Evening star., 1937-08-10
BOUNDARY
CHANGES ARE SEEN
) N KEMP RULING
Many D. c. Pupils May Be
Forced to Transfer for
Non-Residents.
HARDSHIPS ON PARENTS
FEARED BY DR.. HOLMES
System Will Not Be Changed
Until Fall Enrollments Are
In, He Says.

Realignment of school boundaries,
making it necessary for many District
pupils to transfer from their present
school to another, appeared likely to-
day as a result of the ruling of the
Court of Appeals yesterday that chill
Eren of non-residents employed in the
District are entitled to admittance to
the District school system.
Whether such realignment will be
Necessary cannot be determined, how
ever, until the number Of nonresident
applicants is known in the Fall, DR..
Chester w. Holmes, acting superin-
tendent of schools. pointed out today.
We will have to adopt policy OF
watchful waiting, as there is no way
for us to know whether we will need
TO make the changes until we know
how many nonresident pupils must
be taken care of" he said.
Dr.. Holmes added that if such
boundary changes were necessary, they
would probably work hardship on
District parents, as the school to which
pupil might have to be transferred
might be far from the pupils home.
But we can't have classes OF so in
one school and classes of 38 in an
other," he pointed out The parents
here will probably be angry if such
change is made and l don't blame
them but what can We do?'
Nonresident Enrolment.
The complete nonresident picture
In the District school system during
the past year was presented to DR..
Holmes today in report compiled
by the school finance office. Not
counting those discharged at one time
or another during the school year
because they were not entitled to free
Education and could not meet the fee.
the total nonresident enrolment IN
day, night and vacation schools was
2,495. OF these, 1891 were tuition
free and 2,OS9 were in the day schools.
According to r. w. Holt of the
finance office, the greatest number OF
the day pupils were in the senior high
kchools, with Mckinley having the
most of any individual institution.
In the junior high schools Gordon
and Deal have been caring for the
students from nearby Virginia, and
Langley the students from nearby
Maryland. OF these schools, only
Langley has not been operating at
we'll over capacity.
According to Mrs Henry Grattan
Doyle, president of the Board of Ed
|ucation, appropriation Of more money
| by Congress is absolutely necessary
now that admittance must be the pol
Icy. Had the court decision been
handed down little earlier, she said,
allowance for it might have been made
! n the 1899 school budget recently sub
United to the Commissioners.
Budget Needs Grow.
"Of course, we always try to include
In our budget recommendations some
urgent building needs in accordance
with our five-year building plan" she
said. However, we have no way of
telling what nonresident provision
will be necessary until September and
therefore would have little on which to
base recommendation for an exact
sum, but there probably would have
been some change in the estimates"
It was pointed out in the finance
office that the present nonresident
enrolment, however, is only about so
per cent OF what it was before the de-
preston, when the figure sometimes
reached 5000.
The decision yesterday which settled
the nonresident issue upheld the
mandamus granted in District Court
last October to John S. Kemp, w. P. A.
administrator, living in Clarendon,
Va, against Supt. of Schools Frank w.
Ballou. The suit compelled the super
1ntendent to admit Kemp's daughter,
11-year-old Lois Kemp, to Gordon
Junior High. Through the corpora
ton counsel's Office, the schools ap-
pealed the decision, which was upheld
by Appeals Justice Harold M. Stephens
yesterday.