, 1922-05-04

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four teachers who hay" more than 30
pupils.
Tn" department has about 20
pupils more than it can take are Of
satisfactorily.
TX. Buildings and Grounds
II has been mentioned in q pro
viOus section of thiI report tina SOM
OF the grades are badly crowded. In
the Department it was necessary to
flnd NOR" classroom. 50 the Music
and Art room was converted into a
class room and the Music and Art
class moved into smaller quarters.
The high school commercial room
is also badly crowded and ther.
seems to b" no solution for the mat
ter as we have no more room. The
commercial classes as well AS the
typewriting classes all use the
sam" room which is not very large at
best. the typ"writing class being sep
arated from the others by a glass
partition. h lower grades are
also COngcStrd.
Last year. in th" annual report, I
suggested hat a school be built on
III" South Side. and still believe
that this will help relieve the situa-
ton. The census for this year has
not yet been completed. but last year
W. l'nHl 'Hdt lI'It were ABOUT MY
children in school who lived across
the tracks. and that there wcr"
about 20 children of school age on
the South Side. Accurate figures
are not available" az yet. but it il
more than likely that there are no
less there this year as there has been
"A good deal of building down in that
section. 1t is not only a long way
for little folks to walk in stormy
weather. but the subway is an "X-
tremely undesirable feature for the
little folks in many ways that must
be apparent to everyone. have had
more complaints about that on"
thing han anything else. In. justice
to the people who live on the Out
Side as we'll as TO relieve somewhat
the congestion in our lower grades.
believe it would b" we'll " to "s-
tabliSh a two-rOom school down there
and get one or two teachers. accord
ing to the number Of pupils. II
there are sufficient pupils for two
teachers. then onr teacher could hav"
the first and second grades Will" the
other could have tn" third and
fourth grades. Fifth grade = pupils
would come to Central School as
heretofore.
During the past year a tennis court
has been built on the high school
grounds and has proved to be very
popular. After the basketball sea-
son there is not much to do in the
way of athletics 50 this feature has
been Welcomed by the high school
people. The children Of the grades
r are supplied with playground equip
} ment but we have had great diff
Guilty Keeping it intact. Much OF
: this equipment has been broken IN
| and destroyed in various ways. 1t
seems that most of this vandalism
occurs at night. wish Their" were
c some way to put a stop to this sort
of thing. AS a result some OF TINS
e apparatus needs to be repaired and
D replaced.
In accordance with suggestions
II made last year an ash hoist and a
concrete ash pit have been CON
l. strUcted at Central school. This has
d done away with the u~nsightlv ASH
@ pile which used to adorn our Srhool
grounds, and has also mad" tn" task
Of removing ashes easier lor 'h'
q %janitOrS.
il AS there is absolutely no provision
@ for ventilation OF the school rooms
II evcept such means as We may de-
@ wise for ourselves il has been nee
d cssary to install window ventiiators
O in many of the rooms. We wish va
d continue this plan and equip all the
y rooms in the sane way as tn" pan
IS is quite successful.
The worst building problem thai
.a T.. ,bnt nf ,hn high school
~ ,bo FIRST nlaco there
H -, "a u',,or co.napn undo the
:, un, ,L,nr ~. olsn there is no
rn,.n ,rJor If Ga that the floor
~ m,n onn end to, the 9th
- ;, 500, hn useless unless
IS -. Nv ,rr,i. is , cory suriou-
~ o,, IN,