Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1919-02-14

was erected the science of school
house building, with adequate lighting
and ventilating provisions, WIS little
known, and while The school authori-
ties have done their best TO modernize
the building by adding windows, pro-
yiding fans to improve the ventilation.
and so forth, to make the building lab
table. the time has arrived wIen the
structure has grown to be absolutely
inadequate, so far at least as one-half
of the rooms are concerned. for the
| school population as it now exists.
The building is overcrowded in nearly
all the grades, and rooms which were
practical for 80 10 35 pupils are en-
! tirely inadequate for 45 so far as fresh
air and light are concerned.
To remedy the existing evil (and we
must face the fact that we have a
badly lighted and poorly ventilated
building in which cur children are
housed) the Council has passed a bond
issue by means of which $4,000 is to
be raised to erect a new grade build
ing on the site north of the High
| School, and it is hoped that the sum
provided will be adequate to erect a
building which will be credit to the
community and one to which our citi-
zens may point with pride as an ade-
quate structure both from architectu-
raj and unitarian poins of view, altho
the amount is much less than many of
our neighboring cities and villages are
spending for the same purpose. This
| is to be the first unit of building on
this site, but, before it is added to, it
is likely that additional schools will
be required and erected in the north
east, and possibly in the southwest
corners of the city The program of
the Board of Education is planned for
long time ahead, and if these plans
are carried out by the successors of
the present board the school popula-
tion will be taken care of in a manner
that should give universal satisfaction.
The desire of the Board is to pro-
vide buildings as the requirements de-
| velop, which will be conveniently loca-
ted in every populated center of Wau-
watosa, without regard to Ward lines !;
to make additional buildings access
ible to the greatest number of the
smaller children in each locality,
while the children of seventh and
eighth grade ages attend the Central
| school, with perhaps a readjustment
of the school organization by the for
nation of Junior High School in
which the 7th, Sth and 9th grades will
be incorporated as one unit; the pri.
mary school carrying the children
from the kindergarten through the
sixth grade, while the High School will
/ take care of the 10th. 18th and 18th
grades, or the Junior. Sophomore and
Senior classes as they are popularity
called
The Junior High School idea is be
| ing generally accepted as the logical
plan to follow if we are to get the
most out of the school services rem
dered. That the city school of Mil
waukee are working toward this plan
is evidenced by the fact. that the two
upper grades of the grammar schools
i are doing departmental work along
/ the lines that have been followed in
our own city for the past several
years; our 18th and Sth grades being
| housed in rooms formerly used fol
High School assembly in the Central
| Grade building, with three teachers in
charge; recitations being conducted
in the adjoining recitation rooms.
The proposed new eight-room build
ing VIII not entirely relieve the situa
ton, but will make it possible to aban
don several of the most undesirable Of
the rGorls in the old building, giving
| the children of Wauwatosa more
nearly the advantages enjoyed by
children in other communities where
safe and sanitary buildings are pro
vided for school purposes.
1t is my humble suggestion that we
all get together and demand of the
school board and the city fathers thai
the best grade school that can be built
be erected in our little city. There is
nothing more important than light
sanitary school rooms for the develop
ment of the children of our commu
nifty, ana there is nothing too good fol
| the teVs and girls of WauwatOSa.