Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-09-16
Schools 10 Open
With Shortage
OF 30 Teachers
Tomorrow's Influx
Of Pupils to Be
Heaviest Since 1941

Public schools open tomorrow with
more pupils and fewer teachers than
any year since 1941.
A shortage of about 30 teachers
developed last week, Robert L. Hay
cock, superintendent, announced
yesterday, when a dozen wives of
servicemen resigned as elementary
teachers to wait for their husbands
to be discharged.
Fifteen Junior and vocational high
school teachers of music, radio re-
pair, physical education, woodwork,
English and science also quit be-
cause of changes in their plans due
to victory in war, he said.
Cadet Instructors Needed.
In addition, the schools need
three cadet instructors-prefera
discharged veterans-for the senior
high schools, according to 1t. Col.
William E. Barkman, professor of
military science and tactics. All the
vacancies are in the white schools.
The designations came SO swiftly
that the list of vacancies mounted
higher than at any time during the
war. Officials had hoped that victory
and the teacher pay increases grant
ed by Congress this summer would
end their teacher shortage problems,
Mr.. Haycock said
The Gripping effect of low war;
time enrolment in teachers coll
legeS now has begun to show I'D, he
commented
Many Pupils Expected.
simultaneously, victory is expect
ed to bring hundreds of working
pupils back to school and raise en-
rollment to a pre-Pearl Harbor level
of 10000. A 2,O00-pupil increase in
the lower grades, caused by the ris-
ing birth rate, makes the teacher
shortage there particularly serious,
DR.. Carroll r. Reed, assistant super
lntendent in charge, said.
A hopeful note was contained,
however, in the annual report of the
Board of Education, which showed
an overall downward trend in the
turnover of teachers during the
fiscal year ending June 80 as COM
pared with preceding years.
The report showed that only 1874
teachers left the schools during the
year, aside from designations. retire.
ments, deaths and suspensions, COM
pared with ITS the preceding year
and 229 in 1942-43. Although l02
left for the armed forces in 1942-43,
only 10 left last year.
Comparison Is Given.
The total number of permanent
employees leaving the schools. in
Guiding retirements, deaths and sus-
pensions. was 216 for the past fiscal
year, a drop of 1853 from 1o42-43. A
total of 201 entered the school
service this year, a drop of Is from
the previous year.
Teacher applicants will be inter.
viewed Immediately upon apphca-
ton tomorrow or any day there
after at the Franklin School, Thir-
teenth and K streets NV.
! Meanwhile traffic and school heads
have issued safety warnings to both
students and drivers as opening of
educational institutions add thou
sands to the rush-hour congestion,
ParochiaI Schools Open.
The parochial schools opened from
a week to 10 days ago. George
Washington, Georgetown and Ma
tional Universities will open Sep
TENDER "a. Catholic University and
most of the private schools will have
opened by October 3.
Both the public school heads and
the Department of Vehicles and
1rafflc are studying a suggestion
from DR.. James A. Cannon, ply
sician-member of the Board of Edu-
cation, that the anticipated 10000
Junior, senior and vocational high
school students return to the peace
time opening hour of 9 am. instead
of the wartime hour of $50 am.
still in effect.
The Board of Education will con-
slder the change at $3.50 pm. We'd
nesday at the Franklin School.
Part-Time Operation Seen.
The elementary schools will open
at 9 am. Due to the increase in
students in old buildings already
overloaded, officials said, about 20
colored elementary schools and two
white elementary schools will have
to operate part time.
The two white schools, KimhalI
at Minnesota avenue and Ely place
Sc, and Davis at Alabamba avenue
and Hilltop terrace Sc, will oper-
ate on double shift, half the STU
dents attending between 9 am. and
noon and the other half between
1880 pm. and $3.50 pm.
The 20 colored schools will operate
some classes on double shift but
VIII be able to keep others on a full
time basis, DR.. Garnet c. Wilkinson
assistant superintendent in charge
declared. ~
About 20 police officers assigned
TO coordinate school safety nro-
grams in Washington and surround
ing counties met at lunch at the
Mayhower Hotel yesterday to dis
cuss problems of a is per cent in
crease in traffic, since VI dav.
More than 400 youngsters under
10 already have been injured in
ttafhc this year, Inspector Arthur
=. Miller of the Traffic Bureau said.
Mr.. Haycock, addressing the group.
warned that many of the students
either will be attending a school
new to them or starting school for
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