Evening star., 1922-05-30
VACATION SCHOOLS
WILL OPEN JULY |
Fl Grade Institutions Plan to
Receive Summer
Pupils.

summer or vacation schools has been
tentatively set for Saturday, July l.,
it was announced today by school au-
thorities. Arrangem for operat-
ing these schools are nearing COM
pletion, although the District appro-
priation bill, which contains an item
of $4,000 for their operation and
maintenance, has not passed Con-
gress. The officials feel confident.
however, that the bill will pass be-
fore July l, and they plan to have
everything in readiness for the open
ing on this date.
Central and Dunbar high schools
will be the only senior institutions
opened for summer classes. Twenty
one grade schools-fourteen white
and seven colored-will be operated
These grade centers are located IN
virtually every section of the city
The white graded schools to be
opened are:
Location of schools.
Arthur. on Arthur place between b
street and Indiana avenUe' Henry y;
Cooke. 18th street between Euclid
and Fuller streets; Corcoran' Zeth
street between NJ and n streets; Den
nison. S street between 18th and 14th
streets; Henry p street between 9TH
and eth streets; jackson, X street
between 31st and Avon place: JeHer-
son, 9Th and ID streets southwest.
Ludlow 9Th and q streets northeast, :,
Monroe. Columbia road between Sher-
man and Georgia avenues: Park view,
Warder street between Newton ana
Otis streets; JohnSon-PoWe HIATT
place between Lamont street ana
Park road; Thomson, 18th and l.
streets: Wallach- Towers. Sth street
near d street southeast, and the
Ketcham, 18th street and Good Hope
road southeast
The colored grade summer schools
will he the following:
Bell, 1st street between b and Z
streets southwest; Birney, Nichols
avenue and Howard streets southeast;
langston, z street between North
Capitol and 1st streets: Magruder, NJ
street between 18th and nth streets :
Lovejoy. 18th and ID streets northeast;
Mott 4th street between Bryant ana
w streets, and the Phillips, street
between 27th and 2Sth streets.
An intensive siN-week course VIII
be given at these schools, concluding
August IL. Approximately $500 pu-
pills are expected to enroll
Chance to make Up"
The summer schools are operated
principally to give children an oppor-
tunity to make up the subjects IN
which they failed during regular
semester Pupils who passed in their
regular subjects and who desire to
advance a semester in their Work also
are enrolled in these schools.
Due to the prospective increase IN
enrolment in the vacation schools
and the lack of funds to provide ad-
ditional teachers, superintendent OF
Schools Ballou has ruled that prefer
ence be given this year to those VINO
have failed in their regular School
work and desire to make up such a
deficiency. When these pupils are ac-
commodated care will then be taken
of those who have not failed in the
regular day school and who desire TO
take the advanced work.
About six Fairgrounds at the larger
graded schools will be operated. The
school authorities will have superVl-
sion over these Fairgrounds during
school hours. while it is planned to
open them in the evening under the
direction of the municipal playground
department Consideration also is be-
ing given by the board of education
to a proposal to turn about twelve
other school Fairgrounds over to the
municipal playground department
which will operate them throughout
the day The board is expected to
take action on this plan at it's meet
ing tomorrow afternoon.
Miss Deal Heads Central.
Miss Alice Deal, principal of the
Columbia Junior High School, again
this year will head the faculty 1t the
Central High summer schools. She
was instrumental in the organiza-
tion of the summer school system in
Washington, and has been principal
of the summer high school for the
last five years. The enrolment at
the Central summer school this year
is expected to reach 1900, and pos
sibly more.
Since school officials started work
on plans for organizing the summer
school system they have been liter
ally swamped with applicat tions from
regular day school teachers, who are
desirous of teaching in these institu-
tions. 1t is estimated that ten times
as many applications for teaching
positions in the vacation schools have
been sent in this year as last. Off
cials, however. expect some of these
applications to be withdrawn by
those teachers in the seventh and
eighth grades of the day schools
who are planning to take the special
junior high school course to be given
under the direction of the board of
education during the summer al Cen
trail High School.