Idaho Springs siftings., 1902-05-03

fered with the school that the records of that time
worthless for comparison.
All the schools, average number belonging
November, 1899 554
March, 1900 524
November, 1901 63o
March, 1902 . 62S
1t is unusual for a school to have as large an at
tendance in the spring in the fall, is shown
above for the year ISeoIooo, the average number
belonging being thirty less in March than in No
vember. But for the present school year the
bers are practically the same, there being differ
ence of only two This is very unusual and indi-
Gates growing school population.
All the rooms this year have been filled and
most of them overcrowded. This is particularly
in the fifth grade, Miss Jones' room. The regis
tration in this for the year has been seventy
and the average number belonging has been sixty
Now it is generally agreed among educators that
where teacher has forty pupils her work is of
necessity reduced in efficiency in proportion as the
number of her pupils exceed forty AS the most
of the teachers have in the neighborhood of fifty
FIVE pupils it be readily why they feel that
the crowded condition interferes with their best
work.
During the last few years the grades below the
fifth have been relieved by the establishment of
new rooms But the fifth grade has no larger ac-
commodatons than it had years ago. The fifth
grade of next year will be made up of the fourth
of this year. Here is comparison of the fourth
grade of this year with IS99-I9oo
Average number belonging
April, 1900. SO
The registration in the fourth grade for this year
has been ninety, and to take of all these
pupils there is only room.
Another place where there will plainly be a
pinch next year is in the High school. A compar-
ison of the year IS99-Ieoo with IeoI-1eo2 will show
why. Average number belonging
April 1900 35
April, 1902 5S
An increase of 70.
The High school will lose this year ten by grad
uation 1t will gain the present eighth grade,
which numbers twenty-five and is already seated
with the high school. 1t will also gain the present
seventh grade which now numbers thirty weight
although the registration for the year has reached
fifty.
So it is easily seen that there is liable to be 1oS
pupils to be accommodated in a room which has
eighty-six seats, and which by overcrowding could
be furnished with ninety-three The latter num-
Der would make the very uncomfortable.
Another matter to be considered is that our
school population is growing rapidly. This has
been referred to above, but it is also shown by the
fact that twenty-sx pupils, whose parents have
Gently moved into the district have been register
ed at the Central school alone.
SCHOOL. NOTES.
week ago Friday afternoon the boys of the
High school crossed bats with those of the eighth
Grade. At first everything went in favor of the
High school boys so much so that they wrapped
their nerve up in bundle and sent it back to town
bv passing team, and bevy of their pretty sis
ters who had gone down to cheer them to vic
tory concluding that their presence was needed no
longer returned home. Then the weather changed.
The grade boys began to make tallies, while the
High school representatives INDUCED in wild
throwing and still wilder catching. Luck was
against them and they almost forgot how to make
tallies. The game finally closed with a score of
"a to 81.
Siss boom Siss, boom Who is it?
High school, High school, nit, nit, nit
Next Friday afternoon the schools will have
their first field day. The sports will be beld the
grounds of the Central school and the adjacent
mart of Colorado street. There will be running and
humping contests, pole vaulting, relay race sack
race hurdle race, potato race, etc. This is the
first attempt of the schools hold field day sports
and the boys may not do anything wonderful this
time, but they expect to make beginning and to
learn how to do in the future.
As result of the Agricultural college and the
Georgetown concerts, the school has hand
s81. 80. 1t has not been determined just how to
use this money, but part of it will undoubtedly be