Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-31
comm modate the entire school popu-
lation in those grades.
The Dividing Lines

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lation in those grades.
The Dividing Lines
This districting as explained by
| Superintendent +. Z. Downes fol-
| lows:
"All pupils in the city passing
from grades SB and SA to grade 3
will enter the intermediate schools
in the fall, as follows. Pupils at
tending the Stevens, Harris, Foose,
Webster, Shimmell, Melrose, Forney,
Lincoln and Woodward buildings
will attend the Edison school; all
others of this grade will attend the
Camp Curtin school,
"Al pupils of the Foose, Web
ster. Shimmell, Melrose, Forney,
Vernon, Lincoln and Woodward
buildings, who next September will
belong in grades 7B, IA, SB or SA
will attend the Edison school.
"All pupils living in or north of
Reilly street, who next September
| will belong in SB or SA will attend
the Camp Curtin school.
''All pupils living in or north of
Hamilton street, who next Septem-
Der will belong to 7B or IA will at
tend the Camp Curtin school.
'All other pupils who next Sep
tember will belong to grades 7B, IA,
SB or SA will attend schools in the
central section of the city as at
present
"All pupils of all present grades,
1B to SA inclusive, will report at
the buildings they now attend. in
September, for assignment or trans
| fer"
Some criticism to this districting
has developed as quite a number
of boys and girls of the upper
grades will not enter the now
schools and their parents are afraid
| they will be losers because of the
lack of advanced instruction. Par
ents of these disappointed children
have suggested that an arrangement
| be made whereby room be made 1or
the more advanced pupils by leav-
ing out some of those of the seventh
grade whose course of study VIII
not be changed in the newer schools.
Both principals say Harrisburg is
] the first city in the United States
| to open two junior schools at one
time, providing such facilities for
more than two-thirds of the pupils
in the three grades of these inter
mediate schools. In Johnstown,
where the system was started five
years ago, there is only one junior
school; Rochester with a popula-
ton of $4,000 has only two with
the system started there six years
ago.
School Hours Undetermined
Professor Wallize, principal of
the Edison building, said the en-
rollment in that school is 1852 at
present, to be divided into thirty
six sections, with a faculty of forty
four in charge.
Professor Brehm, who will be in
charge at the Camp Curtin building,
has an enrolment now of 1,190 pu-
pills for the fall term and will have
| thirty sections with a faculty of
thirty-seven teachers. The instruC-
tors in both schools will be arranged
according to departments, no teach
er having more than two branches.
The hours for the school have
not been determined While the
schedule of recitations is being
planned, it is not certain yet just
how many hours the pupils will at
tend in a day. 1t is likely the hours
will be from 8 o'clock in the morn
ing until $50 o'clock in the after
noon with a short period for lunch
con at noon. Lunch rooms have
been provided in both buildings.
Boys and girls can eat lunches they
bring from their homes or can buy
meals. Bicycle rooms will be avail
able also for storing the wheels of
those pupils who ride on them to
the buildings.
High Schools Benefited
This fall in the Central and Tech
nical High schools there will be
students in only three grades, the
! tenth, eleventh and twelfth, known
in the schools as the sophomore,
junior and senior classes. In all
the grade buildings except the few
in the central part of the city and
the Camp Curtin which has been
converted into junior school, there
will be pupils only in the grades
from l to inclusive.
Building operations at the junior
schools are being rushed and it is
understood that practically every
thing will be in readiness for use
at the Camp Curtin school, and
much of the work will be done at
the Edison building.
Three courses have been provided
for the junior schools, known as the
academic, commercial and manual
arts. The seventh year pupils who
will take any one of these three
courses will have the same subjects
for the first year of the course, but
during the eighth and ninth grades,
or the second and third years of the
courses. there is a change in the
subjects and the amount of time
allowed for recitations in the vari-
Gus branches. Elective subjects are
offered in the eighth and ninth
grades