The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-07-12

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preparation amounts TO about SLOPE. 600. !"
There has been much dissatisfaction
with the transferring OF pupils from the
Pacific Heights School, but Mr.. SWEET eX-
planned that in tha' school there were three
rooms unfit to accommodate classes. and
the committee determined 10 empty them
That necessitated the transfer of many
of the scholars to the Paci c-avenue
School, which. said Mr.. SWEET, is fine
eight-ciasS building.
President Hyde of the Board Of Educa-
zion appeared at the rooms Of the board
Yesterday afternoon just in time for the
meeting of The full Classification Com
mittee.
Il have not had moments time to spare
all day." he remarked. He took occasion
to make an observation upon the falling
off of pupils this year. THE Cleveland
School we supposed would be crowded,
but there are two classes short" Then
the N Getting came t. order and the arduouS
task of classification was once more re-
sumod.
Principal Albert Lyser of the John
SWEET Grammar School, speaking Of the
operation Of the rule, SAID:
"Oh, yes, we have some trouble. We
have now fifteen full classes instead Of the
usual eighteen. The number of pupils 1T
the opening was fully 125 less than has
been usual At this time of The year. How
day. we had 756 on the second. The
parents and children are in great state OF
excitement and object strenuouSly TO the
enfnrc ment OF the rule.
81 have carried out the orders of the
board promptly and the teachers have ably
seconded me, Transferring away In COM
pllaDce with those orders four full classes
in all. OF course, | have received from
other schools transfers to fill classes. prob
ably, which offsets 1t some, but 1t leaves
us still short. We also graduated fully
sixty pupils TO the different high schools.
Zone of the causes that have led to the
establishment of this rule has been the fact
that primary schools were holding on their
pupils; in fact, the evil has many different
ramifications. The remedy that L would
suggest would be an entire redstricting
of the city. The present dis ricting does not
district. 1t should be done by The proper
power-namely, the sifcatiOn Com
mittee of the Board of EducatiOn-and 1t
should be by system IF grammar dis
tricts, with a grammar school in the cen ter
of each district.
81 think that the Classification Commit
tee has done wise thing on the whole in
transferring the children to the neares st
schools, and it will not result in the deple-
ton Of any particular school but rather in
the readjustment of pupils. may lose
certain number of pupils. for instance, and
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turn. Certainly there Is great delay ana
trouble in the department, for the present
remedy does not really reach the disease.
AS L have said, We need a thorough re-
distrlcting OF the city,"
Miss Agnes Manning, the principal of
the Webster Primary School, said the rule
had not really affected her. just how
many pupils she has she does not yet
know; the school is not settled yet. She
gave her Ideas on the rule in the following
words:
1T would affect us here very badly if l
had to send my girls away. Mine Is differ
ent from other schools. We are close be-
side the Lincoln Grammar School, which is
boys school, and the Webster School is
girls school exclusively. except few
boys In the very lowest grades. There are
no other schools these girls could so to
unless they went on two lines OF cars.
II have some grammar girls here, too.
If these girls were taken away 1t would
work very great injury to the who'll
neigh borho0d; yes, 1t would be a great
loss tu the neigh bOrh0od, which is very
p0pul0u5 one.
The nearest girls school to US is the
DeDman Grammar School, aud the next Is
the Rincon School. and | have no girls who
live near those schools; that is near
enough to go to them. There may be
three or four in the whole school who
have been sent here for some particular
reason, but question if there be.
"Our school has eighteen classes, or
nearly 900 pupils. If they take away our
classes ii will hurt us here. There has
never been any teacher consolidated out of
this school To take away our scholars |
should consider a positive misfortune.
children are like young trees, and as
it does not do young trees any good to
pull them up by the roots, SO children
don't do as well when taken away from
schools in whirh they have formed strong
attachments; they Should be allowed to
continue on in the same school l believe
the word primary will be abolished in
time, Tor think it las caused great deal
of trouble"
Among other principals interviewed Mrs.
Nj. Il. Walker of the Marshal Primary
School said the substitution If fifty this
year as the number of scholars in class,
instead of forty as last year, and the in
creasng OF the school age from 5 to
years tended to greatly reduce the number
of pupils. In her school she has over 700,
but the children are not in from the coun-
try vet, she thought.
The Lincoln Grammar School being a
boys school exclusively Principal j. T.
Hamilton says the rule has not troubled
him very much. His enrolment ls 90 so
far and it Will probably be necessary to
consolidate out" one teacher. Mrs. a.
G. Palmer of this school died during vaca-
tlGn.
Principal }. G. Kennedy of the Franklin
Grammar School SAID he bad "con solidated
out" three teachers. Heretofore" said he,
''our school has been filled by the transfer
of pnpilS from the Stanford and Cleveland
schools, but now we will admit none but
promotions. We lave 500 grammar pupils
and 200 primary scholars. In the past we
have had sixteen teachers"
The special committee, consisting of
Pres dent Hyde, Director Burke and Su-
perintendentS SWEET. appOinted by the Com
mittee on Classification, met in the rooms
eff the Board of Education last night to ar
range the details of transfers of pupils In
accordance with the new order. The
rooms were crowded with parents of
school children who objected to the en-
forcemen. of the order transferring their
children from one school to another.
The committee was in receipt OF about
twenty medical certificates. some declar-
ing that the children could not walk the
distance 10 the next school and that others
were unable TO climb hills.
Mrs. Craven enlivened the proceedings
by an argument with Chairman Burke on
technical points. She is principal of the
Mission Grammar School. and has made
forty-six transfers to other schools. In
many Instances the children transferred