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

have been ordered by the association.
All teachers furniture is old and sew
eral chairs are broken.
Webb School, Fifteenth and Rosedale
streets northeast-Eight class rooms,
total enrolment, 344; total sittings, 1856;
no portable, two part-time classes
first grade with 81 pupils and a first
grade with 80 pupils; five classes have
more than IS pupils each, two Of them
having more than 40-a fourth grade
with AZ and sixth grade with Al.
Seven Of the regular classroom seats
are broken. The Parent-Teacher AS
ISOLATION has provided four dozen chairs
for group work for the first, second,
third and fourth grades and ordered
two dozen more. Natural lighting on
north side Of building is poor because
OF proximity to another building; cleo
trio lights satisfactory; ventilation of
nullolng poor, desks in some rooms
being crowded so close to windows that
they cannot be opened in Winter with
out drafts blowing on children's heads;
hot-ar heating plant unsatisfactory,
registers near ceilings SCOT and coal gas
often abundant; old-Style toilets: there
IS one play room for girls, but the room
formerly used for boys play room IS
now used for manual training shop;
outside playground fairly satisfactory,
put surface rough; front lawn insight
ly; noorS in halls and several rooms
splintered teachers have improved ap-
pearance Of some of the old class room
furniture by painting it themselves.
kenilworth School, Kenilvorth ave-
nue. and Ord street northeast.-Four
class rooms, no portable, no teachers
room, no lavatory for teachers. no
coaching room; total enrolment, 1913;
total sittings, 15s; no part-time classes,
no diversified classes; lighting satisfac-
tory; hot-air plant furnishes fairly ade-
quate heat; old-style toilets; two base
ment play rooms; outside playground
large enough, but surface in poor con-
dition. There Is no room in this build
where q sick or injured child or sick
teacher may go for rest or treatment
the only place available for such pur-
pose being a dilapidated couch behind
screen in an open corridor on the sec
ond floor. The building has no store
room.
Playground Needs Draining.
Benning School, Minnesota avenue
and Foote street northeast-Eight class
rooms; one portable building used for
manual training instruction for bows of
kenilworth and Benning Schools: total
enrolment Of Benning School. 243:
total sittings, 256; no part-time classes.
Inc seventh grade OF rs pupils and the
eighth grade of FL pupils, making a
total Of AZ, are combined in one room
with only IS regular school chairs and
desks, the deficiency being supplied with
understood chairs and desks borrowed
from lower grades, with one tall boy Sit
ting at table. One class room Is used
for girls OF the Benning and Kenilworth
Schools for domestic art and science in
struction. The teachers room is small.
There Is no teachers lavatory. no coach
ing room; lighting is satisfactory; steam
heat, partly direct and partly indirect,
for two sections of building Is fairly
satisfactory; toilets are old style. There
are two small basement play rooms. The
playground attached to this school is
one Of the largest in the District, but 1t
is badly in need of grading and drain
ing. When 1t was visited by this re-
porter it was very muddy and dotted
with pools of rain water. The rear edge
OF the playground is only little more
than 10 feet from a steam railroad
track, which runs at the foot of an
embankment on a lower level than the
playground. There is no intervening
fence between the greater part Of the
playground and the track on this side.
The portable building has no artificial
light and is often dark. 1t is heated
unevenly by a stove and the floors are
cold in Winter. The purchase of q
dwelling adjoining the playground has
been suggested to relieve congestion and
make it possible TO give the seventh and
eighth grades separate rooms In the
main building.