Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1922-02-10
FACTS NOT FANCIEs

respect to that for which it stands, is
an institution of which we as students
and community can well be proud.
We have always gone on record as
one of the best high schools in the
state and but recently when a state
high school inspector visited us we
again were given a high rating. No
tice was taken, however, of the han
dicaps all were working under, as evil
denced by conditions within our worthy
school, which only we who are within
its confines can fully realize, and of
which we, as students, feel Wauwatosa
as a community must be made fully
aware.
Perhaps the following facts and fig
ures may interest you, the reading
public. The 296 students in our high
school are living together as one large
family. This really seems incredible,
for when did two families live content
eddy in a house built for one, or when
did any group of men or beasts dwell
peacefully in crowded quarters? We
have, at present, 296 students crowded
into a building originally built to ac-
commodate 200. Two hundred and
ninety-six students haze not been
crammed into an assembly room seat
ing only 215, for as you have been
heretofore informed, three recitation
rooms have had to be converted into
sub-asseEnblies to take care of the
overflow, and no doubt you can realize
the disadvantages therein; 296 stu
dents pass daily downstairs and
through corridors entirely too limited
in width and length; so classes recite
every day, yet there are but 9 class
rooms. Some classes therefore must
be held in buildings across the way,
In Railways, or wherever there is an
available nook or crook large enough.
The regulation accommodation for
teachers calls for an assignment of
one class room to teacher and q daily
program of five classes, but we have
twenty teachers, many of them teach
ing six classes a day, and only nine
class rooms, necessitating the constant
moving of both teachers and students.
Science classes meet in English rooms,
and vice versa. Teachers must pack
up text books and move to the rest
room or office in order that classes
may meet in their rooms. In some
instances two teachers occupy the same
room. A desk in an upper corridor
must serve as the only spot one teach
er can call her own, and even here
other teachers sit during various
periods of the day and hold confer
ences, hear book reports, and render
other service to needy students.
The above is a somewhat detailed
account of present conditions, but
what of next fall and the situation
confronting US then? Only thirty-fvt
Seniors will graduate this spring, YET
the incoming Freshman class has fol
the past three years averaged about
ninety Next fall there will be added
to this number the thirty students who
should have come into high school this
semester but who for lack of room il
our building are obliged to remain il
the Junior High School building. How
then can the incoming 100 be crowded
into places vacated by 35?
A recent ruling of the school boarc
in Milwaukee has been passed to the
effect that all tuition students shall be
barred from Milwaukee schools. This
ruling must in turn affect US, for We
shall be obliged to take care of all OF
our own Wauwatosa students whether
they will it or not. We are disinclinec
to follow the policy of Milwaukee and
say that in order to take care of our
own we, too, must bar all tuition stu
dents, for we have hitherto welcomed
and we hope we may always wei
come-those who come to US knocking
at our gates of knowledge.
If you would learn further of what
we as students and teachers and you
as parents and citizens are up against
come and pay our school a visit and
see us as we really are. We cordially
invite you, for, as always-Seeing Is
Believing.