The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1914-12-16
Students of Local
School Suffer For
Want of Room
Two Hundred Five Pupils in
Building Originally Planned
For One Hundred Fifty
LITTLE CHANCE OF
PROPER VENTILATION
Laboratories and Class Rooms
Taxed to Limit Students
damned" into Classes
(By H. L. Jordan.)

(By H. L. Jordan.)
Recently, at the banquet ten
dered the football team by the
business men, Supt. Brainard, in
making speech, remarked that
the school board was seriously
considering plans for new High
School building. It is therefore
necessary at this time to ac-
quaint the citizens of this COM
munity with the conditions
which demand new quarters for
high school students. This par
ticular article will attempt only
to visualize the over-crOwded
situation in the present build
ing.
The enrolment solar this year
totals two, hundred twenty-five.
Of this number twelve as Nor
NAL Students are at the Grade
Building. Counting off five more
who have been obliged to drop
out, there are left, two hundred
five pupils to dispose of. The
high school assembly room has
an original seating capacity of
one hundred fifty. Recitation
rooms and laboratories and the
Rventilating system were proper
tionally planned, on the same
basis. A little problem. of SUBJ
traction leaves the bigger prob
lem to the imagination as to the
accommodation of the present fiji
1ty-five extras.
Two Occupy Each Seat
This problem has necessitated
doubling up," seating two in a
seat. And by the way, these
seats are designed to contain
only one person of average high
school stature. A few weeks ago
under a plan conceived by Supt.
4 Brainard, two single rows OF
seats were crowded together
leaving available floor space to
introduce another double row OF
desks, twenty in number. 1t is
still necessary, in spite of this
inconvenient arrangement, to
put the remaining thirty-five
pupils in already occupied seats.
The high school students thus
crowded in the assembly room,
: must now be jammed into class
es. The maximum limit of class
! ! enrolment as suggested by the
: State Board of Education is thir-
ty pupils. Classes in Mathema-
tics and Sciences should have a
fewer number. Last year there
were forty-eight enrolled in one
section of Civics and the coming
semester like number promise
! to be in that course. Two Eng
lish classes with two divisions
each have respectively thirty
three, thirty-two, thirtv-one and
, twenty-eight pupils. A physics
! class enrolls thirty-six in only
,, one division, as likewise a chem
istry class has thirty-fve. Next
semester new teacher will help
: relieve the pressure on the pres
ent corps of instructors. But
more classes with division of
one course cannot obviate the
: need for more room.
Laboratories are Crowded
, In the chemistry laboratory
seventeen students have been
! forced into each of two sections,
whereas the laboratory can only
accommodate sixteen at a time.
The manual training department
: lis perhaps the most handicapped
! on account of it's cramped quar-
! tiers. With but one room avail
able for bench work, mechanical
drawing, for lumber and stor-
age of articles of furniture in
,, the course of construction, the
! boys in this department are OBJ
liged to take a great deal of
their work into the open hall in
:, the basement. Here most of the
assembling of parts is done, and
as well the finishing and var
nishing of articles. Not only is
the unavoidable crowding in this
hallway a great annoyance to
: teachers and pupils in the class
: rooms, but the necessary pass
ing and continual passing of stu
] dents is a intolerance to the
) manual training boys them
: selves.
II Consider the matter Of over