_The Y School_: Unfortunately the program described requires twenty-six
classrooms for twenty-one classes of children in addition to the
auditorium, play space, library, workshops, etc. No facility during the
school day is used more than half the time by the X School. Fortunately
the auditorium need be large enough to accommodate only one third of the
X School. The same is true of the play space and the special work
facilities. There is a great economy in using the facilities named for
three periods by alternate groups, each representing one third of the
school. But a higher first cost and a greater operation and maintenance
cost would be justifiable in all these facilities, including the regular
classrooms, if they could be used longer and accommodate more children.
Since the X School can use any of these facilities only half of the
time, what objection can there be to another school of twenty-one
classes using the facilities when the X School cannot use them? On p.
198 is shown a program for such a duplicate school, designated Y.
The Y School has the same time as the X School, for both pupils and
teachers. Neither school could use any facility any more if the other
school were not there, but both schools have better facilities every
hour of the day because the other school is there. Forty-two classes of
children are thus accommodated in twenty-six classrooms. Instead of
building a sixteen-room additional school, with its initial cost of
construction, site, janitor service, heating, maintenance, etc., an
equivalent expenditure can be made for the permanent improvement and
increased operating cost of the twenty-six-room school.
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