The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1922-09-13
Children ON Two Hour a
Day Schedule at Coney
Island.
OFFICIALS PLAN REMEDY
Registration Increases so Per
Cent. In Greenpoint and
Williamsburg.

To add % the DIFFICULTIES of the
Board or Education IN trying 70 pro-
vide classrooms and seats for the un-
usually large registration OF pupils this
term. the city was yesterday dispos-
sessed from one Of is buildings IN
Queens. Forty-eight children have been
attending the school. which IL az Broad
Channel When they arrived for the
opening OF school on the second day
they found the building closed. The
city leases the building from n cor
poration. Disposscssion was on nc
count OF neglect to pay rent for last
year and this year. Il IL alleged.
William G. Gilmore. principal Of the
Rockaway Beach schools. who Is In
charge OF the Broad Channel school,
said that he would arrange for the
pupils TO attend the Rockaway Beach
school for the present. He so informed
the Broad Channel school teacher. Miss
A. Beiran. The children will have 10
go by train 10 Rockaway Beach until
their school room is again available.
II has only one classroom but the own
ers were adding another.
Reports OF the crowded condition or
schools continue 10 pour In at the Board
of Education building. In some districts
it has not yet reached the point OF sat
uration." despite the heavy registration.
James J. Reynolds. district superintend-
ent in Brooklyn. including the Browns
VILE section. said that new buildings
now being built will greatly relieve the
overcrowding but that nearly all the
IL Ia. Ia
session schedules. More pupils can be
cared for, although the teachers are
taxed severely as II Is. There are two
reasons for the heavy registration, the
building OF many tax exempt two
family houses and the settling In this
district of numerous immigrants.
Emergency remedies for the present
congestion In the public schools were
recommended several months ago. In
March the High School Teachers A.
ISOLATION suggested that temporary
buildings be acquired or built where
necessary and again in June the Board
of Superintendent warned the Board OF
Education when the former body recon-
mended the leasing OF temporary quar-.
tiers.
Nearly half the school pupils were OF
the half-platoon system last year and 9
greater number may De forced 10 follow
this program this year. At a meeting
of the Board of Education this Afternoon
suggestion will be made for the leas
ing of premises at Dyckman and Sher
man streets, Manhattan. as an annex x
the George Washington High School
| Other suggestions will probably be mad
with a view to relieving the situation.
| Manual Training 4 High School II
Brooklyn has sought some relief b,
| transferring 200 of the technical stu
dents to the Technical High School a
Flatbush, where they will serve rs or
| ganizers However, there are more ney
pupils demanding admission than tn
number transferred.
| No new registrations are being &C
/ cepted at Hunter College High School
Broadway and 10sth street Seven nun
bred applications have been turne'
away. The school Is on double session
! I'm the main building and in the annex Al
East Sixty eighth street
Elementary school benches. seatinl
three pupils each. have been installed II
1 the Bronx Church House, thus email N
the Morris High School, of which thi
| Is an annex, to accommodate 500 aud
| tional pupils. They occupy ten rooms
fifty to a room.
Coney Island pupils are put on a two
hour a day schedule I'm order to cop,
with the extreme congestion. At Pubn'