Bisbee daily review., 1909-04-21
MORE SCHOOL ROOM WANTED
 IN DOUGLAS
Superintendent lutz Gives the Public Facts in Detail About Schools of Shelter City Serious Congestion

DOUGLAS, Arizona, April 2O.- The overcrowded condition of sey- eral schools in the Douglas d s-
 rict was carefully looked into by the board of school trustees at its meeting of April IT. and ways and means for relieving the situation for the ensuing year were freely discuss ed. Superintendent Lutz talked of conditions as they exist 10 an Inter national reporter today. ''The Sec ond street school has an enrolment of one hundred and eighty pupils ana this number in charge of two teach CTS" said Mir. Lutz. There should be at least five teachers to handle the children in this school The Pir- vile school has an enrolment at this date of two hundred and twenty-five, and there are four teachers in charge. There should be two more rooms add CT to this building. and even with this additional room the school would nee essarily be crowded as there. are a goodly number of children in this hamlet who are not in attendance at the school. Provisions should be ad- equate to accommodate all of the pri- mary grades in Pirtleville.
 "The enrolment of the Douglas schools has fully doubled within the last four years and slightly exceeds that of the Bisbee schools.
 There are 306 pupils in the Twelfth street building. excluding high school, and at the close of the
 present term about 65 more will re ceive promotion to the grammar
 grades from the other schools, and these children must be received into the Twelfth street building. At the
 holiday promotions there will be 55
 more to enter the grammar grades, thus adding i20 more pupils to this building. Allowing for the promotion
 of a fair percentage of the eighth
 grade to the high school there would still be about 400 children in the
 grammar grades. divided into nine classes. Iu this estimate, we figure | from conditions as they now exist | Figuring from experience for the past
 two years. we may safely estimate
 twenty new pupils entering the gram
 mar grades from schools outside ci
 the Douglas district Conservatively
 estimating. there will be APO puipls
 in the grammar school building for
 the ensuing year, and this will make close to fifty pupils to the teacher
 twenty more than any one should be allowed to handle.
 "To obtain the best results" said
 Mir. Lutz, "a maximum of thirty pu pills to the class is all that should be
 permitted It is also injurious to the health of children to have more than | thirty in a room. and 1t is almost criminal to crowd from forty to fifty children in a small school room twen | ty feet by thirty feet. In fact, a rec | ommendetion was made by the com mittee on school legislation to tho ] last legislature to compel boards ot 1 trustees to build sufficient schoO room so that there would be a room
 for each thirty pupils, according tS the average daily attendance of tho preceding year. So strongly was this emphasized by the committee that il
 would undoubtedly have become : law had it gone before the legislative
 body in time.
 At the present date. seven teach CTS are taking care of eight classel lin the Fifteenth street school. Thi.
 crowded condition in the Fifteentf street school has existed for severa ] B. complaint by the patrons of that par of the city. It is believed that ; small school building. say of two rooms, in the Sunnyside addition ot Douglas would take care of all pri mary pupils in the extreme north par of the town and those living in thu
 Sunnyside addition, thus reliev'ni lthe crowded condition of the Eff cpInp1
 A law providing for the segrega l. ton of children of the African raci |, from the white children of our publi
 schools was passed by the last legis
 latiye assembly. and 1t now become the duty of the board of schoa trustees to provide a school hous' for the colored children or this dis trict.
 'At the present time the higl school pupils and the grammar grade are housed in the same building namely the Twelfth street school, an the matter of finding room sufficien for the high school classes In the nea future is coming to be problem At the present time there are lift ' pupils enrolled in the high schoo and we estimate that from 25 to new pupils will enter the high schot 1 for next year. thus making the el ! roIiment about 75. The year follow ing theTe will be. added to the hig school about 60 more pupils. makin the enrolment of that branch of oC public schools about 135, allowing ft 2 a decrease by graduation of f2, thel would still be an enrolment Of 12 lThese figures do not allow for -th entrance of new pupils from oth' 1 schools. At this early date word h; ] been received from several peep ! that it is their intention to mol to this city for the purpose of pla ! ing their children in the high schoC 1 In two years, with 800 children the grammar grades and 125 in Il k high school. the Twelfth street bull ! ing will be accommodating near 1 twice as many school children as ' should have. The only solution S this rapidly approaching difficulty t the construction of a new high schoc 2 'These are some of the difficulti' \ that the board of school trustees \ this district must meet. and thu k must be handled in the near future T The following were elected teac CTS at the last meeting of the boari | Miss Kate Carson. Miss DeEsta Coo t Miss Ellen McNair. Miss Emma Cha E iehoig nficc Ecfnpr afffo- and Nff