Evening star., 1939-09-14
School Board Bars
Non-Residents From
Deal Junior High
Ruling Seeks to Help
Wesley Heights Pupils;
Tuition Fees Changed

The District has 'tightened its
regulation of nonresident pupils as
the date for the opening of public
schools next week draws neraer.
In accordance with a decision Of
the Board of Education this sum-
mer, Supt. Frank w. Ballou has
issued orders that no non-residents
will be admitted to Deal JUNIOR High
School.
This change was made to allow
residents of the Wesley Heights area
to attend Deal and Woodrow Will
son instead of Gordon Junior High
and Western High School. Corpora
ton Counsel Elwood Seal notified
the board it was under no obliga-
ton to care for non-residents in
schools nearest their homes. and
hence could make room for Wesley
Heights at the expense of non-resi-
dents.
Yesterday the Board of Educa-
ton was notified of two rulings, one
by Mr.. Seal and the other by Con-
troller General Fred Brown declar-
ing non-residents are not entitled
to free schooling at the Columbia
Institution for the Deaf, as District
deaf children are, and that adult
non-residents are not entitled to
free tuition at Wilson Teachers
College.
Tuition Rates Changed.
At the same time the board ap-
proved a schedule of tuition rates
for the various levels of the school
system to be paid by non-residents
not exempted by law. Except for
the teachers colleges. vacation and
night schools, slight increases we're
noted in each level over rates last
year
The rates were as follows: Teach
ers' college. $246,89 or S1306 less than
last year; senior high schools, s110.-
81 or Is cents more than last year;
Junior high schools, s89.11, which is
85 cents up; elementary schools.
s63. ga or an increase of $211; voca-
tional schools, s12842 an increase Of
s12.80; vocational schools, S420,
drop of 81 cents, and night schools,
$3.50, a drop of 80 cents.
In denying a resident deaf
child free tuition at Kendall School,
where some 10 District deaf children
are taught at public expense. Mr..
Seal declared that the Columbia In
Stitution for the Deaf is not a part
of the public school system and that
congressional language clearly limits
the tuition to residents.
The controller general said it was
an elementary principal of law that
a person attaining his majority can
contract for himself and is therefore
not entitled to any exemption he
might have been entitled to by the
fact his parent may pay taxes here.
The case involved a student who
lived with his father in Bethesda
seeking refund of tuition paid.
Other New Regulations.
In an earlier opinion Mr.. Seal
ruled that the age of pupil was ir-
relevant under the law, but Mr..
Brown held that pupil" referred to
all elementary or secondary school
enrollee as opposed to a student"
in the higher grades.
Other regulations governing the
entrance of nonresident children
this fall provide that those from Vir-
ginia must attend either Central or
Western High School. New non
residents living in Maryland, who
would ordinarily attend Taft Junior
High, will be admitted to the Lang
ley Junior High. New non-residents
who ordinarily would go to the Ana
costa Junior Senior High School in
the Junior division will go either to
Eliot or Hine Junior High, which
ever Is nearer. Senior high pupils
will go to Eastern. Those from
Bethesda-Chevy Chase can go to
Woodrow Wilson
Non-residents in the white divi-
sions desiring shop course, how
ever. may be admitted to Mckinley
High School in or above the 11A
grade.
Last year more than 1000 non
residents were educated free of tut
ton in the District schools at a
cost of nearly quarter of a million
dollars.