Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1899-09-22
NET The SITUATION
Special Session Of the Board of
School Trustees Last Night.
NEW TEACHERS PROVIDED
Prof. j. rrcss Gets Another Room Same
where. The Emergency Had to be
COPIED With aud All Action
Was Unanimcus.

nave to be educated
When the Board or School Trustees
planned for the erection or the three |
handsome new school buildings Jus
completed. they thought that 1;!cy had /
provided fer the future as vel! rs the !
present But the population IL the city
sias increased 50 rapidly that tie num-
Der Of pupils far exceeds the rle,,ara-
tons made for them.
Something had to be done relative 10 |
me situation. II was 4 time for irme-
Ii:ate and definite action.
The board met last night in snccia, |
session and Srappled the Situation |
When It had adjourned Prof. .JefrIess |
in East End. had been given two rev
teachers and an extra room Prof i@pes
mad been given one new teacher, ana
Prof. Lee, Of the colored school. had |
been provided with one aud.l:Gnal
teacher.
Tnus all Of the rooms in the Schools |
nave teachers, ana arrangements save
'bcen made to furnish the rooms.
y ScllAOI BOARD
mere were present when the board
convened, President Cooper Clerk
Jones and Trustees O>DonnaN, Eo-1
Phillips. Livczcy, Reilly. Robinson and
Clark, Superintendent Powell prole. s or
&.
MIR. 'Joncs moved thai the principals
Of the several schools be heard as 10
the conditions existing in the schools.
and as to What VAS needed. Tn mo-
ton was carried
VERY MUCH IN EARNEST.
Professor Jeffrcss said that there
were scvcnty-one pupils in l.as, End
who We're turned out entirely; c.uil
not even get a ha.f day.
he said the parents of those children
had come TO him in 4 spirit Of earnest
ness not 70 BE trilcd With demanding
an explanation Of the situation.
They came and wanted to know she
reason Why He had pointed .tlc.n to
the board as being Better ah7e to Gear
the brunt Of the demand. The serenity
one turned away, said Pror ,Jcfcrcss,
were the youngest pupils, ana tl:ny
could not read. Thci- parents wnntc,
10 know how on earth they were ever
going to learn to read if they t!lG not
so to school.
Pref. Jcffrcss asked the board to tit
UP another room and give him one
more teacher SO he could divide the
primary grade.
His fourth grade, he said, haa seven
ty-siS pupils. and these We're divided
into two shifts so TO speak If IL.
board could tell him what to do with
that fourth grade. he would be Obliged.
Prof Jeffrcss said his total enrolment
was now 39i, not counting his seventy
one out Of the fold
Mr.. O'Donnel moved that the !:oard
so into election OF IL new teacher for
the East End school, and th:. purchase |
OF fifty additional! desks.
Nj. Ford said that there must hc |
enough teachers for all OF Tie pupils,
and that Prof. Jef1rcss needed Two
teachers instead of one.
Prof Jeffrcss said he needed two
more teachers but he did not know
where he would put two, as there mere
nor enough rooms
Or. Cooper suggested THAI Prof JEFF
frcss, in dividing the fourth grade,
had violated the school law, which per |
mlts divisions in the first grade only
Prof. Jeffress said he had done tho
best lie could; angels could do no more
The motion Of Mr. ODonneii Was
carried, and the purchase Of the desks !
was ordered.
Miss Nellie Carr was elected 10 fiji |
the new position made in the East End
school
Mr.. Phillips brought up the matter
Of Prof. Jeffress' fourth grade. now
divided. lie wanted to know what to
90 With it. He moved that another
room be secured and another teacher
be elected 20 help take care Of the
fourth grade.
Mr. Jones thought that when the
board had built the new schools and |
filled them 70 their capacity. THAT vas
all that could be reasonably expected
Of the board
Mr.. Phillips motion prevailed.
Miss Thurma Davis was elected 10 fill
this newly created position ana the
building and supply committee was n
sruclcu 70 get 4 room ana furnish it |
Also PROF. FPF.S.
Professor Fpcs speaking oi the High !
and Graded school. sala that there were !
$50 on his roll and ,he had turned about
iitty-esht away The r.c.ns. ne said
were built 70 accommodate forty pupils. !
IN one room ne had thirtythlc. 100
many pupils: in another tWrnty-cight
Counting those turned away, Prof |
Epcs said that ne lacked room for 15S
pupils. They We're coming in every
day, and there vas demand for room
for abpu; 200 pupils more than &c con-
m"dations We're provided for.
Professor E:pes said that he had one
vacant room, which would give his
school capacity or $40.
Mr.. Livczey moved that one more
teacher D" given Prof. I.pes and the Va
cant room be furnished. This was car
licd. and the building committee vas
instructed 70 furnish the room.
Miss button was elected for this
room.
Professor I!pcs said that on Monday
there would be fifty or scvcnty-llvc Tu-
PTS Who would apply for entrance to
Ms school, and ne had no room for
them. Die wanted 70 know wha. to do