New Britain herald., 1926-09-11
CITY NEEDS MORE SCHOOLS
 SUPT. HOLMES TELLS BOARD

been increased by the addition of a total Of rooms equivalent in capacity 10 33 school rooms. by additions 10 Osgood Hill, Stanley and Smalley schools. In addition to these rooms, Lew schools are under construction on Goodwin street. Vance street, and Steele street, which will provide a total of school room equivalent in capacity to fifty schools rooms.
 The administrative, supervisory and instruCtional staff of the school department have done q fine piece Of team work during the year. There have been here and there occasion al points of failure or only partial success, but these points have been few and far between. On the whole the record of the entire staff has been such that I am able to report it 10 your committee as creditable and satisfactory.
 We expect, however, 10 do bet ter piece of work in 1926-1927 than we have done in 1925-1926. The part time schooling which classes in Osgood hill, Stanley and Smalley schools suffered during the first semester of 1925-192G must neceS- sarily have resulted in considerable loss for the children of those schools. some of which can never be made Up.
 Part Time Program Forced
 "Unfortunately, again this fall of 1926 part time schooling must be the lot of hundreds of pupils in the Nathan Hale Junior high, the Smith, the Chamberlain, the Monroe and Lincoln schools, to their seri- ous loss and disadvantage.
 Tn this connection, I desire 10 urge upon the school committee the necessity for a continued policy of preparedness with reference 10 the provision of school accommodations There is read for immediate atten- ton to the provision of school on the Niets plot on Clinton street. The parents and children of that section of the city are entitled to school accommodations that are adequate and conveniently located. Their need for new twelve room school be answered as soon as possible.
 There is also need for immediate attention to the rather complex
 problem of relief for the Central
 Junior high school. which now re-
 ccives all Junior High school pupils living south of the Waterbury line
 of the N. Y, N. H., and Hartford
 railway.
 By the erection of the annex 10 the Nathan Hale school and the con- version of that school into Junior High school, the needs of the Junior High school pupils living north of
 the railway tracks will provided for
 for a few years, but this cannot af-
 ford a solution to the needs Of
 Junior High school pupils south of
 the railway tracks.
 "One solution lies in the conver-
 sion of the Rooselvelt school into
 Junior High school. and such con-
 version will make necessary the en- largement Of the Roosevelt school
 and the provision of another ele- mentary school in the eastern sec ton of the city, to accomm odate inc elementary grades which are being
 housed in tho Roosevelt school.
 When these needs Cal for school
 on Clinton street, (b) for more Junior High school room, and (c)
 for another elementary school in
 the eastern section have been pro-
 vided for, there will still be need
 for attention to the following mat
 ters:
 "The improvement and enlarge
 ment of the Northcnd school,
 "The provision of q new school Of considerable size at or near the
 junction of Oak and Allen streets. "The provision of more room for
 the Senior High school, for it is plain that elementary and Junior High school growth must result in Senior High school growth, which will be demanding of the school committee at no distant day ade-
 quate provision for it's accommoda- tion.
 Religious Instruction Successful
 Tn September 1925. the dism Rsal of pupils of Grades II, ", N,Nl, VII, and VIII, for the purpose of weekday religious instruction for one hour each week was begun, un- | der the authorization of the school committee. Judging from the experi- 1 ence of q year with the plan, | recommend its continuance for a second year.
 Tn response to an inbuiry sent to | pastors. religious teachers, and pub 1 lie school principals and teachers in | May, 1926, asking for reports upon ! the value of the plan, the success or l failuro of it's operation, and sugg"s- tions for improvement, without eX- ! ccptiOn all replies expressed conVlc- tion of the value of the plan and a desire for its continuance. Valuable suggestions were received for i'm provements in certain of the details, 1 and these have since been made use ! of in q modified plan for 1a26-192 i TWO factors moro important than i all others in inc upbriuging of chtl- 1 drcn are parental example of the right kind. and religious training { There is little. if anything, that the schools can do 10 affect in any de- 1 gron the example set hy parents, but 1 they can cooperate in making re- | Heious training possible, and in giv- 1 ing 10 the child q higher sense of its importance and necessity. If the fu- ture is to be assured, the American people must take more seriously their duty to the children and both by example and precept must give 10 the coming generation such sense of personal obligation and respon- sibility to home and country and God as will dispcl the notion, based upon a false and vicious psychology, which is now too prevalent and too frequently expressed and acted up- on, viz. that the wrong doer is q Wrong-docr because he is abnormal and therefore is not to he held res
 ponSiblo for his wrong doing.
 s.NaInutriiion Among Children