St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1916-04-15

the woods. Therefore. Mr.. Wills
and l assumed the responsibility o.
selling the hut for Just what the
boards were worth, and the pro-
ceeds have been placed to the credit
Of the fund being collected by the
sale Of the storm timber on this sec
ton.
6lidell High School.
Idesire to present as a-par. Of this
report the letter from Prof. II. U
Baker Of tho 6ltdell- high school.
You will see that It gives the needs
| of that school. Now II the general
fund only runs. the schools four Of
ave months next year, this school
| will not be able to- run over six OF
| seven months, This Is because the
District No. ., special fund will only
| run the schools of that ward about
two months. As this is = ward tai
it belongs to oil OF the schools Of the
ward. ] realize that you cannot
remedy this today, but the actual
conditions of the finances must be
! thoroughly discussed 90 that the peo-
| pie OF the parish fully understand
| the conditions before they can dec.ls
what to do In the matter.
Mr.. bakers Letter.
Slidell, La. April j. 1916.
Supt. h. n. Lyon. Covington. LA.
Dear Mr.. Lyoh:-As the year
lyIo-l6 draws near to q Close W. 'Al
20 outline q few absolutely necesss., Z,
additions for our school. Our
rollment is increasing SO rapidly that
il the present rate is to be mama n
ed. the problem Of housing the va
rious grades will soon be very d.
cult of solution. Two additional
rooms have been seated this session
and every room 10 now In use.
1t is highly probable that the en-
rollment next session will compel the
division of the auditorium into class
rooms. Further than that. the
school plant will be outgr0wn within
three years. The two teachers add
ed this session are barely sufficient
to care for the added number OF Du-
pills. At present the second and fifth
grade rooms are overcrowded.
A reason for the conditions obtain
inx this year may be found in COM
parison Of statistics for this year
over those Of last year. Our total
enrolment last year was 42S. This
year it has already reached 4S4 and
promises to 60 to 500 before the ses-
sion's end. Our average enrolment
from monthsto month and our pres
emit attendance are practically the
Same as the total for the past year.
Next session the high school de-
partment will have to be enlarged.
There are three graduates to leave
the school and . class OF 30 seventh
grade pupils ready to come into the
high school department. A few OF
these children may drop out after
completing the seventh, grade but an
approximate increase OF 20 pupils
win overcrowd the two assembly
rooms now available. Unless We can
enlarge the seating facilities for the
pupils of high school grade to handle
more of them in some one room. an
added teacher will be required.
A suggestion that would greatly
help the solution Of our problem is
that We take out the partitions be-
tween two of the largest rooms on
the third door. This will make one
large assembly room adequate to
handle IS pupils comfortably. This
solution would. take care Of probable
increases In the high school enroll
ment for the next two or three years,
in all probability.
The high school laboratory must
be re-equipped before the opening OF
next session. No laboratory science
was attempted this year on account
Of the lack Of equipment.
To meet the demands Of the state
course Of study it will be absolutely
necessary to offer such work next
session to double classes. For this
purpose we have the $50 appropriate
ed by the State Board Of Education
for such purposes and shall probably
have an equal amount next session
for the same purpose. At the be-
ginning OF this session a careful ex-
animation OF the stock on hand show
ed quite conclusively that 1t was al.
most without value. The expensive
pieces were almost all broken and
great deal of the material had been
lost or destroyed. This was due
largely to the failure to provide 3
suitable place to keep such material.
A corner OF q cloak room is no suit
able place to store 5000 worth OF
fragile scientific apparatus. We
shall need cupboards and apparatus
both.
For the further equipment of this
enlarged room. we shall need q cloak |
room, two additional radiators and |
four pieces of four-foot Hypolite
blackboard. These changes are quite
extensive but are necessary and wi.
leave the high school department
quite we'll provided for. Further |
they will reduce further changes
that department for the next sever
years to very small importance
For the grades we need a nh.
tude OF things but the most press,i
needs and needs that have to De $
'sfied before school opens in Senior
Der are added equipment for the tw
rooms hastily prepared during ~
Two ceiling radiators a.
needed for each of the two from
rooms on the first door. The from
room at the west side of the build
ing needs cloak room and alse
Tour pieces Of Hypolite blackboard
This room was fitted so hastily a.
The middle Of the session that 1t die
lates under the present conditions.
Now. moro than this. We are oweing
It'll the $500 and more for the J
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