The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-01-14
TO OPEN NEW SCHOOL
ARRANGEMENTS TO BE MADE BY
BOARD OF EDUCATION TONIGHT.
THE NEED AND ITS REMEDY.
PRESSURE PRINCIPALLY UPON
FIRST AND SECOND GRADES.

Board of Education VIII Probably
Decide to Open Thirty-eighth stree
school on Feb. 1-FIrst and Second
Grades of Henry and Anderson
street schools Are Overcrowded
and II Is This Pressure That Is to
BE ReIieved-SchOOIR Ready for &C.
cupancy Then-Ncw Teachers TO
BE Chosen.
The January meeting of the Board of
Education will be held at the Chatham
Academy tonight At this meeting, it is
| expected, arrangements will be made for
the opening of the Thirty-eighth street
school on Feb. l.
The scope and plan of the arrangements
| for the opening that will be made by the
board cannot accurately be predicted in
! advance of the meeting, but an outline
| of the situation in the southern section of
! the city and of the school needs there
may serve to indicate the conclusion at
! which the board will arrive.
! In general terms the Anderson and
| Henry street schools are the most crowd
ed in the city and the first and second
! grades of these schools are the ones upon
which there is the greatest pressure. The
| present urgent need is to relieve this
| condition of pressure and whatever ac-
! ton is taken by the Board of Education
viii be designed primarily to accomplish
this purpose. There are many children In
| ba
who are now attending the Anderson and
! Henry street schools and the walks they
are obliged to take to and from school is
a quite considerable undertaking for
| some of these little tots There are still
| Others in this section who are still on
the waiting list and who have been pro-
vided with no school accommodations
| whatever
| BY opening i'm the new Thirty-eighth
! Street School grades for the accommoda-
ton of the little ones, the pressure will
| be relieved, it will be possible to place
in the Anderson and Henry Street Schools
| other children who are now on the wait
ing list and the general condition of af-
fairs will improve very considerably.
These matters are all to be discussed
by the Board of Education and such ac-
ton will be taken as will serve to meet
for the greatest number of waiting chill
dren.
The course the board will pursue, once
decided, there is nothing else which will
serve to delay the opening of the Thirty
eighth Street School after Feb. l. the
! date which has been fixed in the minds
| of the members of the board, and Supt.
| Ashmore for some weeks and which has
| been announced in the Morning News.
| AGb
that the school building was
ready for occupancy. save the radiators
| of the heating apparatus and the school
! furniture had not yet arrived. The radi-
ators and the desks and other furniture
| are expected every day. having been or
dered some time since, and upon their ar
| rival they will he placed in position with
| in day or two.
'.There is nothing" said Supt. Ashmore.
Ito prevent the school being opened, as
| promised on Feb l. If it is opened at all
| this session, it will be opened by that
| time"
There will be no difficulty. either. in
providing teachers for the classes that
will be begun in the new school. Elk
aninations TO fill these places are held
regularly and there are always some
teachers. as well as some pupils on the
waiting list 1t is so at present, and from
| this list the new grades will be promptly
supplied with instructors.
The school situation i'll the southern
| section is a very complex one, and Its
solution is a matter of no little difficulty
Supt. Ashmore, however. has canvassed
and investigated and pondered it thorough
w. and from the result of his investiga-
| lions and the thought he has bestowed
upon their resulting facts, he Will be able
to give the board a clear understanding
of what is needed and greatly facilitate
it's intelligent discussion and correct So
luton of the difficulties He will be able
to tell the board just where every indi-
vidual pupil in the section, whose needs
are to be met. lives, and just what is
needed to bring about a readjustment Of
the conditions, and relieve the pressure
upon school accommodations that now
exists.
Supt. Ashmore believes that the solu-
ton OF the difficulties can and will be
found by the board and that by Feb.
he will be in a position to place every
child in the section of the city, south OF
Bolton street. in school. He hopes to be
able to place many of those in the north
ern section, who are still on the waiting
list.
At the meeting of the Board of Educa-
ton five or six teachers will proba bly, be
elected and several promotions made
among those now in the schools. Two
OF the places are vacancies created by
the recent designations of Miss Leila Rem
bert now Mrs. w. w. Wilson, and Miss
Matte K. Whiteside, who has resigned
to accept a similar offer. They were
teachers of the third grades in Chat
ham School No. ! and the Henry Street
School, respectively.
1t is the policy of the board to promote
teachers regularly to fill vacancies SO that
there will probably be several promotions
on account of these two designations and
the appointment of two assistant teachers.
The other teachers to be elected are those
for the grades to be established in the
new Thirty-eighth Street School.
NEW OFFICERS ELECTED.