Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-04

and a cabinet that do not reach to the
ceiling. On one side is a special cless
of IA girls, while the other side is used
for sewing classes for girls from the
Webb, Pierce, Wheatley and Blow
Schools. About 100 girls receive sewing
instruction here in a week. The space,
for the purpose to which it is put, is
inadequate on the first floor. There is
much crowding. Confusion results from
the fact that sound carries readily from
one end of the room to the other be-
tween the two classes.
The apartment on the second floor
is used to instruct girls from nearby
graded schools in household arts. The
conditions in an actual apartment
house home are reproduced, and in this
respect the teaching personnel regard
the situation as helpful. With the
pupils separated in small rooms, how
ever. it is difficult to carry on the
class work In accordance with modern
methods.
The Morse School, r street between
Fourth and Fifth streets, containing
eight class rooms, is devoted to special
work. Its total enrolment is 81 and
it's total sittings 100. The pupils are
divided as follows: Primary class for
boys and girls, II: a class for over-age
boys. 20; class for average girls, IL;
an ungraded class for younger boys, Is;
ungraded class for older boys, IL;
speech class for boys and girls, 10.
Two OF the class rooms are used for
sewing and cooking instruction for girls
in nearby buildings and those in the
Morse. The lighting and heat in this
building are satisfactory and there is
no crowding. The toilets are old style
There Is a manual training shop for
boys in the basement and one play
room, in which the children eat their
lunches. There is fairly satisfactory
outside playground. There is no prin-
cipals Office and the teachers room is
small. The furniture in the class rooms
is generally old 0nd dilapidated, except
in two rooms. There is not ground
enough to permit outside work, such
as gardening, which is considered bene-
fetal for pupils of these special schools.
In three rented store rooms, 1877 to
TAI Eleventh street northeast. colored
girls from the Lovejoy and Payne
schools are taught household arts. Dur
ing the week 260 girls receive instruc-
ton here. The rooms are small and
narrow, being only about 13 feet wide
and three times as long. There is much
crowding. One class of 26 at the Love-
10y School has received no instruction
because the space is not large enough
to accommodate so many pupils. There
is no place to hang coats and hats and
they are piled on tables or chairs. Day.
light is almost absent and electric lights
are used continuously.
Equipment Insufficient.
Magruder School for Cripples (col-
orer). Seventeenth and M streetS-ThiS
class rooms on first floor of old-type
elementary school building; total enroll
ment today, 81; enrolment Friday, when
last semester ended, IS. One class room
for academic instruction presided over
by one teacher, who instructs kinder
garten through junior high school chill
dren: has variety of furniture, most of
which is constructed especially for Grip
pies. Diflculty experienced, however, in
accommodating children of varying
ages, as only a few pieces OF each size
are installed. Full enrolment accom-
modated by use Of additional class room
furniture OF the kind provided normal
children, rendering discomfort to Grip
pies Glass room has only an old
wooden closet which is inadequate to
store children's work and supplies used
by them. Only two or three text books
for each grade have been delivered, chill
dren relying chiefly on lecture system
for their learning. Only two of the
eIBIlJ WlUuOWS III bIllS TOOIIl CdLl NC lOW-
cred at top, and these so placed as to
create menacing drafts to pupils; other
windows tightly stuck. Temperature in
this room SO degrees at 10 o'clock today.
This school has phvSiotherapist
room set UP in a second classroom.
Equipment at present includes baking
lamp and manipulating table. Ultra
violet ray machine and hydrotherapy
equipment. supposed to be among this
schools facilities, still undelivered.
Third class room fitted as a combina-
ton kitchen. dining room and project
work room. One woman in charge cooks
luncheon for the whole school, serves
1t, assists In teaching projects, and in
late afternoon teaches housekeeping to
group Of normal pupils from adjoining
Sumner Building. Chairs used by
cripples at meal time are ordinary bent
wood type Of adult size. The fourth
class room is fitted as a rest room.
There are only five beds, despite fact
there are IS f1rst-grade children whose
program calls for afternoon nap. Prob
lem met" by using two or three wheel
chairs and by permitting children to
remain in class. thus emitting nap en-
tirely. There now is adequate linen
for beds providing no emergency arises:
school was supplied with markings"
which the household arts teacher was
expected to sew into sheets; enough
have been made to meet present de-
mands. The school quarters generally
need painting and basic cleansing. Two
small toilet rooms were installed in the
corners Of two of the rooms on the
same floor for the cripples' use; these
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