The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1915-04-29
What will Yes d With Oar Sehssl
Balldlng!
Mr.. X. J. Dobell,

BalDdlsg!
Mr.. X. J. Dobell,
Dear Sir:
l have read all the articles in your
paper regarding the school problem
vt more room. am heartily in favor
OF giving the very best Accommodations
snd advantages TO schoo! children, cs
l fully realize from parental stand
point the school and home must work
in harmony to emulate and advance
the child's future.
II school conditions are poor and
home conditions are good the result
IL unsatisfactory; but II the conditions
in both school and home are the best
We can make them, then the child has
tn excellent incentive to put forth it,
strongest effort.
We all know our public school bull
ding has served its purpose, 1t has paid
for itself In the work 1t was destined
to 90, and has outgrOwn its usefulness
But we must not lose sight of the fact
that in contemplating an addition to
the old building we run up against
problems requiring thought and de-
liberate consideration.
A building erected twenty years ago
and built to answer the requirements
of that day has become so obsolete for
the present day needs that 1t would
require q great expense of money to
make 1t correspond with an addition
with modern equipment. am unable
% see how the two could be made to
conform as the expense of remodel
ling the old would be patchwork af-
yair and not many years hence would
outgrow its usefulness and the same
difficulty again arises and a worse
puzzle to unravel than the present one
II the addition is built the furnace
will need remodeling and undoubtedly
an entire new outfit installed as it
is taxed to the fullest capacity ut pres
ent l would judge this alone would
consume thousand dollars or more,
and then an improvement OF sanitary
conditions is difficult and unless they
could be brought into proficiency e.
quail to the new addition the remedy
for the evil is again lost
Instead Of patching up the old build
ing and building an addition and not
having anything for the money expend-
&c. would think it would be better
and more creditable to the town and
community and conform to our church.
es and High School buildings to either
wait awhile longer or make present
endeavor to build modern up-to-date
structure, than to spend more money
on the old out of date affair and then
have nothing worthy to commend.
All the old material stone, lum-
ber etc, could be torn down and used
i,f the new in a satisfactory manner in
a modern, attractive and beautiful edi-
fee
II we wait awhile longer should the
patrons choose to do so the school can
be arranged in the coming term to
Lessen the present complaints. The
children residing in the western por-
sion of the district could be conveyed
to and from the city school, abandon
the Vernon school and move that bull
ding into town to be used for either
the 9TH and Sth grades or to any ad-
vantage to facilitate the present re-
quirements.
Again the 7th and Sth Grades could
be moved to one of the lower floors,
and give the principal better posi-
ton to keep in closer touch with the
other rooms The garret, attic or what
ever it might be termed could be used
for the 4th and 5th grades, and put
the children of our brethren across the
deep in the same place they are with
more ventilation, or let them use the
moved in school house and open all
the windows so the breeze can play a
mong their locks.
Let us all reason together and if we
builA build something worthy of the
name a school building implies.
Yours very truly.
R. E. Barrett.
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