Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-27

Building No. 4, So pupils In grades Ia
and 1B. This group Of portables iso-
lated from other school house. Only
toilet facilities in clubhouse, which,
though connected with the District
sewer system, Is entirely without heat.
Reporter found this structure cold as q
refrigerator. Only water supply from
unhoused bubble fountain, which froze
solid during recent cold wave, and ac-
eempanying hydrant. The portable
schools here seemed warm, due, teach
ers explained, to constant and unusual
~ energetic work Of colored janitor.
playground Is rural in type, lacking sur
facing and fencing.
Six Rooms OvercrOwded.
Janney School, Albemarle street near
Wisconsin avenue-Two stories and
ground floor Gin place of basement)
eight class rooms and combination GYM
nasium- assembly hall; total roll, $50;
total sittings, $50. All class rooms and
one unassigned" room occupied. Six
diversified claSses-Eighth grade, 46, ne
eessitating use of three tables and
odd chairs In view of 40 sittings; sew
enth grade, Il with a sittingS; sixth
grade, Al with Is sittings, necessitating
use OF odd furniture: fifth grade. "A
with 40 sittings augmented by extras,
which crowd floor space; fourth grade,
a with 40 Sittings, and combination
third and fourth grade, ~ with 20 sit
tings. neceSSitating odd furniture and
crowding room. One opportunity class
Of 80 Is diversified considering "indi-
viduar' attention each pupil is sup
posed to receive, while other "oppor-
tunity" classes have % and 81, resepc-
lively. The unassigned room, which
ordinarily would be used for coaching
or special class purposes, handicaps its
| pupils by absence OF regulation black
boards. Teachers room used for coach
ing and couch, gift of schools Parent
Teacher Association, placed in audito-
rum. where sick children may rest.
| Teachers lunch room equipped with
gas stove which never has been con-
nected with gas mains. Boys play
room, adequately lighted and heated,
now used for manual training classes,
class rooms in bad weather. Buildings
walls never tinted, now dirty. Play
ground unsurfaced, 50 schools ashes are
dumped on it; students themselves pick
UP big cinders and stones on periodic
''rock days" This school expects to
have portable assigned TO 1t to meet
next semester's increases. Toilets mod
ern and heating and lighting all right
Tenley School, Wisconsin avenue al
| Albemarle streets, two stories, eight
| class rooms; total enrolment, 276: total
| sittings, 273. All class rooms occupied;
| four diversified classes-combinati
second and third grade, so with AZ sit
tings, necessitatipg tables and odd
chairs In room corners; second grade
43 with AZ sittings, using table and odd
chair and kttnSsrsate1 p6 80 with S1,S 81
needs painting; toilets old-fashioned
dark and cold. One class room used az
cooking household arts center. Play
1 rooms badly lighted and ventilated
| girls room has only one window and G
door letting out onto q deep and mar
row areaway. Heat and light all right
High Enrolment.
Z. v. Brown School, Connecticut
avenue and Mckinley street, 2 stories
is rooms, 3 portables, part-time
classes; total enrolment, 909; total
| sittings, 1853. All rooms occupied
grades ranging from kindergarten
through 8B. Fifteen oversize classes
80 in 8AB, AZ in "a, 38 in 7B. 80 ir
in ga, 81 In 5B, 80 in 5A, SO in 4B
housed in portable, As in "A, ~ in "A
3B in portable, SO In part-time Sab
and Al in part-tine 2B. Remaining
6 part-time classes are lB Of 81, la o.
30, "a Of IS and another Ia Of 50
Two kindergartens also share same
room, one of 81, the other of SO pupils
Sewing class sits in articifially lighted
second-noor corridor adjoining woodel
stairway. This space has no window
opening on outside and children worl
entirely by dull electric lights: sewinl
teacher lacks adequate storage spacl
for supplies. Manual training ant
domestic science CLASSES use basemen
rooms with good daylight and air
Small basement room fitted as emery