The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1912-05-16
new DEPARTMENT TO OPEN
Domestic Science to Be Taught in High
School With Beginning of the New
Term Children Not to Cross Rail
way Tracks Going to Schools.

small children attend the grades Of
the Central building were present at
the board meeting last night, to pro-
test against the reported transference
of The children of the first ward to the
Frank school next year.
Since the Frank school has been I'M
der construction, it has been repeated
ly said that the Central school could
now be cleared of the grades and used
entirely for the. high school. There is
certainly need Of this being done.
The high school is growing rapidly.
There are nearly one hundred more
pupils enrolled there this year than
last, and it has been necessary to add
three more teachers to the staff. Such
an increase means the need of more
recitation rooms. Several teachers Of
the high school are now teaching I'M
der conditions very inconvenient and
seriously detrimental to the best work.
Moreover, if our high school is to
rank with those of other cities Of the
size of Kenosha it is necessary that
other lines of work be undertaken.
There is not city in Wisconsin Of
the same rank as Kenosha where do
mestic science is not a part of the
course. Many cities smaller, even
those of three and four thousand, give
girls an opportunity to learn in the
right way the fundamental things
about woman S work in the home.
Two years ago the school board vot-
ed to do this; but it would have
meant turning little children into base
ment rooms or crowding them into
other buildings and the movement was
given up. Now we have the Frank
school and have better accommoda-
tions for grade children. This does
not mean that the children now at
tending the Central building must
cross the tracks and attend the Frank
school. The city will be redistricted
The boundary lines of districts will be
laid out as carefully as possible with
reference to the safety of children
within those lines to reach school.
These boundaries have not yet all been
decided upon; but one of them with
out any doubt, will be West Main
street, the children east being accom-
modated in the Durkee, Weiskopf and
Gillett, and those west, in the Balm,
Frank, Deming and Columbus. Just
where the east and west lines will run
is problem which can only be set
tied by careful study of the school
census returns.
The school board has big problem
on its hands for next year; for while
the Frank school has added eight new
rooms to our school accommodations
there are still only as many rooms as
there were when the Deming base
ment, the rooms in the Lutheran
school and the Central school rooms
were all in use, as during the fall
and winter just past.
The young children in the Central
district, will have better chance
than ever, as a kindergarten is to
open in the high school building.
The protest of the mothers was en-
tirely in order, for with the under
standing they had that their little
children would be obliged to cross the
Northwestern tracks they naturally
were alarmed. The superintendent or
school board has had no such thought
in mind. 1t will probably be neces-
sary for older children to cross tracks
as the upper grades cannot be taken
care of in all buildings.