The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1900-09-10
NOW FOR SCHOOL.
Propitious Opening This
Morning, With Usual
Crowding In Lower
Grades.
HALF DAY CLASSES
Schools Nos. /. 9, IL and Is
Must Maintain Two Glasses
Daily-Kindergarten Six.

Daily-Kindergarten Six.
For the first time in ten weeks the
sound of the school bell awoke the public
TO the fact that summer vacations are
at an end and it is time to get to work.
Reluctantly the small boys picked UP his
pad and pencil and wended his weary way
to that modern sanitary edifice the an
cestor of which was the little red schoo
house of Colonial days, now generally re-
ferred to with scorp.
And yet the little red school house with
its picked rod had its advantages over the
modern ediffce. 1t only takes a warm
September day the fall opening of school
to prove this Today school opened with
an attendance not nearly as large as it
should be in the grammar department
and not nearly as large as it will be two
weeks hence. This is especially true of
the schools in the lower part of the city.
Parents do not place enough value on
education. The first day of school is hot,
or Johnny wants to go fishing, or perhaps
Johnny's mother has not taken the pre-.
caution to get Johnny ready in time, so
Johnny stays home awaiting his own,
or his parents convenience and much
to the Inconvenience of his teacher.
In consequence of this fact there was
not any overcrowding in the grammar
departments in the various schools, save
in the lowest grades, which receive new
pupils from other schools or their own
primary. There the rule is '.come early
TO get a seat and effort is made by
nearly every applicant to be on time.
The same rule pevails in the lower
primary classes which are always over
crowded and Johnny's mother realizes the
importance of getting in on time with
Johnny's little sister, just as she did
with Johnny few years back.
In all the primary schools throughout
the city this morning could be seen a long
line of waiting youngsters, for the most
part with their mothers, who coaxing,
soaring and scolding them into the impor-
tance of holding back the tears-little
girls in muslin dresses timidly answering
the questions put to them, not knowing
what was going to happen next, but all
dreading the moment when they would
be left alone, and little boys, brave more
because the girls were timid than for
and other reason. AS for the mothers
they were nervous, too, with the fear that
school might already be too crowded to
admit their off spring.
However, no applicants have had to be
tnrned away on account of no room,
though there is the usual crowding with
half day classes, morning and afternoon,
in many of the schools. Schools Nos l,
8, IL and Is will all maintain classes in the
morning and afternoon in the lowest
grades, while in the kindergarten there
will be six classes day, three in the
morning and three in the afternoon with
an average attendance of from twenty to
twenty-five.
School No. Annex opened this morning
with an enrolment of about three hun
dred and fifty, half of which number will
be accommodated in the morning and half
i'll the afternoon. The grammar depart
ment of School No. had an attendance
of about one hundred and fifty new pu-
pills, transfers from other schools and
promotions from No. primary
School mo. 8 will also have to maintain
halliday classes in the lowest grades. AS
yet it has not been ascertained just how
many new entries there are, but the num-
Der will doubtless overlap the hundred
mark. In the grammar department there
were between eighty and ninety new en-
tries this morning but this will doubtless
reach the hundred mark by tomorrow.
The High School opened with an attend
ance of 72o, which is slightly below
average. OF the ss9 pupils declared eligible
when school closed. only about two hum
dred reported. The corps of teachers were
all on hand, for the most part burned out
of recognition of race and color with the
exception of Miss L. G. Farrant, who has
resigned to take a position in the Girls
High School in Brooklyn at an increase
of s4o0 per year.
Director Barker of the Board of Edu-
cation said this morning that his La
fayette schools. Nos. 19, % and 10, were
so arranged as to seat all of the old
pupils and all the applicants who come
this morning. 1t was thought that No.
10. on Johnston avenue, would be badly
crowded. but this was obviated by the
Director and the teachers. Nos. II, 12,
IA and 16 are in good shape and all the
pupils were looked after nicely this
morning. The directors were about over
seeing the seating of the scholars. No
difficulty is anticipated in providing room
for all.
School No. II opened with it's full corps
Of teachers, including the principal, Miss
Soper, who has been seriously ill with
quincy sore throat. There are about
seventy new entries in the grammar de-
partment. In the No. II Annex there is
an attendance of about three hundred and
half day classes are inevitable.
School No. u shows about las new en-
tries in the grammar department, forty
eight transfers, thirty-seven new pupils,
and sixty promoted from the primary.
The primary department shows an enroll
ment of seventy three new pupils, with
fifty-three in the lowest class. Here, too,
there Is no change in the teaching corps,
in fact in nearly every school in the city
the teachers were all on deck and there
has been little chance for the substitute.