Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1921-06-29
SEE CROWDED
SCHOOLS HERE
IN THE FALL
Sessions for Term End Today
With Outlook for September
Far From Bright
TO SHIFT CHILDREN
238 New Grammar School
Pupils in Same Building as
Graduated From
HIGH SCHOOL CROWDED
See Great Need for New Wing
There and New Building
in Hall Avenue
HIGH SCHOOL CROWDED

The public schools of the city
closed at noon today for the sum-
mer vacation and Will reopen We'd
nesday, September z. Plans are
now being made by the superlntend-
ent and other school authorities for
the new years work and the distri-
button of pupils in connection with
tho lack of sufficient classrooms.
Yesterday morning promotions
were carried out and the pupils sent
to their new ClaSsrooms. n large
group of grammar school children
came to the high school but Were
Immediately dismissed there were
no rooms in which to assemble them.
The plans that have been laid for
September, and which are the re-
suit OF careful study by the super
intendent have been found to be the
only way out of the difficult sltua-
ton for the time being, although
this method is very unsatisfactory.
Pupils numbering 23S who have
passed INTO the grammar grades ana
should be assigned to the grammar
school will have to remain N tne
buildings where they studied TINS
year. This VIII mean that TINS mum
Der will lave to do without any OF
the SPECIAL work such as manual
training, cooking and sewing. -Four
additional schools will have to carry
out half time schedules to make
room for these pupils VINO shouId
be in the grammar school.
One of the continuation classes IN
tina high school will have to be as
signed tc some ether building in or
der to make room for incoming hl&h
school students This will also pre-
vent these special pupils from op-
tanning any instruction in cook'nS CT
sewing. When the continuation
schools were instituted here, it was
recommended by the state depart
ment, that one-third of the ehtlra
time in school be spent in manual
training and domestic science. Inc
continuation school pupils attGhu
school only six hours week: 1ne
recommendation of the state depart
ment, thus. cannot be carried out at
all in the case of this one class.
The high school will be crowded
TO capacity, as will every other
school building in the city. The at
tempt to make more room by adui-
tional cellar compartments has Deeh
unsuccessful as there are no more
available.
The Board of Education per-
eists in their stand that both WING
on the high school and new pulid-
ing on Hall avenue are needed. Inc
Recommendation of the Board Oh
school Estimate that the wing ON tne
high school be endorsed for lnille-
date action. it is expected VIII re-
suit in the erection of this l. Whlch
will contain six rooms. If lnliie-
diate work is started the bqlldlhS
will not be ready until the FEBRUARY
term, at least at which time lne
high school situation will be reheNSu'
and the grammar school to a de-
gree, by the other schools httle OF
not at all. ai+,,o
1t was said today that the Sltua
ton which now finds the cltys @ emu
dren going to school on nan Il,ile,
and attending classes IN CeIlai
rooms and overcrowded schooi1
rooms, was foreseen by the sch1ol
authorities some time ago. ana lme
CITY officials informed of the cohul-
ton. The school authorizes nav
kept up a steady fight for better
school facilities for several years
but have never been more VehenehI
than this time, when the educallollai
facilities are by far worse than ever
before.