Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1917-07-19
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Centralized High School At
Newstead With the High
School Department.

More than a year ago, atthe Church
Hill Grange sale, Supt. L. E. Foster
in a public address advocated a cen.
tralized school for that section of the
county. The suggestion was adopted
with enthusiasm and many influential
men and women Of that vicinity inn
mediately began to work on the prop
osition. ,,4
The first thing to be settled was
the location Of the building. 1t seemed
at first that Church Hill was the logi-
cal point, but upon investigation,
Newstead proved to be the better To-
cation and accessible to more pupils,
therefore, the committee, cooperating
with the county board of education,
decided to place the building just this
side Of the Newstead store, on the
corner of W. H. Boyd's farm. The
site for the school is on the right
hand side of the road, just beyond
DIR. Caudle's residence.
The Newstead school house now
being used by the white people is
about one-haIf mile below the New
stead store. and it has also been
agreed upon to turn over this house
to the colored people; who are badly
in need of a new school building,
and bring the Newstead white school
to this centralized school site.
In order to do this the Christian |
County Board of Education contribu-
ted 81 900 approximately the price of |
a new scheoD and the district by |
popular subscription has contributed !
a little over $500 to this new
school. The new building will cost |
approximately 81, 500 One room will
be used for the present common
school. one for the 9TH and 9Th grades
from the adjacent schools, and one
room for the high school. There will
be library room, which can also be
used for class room. The building
will consist of four rooms in addition
to the cloak rooms.
This building will be modern in ev-
cry way and will be equipped with
furnace heat 1t will be ready for oc-
cupancy by the first week in Septem-
Der.
The High School feature will be for
pupils of Educational Division No.
5 and, as stated above, the 9TH and
9Th. Grades from the adjacent dis
trictS or from any part of Division
No. 5 will have the privilege of at
this school. The reason for
this new departure in education is OBJ
vious. The pupils in the 7th and 9Th
Grades in any of the small sub-dis-
trict schools rarely ever exceed four
or five pupils, and by bringing them
together in this manner, a large class
can be organized with a view to spe-
cial preparation for High School {
work. This will relieve the teachers
in the above mentioned schools of the
extra burden of teaching these few i
pupils; consequently, allowing more '
ime to the primary department, il
which contains the bulk Of the pupils. G
This will not in any way diminish the b
alaries of the teachers in the smaller U
schools, but will merely give them a
more time for the lower grades. +
The High School course will be on il
two years in length at first. There C
will be three teachers at this school o
he first year. Mr.. Lowe G. johnson b
will be principal and will have charge S
4 the 9TH and Sth grades and the Il
iigh School work, and Miss Rosa s.
Iourse will have charge of the grades, b
SISTED by the music teacher, who /
as not yet been selected. II
The patrons of that section are 9
cry enthusiastic over the PROPOSE g
on and have borne the larger part n
the expense Of the enterprise. AS q
lated above, it is anew venture, but o
ose back Of it will be followed in p
Their sections of the county. 5,