Prior to November 6, 1914, there were forty classes attending School 89. Twelve of the forty classes, representing the upper grades, were on full time, having the exclusive use of twelve of the twenty-six classrooms. The remaining twenty-eight classes were organized in groups of fourteen classes each and were accommodated in the remaining fourteen classrooms, small auditorium, and five cellar rooms, with a modification of the accompanying program. (See p. 191). Since in this program twelve classrooms were used exclusively for twelve classes, the burden of the overcrowding was placed entirely upon the remaining fourteen classrooms. These fourteen rooms had a multiple use for eight hours a day, but the auditorium and playground were used only two hours a day. This means that the auditorium and playground were congested during the short time that they were in use. When it rained and all the children were required to be in the building from 9.30 to 11.30, nine classes were forced to use the five cellar rooms at one time as study-rooms. No provision was made for the systematic use of other child-welfare agencies. ────────────┬────────────┬────────────── │ │Exercises and School hours│ Fourteen │ study in │ classrooms │auditorium and │ │ playground ────────────┼────────────┼────────────── 8.30- 9.30│First │ │group—14 │ │classes │ 9.30-10.30│First group │Second group 10.30-11.30│Second │First group │group—14 │ │classes │ 11.30-12.30│Second group│First group—at │ │lunch 12.30- 1.30│First group │Second │ │group—at lunch 1.30- 2.30│First group │Second group 2.30- 3.30│Second group│ 3.30- 4.30│Second group│ ────────────┴────────────┴────────────── The old program was not intended to secure greater facilities for children than the ordinary single-system school offers. The principle underlying the old program was that of securing the traditional five-hour school day by supplementing the four hours in the classroom with an additional hour in playground and auditorium. Unfortunately the latter hour was used as much as possible for study in quarters that were never intended for use as a study-room and cannot be made satisfactory for study. No one offers the argument that such a five-hour school is better than or even as good as five hours of regular classroom work in the ordinary single-system school.