Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-09-14
$4,000 PUPILS
AT OPENING Of
PUBLIC SCHOOLS
Halliday Schedule at Fourteen
Observation-Disclosures at
High Schools.

Newsrk's public schools reopened
today with an estimated attendance
of $1,000 pupils. All the principals
and all but four of the school teach
ers were ready for duty at today's
opening. The four absent teachers
are said to be stranded in Europe.
City Superintendent Poland esti-
mates that the increase in today's
registration for this week will be
about 1.500 over the attendance during
the opening week of 1918. Last year
57,94S pupils were enrolled during the
first week. Preparations to accom-
modate $4,000 pupils this year have
been made by the board The official
registration figures will be ready on
Friday.
In fourteen of the schools it viii
be necessary to operate on a half
day schedule. The board is rapidly
building new school structures and
opening annexes and additions to
overcome the necessity of halliday
classes, but as yet it has not caught
up to the increasing attendance.
Additions Being Built.
Al the Lafayette Street School it
viii be necessary to hold thirty-two
halliday classes. An addition is being
built to the school, which will be
ready for occupancy by February t.
The West Side School addition will
not be completed for two weeks. In
the meantime fourteen classes will
be on the half day schedule. At the
Oliver Street School. where another.
addition is being built, there will be
eight halliday classes.
The other schools running half day
schedules are as follows: Alexander
street, four classes; Ann street, six
classes; Fifteenth avenne. four
classes; Franklin, four classes; Gar
field, six classes; Madison, four
classes; Monmouth street, four
classes; Seventh avenue, six classes:
South Tenth street. two classes; Wal
rut street, two classes; Hawthorne,
six classes. Additions are also being
built at the Hawthorne and Garfield
schools.
An increase of approximately $50
students is anticipated in the en-
rollment of the various high schools.
1t is expected that Central High will
be overcrowded this year. while South
Side will be filed to capacity. Bar
ringers attendance is not expected
to increase materially. Tho East
Side High is expected to be filled for
the first time since it was built.
Newark will fare much better this
year than most cities in having but
four absent teachers at opening. A
large number of school teachers are
said to be still detained in Europe,
The New York Board of Education
has an especially large number of alb
sentees on account of the European
war.
Teachers Abroad.
The Newark teachers now held
abroad by the war are the Misses
Martha e. Smith, of Abingdon Ave-
nue. School; Elizabeth Harden, of
Barringer High; Marie Volts, Of
South Side High, and her sister, Helen
J. Wolfs, a substitute teacher. The
vacancies have all been filled by sub
stitutes.
A large number of substitute teach
ers were in the superintendent's office
today awaiting possible calls to SER
vice. There were also a large num-
Der of students with their parents ap-
plying for registration or transfers
from one district to another.
A revised form of study has been
adopted by the board for the elemen-
tary school grades. The details of
the new system have not as yet been
completed. The most radical
changes will occur in the instruction
of three. major subjects. arithmetic,
geography and history. The plan will
be put into effect next week after the
confusion attendant upon opening has
subsided.
Superintendent Poland has instruct
ed the principals that all illusions to
the European war must be neutral
and unbiased There is no objection.
he says. in alluding to the war or In
teaching pupils the exact geography
of the contesting countries, but all
instruction must be unbiased and i'm
partial
There will be conference of super
intendents. supervisors and principals
on Wednesday afternoon at the Girls
Industrial School, at Washington and
Linden streets. a revised course of
study and the Girls Industrial School
will be the topics of discussion.