Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-02
Georgia Avenue Boundary
Line for Pupils Reported
Recommended.
OFFICERS ARE SILENT
BEFORE BOARD Meeting
Traffic Gantlet- Running to Mon
roe Glasses Said to Be Main
Contention.

Support of the parents who have re-
fused to accede to the order transfer
ring their children from the Park View
School to the Monroe School was ex-
pected to come from at least one OFF,
cial quarter at the meeting of the Board
of Education this afternoon.
Seldom M. Ely, supervising principal
OF the fifth division, 1t was understood,
has recommended to his superior OFF,
GERS in the school system that children
living east of Georgia avenue be per-
mitted to attend the Park View School.
Mr.. Ely, himself, would not comment
upon his report or any recommended
tions which he had made, explaining
that the report was in the hands OF
Robert L. Haycock, assistant Superin-
tendent in charge of elementary schools.
and any release of information would
have to be made by that officer.
Declines to Discuss Report.
Mr.. Haycock, in turn, declined to dis
cuss the report on the ground that since
Mr.. ElyS views were sought as in
formation for the Board of Education
any data which that officer may present
should be given first to the board.
However, the conviction that Mr..
Ely would recommend the retention In
the Park View School of children whose
homes were situated east Of George ave-
nue. persisted strongly.
If the recommendation attributed 10
Mr.. Ely reaches the school board the
Park View Citizens Association deleea-
ton, headed by Fred S. Walker. presl-
dent, will find it's plea strengthened
from the inside before the tribunal
which finds itself now in the position
of referee between the protesting par
ents of the transferred children, DR..
Frank w. Ballou. superintendent, who
has advocated the transfer. and the
Monroe School Parent-Teacher Assoc
citation, which has sought the enroll
ment of children living within that
schools district at that building.
Continue in Platoon System.
Mr.. Ely,s reported recommendation,
apparently based upon the fear of Fore
ing children to run the gantlet OF
Georgia avenue traffic to reach the
Monroe School, would eliminate not
only that complaint OF the parents OF
the SIS children, but at the same time
would permit those boys and girls to
be continued in the platoon system
school and would not oblige them to
attend school in what they have con-
tended is an unsuitable neighborhood,
both of which factors have been made
the basis of the opposition.
Whether the school board will adopt
the recommendation attributed to Mr..
Ely seemed highly uncertain today.
The obvious necessity of establishing
some boundaries between school build
ings was paramount in the minds Of
some members in whose minds the con-
troversy over the Park View-Monroe
School situation had narrowed down to
o mere agreement on those boundaries.
The recommendation, which it was
believed Mr.. Ely had made. appeared
particularly interesting in view Of the
attitude of his superior officers at the
Franklin Administration Building. Re-
gardlng the issue in this afternoons
contest before the school board as a
question of whether the board is go
ing to stand behind its administering
officials, those officials have said
throughout the controversy that the
boundaries over which the present dis
pute arose were established by Mr.. Ely
himself last year.