New Britain herald., 1930-11-28
NORTHEND SCHOOL
 PARENTS ID MEET
Wish to Spur City On to Con- StruCti0n Of New Building

Although no definite date has been set, the executive committee of 1he Northend school Parents and Teachers association has decided to call a special mass meeting of the parents in the district to discuss ways and means of hurrying action on the proposed construction of new building in the district.
 Mayor George A. Qugloy who has voiced opposition 10 school construc- lion at this time, will be invited to speak at the meeting. He will be expected to give reasons why he does not believe it wise during the present depression to so through with the plans.
 The executive committee has not changed his contention that the dis trict needs a new school building despite arguments advanced by the mayor that repair of the present lUildlng would be the more cco- nomical move.
 Clark Makes Statement
 Francis A. Clark, president of the Northond school Parents and Tcach- CTS association, today issued the following statement
 The parents Of children attend ing the Northend school are dissatis- fled with accommodations that have existed for d long time and which still exist.
 Tn a Special Report on Northend School Needs dated April, 1928, to school committee members Superin- tendent of Schools Stanley H. Holmes, wrote, The conditions in the Northend school building are fa- from satisfactory. It is not difficult 10 understand the feeling of dssat- i~taction already expressed by the parents of the district when they compare conditions in the Northend school with those of the Vance, Lin Coln, Smalley, Franklin. Washing ion, Elihu Burrtt, Stanley, Roose- welt, Nathan Hale and other schools.
 Tn a special report of the school committee for April, l930. on The Northend School after expressing much the same sentiment this re- port continues: The present build. ing is not only too small for both present and future needs, but it is also obsolete, unsanitary and un- safe. 'Furthcrmorc,' states the re- port, the successful operation of modern and progressive school pro- gram such as is possible in schools like tnc Lincoln. Roosevelt. SmaIlcy, Franklin and other of our modern school buildings is impossible in an obsolete building such as the pres cnt Northond school. which in all particulars falls far short of the best standards Of modern school housing
 The agitation for a new school building to replace the present plant is not something new. Fully = years ago the school committee was dis satisfied with conditions as they then existed at the Northend school.
 At their order plans and specifi- cations were drawn for new North end school. These plans in gen. eral way provided everything that IS now demanded by the parents. The money necessary 10 erect the build ing as planned was appropriated, if We are correctly informed, but rap idly changing conditions and pres sure from other sections of the city caused the school committee to di- vert these funds to relieve the pres sure and conditions in other parts of the city.
 Just Average Citizens
 Ever since that'time the question Of a new Northend school has been brought up again and again but pressure from other parts of the city contributed to spending of available funds for new schools in every other part of the city. The people of the Northend school are by and large what arc known as Our Average Citizens They neither shine nor complain. They do not make them selves obnoxious because they are not given first preference. It takes lot of abuse 10 arouse them. But in recent years it has been becom- ing more and more apparent that school building was being allotted 10 those who steadily and uncom-