French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1916-1919, 1917-02-22
THE NECESSITY FOR
HIGH SCHOOL BUILDING

(Member Committee Education wo
mans Club
10 the Editor of The Hustler:
While there is SO much considera.
ton of the Hendersonville High School
we Will do well to know at this time
why IL is necessary to have a BUILDING
III winch 10 mouse this branch of our
teachers. P'''
The demand for this building comes
not alone for his accommodation. but
must be met for the relief of the pri-
mary and grammer grades as well.
Inc elimination of the high school pu-
itplls from the present building would
release three class rooms and the
chapel. The last could be converted
into two class rooms, making fifteen
altogether.
II our school is to come UP to stand
ard, we must have only thirty pupils
to the teacher. Dividing the present
enrolment of four hundred and twen-
" IN the elementary grades by thirty.
we get fourteen, leaving only one ex-
ira room to take care Of the natural
increase of this age outside that
should be in school. or the extra room
required by special teachers for back
ward children.
Ihere are many reasons why teach
ers cannot get good results from chill
dren in crowded grades. Many of
our states in recognition of this, have
tnelr school buildings regulated by
law. New Jersey for instance. re-
qu1res that each child have no less
than eighteen square feet floor space.
AT present, the children in our school
nave an average of ten. The same
state also requires each child to have |
two hundred cubic feet of air sDaca |
and thirty cubic feet of it changed i
each minute.
Anything approaching this is entire. |
Iy impossible in our present schools.
with thousands of people all over the
country coming here at all seasons of !
the year to breathe the best air in the /
world, 1t does seem a pity to deny it's Il
proper use to our children.
with none but the younger boys and II
girls to care for in this building, there 4
Gould, with no great expense. be ar
ranged ire proof perfectly ventilat-
ed basement where on rainy or very
cold days, the much needed exercise II
md recreation could always be had.
OVercroWding or / might say lust
providing has the same effect on chill
iren as it has on any other living or
san1sm. The best development can
lever be reached in any case. Be-
1des physical and mental lassitude in
school children, a tendency toward
'1c1ated morals always exists. Even
'roWn people crowding and iostlinr1
ach other loose the dignity and an
omb that otherwise belong to them.
low can we expect children to &C.
u1re good manners, remember home
raining or keep the rules laid. down
y tnougntful and painstaking teach
rs?
When we walk into spacious build-
ng the very loftiness of which gives
8 the sensation of our infintismal size
ct In some mysterious way superb
r1ty, we are even then conscious of a
urious sense of responsibility, an nm
onsc1ous marshaling of our forces tn
leasure up TO the physical largeness
Dout US. Inc same physiological b
lW shows itself in the effect on chill
rem IN a greater degree with less oh r;
9ctlVe FORCES to arouse it. The re- W
erse is also true. O.
A good farmer will not store awav CT
is wheat into too large heaps for W
'ar of spelling. Ali cattle men know al
lie evils of crowding cattle too close a
| cars. Can't we look after our hui tt
ian products with equal carefuIness bl
) the farmer or cattle man his mon v;
Ted productions? hi
AS for the proposed building, if we m
We the course in any way approach So
e that of our best schools, we will al
eed as much more room as we al m
lady have not to mention the advisa- Iy