Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1913-08-22
ONE MORE WEEK Of
VACATION ...SCH00L
OPENS SEPT. End
All Olympia Grades and Most Of
County Start New Years
Worl-. Then.
IMPROVE MANY BUILDINGS.
New Structures in Several Dis
tricts-Teachers Higher Grade
Than Formerly.


Only one more week of vacation,
boys and girls!
Those of you who live in Olympia
will have to start to school again Sep
tember 2, week from next Tuesday,
and most of you who live in the county
will have to do the same, though some
of you will wait until September 8 and
still others until September 15.
All of the schools in Olympia and
two-thirds of those in the county will
start the new school year September 2.
however, according to Superintendent
c. e. Beach and l.. A. Kibbe. Some of
you will have new teachers this year
and quite few of you who attend
school in the county will go to new
school buildings or old buildings that
have been re-modelled, repaired or en-
larged during the summer vacation.
A slight increase in the teaching
force in the county Is noted this year
and slight increase in enrolment in
both the city and county is anticipated.
Just how much this will be the author
tiles are not able to determine in ad-
vance, but they are prepared for 1t.
Just as an indication the county
schools will start the year with 154
teachers where they started with 148
last year. ending the 1928 session,
however, with 152 teachers.
Next Saturday afternoon, a week
from tomorrow, the ball will be started
a-rolling in Olympia, for then the first
general teachers meeting OF the new
year will be held, when Superintend-
ent Beach will outline the work for
the year and emphasize particular
points. This will be followed by gen.
eral discussion among the teachers
themselves in the various departments
and grades.
Some projected changes in the school
work for the coming year will be rec
commended by Mr.. Beach in his forth
coming report on last years work.
Some of the changes that have already
been made provide for additional room
for the commercial department in the
high school; new room in the Gar
field building on the Westside; extern
sive improvements in the Lincoln
school, such as kalsomining the inte-
rior throughout, placing exhibit boards
above the blackboards in each room,
and installing slate blackboards in all
the upper rooms of the building; the
construction of new cement walks
around the Washington school and
from the street to the school house on
the northeast and southeast corners
Of the property, the erection of con-
crete bulkhead or retaining wall on
the west side of the property and clean
ing and grading that portion.
The greatest improvements in the
way Of new or improved buildings
have been made in the country schools
of the county. The pupils in the Bush
Prairie, Mountain View, the Yelm and
the Yelm consolidated districts will
attend school in new buildings this
fall, while those in the Maytown, Spur
geon creek, and Johnson creek districts
will begin to use their new buildings
some time during September, the new
large building for the Lacey consoli-
dated district being ready about Octo-
ber Is or November 1.
The school house in the Hayes dis
trict has been completely remodelled.
modern heating, lighting and ventilat-
ing systems installed, new roof con-
structed and a complete battery of
windows placed on one side. Similar
Improvement in the lighting system
has been made in the school building
on the lower Skookumchuck, and it Is
the aim of the county school authori-
ties to install this modern lighting sys-
TEN in all buildings as rapidly as pos
sible
AS a whole, the teachers in the
county schools this year are a higher
grade than any previously employed,
according to Superintendent Kibbe, the
districts and the superintendent both
having combined to obtain the best
teachers available. Most of them are
normal school graduates, this county
employing ii from the 1913 class of
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