Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-09-12
ALL SCHOOLS ARE
TAXED TO LIMIT
TO HANDLE PUPILS
More Than $4,000 Children Are
EnrOlled-Many Half-D Day
Classes Necessary.

The public schools opened today Ind
from the best figures obtainaole 1t Is
certain hat the enrolment this season
will show more than $4,000 pupils in all
the schools. Definite figures will not
be available for several days yet, as
the work of enrolment is still going on,
and new pupils will be added to the
rolls for some little time, as many par
ents neglected to enroll their childrep
on the days set aside by the Board
of Education.
Quite a number of children have not
returned TO the city from their summer
outings yet, but these late-comers Will
have to AXE what they can get in the
way of accommodations, as all the
schools will be taxed to the limit to
provide for the pupils that are now on
the rolls. 1t had been expected that
this season would show q big increase
in attendance at all the schools, but
the principals were totally u~nprepared
for the vast number of new scholars,
and the problem of how they can all be
cared for is going to be a difficult
in a number of h schools that even
last year had difficulty in providing
sufficient accommodations.
The increase has been greatest in the
Hill section, and halliday classes will
have to be established in all the schools
in the more congested sections of the
city. The High School and It's annexes
are filed up, and it is almost certain
that extra room will have to be found
somewhere for the new students that
will be enrolled between now n Feb
ruary.
Al the Belmont Avenue, Hamburg
Place, Newton Street, Morton street,
Avenue andsmfia-f amow amow tmaf
Miller Street, Bergen Street and Sum
mer Avenue schools there are more new
pupils than can be taken care of in the
ordinary day classes and several of
these schools will be forced to have
halliday classes for h first time.
New Buildings VIII Help.
The new schools that are in course
of erection will help the situation
somewhat when they are completed,
but even then the accommodations
will not be anywhere near what they
should be for the city, and 1t is gener-
ally conceded that the schools are keep
ing pace with the growth of the city,
and especially the sections where the
greatest percentage of increase is
noticeable. The teaching staff is large
and capable enough to handle the
pupils if there was sufficient room to
accommodate them all, but under the
existing conditions it is simply out of
the question to try and operate full day
classes in the lower grades, where the
enrolment has increased so remark
ably. In some of the sections where
relief is most desired new schools have
been provided for, but in some in
stances the plans have not yet been ac-
cepted, while in other cases the con-
tracts have not been awarded.
The west side ungraded schools will
not be ready for some time, and it will
be late spring before the new buildings
will be ready for occupancy in parts of
the city where the children will in the
meantime be obliged to get but half the
attention that they should receive.
The Board of Education realizes that
it will have to seriously consider the
question of new schools in sections
where it was deemed that additions to
the old buildings would answer the
purpose.
The parochial schools were opened
last Tuesday and there was a marked
increase in all the classes. Thus far
il has not been necessary to cut the
classes and accommodations have been
found for all the newcomers, although
it was q problem in some cases to
properly provide for the unlooked-for
increase.
There have been very few changes in
tho teaching staffs of the parochial