The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-10-15
BOARD DECIDES
NOT CHANGE
ITS POSITION
Junior High Arrangement at
Will School Will Go Into
Effect, Decision
PROTESTS ARE MADE
Group of Patrons of Various
Schools Appear at Board
Meeting in Opposition


school, heard protests from patrons
Of the Richholt, Roosevelt and
Wachter schools over the junior
nigh plan announced recently. Al
ter the public protests were heard,
the board retired to consider the
protests and a petition bearing over
5O0 names, and it was announced
that the recent order would stand.
Under the plan, the junior high
school is concentrated at the Win
school, seventh and eighth grades
being discontinued at the William
Moore and Richholt schools, and
pupils Of the seventh and eighth
grades in territory tributary to the
Wachter and Roosevelt schools will
go to the junior high. The change,
it is planned, will be effective next
week.
A large number Of patrons were at
the meeting, which was adjourned
from small room to the assembly,
room of the high school. Mrs.
William Ode presented petitions,
which she said bore over 500 names,
against the proposed arrangement.
A number Of patrons spoke.
Opposed to Change
Mrs. Frank Paris declared that in
her opinion it was too late in the
year to be making the proposed
change.
Louis Benzer said II am not in
favor of it. We have trained athle-
tic work at the Richholt school.
am opposed to taking these pupils
from there and putting them in the
Will school where there is no gym
nasium and no playground. They
won't face the wind either way to
60 to gym at the Richholt or the
Roosevelt schools. We built these
ward schools to have the little chill
dren close to school. Under rhe
change, you will have to take little
children from the Will school to
other schools. believe the change
is an injustice"
Mrs. Ode, presenting her petitions,
said they were signed by taxpayers
of the east and west parts of the
city. She said many had built
homes around the schools, that the
schools were built to accommodate
the children, and now children liv-
ing close to the Will school would
be sent far away from it to school.
She declared that people are not al
ways able to take their children to
school. She said that if her chill
dren went to the Will school and
came home for dinner they would
have to walk 60 blocks a day. Now,
=, she said, they are three and one
half blocks from school.
II understand the west end lidn't
want to take away anything from
the people of the east end" she
said. "They just wanted the seventh
and eighth grades in their own
schools"
Carl Bredy said II have quite a
few children. They like the chill
dren and teachers out at the Rich
holt school, and don't like to change.
All in the east end stand up for the
Richholt school. think it would
be just as we'll to spend a few more
cents and leave the children in the
east end, and give the west end wha:
it wants."
West Sides Position
Obert A. Olson, speaking as a
representative of patrons of the
Roosevelt school, said: 1--WE don't
want to take anything from the fel-
lows in the eastern part of the city,
but we would like some way to get
teachers for the west end. The dis
tance is too great for little children,
to be sending them out of their
neighborhoods."
Mrs. Ode suggested the board
might make central junior high
at the Will school or the William
Moore, unless the southside object
ed that the William Moore school
was too far away, and leave the
Richholt school as it is.
Anton Aune said that under the
arrangement children would have to
60 past one grade school and the
high school, to get to school. He
said he was told this was to be
done to save money for taxpayers,
but declared it would cost him
much more to have his children 60
to the Will school, because he
would have to hire girl at home.
AL Brooks remarked, among other
things, that the first grade at the
Richholt school was now over
crowded.
Mrs. John Arnold declared that 81
think the south side needs the
seventh and eighth grades as bad
as any schools on account of the
railroad tracks.
View of President
President Lenhart, presiding, said
the board would consider the mat
ter in session after the meeting.
1--WE are trying to do the best we
can for the most people," he said.
"Some will have to 60 farther than
! others, no matter what we do"
Mrs. Ode remarked that there
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