The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1916-08-31
SCHOOL STARTS in
SPITE OF HEAT
Exceptionally Large Enrolment
Considering High Tempera-
lures of Past Week

Notwithstanding the heat the open
ing day of school showed record en-
rollment in high school and everyone
of the grade rooms, several of the
latter being crowded to capacity the
first day of school. There are nearly
sixty first primary children spending
their first days of school life under
the tutelage of Miss Morgan and Miss
Jorgensen, while the second grade un-
der Miss Brown had forty-four en-
trans the first day of school. The
third grade is full with thirty-seven
pupils, while the fourth and fifth B
grades have 38 each. Miss Pinkerton
has a mixed grade with thirty-four
children in it and the fifth A and sixth
B, under Mrs. Bone has thirty-eight
pupils with one or more entering each
day. Undoubtedly there will be a
larger enrolment in all the grades as
soon as the excessively hot weather
moderates.
In the advanced grades in the high
school building there is also a heavy
enrolment, each of the three grades
there being close to the forty mark,
with possibly additional entries during
the second week Of school. The high
school enrolment the opening day was
one hundred twenty-seven and there
have been a number Of additional en-
tries since that time. The indications
are that that the one hundred fifty
mark will shortly be reached in the
high school as there are number of
advanced classmen who have not re-
turned from the harvest fields yet.
The weather has interfered with
school work to marked degree, some
of the rooms in each building on the
sunny side of the building registering
90 and 81 degrees each day. The fans
are kept running constantly but can
hardly oppose old Sol successfully.
Notwithstanding the hot weather,
however, programs were arranged the
second day in each building and have
been moving smoothly since. The de-
partment system will not be started
in the advanced grades until the first
of the coming week, the work mean
time being handled in each room by
the teacher in charge of the room.
The recesses have been heightened
at the Washington building during the
hot weather and recesses have been
granted at the high school building,
which precautions, together with dis
missal quarter of an hour early at
each building, make possible the hold
ing Of school without any great hard
ship upon the children.
In the high school the advanced
courses in commercial work have full
enrollments, the same being true for
third-year work in domestic science.
Mathematics and English classes in
the first three years Of the high course
have reached such numbers that they
have to be taught In two DIVISIONS, 1t
being held impracticable to do justice
to the pupils when class in English
or mathematics reaches as high as
thirty-six or above. There are nearly
sixty registerd in freshman algebra,
while the English enrolment for the
first year student is not far below
that mark.
The great improvement in the ap-
pearance of the high school yard is
appreciated by the students, several
hundred of them seeking seats on the
grass on the shady side of the lawn
during recess periods. The contribu-
lions made by the business men las.
spring together with yte expenditures
by the board in the work of improving
the high school grounds have borne
good fruit.