The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-05-04

when Seattle vigorously fought the enactment
OF law whereby We would have been obliged
TO coz tribute $4,000 70 the support Of schools
President Catch says: "It would b . blot
on our escutcheon' IL our fair city did not main
tain pubic school OF higher grade. e eli II BY
for ours would be the only city Of it, siss and
Importance in the United States without such q
school. Should the school Be abolished. q thing
1 am .ure there Is no disposition on the part Q.
splendid advertising matter for our neighbora
During our recent rupt'on, when the question
OF legally maintaining the high school out Of
the money set apart for common school pur-
poses, Vas brough; TO the attention OF the
school board and the people, ana when the
high school took on . new name. Q Tacoma cor.
respondent lost no time In herAiding the state.
ment through tire columns:of the NeU Engsdn6
Journal Of Education the most widely circu.ateo
educational weekly IN the United states, taat
the Seattle high school had been abolished:
that Us students had been thrown out OF
school. and the whole corps Of teachers out of
employment No one questions that the public
among the 6rst things to Be considered BY peo-
pie with families before deciding to make their
homes in that community.
The advisability of increasing the school debt
OF the city for the erection OF . senior grammar
school building will be voted on BY the people
next saturday. Just how this election will re-
suit is hard to predict; yet. II the patrons
there was OF such . building, am convinced
the proposition would carry with an over.
wheming majority. Four recitation rooms are
now used, which ara only portions of the attic
fitted up, miserably lighted, heated and veutl.
lated, most unhealthful quarters, which can
never be improved. The study room has very
little more 20 recommend II
Oar attendance at the opening OF school next
sepss mber will be in the neigh borhood of $50 or
go student q. and this will require more room
than We have at our command now. If obliged
to continue in our present quarters IL viii Me-
cessitate the crowding out into relief rooms,
most generally unified for school purposes,
more pupils from the Central grammar school
In this manner 500 or 600 pupils will Do re-
Quired to occupy rooms in no wise fitted for the
purpose, exceedingly uninviting aud unhealth.
full, all OF which stands in the way OF success
full school work.
The senior grammar school also needs chem
icaI and physical laboratories. specially fitted
and constructed Tor that purpose, not possible
in its present quarters for the successful devel.
opment of its work along those lines IL could
also do better work with improved facilities in
other departments
Building . high school would actually be q
measure of economy instead OF one Of extrava-
ganca At the present time, because OF the
pressure on the school rooms. store and other
rooms have to be rented for school purposes
What 10 paid out in rent annually for these
rooms would almost pay the interest on the
amount necessary 10 erect . building. Were the
high school given quarters OF its own the Cen.
pupils. Naturally q building such a. should %
erected would be larger than the present needs,
A. the city 10 growing. The space Lett vacant
could be utilised by the lower grades and in this
manner all the city's pupils could be accommO.
dated In weli.built and healthfui school rooms.