Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1922-09-21
COUNCIL MAY
APPROVE. SCHOOL
COMPLETION OF CENTRAL
SCHOOL BELIEVED
BEST

hlgh school recently, on Tuesday
night but action on the matter of COM
pleting the Central school building
VIII not be taken until the October
meeting. The delay was insisted up-
on by eleven out of the sixteen mem
bers OF the council present at the
adjourned meeting.
| The report of the Investigating COM
mittee was read after other business
had been transacted and then w. A.
Taege, president of the board, was
called upon to explain the position
of the board of education. Follow
ing him Supt. s. B. Tobey was called
upon and answered number of aues-
tons that were asked by various
members of the council. The position
or several members of the council was
reversed following the report of the
committee. All of those who spoke
believed prompt action to be neces-
sary, Alderman Gehring being the
only member of the council who ad-
vocated delay. This he did, he said.
because he felt he could not vote con-
scientiously until he knew in surer
way the cost Of the proposed struc-
ture.
1t was announced on the floor that
the cost Of completing the Central
school building, including the pur-
chase price or property to the west or
the structure, would approximate
$500, 900.
Alderman George Borowitz was par
tcularly In favor OF completing the
school. Mr.. Borowitz declared that
he had previously been lukewarm
toward the proposition but that for
several years the board of education
had been asking for more room and
now that the councils committee had
found additional space essential, he
felt he must support the project. "The
necessity of completing the Central
school is satisfactorily proved to me-
he said. Mr.. Borowitz made plea for
support of the committees recon-
dations that won him considerable APP
plause from the audience. Alderman
Brayton ". Smith asked the coun-
Gil not to delay the decision, but the
vote was eleven to five to postpone ac-
ton until October. AT that time the
council will decide but at some time
before its next meeting the general
public will be invited to meeting
to discuss the matter
Following is the report of the school
committee Of the council, which CON
sisted of Miss Helen Ohm, Paul
Prochnow and Brayton IL. Smith:
Report OF Committee
To the Honorable Mayor and Common
Council Of the City of Wausau:
Your committee appointed to inves-
tigate and report on conditions In our
public schools and particularly at the
High school, after having made
thorough and conscientious investige
ton, begs leave to report as follows.
We find that our city High school
building is entirely inadequate 10 meet
the demands of our population OF
high school age. The present high
school building was erected twenty
four years ago and was at that time
intended to be sufficient to accom-
modate from four hundred fifty to five
hundred pupils. The daily attend
ance at that building now is approx
imately one thousand with the GER
tain prospect of the number being In
creased to eleven hundred or more be-
fore the end OF the present sch ,ol
year. The result Is combination OF
difficulties In affording the children
the best that might be given which
are absolutely insuperable in spite OF
the valiant efforts being made on the
part OF our corps of teachers to do the
work assigned them. We would beg
TO enumerate the following defects:
l. The assembly hail. which was
originally intended as study room
for all the pupils of the high school,
s equipped with 4f9 desks. At the
time the building was erected IL was
presumed that would be the only
study room in the building. These
desks are intended for only one per-
son each although II is necessary for
two to use the same desk. The desk
room is Insufficient for half OF the
students Of the high school.
2. II was intended that the recita-
ton rooms should be used for class
rooms only, but at present all or
nearly all recitation rooms are being
used as study rooms.
3. The hall and corridor spaces In
the building which were intended to
furnish sufficient passage and cloak
rooms have in many cases had TO be
partitioned off to be used for recita-
ton rooms.
4. Basement rooms with INSULT
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tirely unified for such purposes are
being used as class rooms.
s. One hundred sixty students.
about one-sixth of the total, have no
desk or other place to keep books
and other supplies with the inevita-
BILE result OF loss and confusion.
6. There IL an absolute lack OF
proper space for wardrobe or other
provisions for cloaks or coats of the
students in cold weather.
z. Inadequate hall and stairway
space wastes the time OF hundreds of
pupils and increases the hazard In
case Of fire. In some cases II is me-
cessary for pupils passing from one
room TO another TO pass through other
recitation rooms thus bothering and
hindering those who are attempting to
carry on recitations.
8. Recitation rooms are in many
cases too small for the number OF
pupils in the classes using them.
.. Glasses are I'm many instances
100 large for TIE best work. II Is the