Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-09-25
HIGH SCHOOL IS
BADLY CROWDED
BEAVER BOARD PARTITIONS PUT
INTO PROVIDE SUFFICIENT
CLASS ROOMS.
STORE ROOMS ALSO USED
FOR CLASS REGULATIONS
Increased Attendance Neeessitatss
Making More Glasses, With Poor Ae.
oommodations to Meet the Needs
Chairs Rented to Afford Seats For
PupiIs-Ward Buildings Crowded.

! Never before in the history of the
MarshaIltown high school have con-
ditions arisen TO tax the capacity of
, the building as are present this year.
! With the attendance in the high
school ESQ greater than the building is
supposed TO accommodate, it has be-
come necessary to utilize every inch
3 Of available space in the five floors OF
the big building. In order to provide
rooms have been divided by a parti-
ton Of beaver board, making two
small rooms out OF one large one.
/ Whether this arrangement can be -Oi-
| lowed during cold weather remains to
( De seen, for there is no heat in one OF
the two rooms so divided, and no VEN
tiIation excepting the direct opening
Of windows. Even rooms that were
Planned originally .for storage pur-
poses are being utilized as class rooms.
So large is the attendance in the
building, with its $50 or more pupils,
that every room must be occupied ev-
cry period in the day. When teach
er goes on duty in the study hall her
room Immediately is occupied by some
other teacher. No teacher any longer
is able TO refer TO her room," for the
simple reason that she hasn't any
loom. One teacher. in fact, occupies
five rooms in the course of day, and
does not hear classes in the same
room twice in a day.
Need More Rooms Than Are Availa Die.
Even with the maheshift arrange
ment OF dividing rooms in order to
provide accommodations for classes,
there are not enough rooms now fo-
the number of classes that should be
formed.
The ninth grade English is a good
. illustration. The North Central As
ISOLATION requires Of accredited high
schools that they shall not form class
es of more than thirty pupils. This is
specified in order TO insure that indi
vidual work may be done by teachers
when necessary, and is based on the
theory that If a teacher has more than
thirty pupils in her class she is not
able to do much personal work.
In ninth grade English there are five
classes at present, and only one'is be-
low the required standard for number.
This one has a membership of twenty
eight. In the other five one has forty
two, another thirty-six. one forty. and
the fifth forty-four. Miss Kathryn L.
Morgan, consulting principal, and at
present acting as principal in the alb
sence of Principal Shuey, Is now form
ing a sixth class, and dividing the
classes into thirty-two members each.
What Miss Morgan would like to do
would be to make seven classes, and
bring all Of them below the standard
Of thirty members. In making six
classes instead Of five, however, Miss
Morgan will have to give up her office
for a classroom, and If a seventh class
were formed there would be no place
for IL TO recite.
The creating Of new class calls for
a new teacher, and Mrs. o. H. Allbee
has been employed to take eighth
grade work. This will enable Mrs. J.
NJ. Whitaker, who Is doing substitute
eighth grade work, to take one OF the
ninth grade English classes. The
teaching force still is one short be-
Talbot, but It is expected that her place
will be filed soon.
Domestic Science Room Crowded.
Because there are so many girls in
the eighth grade who are taking do
nestle science, it has become necessary
| to make another class in this depart
ment. There are sixty pupils IN eighth
grade domestic science. with accom-
modattons for forty-four. or twenty
two In each class. A third class IS
being formed to take care OF the six
teen for whom there are no accommo-
dations in the regular classes, and an
other period will be devoted to the
work of this class.
Bring In Chairs For Pupils.
| For the opening periods, morning