Evening star., 1933-09-17
H,0DO STUDENTS
RESUME CLASSES
HERE TOMORROW
8 500 Enrolment Gain and
$4,000 Teacher Fund
ccut Offer Problem.
SERIOUS JAM FACED
IN SENIOR HIGH UNITS
Heavy Burden Will Fall on West
ern, Eastern and Roosevelt
Institutions.

Approximately 1900 boys and girls
will enter the Districts public schools
when the l933-34 academic year opens
at 9 am tomorrow for what local edu-
Gators believe will be one of the most
crucial experiments in public educa-
tion here.
The business of converting such a
large number of young vacatlonlStS
into orderly classes of students will be
completed with dispatch, as plans for
school opening have been worked out
to provide for every detail. The big
problem which admittedly faces the
school this year, however. is one which
will continue throughout the year
the instruction of something like $500
more children than were enrolled last
year. with the elimination of $95 900 in
teachers salaries.
The reduction in teaching personnel
will be met by the operation of larger
classes, by the use of directors and
supervisors in teaching capacities as
well as in their regular administering
positions, and, in the elementary
schools. by the grouping of as many
as three schools under a single prln-
ripal. These emergency measures were
ordered by the Board of Education
Ballou, superintendent of schools, as
necessary ways and means of living
within the appropriation" which suf-
fered marked slashes at the hands OF
Congress last Spring.
Will Keep Close Tab.
School officers said yesterday they
will watch closely the effects of the
economy measures on the quality OF
instruction In the face of the modern
trend in education toward smaller
classes. VIII ch afford greater lndlVld-
ual attention for each child, they re-
gard the measures they have had to
adopt for 1933-34 with frank ap-
prehension.
When schools reopen only two new
elementary school buildings will be.
these. the Kenilworth School, is a re-
placement of the temporary frame
portables which the Kenilworth chill
dren had occupied since their regular
school house was condemned and razed
as unsafe more than year ago AC-
tually the only new building, which
adds to the total school house ac-
commodattons of the system IS the
Rose Lees Hardy School at FoXnaH
road and @ street. which serves the
Foxhall Village section west OF George
town and Burleith.
This school has only four completed
class rooms, but its second floor space
for four more rooms can be COM
pleted as needs demand. Eventually,
however, this school will be 16-class-
room nd-auditorium building. Chi.
Gren, who last year were required
to travel into the Burlelth sectlon
to attend the Fillmore School al
Thirty-fifth and R streets, or to Wes-
lev HEIGHTS to attend the Horace
Mann School, now will have Schoci
virtually at their doorsteps.
Special traffic policemen will be sta
toned in the vicinity of the HARDY
Schoo, to guide children across the
hcavily- travelled thoroughfares Whlch'
p..ior to this year. carried virtually no
school children, Robert L. Haycock,
assistant superintendent OF schools, an
nounced yesterday.
Taft School Not Ready.
Although the new William Howard
Taft Junior High School in the Lang
Woodbridge section will not be
ready for occupancy for at least two
months. that Institution will be Or
panized tomorrow in the Langdon (ele.
mentary) School, at twentieth ano
Evarts streets northeast. Among the
charter students of the TAFT junior
High School will be the graduates OF
the Brookland elementary School,
These boys and girls originally were
expected to continue their studies IN
the Langley Junior High School. but
this building. at Second and T streets
northeast, will be SO congested that
many pupils will have to be diverted
to the new school.
Congestion this year probably will
be most serious in the senior hlgn
schools Western and Eastern High
Schools. on double-Shift programs last
year will have no relief, so that these
two buildings undoubtedly will open
with a renewal of their burden of stu
dents. The restriction against Mary
land and Virginia students at West
ern will be continued, and only the
Washington students living In the
comparatively narrow belt west OF Con-
rocticut avenue and Rock Creek will
be permitted to enroll there.
Joining hands with these two schools
in congestion will be the new Roosevelt
il gh School which was opened for the
first time only last Fall. BY the close
of school last June the Roosevelt build
irg, at Thirteenth and Upshur streets.
had enrolled more than its stated ca
pacitv. This year the demands made
Upon it are expected to be still greater,
despite the moving CT its boundaries
several blocks closer to 1t.
Burden Falls on Two.
Central High School, at Eleventh and
Clifton streets, and Mckinley High
School. at Second and T streets north
east. will be called upon to carry the
burden of many of the children from
outlying sections of the District. No
real relief for the senior high school
CONGESTION will be forthcoming for
another 18 months for. school authorl-
ties point out, it will be at least that
long before the proposed woodrow VIII
son High School in the Fort Reno sec
tion cf Chew Chase will be ready for
occupancy Architects still are work.
ing on this schools plans and speclf1-
cations.
Meanwhile, the school system is ready
10 admit a heavy enrolment. For three
davs the parents of beginners have been
seeking admission tickets from school,
houses in their neighborhoods. Conse-
ouently. most of the first grade and
Kindergarten children who are entering
school for the first time will be all
ready to enter classes.
The newcomers who have not yet
made application for admission will
have to comply with the following an
nounced rules and regulations: To en-
ter kindergarten a child must be five
vea~s of age on or before November l.
and to enter first grade child must be
years of age by that date. In this
question of age the school authorities
have no discretion, the age limit having
been set by act of Congress. Because
the age is so specifically established
lie %oE