The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1914-04-23
WANT NEW OPEN AIR SCHOOL
High School Proposition Bobs up Ser
eneiy at First Meeting of the New
Board and People Will Be Educated
to the Demand of the Children.

The Gary plan for meeting
crowded conditions Of city schools
came up for prominent discussion be-
fore the members of the Kenosha board
OF education at the first meeting of
the new board on Tuesday evening and
the question of continuous use of the
school buildings met with lot of in
terest from the members Of the board
Worn out by the constant demand up
on them for the building Of new build
lngs. The suggestion was made that
the plan of holding all day school SEES
slons be adopted in Kenosha and the
matter is now under investigation by
the teacher IS committee.
superintendent Mary D. Bradford
addressed the board in regard to the
system so successfully used at Gary
and declared that in this manner the
greatest possible service could be Sc
cured from the school plants, but she
urged the necessity of providing play
grounds for the children for use at
such times as they were not engaged
in the school room. She reviewed the
history of the Gary movement and
showed that vast sum Of money had
been expended there to make possible
this new use of the school buildings
At Gary three sessions of school are
held every day, the first session begin
n'~s : half past seven 0 oil II the
morning a"d the last one ending at
half past five in the evening. The same
school is used for the education of
three sets of pupils during the day, but
the idle time of the children is taken
up with systematized play on play
grounds owned by the city. Mrs.
Bradford declared that the change
would hardly be possible in .Kenosha
under the present conditions.
A considerable time was spent in the
discussion of plans for buildings in
kenosha. Commissioner Newman
brought up the question of the propos-
ed new high school and insisted that
immediate action should be taken by
the board to meet this demand in Ke-
nosha. He held that the board must
educate the people to understand the
need OF the new building and that the
matter must be kept constantly in
mind. There was strong protest
made against the condition of the open
air school at the Balm building and
the building and grounds committee of
the board was urged to take steps to
secure site and provide for the cree
ton Of some building which can be
used as home for this school. The
members of the board held that it
should be located somewhere where the
sickly children would not be forced TO
mingle with other children of the
schools.
Demand was made for more room at
the Columbus school and the board
without division directed the erection
OF another portable building on the
grounds with the understanding that it
VIII be completed and ready for oc-
cupancy by the time the lew school
year is opened. This is the third of
the portable buildings to be erected on
the Columbus school grounds.
The board elected Kenneth East
man of the Kenosha high schoo, as
taker of the school censue for the year
and the work will be started just IS
soon as. the regular term of the school
ends.
The board gave its sanction to a
" High School Sea" which has been
by the editors of "'The Spy"
the high school paper and this seal will
in the future be the official mark of
the school.
The members of the board accepted
an invitation to attend progressive
dinner to be given by the students in
cooking in the schools. The guests
will begin eating at the Weiskopf
school and the other courses of the
dinner will be served at the high school,
Frank and Deming schools. This in
teresting meal is to be served on next
Wednesday evening.