New-York tribune., 1921-10-19
EIvlan School
Hoax (1rieyes
Mother of Ten
Why Not Teach Children All
Day as They yUsed To?' Asks
Parent Who Fought Pow
erty TO Educate Little Ones
Part Time Is Denounced
Women Dread Winter, When
Youngsters Must Get Up by
Caslighf to Attend Classes

mother Of ten children rises to ask
Mayor Hylan question
"Why do they not let the children go
to school all day, as they used to?'
1t is a question that perplexes this
mother. for she has seen her older
children grow up IN poverty that for
bado their attending school after they
were old enough to go to work, and
she longs to give her younger children
the education denied to the older ones.
The irony Of the situation distresses
her
when the older children had to 20
to work there were schools. Now the
little children can go to school, there
are only half-time schools" she said.
Help for Younger Children
81 have been in this country eighteen
years. The older children were not
born here but when we came they could
not 60 to school much, for they had to
go to work to help their father We
were very poor then. And now they
are not educated and they have a hard
er time than they would If they had
gone to school
and so we said to ourselves, When
we are not SO poor the little children
shall go ~ school all day. The other
children did 60 to school five, six years
ago, but now the youngest children can
only go to school tvo. three hours q
day. | do not like that. 1t is better
that they should go all the time every
day, Tor soon they must go to work. It
is only when they are little that they
can go to school,"
Many mothers are finding that 8
o'clock is far too early for little folk
to go to classes, especially in the
winter Mrs. Fanny Popowitz, Of 45
Tompkins Avenue, said:
Il think that 8 o'clock Is too early
to have little children 80 to school.
They are not half awake by that time.
In the wintertime it is hardly light
1T IS dark when they have to get up.
| cannot always get my children to bed
so early, because | am in business, and
1t is not always possible to have them
go to bed when must be away. But
II a little child can sleep until o'clock
then it IS all right-they can be in
the school by 9 o'clock
But now there are not enough
schools, so that the children have to
go at different times, and those that
90 early have to get up while they are
full OF sleep, and those that go in the
afternoon have played all morning and
are often too tired to be interested
in the school. ! do not know which
is better"
Mrs. Fanny Cohen, of $50 Lorimer
Street, had the political point Of view
I'VE mothers are not for Mr.. Hylan, !"
she said ave know what he promised
to do four years ago, and how he did
not do it. We women are interested in
the schools, and we know just what
is the trouble with them, TOO. We see
the little children going to school too
early in the morning, and other chill
dren out on the street playing in the
morning, and we think they ought to
be in school all day.
maybe Mr.. Hylan could have prom
ised some other things four years
ago when he was elected, and we
mothers would not know whether he
had kept his promises or not, but we
know he promised seat for evory
child and that he did not keep that
promise.'