New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-02-13
SCHOOL EXTREMES.
Bad Pupils Taught in Charming
Quarters: Good Ones an F0W.

Not long ago New Iorks pupilC 9Sl'''' ohi-
Gals fathered a project for having an puPllS eN-
/ arlined for admission to the ScIooi 10y phySl-
clans attached to the Board of Educatloh' rather
| than NV health officers as at present The IN
! ference was that the Health Board should be
! blamed for the large number OF backward
children in the schOols-chlldren VINO coulu NOT
keep up the pace with normal pupils because OF
physical defects due to home surrouiiulhSS'
which should really have debarred thehl from
! school until cured The Board OF MuhlciPai ne
search retorted that Superintendent Maxwell ex-
aggerated the extent and seriousness OIL phSSlcaA
defects among the children under MS care
adding:
Not 3 word do we hear of sweatshops in the
schoolroom; not a word about breakdowns duo
to overwork at school and at home; not word
of ventilation evils that could easily be cor
| rectod: not a wee bit of responsibility is lodged
with overcrowding. part time. unsuitable currc-
ulum inefficient instruction, inefficient super
vision, well lntentlohe0 out lheHtcIlNe ihetI-
DDS and policies
When experts like these disagree. who shall
decide? There are two sides to everything. and
The Tribune presents to-day, on the first
page of this part, strongly contrasting pictures
which may give rise to opinions just conflict
ing as those mentioned.
The Board of Education has been criticised
Gently for the high initial cost per capita Of the
dren recently established between Flushing and
Jamaica, on the Jamaica Turnpike. The school
at present will accommodate 1872 children The
cost Of the plant has been $726.2 57 $;j,IS2 %
for each youngster.
The school is built upon the cottage plan. SIM
liar to that adopted for the New York Juvenile
Asylum at Dobbs Ferry. When completed it
will consist of eighteen double cottages, each
having a capacity Of sixty children. thirty in
oh hole Of ba obi
school building, a school building for vocational
training a power house containing the central
kitchen, laundry and bakery. a cottage for the
principal hospital building and the necessary
barns stables and other auxiliary farm build
ings. There have been erected on the lOi-aCre
plot the power plant, the administration buld-
ing and schoolhouse and three Of the cottages.
Besides this the land has been graded roads
have been constructed, water supply provided.
a sewage plant installed and a pipe gallery or
subway for the accommodation of the steam
pipes and electric wiring leading from the power
plant to the various buildings and for the
transportation of the food from the central
kitchen to the cottages has been built With
the exception of the three cottages, the equip
rlent thus far completed has been built on the
scale required for the entire eighteen cottages.
Among the bond issues vetoed by Mayor Nc
Clellan in the closing days of his administration
because he thought the new administration
ought to have opportunity to act on proposed
improvements which it would be obliged to
execute was one for $4,000 to provide for
three additional double cottages for the parental
school. It is expected by the Board of fEduca-
ton that when the entire group of cottages is
erected TIE initial per capita will be greatly
reduced.
The school is in marked contrast to the homes
from which the children come. Situated on
farming land, it is in the open country, with OPP