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
"Jammed' 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 a speech, remarked that
the school board was seriously
considering plans for a 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. B
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
lventilating 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
|ty-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.
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 damned into class
es. The maximum limit Of class
enrolment as suggested by the
State Board Of Education is thir-
ty pupils. Classes in Maizena,
tics and Sciences should have a
fewer number. Last year there
were forty-eight enrolled in one
section Of Civics and the coming
semester a 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-five. Next
semester a new teacher will help
relieve the pressure on the pres
ent corps of instructors. But
more classes with a 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 time.
The manual training department
Il us 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