The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1920-06-11

Those who are active in urging the
ratification by the voters of the town
of Grenada Saturday, June IL, of the
proposition to issue $125,00O in bonds
called a mass meeting Tuesday night
at the opera house. Manager Tyson
of the opera house made reasonable
concessions, so funds were secured to
rent the hall for that night. The flrst
picture was shown and after that then
the program as arranged was mad.
1t was intended to put the facts
souarely before the public as to the
needs of the school and to show the
unwisdom and utter mpractlcablhty
of any middle ground in the way or
annexes as regards additional room
at the white public school. 1t was
shown that every room in the present
building was used the past session
and that by reason of the overcroWo-
ed condition of the school, the do
mestic science department, where the
girls are taught cooking and sewing
and which is regarded in many locall-
ties as second in Importance to no
work in school, and the manual train
ing for boys had to be abandoneo'
and the rooms used by these depart
ments converted into class rooms. IL
was shown that the enrolment Tor tne
past session was 546. 1t might also
have been stated that the enrolment
by grades for the last session as
shown by the records of the schooi
were:
Primer, Ga.
First Grade, Al.
Second Grade, Ga.
Third Grade, 64
Fourth Grade, 20.
Fifth Grade, 81.
Sixth Grade, 56.
Seventh Grade, 81.
HIGH School Grades, 1926, which in
cludes 9Th. 9th and 10th and 1th
grades. .s,.
war demands and matters incident
thereto had taken a number OF hlgn
school uupils out of the school or
that class would have run at least TO
14O or $50. It might also have beeh
stated that even the casual thinker
would know that no teacher can
teach properly and successfully hfty
or sixty pupils; reference to the
enrollment in the grades above gwen
show that in six grades the enroll
noant was above so. and that IN an
other grade the enrolment was ABOVE
40 Health authorities and expert
enced school men hold that thirty or
thirty FIVE is the maximum NUMBER
that any teacher can properly IN
struct. and still more important tnat
Il is very damaging to the health OF
children to require them to sit IN
rooms where there are more than thaI
nurnber. Do not Grenada people
want to care for the health of their
children and should school authorl-
tes not be indicted if they failed 10
do their utmost to relieve condltlons
where the health of children is beng
;aonardized? Another thing that
naeds to be considered, is that there
is now compulsory school law "hlcn
will add a number Of pupils TO the
school for the next session.
reference to the enrolment IN
tire GRADES, as shown above, Will snow
snv one why it was necessary to ol-
vide several of the grades, employ
eytra teachers and use EVERY ROOM
m THE PRESENT BUILDING, and
oven then, some of them croWued.
One of the grades had to be olVloeu
so that half came in the morning anu
the other half in the afternoon.
After the first picture, DIR. ): +;
Rroadstreet, followed by the schooi
trustees. County Supt. McKibben, and
the speakers, Dr. j. r. Countiss, Rev.
A. Stanley and Mr.. Cowles Hor-
ton. appeared upon the stage. Dr;
Rroadstreet in a few well timed
nhrases announced the purpose OF the
meeting and very gracefully presented
Or Countiss, president Of Grenada
College. es
Mr. Countiss spoke for about nj
teen minutes and stated that ne came
from the country where he learned
all about ill-considered school plans
and poorly arranged school bulldlngs.
He said that he was citizen ana
taxnayer of Grenada and sent two
hovs worth million dollars a piece
to the city schools and that he con-
trolIed or directed for the time
Grenada College, perhaps the largest
enternrise in the town, therefore ne
said that he thought he had right TO
speak out on tnlS pIopoSi' ea
many angles. He SAID tnaI ne iI:
ouently visited the Grenada pupic
school and that he wanted to add ms
testimony to the lack OF adequate OF
modern school facilities over tnere.
He said that Grenada College was
concrete example of what adding an
nexes meant. He said that mucn
money had been wasted at Grenada
College by patching additions onto