Perth Amboy evening news., 1920-08-06
OUTLOOK IN CITY SCHOOL
STATUS GIVEN IN REPORT
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nue., to which reference has been
made. would relieve the pressing
conditions OF today in all of the
schools, Nos. 4. 10, and the high
school excepted. Nos. 4 and 10 are
so located as to make 1t impossible
to transfer their pupils to any other
school for relief with reasonable
safety since they are bounded by
railroads in the two possible relieve
able directions. All available court
schools. Should there be further
growth in the section where they are
located, enlarged facilities will be-
come imperative.
Beginning with September all the
rooms of the high school. including
the two courts will be in use. This
means hat IL there should be an
~appreciab1e increase in this depart
Iment, In the ear future the educa-
tional situation would be confronted
with a serious problem.
The early completion of the school
on Hall avenue would relieve the
grammar school, which in turn
would relieve the high school to the
extent of the four grammar grades
now located therein. Taking into
consideration the fact that, to ac-
commodate these four classes the
auditorium will have to be used in
September as well as a supply hall
room and two court rooms. 1t be-
comes apparent that four rooms.
neither designed nor suited to class
room activities will be used: hence
future relief for possible growth in
the high school department will not
be Forthcoming upon the completion
of the Hall avenue building alone.
As the problem presents itself now,
the solution must be found either in
the making provision for high school
work in some other school-a solu-
ton that should receive no consider
alton at all. according to authorities
"a solution that should receive no
consideration at all, according to
authorities-or the early enlarge
ment OF the present high school
One of the innovations made dur
ing the year was testing for gen.
eral intelligence. The standard tests
in all the grades throughout the
system had been used for some
time. Until the beginning of the
year, It had not been deemed expe-
dent to apply intelligence tests, and
then in only one of the schools. a
typical one. The results of the year
show c~onclusively that when used
in conjunction with the standard
tests. the general intelligence tests
| effect a considerable saving of time
in the school life of pupils of GER
tain types and also, in consequence,
effect a saving in the cost of edu-
eating those pupils.
The change in the salary sched-
ules since 1916 show an increase of
$500 oil more for every teacher. In
the grades. the teachers are now
getting. according to the length of
time they have been teaching, from
the first year through the twelfth.
81, 900; LOO; LAO; 1850; 1,220;
1850; 1900; 1.S40; 1880; 1920;
1,460 and 1900.
The men high school teachers and
elementary principals receive 1900;
LOO: 1900; 1900; 1000;
2,10o; 1900; 2,30o; 2.4oo; $500 and
$500.
The women high school teachers
and elementary principals receive
81, 800; 1.400; 1880; 1900; 1850;
1900; 1 $50; LOO; 1.750; 1900;
1850.
The increases do not include the
bonus provision of the past year
nor that of the coming year which
amounts to $500 per teacher.
Due to the salary increase of the
| year and to the upward tendency in
the cost of books and supplies. the
cost of education per pupil on total
enrolment and average attendance