The morning call., 1893-07-18
HYDE EXPLAINS.
He Tells flow the Schools Were
DiStriCted.

UIStfICteQ.
do YOU consider that the districting of
our schools is successful? Never mind
whether it has been done in the right way
or not. We are sorry if errors in detail
have crept in. and do you think the idea
one that is and will be successful? ?''
+. A. Hyde, chairman of the Board of
Education, asked this momentou question
yesterday afternoon at the meeting of the
school principals held in the school build
ing on Powell street, near Clay, and with
one or two exceptions the principals re-
sponded in the affirmative.
The distrcting Of the public schools has
been no light and trivial matter. however.
Principals have been worried over it, par
ents and children have shed tears at the
changes, and f. A. Hyde declared en-
.hatically yesterday that he, for one, never
wants to grapple with such question
again.
do it," said President Hyde. Every
Board Of Education has districted and dis
tricted. 1t was not week before the
order was disregar ded. If we had made
any exec ptions. allowed any looph oles, the
thing would have failed. 1t required men
of iron will to carry it through. but some
thing had TO be done. Many schools were
being built up at the expense of others,
| and however We remedleu this we were to
| be criticized.
II know perfectly we'll that numbers of
| parents feel bitterly on the subject. Many
| children are going to be taken out of the
| School Department altogether and sent to
private Institutions, but Board of Educa-
| tion that will stand up to ANYTHING SO dis
| agreeable deserves the support of prin-
| cipals."
| Mrs. Craven remarked that the rule was
good. but there should be an exception
made for children who are to graduate
this year.
Mr.. Hyde replied that in theory he agreed
with her. He understood just how a parent
would feel, after child mad been seven
years In one school, to see him forcibly
transferred to another the very year of his
graduation. But that objection exists
this year. next year; it always will exist"
Principal Lyser of the John SWEET
School demonstrated emphaticaly against
the classification of schools. Il do not be-
| ieve," he said. that this city is any
nearer being dlstrlcted than it ever has
been. The schools that have been injured
most deserved it least. AS for the saw
ing of expense, it is only temporary.
Parents have come to me and implored d OF
to have their children taken ont of nv
school. but have always replied, we are
Obeying orders; 60 TO Mr.. SWEET at the
City Hail."
Superintendent SWEET, who was IN the
chair. remarked chat many parents had
called upon him. and that the interviews
had Invariably been so pleasant and
courteous that he was willing to continue
them.
Send them to me if they have any COM
plants 10 make. l am satisfied" he con-
cluded.
Mr.. Hyde declared that nine-tenths of
the fuss made over the districting of
schools was unnecessary. "One parent
comes to me crying because his child Is
taken from the John SWEET School: he
Gays IL is the only one worth attending in
the city. Another parent comes to me
crying because his child is forced to attend
the John SWEET School. / tell you that
nine-tenths of this will blow over in about
a week."
H. Mann, principal OF the Denman
School, desired to contradict a tradition
that the Denman School is always full.
I'VE have room for about twenty-five