Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1922-09-21

school should nave one teacher ~
each twenty-five students enrolled
Some of our classes run as high al
seventy.
TO- Every teacher should be pro
yided with recitation room where
the pupils of any class could find tn'
teacher to consult with her at times
as to their individual problems. Al
pupils find times when they do MOI
fully understand what they are at
tempting to study and few words
with the instructor straightens the
matter out and in some cases com
pletely puts them on their feet where
otherwise they would become discour-
aged. No teacher in our high school
is provided with an individual room
IL. The number of class rooms is
entirely insufficient for the number
of teachers and teachers are obliged
to do much of their writing and 9TH
err office work in. halls and other out
of the way places.
II. There is not room in the
building that is available during
school hours for teaching of either
music or drawing.
13. Gymnasium facilities are so
meager that only a small portion
of the student body can make ade-
quate use of it..
IA. The library is not sufficient to
accommodate more than half of those
who desire and ought to use it.
Is, An utter lack of sufficient toll
ct facilities causes inconvenience and
is a positive menace to the health
and welfare of our children.
The Remedy
1t is needless to suggest expansion
to other school buildings. The other
buildings are all beingused to their
capacity with the possible exception
of the Grant school where we under
stand there will be some small space
not occupied after the First ward
school is completed, but this cannot
be utilized proftably for high school
work and even if it could the ne
cessities Of the pupils in the grades
will fill this building to its capacity |
in the very near future.
Several remedies are proposed from |
different quarters as follows:
l. The building of an addition to |
our present high school building or |
the same site.
2. A high school building on the |
west side of the river.
3. A junior high school building on |
the west side.
4. Completion of Central school |
building as contemplated in the be-
ginning and the use of that building |
to accommodate vocational school and |
junior high school,
B. Erection of building east of the
Central school where the Humboldt
school now stands.
These VariOuG cupoactipnc ma find |
have all been considered and debated |
over by our board of education and |
your committee has considered them |
and weighed their merits and disad-
vantages.
In taking action on the situation |
we must do so with vision for the |
future. Central Wisconsin is filling
up with settlers. Industries are on |
the move and some are settling in
Wausau and Wausau is going to grow. |
We believe in the future of our city, |
we believe we are destined to make |
a solid and continuous growth in
population and we would be very
short sighted indeed If in the present |
condition we thought only of reliev-
ing the pressure for the present mo-
ment. The only economical proceed |
ure is to plan and act for consid-
cradle number Of years When our
high school building was erected |
twenty-four years ago there is no
doubt that it was thought to be ade- |
quate for great many years but we |
have more than outgrown ii. Our |
other school buildings as fast as they |
have been built and we presume they
have all been built with the expecta-
ton that they would be sufficient for |
considerable number of years ahead, |
yet their capacity is taxed to the |
limit
The time Is coming, and that soon, |
when it will be necessary to provide
Tor Junior high school west OF the |
river and eventually to provide for |
Seniar high school west of the river |
the time to begin planning for that !
situation Is now, and looking forward |
10 those events We believe that the |
city should now acquire land in |
convenient location on the west side |
OF the river for adequate high school |
iacillties, both Junior and Senior. De- |
slrable property for that purpose can
De purchased at this time at a great
saving over what it would cost ten
years from now. We believe that in
much less time than that, probably
within five years, 1t will be necessary
to build Mt least Junior high school
on that side of the river.
Among the plans proposed for re-
heVlng the high school situation we
believe the most feasible and most
economical, and in fact the only feas-
IDLE plan is To complete the Central
school building, This. of course means
the acquisition of the several proper
Ties lying west of the present build
ing aud the moving off OF houses be-
fore building operations can begin,
We believe that this work should be
attended TO without days delay in
order that provisions can be made for
the oncoming classes of students for
September 1923.
The opinion of your committee In
this matter is supplemented by the
unanimous expression of your board
of education so far as they were
present at their last meeting. In