The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-06-12
Students Attend Classes In
Low : CelIlnged, Poorly
Lighted Basement - Also
Meet in Unheated Ends Of
Corridors.
ENROLMENT INCREASE
is DUE IN SEPTEMBER
Compulsory School Law Is
Held Responsible for Con.
gestIon-PrlncIpa Milo
H. Stuart Makes Sugges-i
tlon for Remedy.

Arsenal Technical High
School Is facing serious. room
shortage, with no Immediate
relief in sight, Mile II. Stuart, Z
principal, said today. Willis
the school board Is planning
new buildings, Technical seems
doomed to exist as we'll as itl
possibly can, in overerowded,
lily heated and ventilated
rooms, according to Stuart.
Technical's family" is so large
the children have to go to classes
In low-ceilinged. poorly lighted base
ment rooms of an old barn.
Five classes are held In narrow
corridor-ends, without heat In win
ter except the natural warmth Of
the building.
Students wedge themselves into q
long narrow room under the print
ing school In the Arsenal building;
where there Is no heat except the
ordinary warmth Of a cellar. The
ceiling Is low and one Is apt to bump
his head against piles alonF She EN-.
tire length C the room.
The only natural light in the room
Is afforded by narrow transom-like
windows, usually smirched with the
dust from the sidewalk along the
outside of the building, Stuart said;
Room In Basenen.
One of the rooms In the basement
of the barn Is located adjacent 20
the boys toilet, with an exit near
the entrance to the toilet: Girls are
forbidden to enter this classroom
door, but are forced TO go upstairs
and come down another route too q
second entrance.
The school graduated 69s pupils
Thursday night. About 100 are ex-
peeted too enter in September:
Use Cafeteria
The schools cafeteria Is used three
times during the noon hour
Twenty-Five rooms are being used
for classes that were never intended
for such purposes, Stuart said. Ten
rooms, satisfactory for ordinary pur.
poses, are exceedingly over-erowdedI
and eight rooms are In portable
frame buildings, hot In summer and
cold in winter:
The schools need forty new class
rooms, to properly relieve the con-
gestion, Stuart said: But thirtyStw5
rooms would help greatly.
The congestion Is partly caused
from the fact that the compulsory
school law recently raised the ago
limit from IA 10 10 years: Children
are now compelled 20 take the first
two years of high school work. uhi
less they fail TO advance that far
Stuart pointed out.
The building of three new high
schools, proposed by the school
baord. will not relieve Technical td
any great extent: fhere are not
many eolored students I'M Technical
who would so rs the new eelored
high schools
Too Many Students
There are $500 too many high
school students In all the high
schools of the city now; These, less
the colored pupils. practically would
FIJI. or overyfill the, new West Side
school: The new Shertrldge will be
practically filled by students from
the old buiidings Stuart sald
Stuart said one remedy would be
for the school board TO complete the
proposed two wings of the main
building which would provide TWEEN
ty-four elass-rooms: The wings
could be added at a total eest Of
$3.50, 009, he believes:
The school board, handicapped by
failure TO receive ample tax leviesi
through anfavorable action Of the
State tax board, had TO curtail It's
program for Technical and leaves the