Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-09-05
JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL
SYSTEM |NAUCURATED
Advanced Educational Plans Out
lined by School Board for
This Session.
EXPECT LARGE ENROLMENT
Handsome New Schoolhouscs Arc to
BE Opened This Session. Greatly
Relieving Congestion in Various
Sections of City.

lie opened ms session. Greatly
Relieving Congestion in Various
Sections of City.
Nearly 10000 bows and girls will put
behind them three months of pleasure
and recreation and return 10 their
books in Richmond's public schools
next week.
Practically all details incident to this
event have been completed by DR.. j.
A {. Chandler. Superintendent OF
Schools. and his corps of assistants. A.
III. Hill, X. j. iioke ana c. Il. Walford.
Tomorrow night ono week.. Septcm-
Der Is. the usual teachers meeting will
be held ut the John Marshall High
School, and this preliminary will usher
in the 1915-l6 session. on Tuesday the
enrolment of pupils will begin. and
before the end of the week all of the
scholars will bc hard at work With
their lessons
This season will mark the Inaugural
ton Of new system. which will bring
the elementary schools into closer rela-
ton with the High School. a goal at
which DR.. Chandler and members Of
the School Board have been aiming for
long while To achieve this end,
three Junior high schools" will he put
into full operation. The cambridge
Street school. South Richmond. will not
he ready for occupancy until about
October 10.
BINFORD JUNIOR HIGH
PRIDE OF SCHOOL BOARD
The former Manchester High school
now known as the Powhatan School
will become the Bainhridge Junior
High School, while the new structure
which Will be model in every way
costing S1o4, 900. just four blocks away
Will be known as the Bainbridgc Street
school.
Bellevue School, Twenty-fourth and
Grace Streets, this year will become
the Bellevue Junior High School. 1t
is practically new building, and one
of the finest in the city's chain of cdu-
cational institutions.
But the Binford Junior High School
Floyd and Allen Avenues, is the new
pride of tho School Board. The COM
ing session will mark its occupancy for
the first time
Like the other three junior high
schools, ii will include big audi
torium. which may be used by parents
rs social center and by mothers
clubs and kindred organizations as Il
place of meeting.
The Binford school is unique in the
fact that there is not step in IT,
concoursc reaches from the basement
TO the roof. This is an inclined walk
way, which will greatly facilitate the
exit Of pupils in case OF emergency
Another feature Will be the location
of the gymnasium on the roof and
there will also he n roof garden for
-..cho DOL entertainments and frolics .,
An innovation here Will be- fully
equipped restaurant and lunch counter
where pupils may procure their midday
bite at exceptionally small cost The
feature OF serving lunches was started
last year at the Bellevue School and
proved a great success. although that
Institution did not have an equipped
buffet.
The inauguration of tho Junior high
system will supply n long felt want.
The courses will be three years each.
The last year will include exactly the
same <studAes as embraced in the first
yea1 of study at the High School
PROPER. This will aid greatly in re-
ii/vnr congestion at the John Mar
~hall School.
Aside from the required subjects the
Junior schools will have a largo variety
of elective subjects from which the
individual scholar will be allowed TO
pick those TO which he feels inclined.
Thu Binford school viii embrace.
with notifications and additions tho
work OF the lasi Two years of the clc-
mentary SCHOOLS and the first year of
the High School. Its purpose is three
fold: To meet the varying mental
capacities and economic needs of the
pupils by allowing a greater latitude in
the selection OF courses: to enable
pupils TO select their LIES work more
intelligently by Offering several types
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