Perth Amboy evening news., 1918-06-27
SCHOOLS CLOSE
TOMORROW A. NJ.
Vacation lasts Till September
4--PIan for New Building
to Accommodate Scholars


All of the public schools of the city
will close tomorrow for the usual
summer vacation Of more than two
months.
Examinations have been completed
in the schools and the pupils will be
informed tomorrow of their final
standing for the year and whether or
not they will be promoted. The ses-
sions tomorrow morning will close al
HAS o'clock
Schools will reopen for the 191S-19
term on Wednesday morning, Sep
tember i. BY opening in the middle
of the week pupils may be assigne ed
to their classes and given their books
so that by Monday. September they
will be in a position to start routine
work.
When the schools open next fall the
German language will be a thing OF
the past as far as the local High
School Is concerned. The Board OF
Education has decided to discontinue
the study of German here from to-
morrow henceforth and substitute
Spanish.
The doing away with German will
necessitate the hiring of more teach
ers to give instruction in Spanish.
There is a scarcity of Spanish tnstruc-
tors in this country owing to the
great demand now that so many cities
have taken action similar to that Of
Perth Amboy in doing away with Ger
man.
The new wage schedules, decided
upon by the Board OF Education sew
eral weeks ago, giving oil Of the
teachers and principals an increase in
salary, will go into effect with the re-
opening of schools in September.
During the summer some minor
repairs will be made to few Of the
schools and further plans will be
made by the school board for the
building of a new school on the prop
erty purchased for this purpose In
Hall avenue. Tentative plans for
such a building will probably be
placed before the board In a few
weeks by the architects and definite
action be taken as to whether or not
to start building preparations imme-
diately.
There are attending the public
schools of this city at the present
time about 1900 pupils, about evenly
divided as to sex. The number is in
creasing greatly annually and the in
crease in building accommodations
has not been sufficient to keep pace
with this rapid increase in attendance.
In order to do away with any con-
gtsSLlOl III InS SchOOlS TIE
commend cement of work to build A
large school in the northwestern sec
tion of the city is advocated and 1t Is
probable that this work will be got
ten under way shortly.
The school board has hesitated In
building q new school because of the
enormous expense at the present
time attached to the securing of ma
terials and labor. 1t has realized,
however that the children wishing ad-
mittance must be accommodated and
has decided to get tentative drawings
for the erection OF a new building.
Assigned to Places
The grammar students were taken
to the high school this morning.
Amt 1t grand" and Gee. I'm glad 1
passed." could be heard on all sides.
The new freshmen were gathered in
the impressive auditorium. The d.
plomas were given out over at the
grammar school and the scholars
gathered at the high school for first
instructions from their new principal.
Mr.. Kleinhans made a short welcom-
ing speech. He told them to report
tomorrow at 9 o'clock.