Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-14
Adams to House White Di-
vision Forces and CoIored
Will Be at 14th and q.
CHILDREN MAY START
NEW TERM SEPT. ~
Elementary Principals to Enroll
Pupils Friday and Saturday of
This Week.

Two administration buildings to aug
ment the deficient Franklin Admins
tration Building at Thirteenth and X
streets will be maintained by the Dis
trict public school system this year in
abandoned elementary school struc-
lures.
The old Adams School. at Seventeenth
and r streets, will house the Offices OF
special directors in the white divisions
of the system and the old Beret School,
at Fourteenth and @ streets. will &C
commodate similar officers of the coll
ored school divisions. Announcement
of the establishment of these admins
trative units was made at the Franklin
Building yesterday when it was ex-
planned by officials that the Board Of
Education would be called upon at its
next meeting to officially designate
these schools as administration build
ings."
The Adams School was occupied by
elementary classes until mid-winter last
season when the new John Quincy
Adams School at Nineteenth and Cali
fornia streets was opened. The Beret
School has been without regular classes
for several years, It having been recon-
mended for Immediate abandonment"
for that purpose in 1908. Through last
year, however, it housed a few scat
tered directors offices and manual train
ing classes for boys of neighbortng
schools. With the opening Of school
September %, this old school house will
accommodate the directors Of music,
nature study, f1ne arts, physical train
ing. home economics and kindergartens
and the heads of visual instruction.
Additional Office.
The Beret School will accommodate,
in addition to the directors of the tenth
to thirteenth divisions, the supervising
principal of the tenth division.
Meanwhile, last-minute plans for the
enrolment of Washington's public
school children are being completed in
all school system offices. The 1930-31
academic year may begin September ~
for the children, but for their teachers,
1t gets under way Friday. Every
teacher in the system must present her
self for work on that day and, II
through illness or other cause any one
of them Is unable to attend the initial
with her supervisory ofiicer,
she will be required to provide q sub
stitute just as though she were absent
on a regular class room day.
Will NC
in their buildings to enroll new pupils
Friday and Saturday of this week.
Parents are requested by Robert L.
Haycock, assistant superintendent In
charge of elementary schools, to take
their children to the school building
nearest their homes between 8 and 10
am. or and 8 pm. on those days.
Ofhcial birth certificates or other docu-
mentary evidence Of the prospective
pupils age, together with q vaccination
certificate, must be presented by each
child applying for admission, the school
heads have insisted.
Pupils who were in Washington
schools last year are to report on the
opening day of school to their old class
rooms. There transfers will be issued
them. This applies to children who
have moved from one section of the
city to another and who obviously are
candidates for transfer from their last
years school to a new school.
Opening Day Report.
All high school pupils will report
at their schools on the opening day.
The restrictions placed upon attendance
at Western High School last year will
remain in force during the coming sea-
son, Stephen E. Kramer, first assistant
superintendent In charge Of high
schools, has announced. All of that
schools new students must live west of
Connecticut avenue and Rock Greek,
and Maryland and Virginia children
living in the territory formerly served
by Western will not be allowed to en-
roll until Wednesday, following school
opening Pupils already attending
Western, regardless of their home loca-
ton, will not be forced to seek enroll
ment elsewhere, however.
The reopening of schools this year
will witness one of the most complete
congestion cures recorded recently in
the elimination of the five portable
school houses and the six or eight
parts time classes at the Park View
school. A two section addition to
that school has just been completed
and turned over to the school system
by the District Commissioners to afford
the sorely needed relief for that school.
The five portables which have been used
to accommodate the lower grades at Park
View are located on municipal play
ground property across the street from
the main building and at It's next meet
ing, the school board Is expected to or
der definite disposal of them. The feel
ing in the school Offices is that these
structures will be permanently disposed
of, either by sale of destruction, thus
reducing further the potential number
of portables Washington children may
be obliged to attend.