New-York tribune., 1904-09-27
A PART TINE" REMEDY.
Put High School Pupils ont Of
Elementary Schools

7ha fact thar high school pupils are occupying
a great many elementary school buildings has been
overlooked 20 2 great extent by those Interested In
educational matters bur now thar eighty thousand
elementary uupls are on part time Il has occurred
10 some that the problem might he solved ar least
uartiaIlv by turning the high school pupils out of
these borrowed buildings Miss Aida 5 Williams.
principal OF Public School No 30. is one q the ad-
vocates Of this plan and she thinks that the thing
can be accomplished without turning the high
school pupils into the street
II the high school pupils were put upon part
tine" she says instead Of the younger children.
they wouldn't have % r0osr around Ike so many
cuckoos in borrowed nests. and some OF the
eighty thousand children who have no seats could
have the vacant space IN The said nests The
younger high school children could have the morn
ing. from $50 70 -2-so. ana the older ones the
afternoon, from 1245 70 AS. This would give all
Of them nearly as much time they have now.
and would enable The high schools 70 vacate
dozen OF more floors IN elementary school build
3Egs which are now being used as anneKes."
Miss Williams also suggests the transportation
of pupils from congesJed 10 less congested dis
tTicts. The Board Of Education has the power to
contract for the transportation Of school children
with the railways and Miss Williams thinks
that the older BOYS and girls Of the East Side might
be transported 10 schools which report empty class
rooms or vacant sJtngs. thus making room for the
smaller children n the schools OF their own vicinity
- - sleh Gsl-elS IoF instance as ne Ie.ltA r ana
fy-fourth-st. there are now 200o vacant sittings.
even under The present conditions
II these simple eXpedienLs were adopted Miss
Williams believes that il would b- unnecessary 70
place any elementary school children on part tine.
and Il il We're. she suggests thar the SB classes
rhFCUg -1ur The city should be selected for the
double season basis rather than the younger chill
oren who cannot. Ike older pupils work without
fhe supervisor Of a teacher.
Miss Wil.iCr1='5 ideas on this subject shared
By many CT the re2cbers. and another woman
pT1nc pal EXPRESSED herself even more strongly
about wha- termed The sacrifice 0f the younger
children 70 The high school system
! tHi-k the Mayor ought 70 serve a notice Of
eviction On these high seoDis which are occupying
elementary sl1oci bu2IdlLgs. she observe They
vii neNe! give them up Until he does New high
schools are being built al the time but the Gle
mertary buildings once borrowed, are never given
NJ, 10 matter row much The riglltful owners need
them Some Cf The nigh schools, too, not half
;ull as - The case OF The new boys high school
IN East TWelfth-sr This Is one OF the most
crowded districts in the city yet there are only
about two hundred boys rafting around II the new
high school"
Il is rUm0Ted r. educational circles that later
reports viii show alarming increase n part
tine ngures. hecaree when the schools opened the
jewish children Hece AZ home. keeping the feasts
OF their church