Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-08
FIVE PUPILS REJECT
BOARDS NEW ORDER
in PARK VIEW CASE.
Refuse to Return to Former
School After Transfer Reg
uIation Is Modified.
OFFICIALS ALLOW ALL
BUT IS OLD STATUS
Only Non-P latooned Children De-
MED Permission to Re-enter Glasses
Closed to Them September Is.


Despite the decision of the Board of
Education to permit AZ of the 81 chill
dren transferred two weeks ago from the
Park View oreturn to that school, 5
OF the IS children who were in class
at the Monroe School today, to which
they had been sent under the transfer,
refused to go back to Park View.
At the same time parents of the Is
kindergarten. first and second grade
pupils, who under the boards final de-
ciSion must attend the Monroe School
were undecided today whether they
would accede to the boards order or
continue the fight to enroll their chill
dren at Park View.
Board Holds Long Session.
The Board of Education met as a
committee of the whole in executive
session at the Franklin Administration
Building yesterday and in lively SeS-
sion which extended from $3.50 o'clock
until 6 o'clock, it was agreed to COM
promise the issues in the Park View
battle of the boundaries" The 40
children who are in the platooned
grades-the third to eighth inclusive
were permitted to return to Park View,
while the transfer of the non-platooned
children, of which there were Is, was
upheld by the board. This action was
taken under a 5-to-2 vote, with Henry
L. Gilligan and Isaac Cans, the dis
senting members, holding out for the
complete resentment of the transfer
order. They had fought for the return
of all 81 children to the Park View
School.
The meeting brought forth definite
announcements concerning the policies
of school administration involved in the
transfer of the pupils and in the gen.
eral principles of schol building bound
aries. When the board was about to
undertake definite action on the trans
fer after having heard testimony from
Selden M. Ely, supervising principal OF
the fifth division, and Miss Emily Scriv-
cner, principal of the Park View, DR..
Charles F. CaruSi, president of the
school board, made the following state
ment. which he had prepared prior to
entering the boardroom:
This appeal referring to the appeal
for the resentment of the transfer)
can be properly considered only in re-
lation to the general principles or poll
cies involved in the organization and
administration of the public schools.
General Rules Listed.
In considering and determining the
matter Of attendance of public school
pupils at the one school rather than the
other. the Board of Education is guild
ed by these general propositions:
81 That boundaries between schools
are necessary if the building facilities
are to be fully utilized and if the pu-
pills are to be properly organized into
classes for instruction purposes.
-. That boundaries between schools
must be subject 10 modification under
changed conditions such as the gradual
change from residential to CONNER
cial district or the rapid growth of the
suburban residential sections.
49, That a system of public schools
cannot be successfully operated on the
basis of the parents choice of the par
ticular school that their children shall
attend. Some school buildings would
be full and others empty from year to
year, and only chaos would attend the
recognition or adoption of such a
procedure"
This view was accepted as the basis
for consideration without argument.
Ballou Does Not Insist.
Contrary to the belief in some civic
circles, DR.. Frank W. Ballou, super
intendent, did not insist in yesterdays
closed meeting that the board uphold
the transfer of the 81 children. AS a
matter of fact he permitted his own
views to remain as he expressed them
publicly in the last stated meeting OF
the School Board.
While the arguments of the various
members of the board could not be
learned by the excluded newspaper re-
porterS, it was stated by Harry 0. Hine,
secretary of the board, that the final
action was expressed in a vote taken
on motion offered by Mrs. Leonore
W. Smith, board member. Mr.. Gill;
gan, previously had moved that the
81 children be readmitted to Park View
and Mrs Smiths motion was an
amendment to that suggestion. She
moved that "all of the children in the
platoon schools be allowed to go to the
Park View School except those in the
kindergarten, first and second grades,
and they be sent to the Monroe School.
At the opening Of school this morn
ing, 10 of the children eligible for re-
turn to Park View were in class at the
Monroe School. Five of these wanted to
know if they were obliged to go back
to Park View, and when they were adj
vised that they c. cot they refused to
be transferred.
Dorothy Simmons, an eight-grade
pupil who was transferred to Park View
from Monroe last year when one of the
latter's two eighth-grade classes were
closed; Louis Gianoly, Seventh-grade
two and a half years; Frank Barry,
sixth-grade boy who also spent two
years in Park View declared they were
refusing the transfer because they pre-
ferred Monroe TO the platoon system
school.
Mary Catherine Green, third-grade
pupil. told The Star she would rather go
to Park View, but that her mother was
sending her to Monroe because she had
a little brother who must continue.
Charles Albert, sixth-grade boy, who
had been at Park View FOR two years,
also was refusing to return to that
school because of his mothers wishes.
Mother Visits School.
Although no census was taken at
Monroe School this nothing, it was re-
ported there that only "a few" of the
Is lower grade children had reported
there this morning in accordance with
the school boards action. Mrs. Alfred
Hannemann, one of the most active
protesting mothers, herself appeared at
Monroe this morning to look over the
ground" She declared the first-grade
class into which her chlld now should
go is overcrowded, and she quoted Miss
Scrivener, Park View principal, as say
ing there was plenty of l0om at Park
View for the child. She declared she
was not certain what she would do next,
but she was determined she would
never send her children to Monroe
School.
Mrs. Conklin Tyrell, mother of one
of the children permitted to re-enCer
Park View, accompanied Mrs. Hanne-
, man to the Monroe today "just to
stand by" She told a reporter for