Under the New Organization, manual-training, cooking and sewing-shops,
drawing-studios with special equipment, and science laboratories for
individual work by students are provided for all the above grades.
Besides, there will be sixty-three additional prevocational workshops
with special equipment and teachers distributed advantageously in the
twelve schools. Also there will be provided gardens, better auditoriums
and music-rooms, better classrooms, gymnasiums and playgrounds.
DESCRIPTION OF SCHOOLS
_Indicating in Detail Necessary Changes to introduce Wirt Plan_
_Public School 28_ has fifty-eight regular classes in forty-five regular
classrooms, with one wood-working shop and one cooking-room. The ground
floor play-yard and fine basement playroom provide ample play space for
nine classes at one time. There is a large gymnasium on the top floor
that is not desirable for play, and should be used for drawing-rooms.
The auditorium on the fourth floor should be made into six regular
classrooms by installing permanent partitions for the sliding
partitions. The wall partitions should be removed from the four
combination auditorium and classrooms on the second floor, and the
auditorium thus secured should be seated for a permanent auditorium.
Since four classrooms are thus used for the auditorium, there will be
left only forty-one regular classrooms. Thirty-six of these should be
used for regular class work. Two of the five remaining classrooms should
be used for science laboratories, one for a music studio, and two for
workshops. These five special rooms, with the manual-training shop and
cooking-room and drawing-studios, will provide facilities for nine
classes in science, drawing, music, manual-training or shopwork, at one
time. Seventy-two regular classes may be accommodated in this school
with thirty-six classes in thirty-six classrooms, nine in the
auditorium, nine at play, nine in special work, and nine primary classes
with an extra period for play, religious instruction in churches,
excursions, library work, etc.
With a full register of classes, seventy-six teachers should be
employed. Fifty-six teachers should teach the history, geography,
arithmetic, language, and reading, and manage the auditorium. Two
teachers should have charge of the music, four of the play and physical
training, one of the library, two of the drawing, two of the science
laboratories, and nine of the manual training, domestic science and art,
and the shopwork.
There are thirteen regular classes in the eight-room frame annex, which
must be used for class purposes in order to enable the city to hold the
property. A special program can be arranged for this annex, to
accommodate twelve classes.
Public School 28 and the annex can therefore accommodate eighty-four
classes, a gain of thirteen classes over the present enrollment, and
thirty-one classes more than the normal capacity of fifty-three classes
in a single-school system.
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