The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1912-11-08
REARRANGING THE SCHOOL

The school trustees, in conjunction
with Prof. Riste, have been very busy
during the past week in an effort to
remedy the congested condition of the
public school, and rearrange some of
the departments so the teachers will
be able to do more justice to the pupils
as well as to themselves, for under
the conditions prevailing no teacher.
no matter how efficient, could take
any of the departments and give the
children the attention and instruction
that athey should have The town has
out grown the old edifice used as a
school, an eye sore externally and a
menace to the health of teacher and
pupia internally. The several rooms
are crowded beyond the proper limits.
and the primary department especial
ly 1S beyond what any one teacher
should be expected to handle. The
Provp building, in the south part of
towH was utilized last winter for the
ovef1ow, and again this fall, yet that
extra roome did not give ample space
Lor the growing number of applicants.
Inc small one story building opposite
Slgrlst hall, one time used as a butch
er snop, has been secured, overhauled.
renovated and made fit for occupancy.
Ihls will be used by the primary de-
partment. In the Provo building will
De installed the manual training de-
partment. The principal is worked
beyond the endurance of one man, and
ne is to be assigned an assistant. This
hecessltates the employment of an
other teacher, for one of the rooms.
Order will soon be restored and the
work nicely systemized so that in a
lew days the school will be running
smoothly, the teachers will be able to
give better satisfaction, and the effects
VIII pc noticeable in the more rapid
progress of the scholars.
This necessity to resort to make
shirts IN order to supply accommoda-
tlons for the pupils Is extremely un-
fortunate, and emphasizes more than
all that could be written or said on
the subject the imperative need of
new centrally located high school
building, with ward schools as rapid
ly as such schools can be supplied.
Or0v1lle needs new high school
building and needs it badly. 1t can
safely be said that everybody realizes
this fact, the only trouble is to unite
upon some locality. Under the new
scnoOi system coming into vogue,
where the aim is to give the boy and
girl aspractical as well as theoretical
edslssatiun, much attention is now be-
ing given to agriculture and hOrticul-
tural instruction in the country
schools so that it becomes necessary
to secure larger plots of land upon
which to erect school houses than in
former days. A lot or two no longer
answers the purpose. A school site
must embrace several acres. That
being the case it is difficult to find a
piece of land within the corporate
limits, convenient to all parts of the
town, of sufficient size to meet the re-
quirements. However, this selection
is going to be made by the people, and
that in the near future. The proposi-
tion to be voted on Saturday, when
the question of purchase of school
sites is to be submitted to the voters.
may fail, but with persistency wor-
thy of commentator the board of
trustees will Immediately submit
some other place to the electors, and
continue to do so until the requisite
land is secured. 1t is doubtful if there
is a Taxpayer in the district who
would oppose the erection of a mod
ern school building once the site is Sc
lected. The one and only point of con-
tention is the location. Get that once
adjusted and the vote authorizing pur-
chase will be almost unanimous.
Knowing the sentiment of the people
and the determination of the board it
is safe to predict that next year Oro-
Vile will have one of the most slightly
and commOdious school houses to be
found IN any town Of like size in cas-
tern Washington.