Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1921-04-11
CONDITIONS At
SCHOOLS TOLD
Await Conference Between
City and State Officials on
Proposed Building Here.
ACTION IN A FEW DAYS
Board of Education Insists
New Projects Are Indls-
pensabIe to System.
ACTION IN A FEW DAYS

! awaiting the result of the conference
! that will be held in few days pc
| tween the secretary OF the poaru'
| the city comptroller and the city at
| torney and State Commissioner Oh
| Education Enright. who Will discuss
| the possibilities of building the new
| school on Hall avenue and making
the addition to the high school that
we're decided upon by the schooI
board a short time ago.
The request of the school board
| that the money be appropriated 1or
| this cause met with objection from
the Board of School Estimate ana
| further conferences with city author-
| tiles resulted in planning for con,
| ference with the state educational
authority. ,
The Board of Education insists
| that the new projects are lndlspehs-
| able at this time and shows Where
| they are within the law in asking
for these educational Improvements.
| Following are the conditions or the
schools of the city as far as seating
| facilities are concerned and it is seen
| that at the present time there Is a
lack of nineteen rooms-a good sized
school building-with no preparation
| for the new pupils who come In IN
| the fall.
| At the high school all rooms, in
cluding three in the cellar are oc-
| cupicd. Four rooms are occupied
by pupils of the grammar grades
| Two of the cellar rooms are USED py
the girls of the continuation classes
| and the other cellar room Dy nlSH
school classes.
| All the rooms in the Grammar
School are being used including two
in the cellar. OF these two latter
one is used for boys of the contin-
| uation school classes. and the other
| for a grammar grade. on account
| of lack of room at the Grammar
| School, there is one class oil gram
mar grade pupils in each of Schools
4, and 9, these latter pupils get
| ting neither domestic science or
| manual training.
At School 4, all rooms including
| three in the cellar are occupied. In
! School s all rooms, including three
| in the cellar are in use as classrooms.
! At School all rooms, including one
| cellar room, are being used. AT
| School 5, because the cellar will not
| admit class room use, there are two
| half day classes in this building and
| the whole school is badly crowded.
| All the regular classrooms are oc-
| cupied at Schools ], 2, 6, Z and 10.
| A summary represents a total of
! nineteen rooms without considering
| any accommodations for pupils of
| school age to whom work papers
/ have been granted but who are tenn
| porarily out of employment. The
number of such pupils represents
| wide variations during the year d.'-
| pending on the industrial conditions.
! An estimate for these pupils and the
/ growth of the continuation classes is
! four rooms.
The effect on the school system by
| the erection of a building on Hall
avenue, assuming that both manual
| training and dom estic science facil-
tiles would be provided thereby
would be as follows
Would relieve the high school to
| the extent of four rooms now occu-
pied by pupils of the grammar
grade. These four rooms would be
Immediately filed with pupils now
! in the three cellar rooms and an adj
September, and still leave the school
without library quarters.
1t would relieve the grammar
school to the extent of the number
of pupils of the grammar grade now
resident in the territory contiguous
to the proposed Hall avenue build
ing. This would approximate four
or five rooms.
1t would relieve School of three
cellar rooms, School of one such
room and School of its half day
| classes and crowded condition, ap-
proximately three rooms, making n
total of seven rooms for these three
buildings only.
1t would permit the obeying of the
law by placing all boys and girls
between the ages of fourteen and
sixteen who are granted work papers
and are temporarily out of work,
but for whom there is now no room
in the regular day schools.
In asking for these new buildings
the Board of Education is not going
beyond its limit of bonded indebted
ness for educational purposes The
law says that the total amount of
bonds for such purpose, including
. bonds therefore issued for the pur-
pose named, D." shall not eX-
ceed at any one time sum equa
to six per centum of the taxable val
uation of the real estate and per-
sonal property in such district;
The erecting of the new school
on Hall avenue with the second story
unfinished and the addition to the
high school. it II; claimed will not
exceed the six per cent. Of tax
able valuation of the real and per-
sonal property in Perth Amboy.
Another reason for the insistance
which is being placed by the Board
of Education in providing proper ac-
comm odations is the state law which
demands certain requirements,
which, if not observed, will mean
the Withdrawing of the state APP
preparation to this city, until suit
able facilities and accommodations
are provided.
State Commissioner Enright is the
legal advisor in the matters of the
schools of the state and the erection
of the new buildings or their post
ponement depends greatly upon Mr1
Enright's conference with the local