Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-09-05
Montgomery Schools to Open
tuesday for ~ 900 Students

More than $1,000 students will
enter classrooms at 8 am. Tues
day in Montgomery County's
public schools.
An estimated 1000 will be on
double shifts at IS elementary
schools, officials fear.
officials also will have their
eyes on IL other schools where
walls appear to be showing signs
of bullying.
well know better where we
stand after next Friday when
schools submit their written en-
rollment reports" Schools Supt.
Forbes II. Norris said.
DR.. Norris has decreed that
the double-session method of
handling the enrolment in
creases will be used "only as q
last resort"
Seek Space in Churches.
Last Tuesday he told a work.
shop group that officials were try
ing to rent extra spaces in nearby
churches to avoid the split ses-
sions at some schools.
Negotiations are underway to
get rental classroom space in
the Rockville, Montgomery Hills
and WeStbroOk areas. DR.. Norris
said.
In other cases, some children
will be transported to less
crowded schools and classes will
be enlarged to avoid the double
sessions.
In the kindergarten field. class
sizes will be held down and ca
pacity increased by having pupils
at end school on a staggered
four-day-a-week basis in many
cases, DR.. Norris said.
Full Schedules Slated.
Full day schedules are slated
this week for all but first graders.
They will be on one halliday
schedules for the first two weeks
of school.
Children who will be 5 by
January l may enroll in kinder
garten. First grade enrollments
are limited to those reaching 6
by January /.
Three new elementary schools,
new additions to three others
and a new junior-senior high
school will open Tuesday.
The $3.2 million Wheaton
Junior Senior High School will
enroll an excess of 1900 stu
dents. DR.. Norris said. It's full
capacity is about 1,700.
The school-the first built as
a complete unit by the county
has about so classrooms, includ-
ing laboratories and shop rooms.
New School in Wheaton.
Vocational courses will be
stressed at the new Wheaton
school which this year will en-
roll students in grades seven
through eleven. Seniors in the
AREA will be permitted to COM
plete their work at schools they
have been attending.
School officials will permit
students from other areas to en-
roll at Wheaton, but they will
not be provided with transpor-
tation.
New elementary schools In
clude the 22-classroom West
Rockville school. the 10-classroom
New Hampshire Estates school
and the 23-classroom Connecti-
cut Avenue Park school.
Additions Are Ready.
Additions also are ready at
the Burtonsville, Germantown
and Potomac schools. BY De-
cember l additions should be
ready for use at the Radnor and
Westbrook schools, according to
Dr. MOTIFS.
More than one-third of the
county's enrolment will be
taken to school by the boards
140 buses. That costs the county
$26 year per pupil.
Richard Ream. head of the
transportation system, left for
Ohio Friday with a group Of
drivers to pick up 10 more
60-passenger school buses to be
put in operation this year. The
county bought 81 new buses this
year. II of them to replace worm
out vehicles.
Also open this year is the new
$4,000 gymnasium at Mont
gomery Blair Senior High School,
Silver Spring,