Arizona republican., 1913-11-05
GLENDALE HAS
 A UNIT PLAN
Whereby Many Advantages Will Be Forthcoming to School and Community Better Light, Fire and Disease Protection

The public schools of Glendale have 1 in their booth at the fair detail of their new plan for building. It con
 sists of a central building to be used as an auditorium and administration i building, together with three main groups of single class rooms There 1 is a group with ample playground for each of the three main divisions of 1 the school-primary, intermediate and grammar. Each group consists of as many rooms as needed in that de- apartment with a limit of twelve rooms ! in each of the primary and interme- diate groups In addition there is place provided for Kindergarten, ex- l ceptionaI classes, manual training and l domestic arts and sciences, with each group separated from all other groups.
 l The class rooms will be of uniform size, tWenty-four feet by thirty feet. with a six-foot entrance, provided with cloak and hat racks. A large sized bookcase is built in each room; a girls toilet room is provided in each primary room.
 The lighting of these rooms is one
 of their greatest advantages In this
 climate, where the intense light is
 one If the worst features of the
 school room all light should bo
 brought down from the north side
 with all pupils facing east. How ever there are a few days when ad,li- tionai light is necessary, and to meet this need the rooms are built with light grouped about the northwest corner The north light to be used ordinarily and the west light when necessary.
 Ventilation twill be obtained from all sides, Although no light will be ad- mitted from either east or south sides. There is a thirty-inch space between ceiling line and roof with yentilators on all sides A register allows the air to come from the room below into this chamber where ot course it will be passed on. Many teachers would he glad to be free from the annoyance of adjoining rooms This is one of the advan- taSes of this system, the rooms being thirty feet apart.
 The spread of contagious disease is reduced to q minimum in this plan That has been the experience of those who have tried similar plans. Keep ing children from congregating in corridors and stairways is big problem but is solved in this plan.
 Fire has added to the death toll of school children more than we are wont to admit. Yet we have contin- ued to build fire traps and house our children in them. There would be no danger of fire in the cottage sys- tenn.
 The plan will take care of a grow ing community better than anything that has been found in this rapidly growing country. Last year the Glendale public school made d fifty Der cent growth over the year be- fore and the first two months of this year show an increase of 40 per cent. To anyone who has been interested in providing for a school this will at once appear as a big problem for q community. With the cottage sys- tenn rooms may be provided as need cd without building more than are needed
 These separate units will cost much less than the same number of rooms l in multi-room building
 Five of the primary group are near ing completion and will be occupied | during this month. Each of these is a Class A building, fireproof and of 1 very best material throughout
 Glendale is one of the fastest l growing communities of the Salt River valley. Her school problems are large ones but the people are l meeting them with determination to | have the best resultant from care l ful study of the experiences of other | communities. In no place of the l southwest have the people been more 1 far-sighted and liberal in their prep | aration for schools. Twenty acres | have been purchased for the public school and only two years ago the union high school purchased q twen- ty-acre tract just outside the city limits.