Newark post. (Newark, Del.) 1910-1969, 1918-10-30
Public Schools
Resume Work
Attendance in Grades Nearly
Normal
Crowded Conditions in
Some Departments
Reported

The public schools opened on
Monday after having been closed
for about a month because of the
"flu" ban. The teachers, however,
recalled the previous week, have
been busy since Wednesday taking
the school census requested by the
State Council of Defense and the
United States Bureau of Educa-
! tion.
Two of the teachers, Miss
Frances Medill and Miss Penning-
ton, failed to report because of i'll
ness. Mrs. Wilmer Hill is substi-
tuting for Miss Medill, but no sub
'stitute could be secured for Miss
,Pennington's room. On Monday
several grades were combined to
provide for her pupils but on
Tuesday they were dismissed be-
cause lit was Thought best not to
Inconvenience several grades and
demoralize to a certain extent
their work i'm an attempt Ito keep
all of the pupils i'm school. Miss
Pennington is expected to return
the last of the week.
7 The aftermath of the epidemic
is felt to some extent in the lower
grades in decreased attendance
but makes little or no difference in
the upper grades where attendance
lis about normal. A few of the
older pupils who had secured en-
ployment during the enforced va
cation have not yet reported but
will probably report the last of the
week. Z.
The seventh and eighth grades
are very much overcrowded both
in the regular grades and in the
Overflow"
/ 1t was ordered that all pupils
Who had influenza in their homes
should be dismissed. Only one
such case reported, the others in
whose homes sickness existed hav-
ing failed to re-enter.
Mrs. F. B. Hays has been added
to the High School force and as
,sumed her duties On Monday. She
J is teaching Physics, Biology, and
English.
During the enforced vacation, a
conference was held with the Edu-
cation Department at Women's
College relative to practice teach
ing by students in the Education
courses. According to the plan the
college pays to the Board of Edu-
cation $2100 to help defray the
expenses of a critic teacher for the
year in each of the departments
Miss Miller is critic teacher fol
the primary department, and Miss
Snyder for the grammar depart.
ment. The critic teacher for the
, high school department has moi
yet been secured.
! The work of organization anc
t kschedule arrangement had not
1 been completed when the schools
: were ordered closed. Now, how.
ever, things are rapidly being put
t in good running order and the out
E look lis good for a successful
D school year.
! No plans have yet been formu
' lated for making up the work lost
but it seems probable that thi;
may be done by intensive appIica
tion in the remaining time, provid
ing there is no return Of the epi
!. denlic. State Commissioner o1
j Education Spaid on Friday drew
! attention to the fact that those af.
flicted were in most cases between
j the ages of 20 and 40. Very few
! school children contracted the dis
ease, he said, and were it not fol
the sickness among the Older folk
| and the additional burden placed
! upon mothers in keeping the chill.
] dren in school it would not have
i been necessary to close the schools
| at all. He stated that New York
had realized the apparent immun
lity of children and had not closed
! the schools.