Evening star., 1933-09-10

Ocal schools. The maximum enroll
;imateS, will be in the vicinity of
beginners.
,ulation, the District public school
rs and cents, sos, 900 less than it
thing like 5000 fewer pupils last
personnel appropriations was the
the depression. This much money
4 the actual amount in teachers
students at Western also will be con-
tinued in force.
This, then. is the school system that
resumes operation a week from tomor-
row. Instead of being dismayed by the
economies and the delays which mark
the incoming year, the school authori-
ties are completely optimistic and are
ready to receive the students. Plans
for the reopening Of the schools are
being announced officially today.
New pupils-those who have never
attended schoo' before-have special
instructions prepared for them. BY act
Of Congress, only children who have
reached their fifth birthday by Novem-
Der will be admitted to kindergarten,
and only those who have reached their
sixth birthday by that date will be ad-
mitted to the first grade. The laws
admitted into the public schools who
shall not have been duly vaccinated or
otherwise protected against smallpox"
Now, pupils who are being entered in
school for the first time should be taken
| by their parents to the school building
nearest their homes either next Friday
or next Saturday between am. and
| 10 am. or between 4 pm. and pm.
. The principals will be at their schools
at these times and they will issue ad-
mission tickets to the little newcomers.
When mothers take their children to
the buildings on those two days, they
should carry with them vaccination GER
tificates.
The graded school pupils. except those
who were promoted to the junior or
ing day to their last years rooms and
from these they will be formally trans
ferred to the higher grade they are en-
titled to attend.
Pupils who were promoted to high
school will report at the high schools
they are to attend on opening day at 8
o'clock.
High School Rules.
Pupils who are coming to the District
senior and junior high schools from
other school systems have a special
procedure to follow. All new applicants
for admission to or advanced standing
in the white high schools should report
to the High School Admission Board in
the Thomson School, Twelfth and L
streets, between am. and 4 pm. We'd
nesday, Thursday or Friday Of this week.
They must take with them credentials
from their former schools, showing
records of all work completed. New
candidates for admission to the colored
high schools will report to the Admis-
sion Board sitting in Dunbar High
School, First and N streets, between
am. and 4 pm. on Wednesday, Thurs
day or Friday of this week. They, too,
mus show certificates of work COM
pleted elsewhere.
Applicants for admission to the junior
high schools should go to the junior
high school nearest their homes at
o'clock on opening day.
Night schools will open the same
date the day schools resume operation.
While the school officials have issued
directions for. the enrolment of the
children, they have not overlooked the
teaching personnel Special instruc-
tions issued them call for a meeting of
supervisory officers and teachers at
1890 o'clock next Friday morning The
supervising principals will meet their
teachers as follows: Division /, Cor
don Junior High School; Division 8,
Raymond School; Division S, Langley
Junior High School; Division 6, Wheat
ley School; Division Z, Bryan School;
Division 10, Morgan School; Division
II, Cleveland School; Division 13, Bell
School
The faculties Of the two teachers
colleges and the teachers in the senior
and junior high schools will meet at
1880 am. Friday In their respective
school buildings
The director in charge of supervision
of grades l to 6 in the white schools
will meet the first, second, third and
fourth grade teachers who are new to
the system or to the grade they will
teach this year at the Franklin School
Administration Building, Thirteenth
and K streets, at 2:30 o'clock Friday
afternoon.
The director of primary instruction
in the colored schools will meet all the
new teachers in that Jurisdiction at
2:30 o'clock Friday afternoon at the
Berret School
Directors of special subjects will meet
their teachers at 1890 o'clock Friday
morning as follows: Domestic science,
white, at Dennison; household arts,
colored, Berret School; domestic art,
white, Dennison School; drawing, white,
Old Adams School, colored in the Ber-
ret School; manual training, white in
the Old Adams School, and colored in
the Beret School; physical training,
white in the Old Adams School, and
colored in the Berret School; nature
study, white in the Old Adams School,
and colored in the Berret School; music,
| white in the Old Adams School, and
colored in the Berret School.
Directors Of kindergartens will meet
their teachers at 2:30 O'Clock Friday
afternoon in the Cooke School for the
white divisions, and in the Berret
School for the colored divisions.
Principals Of the vocational schools
will meet their teachers at 1880 O'Clock
Friday morning.
These meetings are called 50 that
the teaching and supervising personnel
of the school system will be tn posi-
ton on opening day to enroll the thou
sands of school children with no de-
lays and settle them quickly into class
room routine.
Educational Chances Better.
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