Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1904-07-09
A Thirty thousand Dollar
High School Building for wauwatosa.

The board of education have recon-
mended to the common council that
/ $3.50. 600 be raised by the issue and sale
of bonds of the city of Wauwatosa for
the purchase of a site of one acre or
more of ground and the construction
of new high school building with
capacity for $50 pupils
This is a much-needed improvement
that will do more to put Wauwatosa
on the map than any other thing that
can be done
Many of our citizens may not know
that Wauwatosa high school is one of
only about fifteen high schools in the
entire state of Wisconsin that are ac-
credited to all courses of the State
University. We have been employing
teachers of high grade of ability and
can afford to the pupil the"best of in
struction, as good in fact, as can
be obtained in any Of the farfamed
high schools of Wisconsin. At the
present time, however, our schools are
crowded in every department, both
grades and high school. Pupils are
required to sit on chairs in the aisles
and in one case, pupil has had to
share the teachers desk on the plat
form because there was no other place
for the pupil to study and write. Such
congestion seriously cripples our school
work Moreover the laboratory facili-
ties are far short of what they should
be. No more useful branches can be
taught to any pupil than the elements
of physics and chemistry. These can
be taught successfully only by the aid
of apparatus and opportunity for prac-
teal illustration and experiment,
We have been teaching about 125 pu-
pills in the high school during the past
year, and others who desired to attend
had no opportunity to do so. We shall
fee the lack of school accommodation
during the coming year even more
lleenly.
According to the recommendations
of the board there are only two courses
open to us to relieve the congestion.
One il to construct two or more primary
grade schools in the different parts of
the city and extend the high school in
the old building. The other is the
course the board have recommended,
the construction of a new building for
a high school and use the present high
school room for grade work.
The construction of several primary
schools is Objectionable in several ways
We can not with the population we
now have, or are likely to have in the
near future, have three or more
classes of the same grade and there
fore if the schools are other than cen
trally located some of the pupils would
have very long walks. The principal
of the high school is also superinten-
dent OF the grades, aud he could not
perform his duties to the high school
if he had to make trips to several diff
ferent schools in different parts of the
city. To hire an additional superin-
tendent would entail an expense that
would go far toward paying interest
on the high school bonds
- we hope no one will urge the policy
of building new primary schools in
stead of a new high school. The eX-
pense would ultimately be as great
+ and our high school would not have
the facilities it needs as the old build
i ing could not be remodeled to properly
serve the purposes needed Moreover,
we need this new high school building
rs an Improvement in Wauwatosa that
will attract attention, increase our
population and increase our real estate
values. One thing is certain our tax,
payers are under the necessity of pro
viding further school facilities and
they are entitled to have the money
expended not only in the way that will
best serve the needs of a school. but
also in way that will improve Wan.
watosa by stimulating sales of real
estate and assist the taxpayer in meet
ing this demand on his purse
We wish TO say that the old school
debt was all paid off last year and this
new bond issue viii not be severely
felt over and above what we have
heretofore been paying off ON the old
building
| The new high school win be crown
/ ing feature In Wauwatosa 1t will be
one that we viii be proud Of and which
viii stimulate the cause of education
and assist rs in keeping in close touch
with our State University, which presi-
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