The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1921-09-08
NEARLY 100 OVER
FIRST MONTH OF
PRECEDING YEAR

ord; Many 9th Grade Pupils
Without Seats; New Building
Imperative; 3 Literary 'Socie-
ties; Spanish Added to Studies.
The opening week of the Marietta
Public schools has witnessed the lar
gest total enrolment in the city's
historyl according to figures made
public Thursday by superintendent
of city schools, C. A. Keith The
opening day enrolment for the white
schools was / ,065, which by Thursday
had swollen to approximately 1850,
as compared to 1880 for the first
month Of 1920 The opening day of
the Metro schools showed an enroll
ment of 335 as compared to 382 for
the first month of 1920. Later figur-
es indicate that the 1920 record will
be supposed in the negro school be-
fore the end of the month.
Figures for the high school snow
an enrolment of 212, with senior
class of as, constituting another rec
ord in the history of the city's schools.
The record enrolment has brought
about almost uncomfortable crowded
conditions. Every grade has all the
Iseats filled with the exception Of the
3rd which has a few left, while the
9th is SO overcrowded that or Of
the pupils are compelled to sit upon
any projection they can find. Many
Of the grades are so crowded that
there is scarcely room for the teach
er and pupils to move about for the
purpose Of adequately carrying on
/ the necessary school work.
Crowded Condition4 Make New
Building tive.
These croWuFu- 81 'Qs, accord
.a sa0s "a, laaheSt1e ceG4A
/ bon Of another school building prac-
tically imperative if the boys and
girls Of the city and community are
to be given a square deal in the
matter of education. The present
high school buildingg he states, is
given over completely on the first
floor for lower grade pupils. This
makes proper high school activities
almost impossible, manual training
and domestic science work, along
with many other essential subjects,
being practically eliminated 50 tar
being treated in the manner in which
their importance demands. With an
other building for the RICH school,
Prof. Keith states, the entire pres
ent high school building can be turn
ed over to the lower grades, thereby
relieving the generally crowded con-
ditions with these graes and at the
same time affording the proper fac
ilities for placing the high school on
the accredited lists of high schools
for the state. This latter is not
true at the present owing to the
fact that the maximum number OF
pupils permitted to one teacher is
80 whereas the number is now near
ly forty, owing to the lack of room
to put on another teacher.
All teachers were on hand at the
opening Monday. The only work
that was done was the assigning OF
lessons, seats, etc, and the boys and
girls were given holiday for the
remainder Of the day. Tuesday the
teachers and pupils began settling
down to the long grind of the fall
term and by the middle of the week
evrything was proceeding with mid
season precision.
Adding Of Spanish Makes joke OF
Expectations
A feature that has been added to
the course this year is the study OF
Spanish The first Year of High
school work permits this year of the
choice of latin or Spanish. Owing
to the fact that Spanish is uniyer-
sally considered easier than Latin it
was expected that the Spanish class
would have to be divided into two
sections. The joke was on the ex-
pectation, however, or al least ON
those who did the expecting, for
when the choosing on the part of the
pupils was over it was found that the
Latin class would have to be divided
nto two parts as 80 had selected Lat
in and only 30 had selected Spanish
; Library Societies this Year Instead
of 2.
The literary and debating soeie-
ties which heretofore have numbered
two will be increased, to three on
account of the large number of pu-
pills making it impracticable to get
along with two. The organization
along these lines viii be completed
by the end of the week,
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