Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-30

necessary. Lighting is satisfactory; hot
air furnace Of old type gives uneven
heat and building is sometimes cold:
SCOT often abundant, and heating plant
frequently breaks down when fan gets
out Of order; hose attachment to wash
out basement needed; no hot water in
building; toilets old style and often out
Of order; two basement play rooms, too
small; outside playground large enough
but badly in need of resurfacing, hav-
ing holes and in wet weather much
mud; playground fence is entirely in
adequate, and 10 years efforts to get a
new fence have been unavailing. There
Is no seventh nor eighth grade in this
school, and pupils of those grades in
this neighborhood have to walk q long
distance to the Wheatley School. The
parents in the neighborhood are asking
for at least seventh grade in the Blow
School, even on part-time basis.
Regular Furniture Needed.
Wheatley School, Montello avenue
and Neal street northeast-Twenty-f four
class rooms; made up of an old but
renovated building with two S-room
additions Of comparatively modern con-
struction; an assembly hall, which Is
also used Is q gymnasium, is provided;
also adequate Office, teachers rooms,
storeroom, etc, all satisfactory since
improvements have been made in recent
years; total enrolment, $40; total sit
tings, 1914; four part-time classes, all
first grades; also two kindergartenS on
part time, as usual ii classes have
more than IS pupils each, of which two
have more than 40-.both sixth grades
with A. pupils each; tables and extra
chairs are furnished to pupils in over
sized grades when regular furniture is
lacking. One class room is too dark for
class work and is used, with artificial
lights, as a library for children, who
spend only 40-minute periods there
twice a week. In addition to the reg
ular class rooms the building has one
cooking room, one domestic art room, one
manual training room and one room
for coaching classes. Lighting is salts
factory, except that electric light is
needed almost continuously in some of
the smaller rooms not used for class
work; direct and indirect steam heating
plants are satisfactory, except that old
part of building sometimes Is dusty
from fan system; old style toilets in old
part and modern toilets in new part;
three play rooms in basement, but they
are seldom used; large outside play
ground is wen fenced and surface is
satisfactory; children's garden and ten
mis- court provided. Chief need of this
building Is new-Style furniture for class
rooms, all now being of old type, even
movable desks and chairs in kinder
gartens and first grades. kindergarten
room has separate toilet and separate
entrance to playground. There are two
kindergarten classes, using this room
at different times Of the day, one having
as and the other 43 pupils.
Desks Are Too Small.
Pierce School, Fourteenth and G
streets northeast-Eight class rooms,
total enrolment, $50; total sittings,
336: two part-time classes-a first grade
with 80 pupils and a second grade with
80 pupils. Eight classes have more
than IS pupils each. In one seventh
grade with 38 pupils there are a num-
Der Of large boys who are obliged to
use desks and chairs much too small
for them. There are broken desks and
chairs in three class rooms and half a
dozen more chairs are so ancient that
the screws will no longer hold them to
the floor and they wobble about when
used. For a coaching room" the only
available space is a landing on the
stairway provided with benches that
fold up against the wall. The teachers
room and principals office are tiny I'M
heated rooms. Only toilet for teachers
office The lighting is satisfactory with
the aid of electricity, the halls being
naturally dark; hot-air plant gives
fairly satisfactory heat, but occasionally
plenty of SCOT and coal gas; toilets old
style; 2 basement play rooms; outside
playground Is q small, closed in, brick
paved space, entirely inadequate, and
children use closed street, where space
Is also limited on account Of heavy
traffic. The floors of the building, par
ticularly in the halls, are In poor con-
dition. Locker space for books is in
adequate. Pressing need is more play
ground space, especially for the 1853
boys In the building. Other needs are
new furniture and room for coaching
work. There was lack Of chairs for
group work among the pupils until the
Parent Teacher Association at It's own
expense provided three dozen chairs
for first, second, third and fourth
grades. Two dozen more such chairs