Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1922-06-15
We NEED A new HIGH SCHOOL
BUILDING IN MINERAL POINT

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If we wish to remain in the front
ranks as progressive city that is at
tentive to the needs of it's children.
The question is often asked, What is
boy or girl worth? No father or
mother will part with their child for
any consideration in money. Govern
ment authorities have estimated that
it costs parents and the community
not less than $4,000 to rear child
to maturity and to educate him. The
biggest investment that we have is in
our children. . In them too our city
finds it's greatest asset for our boys
and girls will soon be producing
wealth and will be carrying on the
work that we are doing.
Our old fourth ward building was
adequate to meet the educational
needs of the past but tomorrow our
boys and girls must be fitted with
bodies that are strong physically,
minds that are keenly trained and
souls that are fired with ambition ii
carry onto greater heights. For
the sake of our children we need a
building that will adequately meet
the educational needs of tomorrow.
Our high school building is now
used for both grade and high school
purposes. When it was designed, it
was intended to house large share
of the grades in our city. 1t was
soon apparent that the building was
not large enough to do this. With
necessary to equip three rooms in
the basement as classrooms for work
/ in manual training and domestic sci
ence In the original plans Of the
building these rooms were to be used
as a shop for the janitor and as store
rooms. All the high school class
rooms are crowded as the building
was designed for much smaller en-
rollment.
The classrooms on the first floor
are all standard sized grade class
rooms and are used mainly for that
purpose. The second floor, which is
now devoted exclusively to high
school work, can with little expense
be converted in model grade class
rooms. Three of the rooms are now
standard sized grade rooms and the
others can be made into regulation
sized rooms by removing a partition
and building one in the assembly
room. The building can be made a
model grade building to which we
can point with just pride. The build
ing cannot be converted into a mod
ern high school building because in
the original plans provision was made
for an enrolment of $50 instead of
220, the number we had in our high
school the past year. Then too no
provision was made for instruction in
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commercial work or chemistry. We
are now doing good work in these de-
partments but cannot offer the type
of instruction that our boys and girls
could get if we were properly equip
ped to give it.
| The board of education is to be
commended on the open frankness
with which they are proceeding to
get adequate facilities for the in
struction of our children. They have
designated June 9th. as the date for
a big mass meeting when everyone
will be given an opportunity to offer
suggestions. The whole problem is
our problem and we should not leave
it to the Board of Education, the
/ Council or Citizen Committee. We
should plan now to attend the mass
meeting and do our share to provide
/ facilities for the best education that
we possibly can for our boys and