New-York tribune., 1921-10-12
Ctlrran Assails
E1ylazl's I allure
In School Crisis
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find good school buildings, and tins is
sure to evoke the wonder that all the
schools are not like them But one
swallow does not make a summer. The
fine equipment in few splendid
schools cannot camouNage conditions in
the citys total of 695 school buildings.
The Mayor must accept his RESPONSE
,bilty for all OF them The girls who
are trying to get an education in the
old, two-story red schoolhohse which
was built forty years ago at the cor
nor Of Classon and st. Marks avenues
are just as important as the children
who arc jammed within dingy walls in
over-crowdcd classes in a ramshacklo
school up in Inwood, which was built
before tho Civil War.
Parents Won't Be Fooled
'I understand that somebody has
been inquiring very carefully if all Of
/ the teachers are working hard to show
the parents the best points about the
schools, and l am told that there has
even been rivalry started to see who
can induce the most parents to come
directly to the classroom. | am glad
to hear Of this, because while Mayor
Hylan may try to fool the children in
fact, may think he is foollng the chill
the parents Of those children. He can
not dodge and he cannot deny the fact
that there are more than l25.000 school
children on part time; $4,000 more than
four years ago. He cannot dodge nor
deny the fact that there are 10000
sch ool children on a makeshift, double
session program, which is nothing more
nor less than the old Garyizcd double
session plan denounced so loudly by
the Mayor himself four years ago.
"He cannot dodge nor deny the fact
that as many as 100000 school children
are in diversified or crowded rooms
which prevent the teacher from giving
to the individual child all the attention
IL should receive.
ale cannot Co1gc nor deny The fact
that his own scnool boards age prog
ress statistics, which arc just pub
lished, show that more than 200 900
New York school children are not max
ing progress for their ages which they
should make.
Violations Speak for Themselves
"He cannot dodge nor deny the fact
that there arc 196,757 school children
crowded into seats beyond the legal
limits of the sittings of the schools.
"He cannot dodge nor deny the fact
that his own departments helped 20
) place violations on 496 Of the city's 695
school buildings, and that among the
violations, which numbered 1900 alto
gether, are violations as fire traps,
filthy old toilets, broken windows, dark
c'assrooms, rckcty and dangerous
staircascs, dilapidated buildings and
, so on.
ain spite OF all this. and in spite OF
the rampage OF politics and prefcrmcnt
which have swept into the school.
under the Hylan nistration, let me
say that in no place on earth have the
school teachers accomplished more and
been more true to the best traditions
Of their profession than in New York
City. These teachers are doing twice
as much work as the teachers Of other
cities. It is due to the teachers and
not to Mr.. Hyian that the school chill.
dren of New York are learning read
ing, writing and arithmetic Mayor
| iay leiIi was iiOI iIIiti cSlcu enough III lnt
schools to give the teachers plea for
salary that they could live or, even
81 decent consideration. His do-nothine
attitude forced them to appeal to the
Legislature for relief
100000 Denied Education
"On the day the schools opened last
month. Mayor Hylan declared, This is
the happlcst day of my life And vet
on that very day there were l26,OOO
school children without a seat in the
city schools. And his administration
was confronted by the fact that there
was not a single high school
built IN the city during the three and
a half years that he has been in Office
he alks Of having Kept the Rockefeller
Toundation out Of our public schools
while his only accomplishment has
been TO prevent some one hundred
thousand or so school children from,
getting the education they have to dc.
pend on the city to give them.
Mr.. Hylan was elected four wears
ago on his promise. - seat for ever,
enid is what gmarantec Everybod,
hno~a that all these double sessions
work study play double platoon. dupli.
eating or alternating part studv-and
pn't'walk- -thc-strcct plan. and all tn,
Gary ideas are being plc'ed uD and
used by Mr.. Hylan merely to try tc
> kct down tho ever Increasing part-tir
. fiNuro. lf there arc Gary IDEAS in thu
s"N"o'e ~ lrr Mr. Uvlnn mn, 4ho,.,