The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-03-31
HOW ABOUT SCHOOL NO. /
Canthe Pupils Be Accommodated
in the New Building
What Mr.. Synder
Says,

| modations of the new School No. 4. now
nearing completion, on York street. II
has been said that the new building VIII
not as large a number OF
| pupils as the old school, A person con-
nected with School No. II who was seen.
this morning. said:-.sThe new school has
not room for as many children as the OLD
school had. There are to be IN the new
building twenty class rooms; In the olo
building there were twenty-three ana
wien the wing was torn down ana tenn
porary class rooms made there were
twenty-five. The new building Is on
ground 175x100 feet; the old one was on
~10Oxlo0. There is therefore 75xl00 feet more
than before and there are three less class
rooms and the building cost 100000. There
are now twenty-eight teachers in the
school. don't know what they are going
to do with the teachers; / don't know
what they are going to do with the pupils.
Yes. they might have put another story
on the building and so added more class
rooms. but they say that would cost too
much. 1t is possible that they may use
the assembly room for class rooms If the
children cannot be put into the twenty
rooms and it is also possible that the
annex now in use may be continued. II IS
not the grammar department in any
school that is o~vererowded; It is the
primary school,
superintendent Henry Snyder was also
seen. He said: There is an impression,
erroneous, / think, that the school DIS
trict in which School No. l is situated,
has fewer school children now than 1t mac
some wears ago. 1t Is true that families
are moving away, but the buildings are
not being torn down, rather flats ana
tenements are taking the place OF private
houses. Because of this impression the
Board of Education did not wish to make
the building larger than the old one, as
MANY people objected to any new school
in that district, and they would not make
If smaller. so they made it with the same
accommodations as the old school. There
are fewer class rooms, it is true, but
manyo of the rooms in the old school were
very small. Those in the new building
are larger. They will seat on an aver
age 50 pupils, more than we care to have'
in one class, and because they are larger
the pupils can be more evenly distrlbut-
ed, and think it win be found hat the
same number of pupils can be put in the
new school as in the old.
II cannot say that there will be more
pupils seeking a~dmittance than there
were before, though | think it is likely.
That is a question the Board of Educa-
ton has not dealt with. 1t is so far on,
you see. The school viii not be ready I'M
til September. Then if there are more
children than can be accommodated the
Board will decide whether to continue the
annex or to use the assembly room. We.
are constantly having to make temporary
quarters for pupils; we are familiar with
that.
-.As to the teachers, that is something
else the Board has not considered. There
are twenty-six teachers in the school ana
annex now. Twenty will be needed in the
twenty class rooms in the new building.
What will be done with the six | do not
/ now know. / always advocate having an
extra teacher or two in every large
school. If we can afford it, one or two
of the teachers may be used in that
way. We lave plenty of use for them.
By September we will have six other new
schools. School No. 10 has II class rooms;
extension on No. 20, s; No. II, 8; No. IL,
10: No. 26, 10, and No. q, S; making a
total of So new class rooms. So the six
teachers will be accommodated easily. |
do NOT. of course, know what disposition
of the teachers the Board of Education
&will make. AS said, it is so far Off, 1t
has not yet been considered. There is
plenty of room for the six teachers IT
they are not needed in No. l, and for
MANY more. for none of these So looms
takes the place of an old class room"