Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-10-07
SEES
DANCER|N
SCHOOLS
Denounces 0verCrowding as Cry
ing Menace-Urges Imme-
date Reforms.

The appeal of the thousands of
children who are huddled together in
overcrowded public schools was
voiced Tuesday by Walter r. Daley.
president of the Board of Education,
in an open statement to Council
The only means of relieving the
crowded conditions is to build more
schools he said. Council alone has
the power to provide money for this
purpose. If Council does not do it's
duty ami provide the funds, the peo-
pie cant expect anything but bad
conditions.
The greatest need in our city to-
Gay is greater school facilities. We
renew our appeals to Council to take
hold of the financing of this matter
On it depends the future citizenship
of Atlanta. The present conditions
are a menace to the city's welfare"
Badly Crowded.
Colonel Daley gave some interest
ing glimpses into the schoolrooms of
Atlanta in his description of the over
crowded. The Edgewood Avenue, In
man Park and Highland Avenue
Schools have become so filled with
pupils that a nearby old building, the
old Neil School on Moreland avenue.
has been rented for the overflow. Five
grades will be maintained in this
supplementary school, which will be
fully opened the latter part of the
week. 1t will greatly improve condi-
tions in that section of the city, but
the Edgewocd Avenue, the Inman
Park and the Highland Avenue
Schools still will be overcrowded.
For instance, in the third grade Of
the Highland Avenue School there are
"a pupils, the room being so over
crowded that "a of them have to sit
on straight benches that extend all
around the room, with their backs to
the wall. They have no place to write
The light shines straight into the
faces of many of them. That the
conditions are unhealthy is proved by
the fact that children frequently
faint and parents are constantly COM
planning about their children's health.
High Schools Bad.
Conditions in many other schools
are not much better than this extreme
case. II grown folks had to attenI
the schools the faults in the system
would long ago have been corrected
But children don't know how to make
effective complaints to politicians.
The Edgewood avenue and Inman
Park schools are perhaps in a worse
condition than the Highland avenue
school. There children are being
taguht in damp Easements. There
bad air, bad light and bad health
go hand in hand. And the children
who are subjected to these surround
ings come from attractive and COM
Portable homes. Their parents woull
not think of allowing them to live
amid such conditions at home,
That the relief of school children
should be the main program of the
City Council next year is shown by
an outline by Colonel Daley of the
number of new schools needed. They
are:
New school near Moreland avenue.
new school in Ansley Park, new
school in East Otlanta, new school
i nthe Grant Park section, for the
special benefit of the Fulton Bag
and Cotton Mill children, new school
in Battle Hill, new school for Eng
fish avenue and the Exposition Cot
ton Mills section.
Our high school conditions are
desperate" said Colonel Daley. I'VE
need new buildings for every high
school in the city