Evening star., 1894-11-20
DEMAND A NEW SCHOOL.
Soldiers Home Citizens Take Issue
With the school hoard

The regular meeting of the Woodhurn
Citizens Association was held last evening
at kelly's store, on Rock Creek Church
road. the principal business before the
meeting being the question of getting
new school building in place of the old
two-room frame structure, which was built
more than thirty years ago. During the
discussion of the question ii Was stated
that since the erection of the building, an
ground donated by a citizen, the repairs
have not cost $1,000. In the two rooms
there are ninety-six children, there being
three or four grades in either room. This,
members of the association said, gives the
children about one-third one-fourtE the
education rec eived by children who attend
schools where there are the proper facili-
ties. A plan for the enlargement of the
Brightwood school was agreed upon, and
an appropriation of $4,000 made for that
purpose. 1t was stated that the school
there would be plenty large enough IL chill
dren of the state of Maryland did not
crowd out the children who are entitled to
the school privileges
DR.. Allan Walker, chairman of the school
committee, presented a resolution, Which
was read and adopted with some modifica-
tionS. The resolution gives in detail the
work that has been done before the Com
mlssioners, and recites the fact that the
an item Of $4,000 for the purchase of a
site and erec tion of the building, and then
reads: wv hereaS, at meeting of the
trustees of the public schools held at the
Franklin building November IL the COM
mittee on school buildings and grounds
(Mr. Bowen, chairman) submitted an ad-
verse report on our petition for the con-
demnation OF the present school house and
site, this committee informing the rest of
the trustees that the present school house
occupied a better s. hool site and had better
ac accommodations than the average country
school, and also recommended the trustees
10 delay action until the conditions justi-
he'd the erection of an eight-room school" Z"
The following report was adopted and re-
ferred to the District Commissioners;
Resolved, That ;he citizers' ASSOCIATION
CT this community view with surprise and
Indignation this action of the trustees of
public schools; that We consider the state
ments made by Mr.. Bowen and other mem-
bers of the committee untrue and inten-
uonally misleading, Whcn they say in tueir
report that the Soldiers Home school and
site is better than the average country
school. The statements are Intentionally
misleading 10y their cunning use of the
word country In place of county. Now this
Is not country any more than Broukland
BrlghtWood, TenleytoWn, Mount Pleasant
and other places where there are good
brick schools. The statements are untrue,
pecause the average county school mot
country school possesses a great deal bet-
ter accommoda ton than the Soldiers Home
school, in that they are more modern and
nave more tran two rooms, and they are
hot frame, but built of brick. The Soldiers
Home school is nearly thirty years old
and has only two rooms, while most of the
ether county schools are larger and are
constructed of brick
Further, that we earnestly beg the
commissioners, in view of the foregoing
tacts,. that they place 10 reliance upon the
report of the committee on school build.
lLgs and grounds, as they are not aware
of the conditions of the school and the
present need of a new building, and do not
seem TO care 10 find out"
In conclusion, the resolution requests the
commissioners to continue in their esti-
mates the item of $1,000 for the new
building.
The resolution was adopted. By a rising
vote the association rendered its thanks 10
The Evening Star for the interest taken
IN affairs pertaining to the welfare of the
District and then adjourned