Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-01-18
WHAT IS A PUPIL?
School Board Takes Up an
important Question.
BUT FAILS TO SETTLE IT
Maybe Some at Six Know More
Than Some at Sixty.
Who Can Tell?
tut FAILS TO SETTLE IT


| How old is a school child?
| This question intruded itself into the
discussions of the board of education at
| the Franklin School building yesterday
and remains unanswered today. The ques-
ton wedged itself in between a recon-
| mendation to find out where the Associat-
| ed Charities spent the S., 600 collected at
Thanksgiving from school children, and a
tart debate on the request of Irving
Frank. Business High School student to
have public hearing to demonstrate his
views on his recent failure to attain a
captains commission in the cadet regi-
| ment. No one seemed to know definitely
| about any low age limit for school chill
| dren, although the rules Of the board
place the beginner at six. However,
thousands of children go to kindergarten
at five. The compulsory education law
sets the ages of six and fourteen, but
| whether there is law prohibiting a stu
| dent from attending high school after
twenty-one is question.
Mr.. Stuart's Opinion.
! AR. Stuart, director of intermediate
education. said the only law ever passed
| is a very old and musty one, setting the
| limits at six and seventeen years. How
| ever no wholesale exclusions need be ex-
| pected. If anything. the only result will
| be a law on the subject. setting the age
| limits in accordance with the present
/ custom
| A public hearing was requested in
letter from James S. Easby-Smith, attor-
| ney for Mrs. j. q. Frank mother of II
| wing Frank the Business High School
boy who resigned from the regiment sew
| eral months ago because he was dissat-
| isfied with the promotions. He claimed
at the time he was entitled to receive
| commission as captain, and charged I'M
| fairness. The military committee of the
| board of education disapproved of the
| boys charges. His mother then asked
| for another hearing. f. III. Daniel of the
| committee said yesterday the committee
| was willing to open the case IL new ev1-
| statement. he agreed yesterday not to
| grant a public hearing until after the
| military committee has disposed of the
| case on this request for another commit
tee hearing.
! Asks About Money.
| Mr.. Daniel also asked for an investiga
ton of the manner in which the s3.ON -
collected at Thanksgiving from school
children had been spent The Associated
Charities reported that this amount was
SOL. 40 in excess of the collection of the
year previous The discussion of these
| figures preceded the request of the Pru-
dence Crandall Club to be allowed to take
a penny collection from the scholars of
| the colored schools, to be used in buying
shoes for poor children. After consider
| able discussion, the Prudence Crandall
Clubs request was not allowed, for the
present at least.
Changes in Schools.
< A.
| follows:
| Miss NJ. E. Clarke as teacher of phys
| ical training in the graded schools.
/ Mrs. Mary Henderson as caretaker OF
Armstrong Manual Training School and
| M Street High School pOrtables.
Charles Edwards as laborer at the
| Western High School.
Stuart Campbell as substitute janitor.
S. L. Tatspaugh as substitute janitor.
| Adam Lochboehler as substitute Jan1tOr.
Miss G. V. Browne as substitute teacher
Of domestic science in the Mckinley Man
ual Training School
Mr.. G. c. Dunn as substitute teacher OF
manual training in the Mckinley Manual
Training School.
Miss T. L. Crump as substitute teach
er in the graded schools Of the first nine
divisions.
err in the day and night schools.
Mrs c. l.. Fake as substitute teacher In
the graded schools of the first nine divi-
sions.
of domestic science in the white high and
manual training schools.
Miss NJ L. Benson as substitute teacher
in the graded schools.
Miss Helen Roseberry as substitute
| teacher Of domestic science in the high
and manual training schools.
Miss H. j. Wilder as substitute teacher
in graded schools.
Miss Katherine Morgan as SUBSTITUTE
teacher in the graded schools.
Mrs. E. c. Mccormick as substitute
teacher in the white graded schools.
Miss A. NJ Browning as a,v substitute nne
chemistry in the high and manual train
ing schools.
Appoint the following persons as sub
stitutes in the night schools: Sew1ng'
Miss c. r. Lancaster, Miss r. f. VIII
liams. Miss Isabella Rawles. Miss n. G.
Smothers. Miss A. l.. Parker, Miss Y. L.
clark and Miss l. f. Dent; cooking, Miss
G. E. Jones, Miss III. G. De Vile, MISS
M. NJ Jackson and Miss r. z. Dent.
II G. E. Bittner as clerk Of class one
II Mr.. C. c. Dunn as substitute teacher OF
manual training in graded schools
Miss Helen Burkart as teacher OF music
in the graded schools.
II G. w. Hall as laborer in the Mckinley
Manual Training School.
Miss C. E. Allen. teacher of the second
grade.
II OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES AdeIalue w 'us %
teacher OF cooking in the night schools.
/ Miss Beatrice Kramer as teacher or mu-
sic in the graded schools.
I william Kettler as laborer in the brook-
| land School
Miss J. B. milford as teacher of the
| first grade. Jackson School, first division.
! Miss S. c. Cullen as teacher or physical
| training In the graded schools.
| N. NJ. McKernan, clerk in class
III G. p Ashton as laborer In the Mckin-
| ley Manual Training School.
| pYomotions-Mrs. Ella Wischer, clerk In
| class 1 10 class 2.
II D. G. Cleveland. from caretaker or Arm
| strong Manual Training School and "A
1 Street High School portables to laporer In
| the Brookland School.
II Assignent-Miss ]. p. WILKINSON as
/ teacher in the public night schools.
n Transfers-Miss NJ. E. Vernon. teacher
/ of cooking. from the graded schools to
4 the Cardozo Vocational School
\ r. u. Parks, teacher OF woodWorking