The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-01-14
A new HIGH SCHOOL.
Board of Education Takes
Up the Question Of Pro-
viding an Adequate
Building.
MAYOR Hoos FAyoRs THE PLAN

miSthO
cate of the Project-Kinder-
gariens Coming.
The Board of Education has at las
taken I'll the question of erecting a new
High School. The subject has been undel
consideration for a long time, but thu
Directors Were reluctant to move owing
to the fact that the erection of such 6
building as is required will involve the
expenditure of at least 5000. 900. Director
higgins has been the one member who
has been fighting for a High School. OF
it's necessity he has been convinced fol-
years, he explained Since ne has beer
a member of the Board he has held many
consultations with Superintendent Snyder
on the subject and he had also talked
with various principals. All have urged
him to move, insisting that the educa-
tional department will not be complete
until a new High School has been erected
Mayor Hoos has been consulted. He is
as anxious as anyone can be to have a
new High School erected, but he is
anxious to get the city in such shape
financially that the raising of money on
bonds for that purpose will not become
a burden on the taxpayers. A great many
property owners have communicated with
Director higgins and have in every in
stance informed him that money raised
for such a purpose will be well spent.
Last night the Board of Education met
and upon the recommendation OF Di-
rector higgins the following preamble
and resolutions were adopted
Whereas, The Board of Education
has for a long time been cognizant of
the following facts regarding the High
School, namely, that the rooms occu-
pied for twenty-five years ofs-the third
and fourth floors of School No. D, and
which were originally intended to ae-
commodate $50 pupils, have long been
entirely Inadequate the present en-
m being $50; that although the
school enrolment throughout the city
has increased from 5000 in 1872 to more
han 1000 at the present time, and
other primary and grammar schools
have been erected from time to time,
very little provision has been made
for the constant growth of the High
School; that with the constant rapid
increase in the number OF pupils IN prl-
mary and grammar schools the de-
mands for admission to the High
Schoo are also increasing so rapidly
that immediate relief is imperat1ve;
otherwise. it will be necessary. to re-
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pupils qualified to enter; that because
it has been impossible owing to this
character of the building and the lin
tied space to provide the school with
the facilities for instruction. which APP
proved educational methods demand,
the efficiency of the Instructions has
been impaired; that the teachers ana
pupils of the school are deprived OF
the ordinary convenienceS which
teachers and pupils of other schools
enjoy, and which a due regard Tor
their comfort and health demanus;
that owing to the i~nadequacy OF the
facilities and to the discomfort by
which the pupils are surrounded many
pupils decline to enter the high
School or leave The school shorty al,
ter entering; that because High School
instruction not only confers direct
benefit Upon those who receive it, but
is also of the utmost value to the COM
munity at large, and because. those
who are to become teachers IN the prl-
mary and grammar schools must oe-
pend upon High School for thelr schoi-
astic standing, in order that the stand
ard of both the High School and the
and primary schools may be
maintained, it is the duty of this
Board to supply by the erection OF a
new High School building the facilities
for making this instruction as thor
ough and efficient as possible; and
Whereas, If a new High School
building is erected. the rooms now
used for the reception of grammar
ANA primary pupils, for whom there
is urgent need Of additional room IN.
the vicinity of the present High School
building; and
Whereas. This Board has recognized
the priority of the claims of the
younger pupils. those who need the
instruction given in the primary and
grammar schools by providing for the
erection of a new school, No. 1, an
addition to No. 20. and five other new
schools. which. when finished. will ac-
commodate about three thousand adj
ditiona1 pupils; therefore
Resolved, That the Board of FL
nance be and they are hereby re-
auested to appropriate the sum of two
hundred thousand dollars for the pur-
chase of land and the erection there
on of a suitable High School building.
Every member of the Board voted in
the Affirmative.
The Board of Finance meets x We'd
nesday evening, and it is probable that
the Board of Education will attend the
meeting. The Finance commissioners
location of the proposed new building has
not been considered as yet. 1t is not
improbable. however, hat it will &c on
the Hill somewhere.
The Board last night adopted a resolu-
ton approving the establishment of three
Kindergarten schools in the city. The
schools will be located and conducted I'M
der the supervision of the Jersey City
kindergarten Association. In agreeing to
the establishment of the k-indergartens,
the Board expressed its entire sympathy
with the movement and hoped for the
success its supporters anticipate.
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