Milford chronicle., 1922-10-27
HOUSING DELAWARE
SCHOOL CHILDREN
THERE ARE MANY SCHOOLS CRAMPED
FOR ROOM WITH NO PROSPECT OF
RELIEF In SIGHT.
USING RENTED QUARTERS
The WHOLE SITUATION lis A CHALLENGE
TO STATE BOARD, LEGISLATURE
AND The PEOPLE.

n TO STATE BOARD, LEGISLATURE
e AND The PEOPLE.
= If any one doubted the necessity
r for school buildings in Delaware he
would quickly be convinced if he
would take a trip through the State
ana see the quarters into which
? Boards of Trustees have been forced
J TO place the children under their care.
Beginning at the northern end of
the State the first point is New Cas-
tie. Despite the fact that the Board of
Education last summer erected Dor
table buildings to accommodate four
grades the major part of the high
school is in a building not the prop
erty of the school district, a building
which dates back almost to the days
OF the Revolution; and some classes
meet in rooms in an old Court House
built by William Penn.
In Delaware City they have for sew
eraI years used rooms in the Episco-
pal Church and have recently occu-
pied the Sunday school room of the
Methodist Church. This is the second |
year that classes have met in rooms
over drug store several blocks from
the main building.
In st. Georges a part of the school |
meets in room over a store right at
the fork of the busiest highway in
the State.
In Middletown 372 children attend
school but the school authorities do
not own single building. The main
school mnnfC n old !
which is rented. One. class meets in
the parlor of a neighboring dwelling
and two in the Parish House of the
Episcopal Church. One class meets
in what used to be club of a field
house in the old days. 8
In Clayton classes meet in a three {
room structure which has been add s
ed to the older building by private
citizens and rented to the State. &
In Frederica, while the building i
called high school is not rented, it is
merely dwelling which is not at all f
adapted for school purposes. 1t was
purchased by the old County Board of f
Education for temporary use because f
It could not be rented. +,
In Milford the reason there are not
some rented quarters is because no I,
'ooms are available. However, the a
District has loaned to it by the DelaE a
ware School Auxiliary Association two m
portable buildings that accommodate
hree classes. Il
In Milton both the Masonic and Odd nj
fellows Halls have been taken over +
or school purposes, one class meeting
n the lower floor of each.
In GpOroetOWn ono oIoee ,,oo+. =.
ne Sunday school room of the Epis-
opal Church and one over a store ON
le main business street of the town.
In Millsboro one class occupies a ~ ~
cry small rented room, inadequate in 0l
very way but the only one available ye
/ the town. oil
In Frankford, two classes occupy III
lie loweFSAoor of lodge hall These nn'
lildren are fortunate to get out of a
cry unsanitary old building.
Selbyville has rather better build So
g than some of it's near Delaware 10,
but it is so Inadequate that 10
rec of the classes are housed in an on
d church which was abandoned at
me years ago as house of worship. is
AS in Milford, the reason why there Lo
e no rooms rented at Greenwood is
cause there are none that can be
und. A part Of the congestion is re- - :
wed by one room portable loan Nv wv
by the auxiliary association. -, ~
Bridgeville has recently faced an @ CIe
ute situation in this line. Forced Eo'
st summer to Vacate two rooms in ueI ueI
club house, the Board of Trustees ser
ted up for class room use some oul
sement rooms never intended for ma
lcational purposes and rented more eCel
ace over the pOstofice. All this is MO ~
addition to a two-room portable" I'M, EnI,
ned by the Auxiliary. ", WI!
Two rooms in the Seaford fire house EHi n l
re recently denied to the grades Cnl
It had occupied them. This drove mus
Seaford Board of Education to an an
'nding a balance which they had IJ1.I GaI
n saving for more permanent work, VIII
hastily constructed wing to an
and unsafe building. Incidentally
y by this spoiled an inadequate but
venient playground. One class con-
les to meet in rented store build udy
ers,
'elmar also falls back on the old Ural
1d-the fire house-fOr one class. WIN
Board of Trustees there recently teuG
compelled to seek even more Cenu
rters for another class. conf
hese are only the cases where no II
spect of relief is in sight. It is not Ine
tn while to mention Claymont, ers'
ark, Dover and Smyrna, for they are
lave hopes of relief in the not too tne
ant future. But this does not ex- Ter
st the list of places where public lures
titles are inadequate and rented IarM
tiers are being used. as W
le worst of it all is the fact that usua
) getting worse. More calls for Oh So
4 come in each year. The whole Co,r
ltion is a startling challenge to OVM-
State Board, the State Legislature
to the people of the State in gen. -
What shall we do to house our D[Wi
oil children in the way that they pany
rye? assuT
estinl
RGE TT. DRAPER. JR HAS sport