Evening star., 1932-09-18
$1,000 TO ENROLL
ASSCHOOLS BEGIN
TERM TOMORROW
Night Classes to Account for
1000 of Total, With In
creased Instruction.
RULES FOR CHILDREN
REPEATED BY OFFICIALS
New Theodore Roosevelt High and
Two New Elementary Schools
to Be Occupied.

Nearly VI ,UUU StudentS Will enroll IN
the Districts public schools when they
resume both day and evening sessions
tomorrow.
OF this total, which includes every
type of enrolment from kindergartens
through teachers colleges and vocational
schools, approximately 10000 will enter
the day schools and about II 900 will
enter the night schools.
The beginning of the 1928 school
year marks the first time in the history
of the school system that the day and
night schools open on the same date.
The new schedule provides the evening
school students with approximately one
third more instruction during the year
than formerly and shortens the time
required to secure high school
diploma.
Anticipating a heavy burden in han
ding thousands of children tomorrow
morning. school officials last night re-
peated their public enrolment 1nstruc-
tions. Briefly they follow:
Beginners pupils being enrolled In
school for first time)-Go to school
building nearest home. Take vaccina-
ton certificate and birth certificate.
Children 5 years old by November ],
NAV enter kindergarten: children 6
years old by November l, may enter the
first grade.
Elementary pupils promoted last June
Go to class room occupied at the close
OF school lat June and there De seht
to new class.
Fer Promoted Pupils.
Pupils entering high school on pro-
motion from Junior high schools or
gradeS-Go to high school ceTtlfed 1or
at close of school last June.
Pupils entering high school on pro-
motion from elementary school-Co 10
school certified for last June
Old senior high school StudentS-Re-
rort to last years section room.
Night school studentS-Register at de-
sired school at $50 o'clock tomorrow
night.
The feature of the reopening OF
schools tomorrow will be the occupa-
ton for the first time of the new Tneo-
dore Roosevelt High School at Thlr-
teenth and Upshur streets. Until TINS
school is organized on the basis OF
students certified for it at the close OF
the last school year no new pupils
will, be admitted there except those
who desire to take an intensive business
course. All other regular academic
course students will be enrolled in the
older schools.
Dr.. Stephen E. Kramer, first assistant
superintendent in charge Of high
schools, said last night, however. that
if after the first few days of the build
ing's occupancy sufficient room Is left,
children living in the immediate terri
tory will be transferred to the school.
The Theodore Roosevelt High School
will occupy the same position with re-
spect to commercial courses that the
Mckinley High School holds in the
technical training field. Students head
ed for engineering colleges or technical
schools may enter Mckinley to study
the intensive mechanical courses avail
able there regardless of the section Of
the city in which they live Similarly
commercial students who require more
training in business methods than the
minor office practice courses offered
elsewhere may enter Roosevelt, where
this work is speciality.
Western High Restrictions.
Western High School, at Thirty fifth
street and Reservoir road, will resume
with the same strict limitations on en-
trance that prevailed last year. No
new nonresident pupils and no pupils
living east of Connecticut avenue will be
admitted.
DR.. Kramer already has warned that
If rs more students than the number
already registered at Western are ad-
mitted that institution will have to go
=; mean the student body would be pla-
tooned, with one section attending
! classes in the morning and the other
in the afternoon hours with neither
gettig a full days schooling. BY strict
limitation the double shift can be post
poned until next September, DR.. Kramer
has said.
Two new elementary schools will be
opened tomorrow morning. according to
Pnhert HaVCOnk assistant SllDerln-
tendent in charge of elementary schools.
The Phoebe A. Hearst School, at Thirty
seventh and Tilden streets, will receive
approximately $50 students. This build
ing's capacity is 800 pupils. Opening
of this school will relieve to some extent
the congestion at the John Eaton School
in Cleveland Park and the Tenley-
Janney School The former will be
without part-time classes and portable
school buildings for the first time in
years. The Tenley-Janney School also
has had part-time and oversize classes
The other new elementary buldlng
is the Benjamin Stoddert School, Thlr-
ty-ninth and Calvert streets, which also
can accommodate 800 children. Use OF
this building, which was opened a few
weeks before the end of the last school
year relieves to a great extent the long
overcrowded Fillmore School at Thirty
fifth and R streets, and aids in relleV-
ing the congestion at the other build
ings in the Georgetown-Burlei Glover
Park area. Still further relief OF con-
gestion in the northwest section WIZ
be afforded in the opening next year OF
the new Foxhau Village School at Fox
hall road and @ street.
Teachers returned to their schools
Friday and yesterday they enrolled
children in preparation for tomorrow
opening No time will be lost in get
ting classes into actual operation and
in virtually every school in the system
children will be at work less than hall
an hour after the bell rings at 8 am
Furthermore, most pupils will get their
first homework assignments tomorrow
so the transition from vacation days
to schools will be as complete as 1t is