Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-09-19
CROWDED SCHOOLS
| FORCE ADOPT|ONOF.
| TW0-SH|FT SYSTEM
Three of Five High Schools
Are damned Beyond
Their Capacity.
PUPILS MUST ATTEND
AFTERNOON SESSIONS
Glasses Resume Work Tomorrow.
Some Grade Schools May Inau-
gurate Like Plan.

For the first time in history. three
OF the five white Washington high
schools, which open tomorrow. will
be operated on a two-shift system.
Consequently, hundreds of students
are confronted with abbreviated
courses for at least another year. and
probably longer.
Enrollments already indicate that
the high schools will be. taxed above
capacity. With more than LOCO new
students to enter. principals of three
of the institutions definitely deter
mined last night that nothing but the
Inauguration of a two-shift system
would permit them to accommodate
their entire enrollments
Shorter periods of instruction and
earlier opening and later closing
hours will be the result.
Eastern High School will be operat-
ed entirely on a two-shift system.
Students in the upper classes will at
tend the morning session from $50
am. to 1880 pm. Freshmen will at
tend in the afternoon from 1 to
o'clock.
Hours for business High.
Freshman students at Business High
School will be the only ones affected
by a part-time schedule at this insti-
tuition. They will attend in the aft
srnoon from I to 4 o'clock. The re-
naming classes at this school will be
run on the former regular all-day
schedule.
A two-shift system will be operated
at Western High School. IL the enroll
ment necessitates it. Definite plans
for running this institution will not
be decided by Principal Newton until
after the opening tomorrow. However.
IL the enrolment reaches his expecta-
ton he will run the school on a sys-
tenn similar to the ones at Eastern or
Business.
BY changing the program from six
to seven periods a day a two-shift
system at Central High School viii
be obviated. The same will be trae
at Mckinley Manual Training School
alse, the Instructors sending 40e
freshmen students to the JLsior High
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Never before have school officials
been faced with such problem as
that Of relieving congestion in the
high schools. Enrollments in all the
institutions have been increased this
year. despite the fact that last year
all the same schools had more stu
dents than they could comfortably ac-
commodate
Three Suffer the Most.
Eastern, Western and Mckinley, the
three smallest of the senior institu-
tions. are to bear the burden of the
heaviest increase in enrolment. Bust
ness and Central. however. will be ma
terially affected by increases.
Central High School last year had
an enrolment Of about 400, and this
year it is expected to go above $500.
Seven hundred and sixty students were
enrolled at Western last year. and il
is expected the attendance will reach
800 this year. Central has accommo-
dations for $500 students and Western
about $50.
The enrolment at Business last year
totaled 1.10o, and this year it viii go
above 1,200. Eastern. with accommo-
dations for about 450 students. had an
enrolment last year of about 500. and
this year it will have at least 900
Mckinley will have an enrolment this
year of more than 1.500. while last
year it reached 1900.
Despite the shortening of the hours
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where two-shift systems will be es-
tablished. it was pointed out that the
education of the students will not be
affected materially. Minor subjects at
these schools will be dispensed with
in some cases so as to shorten the
periods of instruction. Study periods
also have been cut from the programs
in these schools.
Heavy increases in enrolment in
the grade schools are expected by Of
ficials, and tentative plans have been
made for accommodating the new pu-
pills. The two-shift system will be
instituted in the third and fourth
grades of the schools more seriously
Principals of the high schools
stated last night that all new students
should not report tomorrow morning
until IL o'clock. Older students, how
ever, are required to be in their
schools when the school bell tolls
at 8.
Old students at Central High School
will have a general assembly tomor-
row morning at 8 o'clock. Assem-
blies also will be held in the other
for the older students
about the same time.
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