The Wrangell sentinel., 1930-04-10
SOME OF THE ADVANTAGES A NEW SCHOOL PLANT
 WOULD OFFER

advantages are the following:
 1. It will be easier and cheaper to operate There is a great deal of equipment that is used in common by several grades. Such things as maps. globes, pictures and other il- illustrative material. the stereoptieon, the mimeograph. reference books, photographs and pianos can be used to better advantage if the entire school is in one building. A smaller stock of paper, chalk. paste, ink, soap, towels. etc., will be required than where a supply of these arti cles must be kept in each of three buildings. We are now paying per year $750 for rent, $500 for repairs and $500 for fuel. The fuel oil bill for the hospital, building sim liar in size to the porposed school house. was $500 last year. The new building should show a saving of $500 per annum on the three items of rent, repairs and fuel.
 2. The health of the children will be more surely conserved. We'll lighted rooms help to eliminate eye strain and attendant evils. Almost none of the rooms now used have enough light or have the light prop erly placed Ventilation is impor tant in any room where people live but it is especially so in school room where many pupils are work ing in a relatively small space. The proposed building will provide prop CT ventilation. Better heat control will also be beneficial to the health of the children. While variation of a few degrees is permissible and even desirable, a fluctation between 40 and S5 degrees as we have ex- perienced a good many times in the high school buildings, is very harm ful. Due to exposed water pipes the high school pupils have been de-
 
 washing during several months of the past winter. The toilets now in use are not conducive to health or to self-respect. Walls have many cracks and ledges which catch and hold quantities of dust and dirt. Floors are cracked and splintered, making aIA A building will remedy these defects.
 3. A new building will make it easier for pupils to do good work. In order to study efficiently it is de- sirable that there be as little dis turbance as possible. In the pres ent buildings there are six rooms separated by only thin partitions or folding doors. The sounds from one room are sure to be disturbing in the adjoining room. In the high school teachers must take care of the five stoves. If a teacher and her class become so interested in their school work that they forget the stove-I am proud to say that happens a good many times the fire has to be rebuilt. Over five minutes is lost at the end of each period while pupils or teachers are moving from one building to an- other. With single building one minute should be enough for the change of classes at the end of period We are using two rooms now that are accessible only by passing through other rooms where classes are in session. All of such interruptions, of course, hinder the best work of class or teacher. Dis cipline will be improved by lockers for the clothes and belongings of high school pupils, cloak rooms in each grade room, under the control of the teacher, properly located stairs, work rooms, etc. Better work will be done in the upper classes when we have suitable rooms for laboratory work and for other special classes. Mark Hop kins on one end of log and James Garfield on the other, is all right. but our teachers are not Mark Hop kins and our pupils are not Gar fields. Doubtless both would do better with better facilities.
 4. A new school will be a source of pride to the community. Every one likes to feel that he is doing his best. There is a special satisfaction in this when the action benefits those dependent upon him, who are unable to help themselves. Most parents strive to give their sons and daughters advantages which they themselves have missed, and take pride in doing so.