The Meeker herald., 1921-12-24
REPORT ON HOUSING SITUATION
OF THE COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL
DEPARTMENT OF RIO BLAN.

Rio BlancO County, Colorado.
In compliance with your request for
u written report and experimenting
recommendations made to your Com
mittee upon occasion Of my inspection
OF your high school system respect
fully submit the findings and conclu-
sIons az embodied hereinafter for
YOUR consideration.
The present enrolment of high
school pupils numbers eighty six being
about fifteen per cent increase In num-
Der over last years enrolment. \
conservative est huate Of the number of
pupils entering high school In Septem-
her, Nineteen twenty-five is placed at
one hundred allowing only for the nor
nal rate Of increase. BY September.
Nineteen twenty-three. the earliest
probable date when adequate housing
relief might be available the high
school enrolment. will number about
one hundred and twenty pupils. To
meet this situation and the attendant
housing requirements is the problem
confronting the County High School
Committee.
When the old high school building
was vacated two years ago. being pro-
nounced unsafe for occupancy, tenn
pOrary arrangements were made by the
High School Committee for housing
the high school pupils In the grade
school building. he number Of pupils
affected by this transfer was probably
fifty. AS the arrangement was cOnsid-
cred but temporary and since the grade
school building did not afford adequate
facilities for instruction In the high
school courses several Of the depart
ments considered as fundamental In
high school instruction were imp0ss,.
bic Of development and no instruction
nor equipment provided therefor. Con
gcsticn prevailed In the grade school
when this move was made and now
with the increase In enrolment Of
high school pupils. probably ninety
before the year is completed. the CON
xestiOn has become 40 acute In. the l,nl-
tied spaces available that adequate
instruction In the few courses main
tanned IS rapidly becoming impt,~sdblc
Due to this present temporary arran-
cement no attempt has been made nor
is 1t possible to provide full course
Of departmental instruction such MS
IL low considered fundamental In the
Gun ricula of the modern high school.
The situation consequently tx that
instruction In the following importaa:
departments Is wholly lacking and In
possible under the present arrange
ment: Manual Training: EARN Mech
nnics Mechanical Drawing: Soils and
Agricultural Laboratory Commercial
Science and Domestic Arts. Tie re-
manning departments now operating.
largely academic. are so conges,cd tlmt
relief must also e afrorcd them. There
IL u total lack Of facilities for Athelc
tic and Physical development such ns
II Gymnasium would provide 70: AMI
which is NOW recognized as neccs-
sity III all mHierh high SCHOOLS.
II Is therefore obvious thht thos'
departments OF instruction which nave
proved to be Of the most interest and
assistance In vocational guidance to
the student are not available under
present conditions nhd these can only
he had by providing adequate housing
facilities for all OF the departments OF
the high school
With this end In View an inspection
was made OF the uhoccupied building
I" ascertain whnt relicf 1t might anord
II placed In usnble condition. 1t was
found rs result OF this investigation
that this building could he made safe