The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1911-11-15
FEW BARNS.
kS school! Sci!
Must Have Rooseveltian Familie,
or Suffer the Consequences
Says Fairview Woman
PARENTS ASK THE BOARD
FOR BETTER FACILITIES
So. Fairview Condition Thrashed
Out at Meeting at Which Kind
ergarten, Fairy Tales and Pa
per cutting Are Condemned

eve are being made to suffer be-
cause, if / may describe it, we have
not Rooseveltian families" That was
one of the arguments advanced at
the school board rooms last night
when Mrs. Myrtle Roberts, as spokes-
man for a delegation of twenty tried
and true residents of South Fairview
put in a plea for restoration of the
South Fairview school, which was
abolished a week or two ago by the
school board because of an INSULT
eient number of pupils.
Not Enough Pupils
The South Fairview people last
year petitioned for a school and prom
ised thirty pupils. Last year they
supplied nearly that number, but this
year, when the school opened with
eleven pupils, the attendance after
wards running as high as sixteen and
dropping to fourteen, the directors
decided to remove the teacher, do
away with the school and have the
children attend at the regular Fair
view school.
Parents Object
This the residents of South Fair
view do not like. They want their
school restored. The twenty dele
gates at the school board meeting
last night had a petition representing
$50 parents and they had also IL list
showing that they have fifty children
who come within the ages of the first
three grades They asked for re-es-
Establishment of their school and the
teaching Of the three grades therein.
Cut Out Fairy Tales
When superintendent Sterling said
that under the modern system no
teacher can satisfactorily teach three
grades, Mrs. Roberts replied: "Why
not? Let her cut out the fairy tales.
I don't believe in fairy tales. / send
my daughter to school to learn to tell
the truth and I don't want to have
her listen to lies at the public schools,
That's what they get in fairy tales
I don't believe in fairy tales. And
the teachers tell them in the schools
miles long. Then, too, they can do
away with this paper-cutting business.
II want my little girl to learn to read
and write and spell. I can teach her
to ca!t paper if she has to learn that
About Card-Playing Parents
1--WE want that school," said Mrs.
Roberts," and what's more, we're go
ing to have it. If we can't get it from
you people We will get it some othe
way. We may have to apply to the
state, but we will get it. AS taxpay-
ers we are called upon to support
kindergartens in the city for parents
who go to card parties and want their
"a children cared for but we cant have
a grade school for our children with
out walking a mile and a half for it..
Just because we can't send large num-
bers of children to the school we are
not allowed one. We are made to sur
fer because, if l may describe it, we
have not Rooseveltian families
Highways Are Dangerous
In answer to Mr.. Sterlngs state
ment that he went a mile and a half
to school when he was little, Mrs.
Roberts said, Yes, put that was in
the country, and you didn't have
street cars and automobiles to en-
counter nor teams rreighting produce
into the town. 1t is dangerous now
for little children to use the high
ways
''We want the three grades be-
cause we have children for the three
grades and mothers do not want to
separate their little children. Those
In the third grade can care for those
In the first and they can all go to-
gether. Our children were changed
from one school to another without
notice to us. My little girl was sent
to the Fairview school despite the fact
that she told the teacher 1 did not
want her to go there. The change
was made with so little notice that
mothers did not know where their
children We're and the children had
no lunches. The school teachers at
Fairview school made the other chill
dren divide that first day"
No School Board Quorum
Messrs. Watt and 'McAulay were
the only members of the school board
10 meet the delegation and as they
lid not constitute quorum no action
was taken. 1t was explained however,
that the desire of the board was to
accommodate the patrons and an eff
Tort would be made to in some way
adjust the difficulty. The members
Of the delegation said they would be
satisfied with the work of a teacher
who would teach the three grades
even though the progress was not
as great as that in a school where but
one grade was taught. 1t is probable
therefore that the school will be re-
established with three grades taught.