New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-09-24
TURNED FROM VACANT. SEATS
PUPILS NOT ALLOWED TO OCCUPY
EMPTY BENCHES.
PRINCIPALS FOLLOWING BYLAW OF HE
BOARD OF EDUCATION srPERINTENDENl
JASPER DEMANDS THAT EVERY
PLACE IN THE SCHOOLS BE
OCCUPIED.

A partial solution at least to the problem OF
how 10 provide for the 10000 children Of school
age that have been crowded out Of the schools
for lack OF accommodations has been found ny
City Superintendent Jasper The only wonder
is that the members Of the Board OF Education
who have been botherinE their heads over the
matter ever since the schools opened ala not
hit upon the same remedy days ago
There is a bylaw Of the Board which PROVIDES
that there shall not be more than Sixty ch''u' I'll
IN any one class This provision was maze oo'"
because it was thought that teacher cou'u hot
90 Justice to greater number in ins'ruc'"s
them and also for sanitary reasons lhls ny
law may be set aside. however, IN cases "he'e
the demand for larger classes is urgent upon aV-
plication Of the principal OF any school ""e'V
such a demand exists. Superintendent Jasper
upon looking over the reports received io'"
some of the schools in the upper part OF 'he Guy
and comparing the actual attendance IN edVh
school with the number of sittings. came 10 the
conclusion that the principals OF many Oh 'ne
schools were enforcing the bylaw OF the boaru
TO the exclusion of many pupils who had Va'hiy
applied for admission. Further investigation
only served to establish beyond the possibility
Of doubt the conclusion Mr.. Jasper haoredcneu
and Yesterday he adopted energetic measures
whereby he intends TO see that every aNaiiao'e
coat in every school in the city shall be occupied
in the near future
AZ a Tribune reporter stepped into Superln-
tendent Jasper's Office at NO 40 "ranu 81
Yesterday afternoon he found him looKlhs o'e'
q letter he had just finished dlctatns' i"o ~
,or ,.as addressed to the principal of Grammar
School No. -. at Eighty-seventh-st. ana rHS'-
av. and was an exceedingly forcible request
he BOARD for per-
mission to receive all the children that could
he seated in her school In explanation OIL 'n's
lettor SUPERINTENDENT Jasper said to the reporter
that in this school admission had been reiuseu
70 800 children. when III or nearly all OF those
who applied could have been received MI
Iasper took down his report book, from which
he showed the reporter that II one OF the twenty
classrooms Of the building there were as many
as thrty-nine vacant seats. while none OF 'ne
roors were dlled-ths. Notwithstanding the fact
that 500 applicants for admission nau oee'
turned away.
Mr. Jasper said that in all the classrooHls
there was seating capacity of 1126. while the
actual attendance. according TO the roHs' Was
only 1876 leaving 80 vacant seats in the
school BY forming halliday classes FOR some
Of the children now in the school under eight
old every one OF ll' '''' 'HiiNiNH -
admission was refused can be accommodated
Mr. Jasper declared that in several OF the
schools in the upper part Of the city there were
claser,onos in which seventy-hve pupils eacn
c,uId ba accommodated but where the princl-
pals had preferred to turn children from the
schools rather than apply to the Board for per
mission - increase the size or their classes. g., 10
',,rh ,'rincinals letters similar 10 the one SD
perintendent Jasper held in his hand Will be
sent. 49,, -
Mr. jasper said to the reporter: 90 nor
.k,o+ q m n nf crowd
ing seventy-fve or eighty children into CLASS
room. | am thoroughly opposed to any such
plan under ordinary circumstances, but Wnen
50 many children are being shut out or the
schools as there are at present, we must, in JUS
tice to those who are being excluded. put them
into the schools by charging the classes until
every available seat Is occupied by pupil. The
narents Of the unfortunate ones have right 10
demand this -