Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-01-10
SCHOOL BUDGET
$4,000 MORE
Board Hears of 1919 Finances
commissioner Criticises
School Nursing System

The amount Of the school budget
Tor the present year came to the at
tention of the Board Of Education
last night. The budget as drawn up
previous to the meeting called for the
expenditure Of about $4,000 more
this year than last. The members dis
cussed the items and finally, after a
few minor alterations, accepted 1t as
Presented.
The money to be expended for
school work for 1919 amounts TO
s315,s92 as against s297,690 for last
year. The following items were pre-
sented when Victor w. Main read sew
eral resolutions: Current expenses,
$29O,992; repair expenses, $4,000,
and manual training expenditures,
$4,000. The estimate for contemplate
ed repairs was $14,391; these repairs
will b made after the chool term,
commencing July /.
M. Spruble, of Butler. came before
the board in answer to a complaint
made to him by j. K. Sheehy. Spru-
BILE put in glass which was broken in
the Morgan explosion. He was unable
to supervise the work personally and
when his men were told that some
of the repairing was not satisfactory
they destroyed some of h glass. Mr..
Sheehy then notified him of the mis-
hap and he came before the board
tdSt ul6ht III luV hh@s ~"S
might be- righted.
There was q petition presented to
the board from the Cadet Council or
the high school requesting that the
public schools of the city be hereafter
designated by the name of some
prominent men instead of by num-
bers.
This matter was referred to the
committed of the whole for considera-
ton and the cadets will be notified or
the action taken.
]. Brewster Willis, county superin-
tendent, sent a communication in ref-
erence to the annual meeting or the
county school boards in New Bruins
wick on February s. The local board
will attend.
Adolph Greenbaum who has been
visiting several of the schools of late,
brought up the proper attention being
paid children, who are sent nome
from school by the nurses for SICK
ness. Mr.. Greenbaum said that after
his investigation. he had come to the
conclusion that the nursing system IN
the schools is not what 1t should be,
and he believes nothing is done In
some cases and the child is allowed to
return to school in two or three days
and mingle with the other pupils
without having first been examined to
see if II was in fit condition to re-
turn to the classroom.
He suggested that when the emil
dren are sent home. the nurse should
follow up the case and not permit the
child to return to school unless she
has given her sanction that the child
is physically At. Mr.. Greenbaum
said that If the nurse discovered the
parents of the sick child were not able
to defray medical expense, the child
should then be sent to h free clinic
at the city hospital and given atten-
ton there. 1t was finally thought best
by the board that in cases where the
nurse sends q child home, she shall
follow up the case and shall not allow
the child to return to school unless
she he's re-insnected the case M pro-
nounced the child fit.
The secretary of the board, Alfred
II. Crowell, was Instructed to inform
Mayor Dorsey that a meeting should
be called In the near future of the
school board estimates. 1t was also
decided that the board as a whole
should meet with the estimate boar
to take up the proposition of erect
ing a new school in the city, which is
needed very much here.
The building committee reported
that the structural defects in schools
1 and Z, which had been caused by
the recent explosion, were being re
paired as RAPIDLY as possible.
The members of the board WI
make a short tour of inspection Il
several ~out-pf-town schools on mex
Thursday, January 10.