The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1916-01-13
PUT CHILDREN ON HALF time
Program for Second Semester of School
Year Will Force Children at Two
Schools to Divide Time for the
Rest of the Year.

Peace is to rule between the board
of education and the common council
as at the meeting of the school board
on Tuesday evening the resolution to
stand patti on tn demands made by
the board on the council for the 1916
budget was voted down by vote of
eight to six. No effort will be made
on behalf of the board to force the
hand of the council, but on the other
hand the peace loving members of the
board will seek closer cooperation
between the council and the governing
body of the schools. Some of the bell
cose members of the board were anxi-
Gus to put to the test the right of the
ed in the budget from the school board
but when it came to test the men
favorable to court actions if neces-
sary lost.
President Threinen stated the feel
ing of the whole board when he said:
owe will make an effort to get along
with the money the council has allotted
to the school board. At any rate we
will try to make this money go just
as far as possible. IF we find that it
is impossible FIR the board to main
tain the schools with the amount that
has been furnished to us we shall go
to the council later and state the
actual needs of the board and we be-
lieve that when such statement is
laid before the council that the alder
men will be willing to meet us half
way and provide for such actual ex-
penditures as we may have"
The action of the board is a real
showing of discretion as the better
part of valor. With the plan that is
now outlined it is certain that the
members of the council will be willing
to take up matters with the school
board and that there will be no lack
of financial support for the schools
when the actual need of it is shown.
Tt is also expected that the defeat of
the resolution will bring much bet
ter feeling between the members of
the school board and the council
People must get ready for "half
time" school sessions during the last
semester of the school year. The
schedule for the semester was placed
before the board at the meeting last
night and this shows that in both the
Columbus and Weiskopf schools for
the remainder of the year the children
will have to divide time. One humid
red and sixteen children in the first
grade at the Columbus school will be
affected and sixty-one in the Weis-
kopf school With the opening of the
new Lincoln school in September of
this year it will be possible to provide
full. tine for all of these children, but
they will have to divide time until the
new building is completed. There
seems to be no possible plan by which
full time can be provided for all Of
the children. in these schools. The
board voted to abandon the school
which has been maintained at the
German Methodist church because the
few pupils there did not warrant the
expense of maintaining the school
The children who have been attend
ing school at the church will be
taken care of at the Durkee and Weis-
kopf buildings.
The members of the board did the
gracious thing when they passed by
unanimous vote recognition of the
report of the schools just issued. The
report was prepared by superintendent
Mary D. Bradford and it has elected
much commentator from people in
terested in the schools and from school
officials in other cities.