Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1916-01-28
SCHOOL BOARD PLANS
TO INCREASE ROOM
VIII Rent and Equip Rooms 10
Relieve Congestion Due to
Outside Pupils

The board of directors Of the Salem
school is in about the same fix as the
woman who lives in shoe and had so
many children she didn't know what to
do.
On account of the new state law
whereby outside districts may send
their advanced pupils to the Salem
schools by the payment Of tuition, the
enrolment of pupils has been increas-
ing faster than the accommodations,
especially in the higher grades.
The junior high schools have in
creased in attendance on account of the
vocational training, and this with those
coming from the outside, has crowded
the senior and junior high schools.
To avoid the necessity of sending
third and fourth grade pupils of the
junior high schools to the outlaying
schools and in order to make room for
the increasing attendance of the pupils
in the junior high schools, after the
problem was discussed from various
angles, it was decided as follows:
The ninth A grade of the Washing
ton junior high school will attend at
the senior high school and the building
committee was authorized to rent and
equip rooms near the Lincoln and Grant
JUNIOR high schools. 1t was made a
matter of record that these temporary
arrangements were made to meet the
present emergency.
According to this solution of the
problem, all third and fourth grade
pupils will attend at the same school
as during the last semester. By this
arrangement 107 pupils in the ninth A
grade Of the Washington school will at
tend the senior high, beginning next
Monday and arrangements made for "a
pupils of the Grant and SO of the Lin
coin to attend the same school as in the
past, but to take up part of their work
III rooms to be rented near their school.
The big problem facing the board of
directors is how to properly take care
ct the increasing enrolment of the
three Junior high schools and the senior
high, and not break into the organiza-
tion of the junior high school system
This could be done by sending many
third and fourth grade pupils to out
lying schools, but this plan is found OBJ
jectiOnable.
Portland faces this same trouble and
has solved it by the building of movable
school houses that can be rebuilt and
taken to that part of the city where
needed.
Director Lee, as well as the other
directors, feel that the new state law
is working an injustice to the Salem
schools by permitting pupils from out
side districts to enroll here and over.
crowd the junior highs and senior high
schools, but as the schools are now un.
der state law, nothing can be done
As 4 director, said, the interests of our
smaller children are Of more Importance
than the educating of those from the
outside.
Anyhow, as it was condition and
not theory that confronted the board
the ninth \ of the Washington school
will attend the senior high, and with
the renting of rooms near Grant and
Lincoln, the other ninth A grade pupils
VIII be taken care of, and the little ones
Will continue to attend the same school
as in the past semester.
And the big problem of how to handle
the increasing enrolment of the junior
schools ad seior high still confronts the
board.