Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-28
SCHOOL MACHINERY READY @
FOR OPENING SEPTEMBER e
Parents Urged to Enroll Children Early-Many Pupils VII
Be Placed on Part Time

Wheels of the public school system are
all oiled and administrative officers are
scheduled to be back on the job Tuesday
to set them in motion. BY the time the
thousands of school children sit down to
their desks September s these same
wheels will be whiriing just as though
there had never been such thing as
summer vacation.
DR.. John L. CARRIER, superintendent
of schools; the four associate superin-
tendents, Secretary William Dick and
the members of the clerical force will
be on duty at the administration build
ing, Nineteenth and Market streets,
Tuesday morning. Principals with their
assistants will be at their desks in the
245 schools of the city beginning Thurs
day morning, September 4, to accept
early registrations. Parents are being
urged to enroll their children carly to
avoid the congestion usual on the open
ing day.
Everything is set, said DR.. Oliver
4 wi hSNpNiuNt super
today. 'and there isn't anything to keep
300 900 children from getting out their
books for actual study September S.
While most of,the mothers wait till that
morning to enroll their children. we
have things so systematized that it is
merely matter of taking the names.
Those children who were in school last
year know exactly where to go this
fall. BY 10 o'clock the opening morning
you may enter any room. l dare say,
and find classes in session as though
there had been no break in the work.
The first month is usually the easiest
of the year, because the children are
glad to get back and pay attention to
school work.
5000 More to Register
"Of course. VIC do not expect our full
enrolment in September. There are al
ways a number of the children who re-
main at the shore or some summer re-
sort until October, and there are others
who continue summer work till then.
And the truant officer has busy month
looking up delinQuents who ought TO be
in school and aren't. We cannot tell
exactly, but we estimate we will have
the normal increase in number of pupils
this year: that is. about 5000 more than
last year, including both high and Gle
mcntary schools.
THE supply of teachers will. be-
lieve, be far better this fall than last. !
think the graduates from our normal
schools and the additional teachers who
pass the fall examinations will fill all
our vacancies on the regular teaching
force. but there probably will be a
shortage of substitutes.
Last year, besides the 20 900 children
regularly on part time, due to lack Of
school buildings, we had an average Of
1000 on part time attendance because
of a shortage of substitute teachers.
With $500 teachers We can. count on
40 being absent each day on account
of illness. We didn't have substitutes
enough to supply these places last year
and the regular teachers had to keep
their own classes and take the Students
left teacherless as well. Unless there is
a better supply of substitutes this year
we will again have this problem to face.
The substitutes salary is not affected by
the state law concerning teachers sal
AIRY increases and is entirely up to the
Board Of Education. 1t was increased
last year, however. to So a day. which
was virtually the same as the lower
grade regular teachers
DR.. George w. Founders. director of
examinations and eligible lists, is pre- .
pairing for the fall examinations. No
exact dates have been set as yet. but it
is believed teachers examinations will
be held in October
During the entire first week of school
the pupils will be dismissed at noon each
day. The curriculum in the elementary
schools will be virtually the same as
last year and there are few changes in
books. Geography and history books
will be brought up to date in some Of
the grades. DR.. George Wheeler and
members Of the higher schools commit
tee hope to make the high school cur