New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1927-08-06
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and kind of treatment needed. H
could be secured at a probable cos
of $3.50. A dentist would, of course
give the same information and. i
simple equipment we're furnished
could extract teeth in so far as hi
limited time would permit. / would
strongly recommend that an expen
diture Of $1,000 be provided for il
the next budget to cover the cost o
work In oral hygiene.
Evening School
The Kensington Grammar schoo
was again opened for IS nights tc
serve continuation classes and those
foreigners seeking a better knowl.
edge Of English. Skilled teachers
Mrs Young and Miss McGee-were
again secured. The usual success Of
the continuation class In keeping g
record breaking attendance to the
edn Of the sessions made 1t possible
| for Berlin to secure from the STATE
the sum of s210.77 based on the
average attendance of boys and girl:
Of difficult age thus kept from tbs
streets.
The foreign department presents g
problem. 1t should be discontinued
unless public spirited men and wo.
men care, as a civic service, to In
vite personally to the evening school
their foreign friends. neighbors and
employees. Only the individual touch
accomplishes in this work. This
year but II men and women regis
tered and only five attended as ar
average.
This small showing would have
made that branch of work too ex-
pensive to continue had not Miss
MCGEE very kindly consented tt
share her time with Mrs. Young
This made it possible to release
Mrs. Young for the teaching Of
| typewriting ofifteen young mer
and women who had come in fol
this special work. This new depar.
ture was decidedly worth while
and Mrs. Young had unusual re-
suits to show at the close OF the
session.
Whether with one or two depart
ments, the Evening school splen-
didly serves our town. The fact that
our continuation class had 81 en-
rolled and had an average attend
ance of Al throughout the fall and
winter shows an appreciation of the
| he ~ nf
students.
The Future
1t is gratifying to note that this
year more of our young people
graduated from the New Britain
High school than in any other year
For a long period, the number OF
students completing their course in
the Senior High school was so small
that the thoughtful citizen was dis
couraged at the cost per capita.
Disturbing information has come,
through the press, that the doors
of the New Britain High school may
be closed to our youth in the near
future. 1t is well to keep this pos
sibility in mind in planning any
building program.
When 1 became supervisor IN
1923, was urgently requested to
refrain for two years from making
an appeal for new building. The
two years have doubled in length.
Eight different teachers and $50
children during these last four years
have suffered from poor lighting,
poor ventilation, crowding and gen
eral inconvenience In two basement
and two portable rooms.
The registration in these four
rooms will doubtless be larger this
coming term. Even though we con-
tinue to exclude children under five
and a half years Ito the bitter dis
appointment of parent and, often.
Injustice to the child) there is
worry as to their housing. The new
basement room opened last year for
the teaching of four different high
school subjects can, of course, pc
taken away from the older chlldren
and given over to the youngest-to
the very individuals who should
have the greatest amount of beauty
sunshine and fresh air. Or as an al
tentative, children may not be ad-
mitted until six years of age. Inc
mind of any citizen rebels at the
manifest injustice and inadequacy
of either plan but it will be newt
able by another year unless steps
are taken to erect a new building.
perusal OF desk registers kept
bv local teachers in the years 1909,
1919 and 1927 reveal certain inter-
esting facts which denote that the
school population Of the town prac-
tically doubles every ten years. In
1909, four small rooms with reg
istration Of 2o5 served the district
of Kensington exclusive of Blue
Hills).
In 1917, ten rooms In two sepa-
rate buildings (Percival and Ken
sington Grammar were needed to
care for 425 children. There was.
however, a marked overcrowding
in rooms.
In 1927. eighteen rooms in three
different parts of Kenslngton are
Inadequate to care properly for 64S
puoils. This condition exists al
though the introduction of a junior
high school In 1920 necessitated
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