The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-02-08
MORE ROOM NEEDED.
Schools Overcrowded With .
New Crop Of Pupils
OVER 900 ADDED TO THE ROLLS.
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There II a ssTals=sszed cyclone how
erinx around the Office Of the board OK
education. and superintendent Barnard
Il TIE center. He has worked night and
Gar since February / % dispsi the
troubie, but has been only Tarfiaiiy
successful owing 20 the asfsscacies Of
80 proEsnn. liz short fe Is trying 20
slad roesn sss already osercFuwtsed
schools for oyer s0e s-year-f,sd pupils.
In come cases nc has succeeded very
well but In other cases there seems 10
be some dossi8f. IL the number OF
fezxasers WHO have come - him with
complaints abeass having TOO many
children on their hands IL ANY cr1te-
rton he Is IN hot water ali day long.
Whereas the rossIfs os the different
schools ace fitted up for forty pupils,
there are now Over nifty In each room.
This conflict has arisen owing TO the
sacrrASe In popuiatioss, irrespective OF
the order OF the board OF education 10
refrslH from hiring more teachers on
more roosns.
Twice every year new pupils are
taken into the public schools. The
dafea are September and February i.
As the time Tor the February incease
approached an order Naa sent out call
ing for estimates OF pupils that would
apply at each school. 1t was then
found sllat the Central school would
have 10 new faces, the South 81, Cas-
catse 80. Denny 81. Pacific 20. Columbia
II. Minor 35. Mercer - e. Rainier 10. b.
r Day IL. I.ascfsa. 8. and other ssibur-
ban sciloels In a iilte proportion.
In ell OF the school buildings except
Che Rainier and minor tire rooms were
occupied The board OF education had
decided shat no us.w rooms would be
hired or teachers employed. 1t became
simply question of crowiIng the new
pupils into the schools. In the Pacific
the ne. children were crowded through
nine ROOMS. Superintendent Barnard
realized that in 50 doing the advance
nrsnf of many pupils will be retarded.
but he was confronted with q condition.
not theory. BY the Same crowding
process the Denny school problem was
Enthusiastically solved. In the Mercer,
L.atona ane b. r. Day schools there
was no trouble. BY consolidating
rooms In the Rainier and South schools
tsss new condition was met This leaves
the Minor. Cascade and Central schools
very mitch crowded, and as yet no way
has been devised to meet the compiica-
tons In the first Year grade In the
Minor school one teacher alone is sfriv-
ing 10 fiipaff knowledge 10 seventy
little children and In the same grades
In the Central and Cascade schools one
tes<aar IL trying ia control between
slsly-iive and seventy youngsters. To
relieve the Minor schooi pupils will
p-onahIy be transferred from some OF
tfss higher grades 10 the Columbia.
Raafier. Pacific and Centrsl schools.
Though Inc new building in the
Denny-Fuhfvnan addition In finished. II
has not been put In use. owing TO the
decisicn OF the hoard not TO employ
any additional teachers. There are not
enough children OF any one grade liy-
ms In the district to warrant the trans
Ter OF teachers with them from othar
schools.
the teachers are pouring their griav-
ances isats Superintendent Barnafi's ears
this week. aud next week II ia more
man likely be will hear from, parents
whose children cgne home with head
aches from ovessrowdeti school roa,ns
Secressry Ogden. for the hoar,, ~
educsaiaan. he's been on the go for the
last Ave days trying TO hunt up school
desks sIsesagh to I'LL up the school
rooms arr keep the children from si..
tlng on tho floor.