Norwich bulletin., 1919-09-24
RECOMMENDS NEW HIGH
 SCHOOL FOR PlAINFlEID

SCHOOL FOR PLAINFlELD
 Everyone recognizes the need for a new high school building and it is rlcc- cessary that immediate steps be taken to start the movement for securing one, says J. L. Chapman. superinrend- ent ot schools of the town of Piainfield in his fourteenth annual report to the Plainf1eld town school committed In part Supt. Chapman's report follows:
 The school year of 191S-1919 has been year of difficulties in view of the epidemic that ragged last fall and in the winter It is pleasure to note that in spite of the numerous inter ruptions to the work of the schools all time lost has been made up and the full school years work accomplished through the perseverance, and loyalty Of the teachers and the hearty co-op- eration of the children. We have kept the schools for number of Sat- urdays to make up lost time and the children have attended and worked spleididly on these days.
 The enumeration for September. 1918 was 1863. gain of 19 over the enum- eration for 1917. Total registration was 11Ss; counted twice. 129: net reg istration. 1040. Average term registra- ton, 929.6. Average membership s4S.2. Average attendance, 77o.6. Per cent. of average attendance to aver age membership, .S18. Number of chil- dren enrolled in other public schools 656.
 Seventeen pupils graduated. from the high, school in June As there were forty five graduates from the gram mar schools. the largest number in several years, there shuld be a large entering class in the fall.
 Everyone recognizes the need for a new high school building and it is nes- essary steps be taken to start the movement for securing one. The high school has been established for four teen years and has Tar outgrown ac- commodations. The demands impos- ed upon high schools in the present day cannot be met under present con- ditions The superintendent has call cd the attention of the town to this condition, repeatedly for the past few years a ndthe townspeople generally recognize the need. Piainf1eld needs new. up-to-date and thoroughly equipped building from every point of view. The state will soon demand that we have it if we are to continue to receive state approval.
 We have really done wonders in the preparation of our pupils under the present conditions. We have graduat- ed from this school 145 pupils since it was established and those pupils have made records of success wherever they have gone. Hundreds of other pupils have received the benefits of the school for periods of from one to three years and have given voice to the value of their training many times But the time is at hand when we must make the training comply with the work pupils must do after their high school days are over. Ii is a duty we owe to future generations and the issue must be met very soon.
 Sixty of our former pupils were a 6J1ri ha of them seeing the hardest service on the western front and in Italy. Fort unately we are not obliged to rec ord any casualties in spite of the wonderful record made by our boys and the hard fighting they have been through.
 The class of 1918 and the class of 1919 each presented the school with a fifty dollar government bond as a nucleus of a fund for new high school.
 The Alumni association has pre- sented the school a beautifully en- sraved and appropriately framed Honor Roll of the boys in the service i to be hung in the school building.
 The first of November. 1918. the town made an appropriation of $3,-l 900 for evening schools. A sub com 1 mittee of the town school committee ] was appointed, viz, Messrs. Bragg, ! Shel0on, Chase and Johnson to form ! ulate arrangements for opening even 1 ing schools in the four villages of the i town.
 Text books and supplies were pur- 1 chased, a course of study was made out, and rules and regulations gov | erning the conduct of the schools ] were adopted. Three weeks were nec- 1 essary to install the lighting equip | ment and schools were opened on | November 1S. 1918, in Mocs- | up and Central Village, and on We'd nesday, November 20. in Piainfield and | Two shundred eighty nine pupils were present in all the schools on the opening evenings: 1o4 in Plain field, 95 in Moosup. 65 in Wauregan and 25 in Central Village
 The work accomplished was re- narkable for the initial experiment., especially so among the non English speaking groups. Nearly every pupil n these classes attended with fair regularity to the close of the season and at the end of the term was able o read and speak and write ordinary English we'll enough at least to make himself intelligible in expressing his cad, to some extent, the daily papers lnd to enter into a limited discussion ,f the things read.
 The superintendent recommends ! hat arrangements be made to con- inue the schools this fall and win- CT.