The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-06-15
NEW HIGH SCHOOL.
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able for grade work and some special
need not otherwise met.
There is then the need, desire and
opprtunity.
Can we not meet the need, realize
the desire and crown the opportunity
with a satisfactory memorialY
AS some will say new school build
ing is not now needed / might men
ton some of the opportunities which
would be given the grades. 1t would
| mean giving up the third grade annex
on Grove street; perhaps abolishing the
| Chase street school and certainly the
| High street school; utilizing one large
| high school room for extra eighth
| grade room; changing unoraded room
| from third to second floor. These
changes would make the first and sec
ond floors used entirely for grade pur
poses. 1t also would give the grades
much needed assembly room; it would
| give the teachers a rest room; it would
| give the school nurse headquarters; it
would allow the converting of two or
more rooms into a play or gymnasium
room on the third floor; and would give
opportunity for supply rooms and book
| closets.
Opportunity for high school,: AT
auditorium with adequate stage, facil
tiles for darkening room for moving
pictures, removable seats for dancing
etc.-available for high school ant
community; gymnasium giving oppor
tunity for physical training work il
school hours, with proper apparatus in
Guiding shower baths, etc.,-the gym
nasium to be available for communit,
and for high school; a trophy room
which might be the memorial room
with room for library purposes am
reading room connected; principals of
flee which is necessary in order tina
he principal may have some place il
the building that is private, who're pri
vate papers and records may be ftleC
etc. and this office should contain
irrproof safe for preservation of rec
ords and for keeping school funds an
valdables; two new laboratories-on
for physics and one for chemistrv--on
extra laboratory available for develop
ment in biology and agriculture, Ga
present one crowded science room
used for all purposes); domestic SC
ence suite with properly equipped XII
chen, available for community use
lunch room with proper lunch roo
equipment; shop work rooms availab
for all schools in town; study room
corresponding TO main room in presei
building; new rooms for business d
partment with modern Office equipmen
sufficient rooms for recitation ar
"home room purposes: Twelve re-
ular teachers in high school at presel
with ten rooms available for recitatiC
including laboratory and two ven
small rooms;) studio for mechanic;
and freehand drawing: teachers re
room, supply room and book closet
Some of the advantages of such
combined memorial would be that the
could be a central heating plant: the
would be teachers some of the time al
ianitor and matron ALWAYS on han,
the structure would be away from Il
traffic of Main street in front and Il
smoke and traffic by train in the rea
if the school management was not el
cient the remedy would be with Il
voters, who would have redress at q
next election If wrong officers get in
the anagement who corrects that al
how quickly in the case of an ind
pendent community buildings
100 expensive ana 100 large p1al
The expense could be equitably divid,
between school, village and town, al
community fund created for that pu
4 pose. A suggestion may be made
this point about meeting the yearly c
: pense of such a plan. contemplating
: il Goes the daily and evening use
the special facilities afforded. by I
Il youth and adults of the entire tow
II village and community A three pc
II cent town tax, three per cent villa
II tax, with the available income from
II contributed $4,000 endowment fur
II in four and one quarter Liberty bono
II would yield approximately $4,000 TIL
II with the regular school budget al
= rentals for special purposes, should ca
- for the annual outlay. While discu,
ing the doing of the impossible
someone else often jars the doubtf
2l4 Thomas by doing the deed. BY t
n. use of the Hines property, no propert
. real or potential, would be remov
IN, from taxation by the purchase
rs; q new site for a memorial Tow