New-York tribune., 1921-10-22
Coney Mothers
! Rebel at Hylan
!, School Apathy
Peril to Children, Forced
ITO Travel Long Distances
4 TO Attend Classes, Stirs
Resentment of Parents
Women Sheer at Mayor
SHow Does His Talk About
]. Little Education He Had
K. Aid Youngsters?' They Ask

y Coney Island is the place of summer
time. thrills, but 1.-The mothers, of the
district find no thrills in October in
tho state Of the schools where their
children are looking for education in
stead Of merry go rounds.
School for many Of the children
means three and one-half hours q day,
with two periods out Of that time as
signed to auditorium or playground.
Mrs. M. Nussbaum, of Surf Avenue
and Twenty-lrst Street, pointed out
yesterday the difficulties of the young
sters who have to travel long distances
to school.
Pupils Travel by Car
About 700 children from here have
to go to Avenue U in Brooklyn every
day." she said. "My daughter, Mrs.
Rosa Goldbaum, lives at Sea Gate.
There are no schools there at all, you
know, and her son has to take a street
car, transfer to another, and come to
Coney Island and take the subway
train to Avenue U. He is only eleven,
and it is not very safe for boy of
that age to be travelling so far from
home every day, changing cars twice,
as he must do. One day he just missed
being very badly hurt, when gate
was closed too quickly behind him.
| do not know just how it happened,
but he had bruised face for some
days. Since then his mother is always
anxious about him. 4
"Practically all the children over ten
have been sent to Public School 95.
Every morning they crowd into the
subways without an older person in
charge of them. Of course, children
are thoughtless. and I dc. not doubt
but that they irrtate the guards on
the trains, who sometimes forget that
they are just children and are very
impatient and rough with them. 1t is
mothers that their children must go
off so far, eat cold lunch, and then
make a dangerous trip back again.
"When the weather is bad it is pretty
hard for my little grandson, and we do
not know if he will be able to stay in
school if he cannot be transferred so
that he will not have to travel so far.
But what does one child count, even
if we could get him transferred? We
need schools enough for all of the chill
dren here. 1t is city problem, and
w
this worry and trouble on the
mothers"
School Books Lacking
Mrs Steinberg, 2877 Twenty first
Street, said: "There not only are not
seats enough for the children, but
there are not books enough for them.
The whole system just seems to fall
| down. Teachers cannot give individual
help to the children or do anything
beyond just the routine work, and chill
dren need more than that. Personal
/ interest and contact mean so much to
little children, and there can be moth
ing of it where there are SO many"
Mrs. Hawkins, 27s5 Seventeenth
Street, said: ooh, yes, we have a new
school down here. The Mayor came
down with lot of fuss and feathers
and talked to the children about how
little education he had, but that does
not give US schools enough. You would
have thought that every child was to
have seat by the magic waving of
his hand. But for all that I had to
put my little girl into private school.
| There wasn't any seat for her or ever
so many other children. Their mothers
come into the store where | work and
hear them talk, and they do not
like it, Whatever the big question of
the campaign is anywhere else it is
schools down here-we need them more
than we need anything else. And they
can talk all they want to about not
being able to build thenl-those of US
who saw the parochial school here go
up in less than year, complete, every
thing ready for the children, know
that it can be done if they just want
to and stop playing politics about it
| and go to work"