Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-07
COMPROMISE SEEN:
IN SCHOOL DISPUTE
AS OFFICIALS MEET
Members Predict Transfer of
81 Pupils Win Be Settled
"AmicabIy."
INSTRUCTION SYSTEMS
MAY FIGURE IN RULING
Parents Prepared to Insist Children
Should Be Taught at
Park View.

Indications that a compromise
would be reached in the Board Of Edu-
cations consideration this afternoon OF
the Park View battle of the boundary. u
caused when 81 children were ordered
transferred from the Park View School
to the Monroe School, were seen In
civic and school circles today.
Although declining to comment on
any proposed action which might tran
spire at todays executive session, school
board members predicted AN amicable
settlement"
The only amicable settlement of the
situation, so far as parents of the 81
children are concerned, would be q de-
cision, regardless of its ramiflcations
permitting the children to return to the
Park View School, their leaders de-
clared today. On the other hand. II
appeared to observers that the So chill
dren will be treated in two sections In
this afternoons discussion. ..
This belief Is predicated on the nature
and trend of questions put to school
ofhcials and protesting parents alike
at the regular public meeting of the
Board Of Education last wednesday,
when delegations from both factions In
the controversy were heard by the
board.
Basis for Protest Sought.
At that time Mrs. Philip Sidney
Smith, board member. sought to es-
tablish single basis for protest against
the transfer when she asked the pro-
testantS If they refused to accede to
the transfer because of their fondness
for the platoon system Of education.
under which the Park View School Is
operated, or because of sentiment for
the building itself.
The parents responded that they
favored the platoon system. In the
same meeting other board members In
uuired as to the number of pupils actu-
ally studying under the platoon system.
They were told that since the platoon
system embraces the third through the
eighth grade, AZ of the transferred So
boys and girls would lose schooling
under the new experimental type Of
education, while the remaining is
pupils of kindergarten, first and Sec
of education in the Monroe or hny
other public elementary school that
they had been getting at Park View.
These questions and subsequent de-
velopments have led to the belief that
the board may rescind the transfer
order as it affects the ~ platoon
school children, but 1t may uphold the
transfer OF the remaining Is.
If this Is the "amicable settlement"
which the school board members hope
to reach, and 1t was impossible today to
ascertain iS~ft is-zAit stali Is unlikely that
parents of the transferred pupils will
accede to the decision OF the school au-
thorities. The Park View Citizens AS
ISOLATION, Of which Fred S. Walker is
president, IS on record as favoring en-
rollment of any pupil residing in the
Park View community in the Park View
School. At the same time the assocla-
ton, through its executive committees.
the parents in their fight to keep their
children in the Park View School.
Gillixan Plea May BE Factor.
The association further decided that
a child of a family in which an Older
child is attending Park View be per-
mitted to continue in the school, on the
ground that the younger pupil could be
taken safely to and from school by MS
elder brother or sister.
The plea of Henry GlIligan. board
member, who at last Wednesdays Ses-
sion showed himself probably more in
clined to support them than any other
member, that parents abide the school
boards action, may aid in attaining
acuuiescence of the parents to the nnal
decision.
Meanwhile the maiority of the parents
sent their children to Park View School
again this morning as they did nearly
two weeks ago, only to again have them
refused admittance. The minority OF
10 or 10 pupils still were In class at the
Monroe School.