Board of Edu-
cation on Behalf of Their Re-
spective Children.

puUlC SCHOulS cApcIltuCcu UoL d HUI
trouble yesterday when the schools
opened, owing to two certain rules Of the
Board of Education.
The one rule is known as the ''conso
dation" rule and the other as the mo
permit" rule. 1t was some months ago
that the former was adopted, but it did
| not 60 into effect until yesterday, but the
latter is a recent understanding based up
| on President Hyde's agitation.
To explain: The "consolidation" rule
| requires that there shall be full classes of
| fifty pupils each. If there be twelve teach
ers in a school and only pupils enough for
eight teachers-say 400 pupils-four of the
teachers are thus CONSOLIDATED out" of
their occupation, to coin phrase which.
| in even the cultured parlance of the public
| tutors, bids fair to be common.
| Then the "no-permit" rule forbids any
| School Director individually from grant
| ing permission to any scholar to attend
school outside the pupils own school dis
| trict.
The purpose of this is to have children
| attend the schools nearest their own
homes. for heretofore schoolchildren re-
ceived tuition at schools altogether outside
their own districts: Ill fact In many cases
it was more question of going to school
wherever they could ind seats tho any
thing else.
AS may be supposed. the intentions be-
hind these rules seem good ones, but as
they are put into operation the effect at
first is not very agreeable A great deal
of confusion was manifest yesterday, and
the DAY was largely consumed In the clas-
sifying of the children. A general re-
arrangement seems neceSsary-pertap an
entire redistricting of the city-and many
of Ia lift Ia W h0 hp attended
particular school for years, and have
formed dear little attachments, find those
attachments rudely broken, and they
thems elves thrown embarrassingly
enough-quite unpleasantly. too, at first,
no doubt, among new ASSOCIATIONS;
How the consolidation" rule affects the
teachers can be best illustrated by the
John SWEET School. That institution has
been an eighteen-teachers school, but 1t was
discovered yesterday that only $40 pupils
reported, which is only enough for twelve
classes o.. fifty each. and a fractional class
of twenty. Therefore five teachers may
have to wait until more pupils come in.
True, when the entire school system be-
comes properly readjusted it may be found
that the rules Will have worked Alright and
each teacher may find sufficient occupation
in teaching the children of great city how
to fit them selves, intellectually for the stern
battles of life. The little ones. also, will
everything may run smoothly until
another disturbing element shall enter in
to ruff the general serenity.
The keeping closed of the Cogswell Poly
technic College has also contributed toward
1.-THE general derangement. for the 200 pupils
must now be distributed among the varl-
Gus public schools.
Principal w. \. Bush of the Commercial
High School said.
"The closing of the Cogswell school has
scattered about 200 pupils among the
schoois-pupis whose preliminary train
ing in Industrial work has been more or
less wasted, unless they can carry it out to
it's logical consequences In the more adj
vanced work. I've have about thirty
pupils from the Cogswell College here to-
day, and expect to take up the work about
where they left off, 1t is not too much to
say that they have right to expect this,
because In the Eastern high schools the
boys and girls are provided with complete
| equipments.
Frank A. Gardner. teacher of manual
| training, has just returned from trip to
| Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore and Chi
| cago, and he reports that the public school
| systems of all those cities have more or
| less complete outfit in connection with in
| dustrial work. The schools there have
| their carpentry department and wood
! turning and machine shops for boys; and
designing, cooking, woodcaryng and clay
modelling rooms for girls
Mr.. Bush said the Commercial High
| School had $50 new pupils from the gram
mar schools and 400 scholars altogether.
1.-The day." he explained, was spent
| largely in classifying the pupils. We
/ have been delayed in our work by the re-
fusal of the Board of Supervisors to grant
us manual training permit, but we hope
the board will come to some understand
| ing soon with the Board of Education.
There has been something said in each
room about the manual training exhibit at
the Worlds Fair"
MIR. Bush returned from the Worlds
Fair last Wednesday. He spent about
three weeks in Chicago altogether and de-
voted week or ten DAYS to his home in
! Boston. Six of the teachers visited the
Worlds Fair, viz: r. II. Webster. c. H.
Murphy. Miss K. Fay. Miss Eldora SeweI,
Mrs. Z. P. Bradley and Frank A. Gardner.
At the Denman Grammar School A. l..
Mann, the principal, who spent his vaca-
ton at MendenhalI Springs, Illuminating
among the Llyerm0re untalns, was
busy ascertaining the number OF scholars
in each Of the classes.
II have six primary classes full" said
he with almost sixty scholars in each.
The seventh and eighth grades are full,
hut the fifth and sixth are rather light.
There may have to be reclassitiation-
the primary with the grammar DEPART
ments. That is the problem upon which |
shall be working this week 1t looks as if
[ would have sixteen classes. with an aver
age of about fifty in each. | have surplus
enough to supply the deficiencies in each
grammar grade and give US fifty in each
class. The new rule OF the Board of Edu.
cation requiring children to attend schools
nearest their homes and forbddlng any
attendance at schools outside their own
districts is giving us some trouble now"
Miss Maggie j. Gallagher and Miss
Ruby A. Jewell, teachers of this school,
were both at the Worlds Fair. They
have not had time yet, said Miss Gal
lagher, to give the scholars a talk uron
! their observations at jackson Park. but
may do so later on-as the schoo gets
! settled.
Mrs. B. A. Benton of the Reddlng
Primary School spent her vacation at Los
Gatos. She said the day had been a busy
one, classifying the children. There are
about eight classes of fifty scholars each.
she stated. Some more scholars from
other schools were expected.
"Our school Is pretty full" said Princi-
pal Frank Morton Of the Boys High
School; 1--WE have about 500 scholars. AL
though it is boys high school, girls have
been admitted just as formerly. We have
batwepn 150 and 900 of them Thera WAS