This program was not intended to secure greater facilities for children
than the ordinary single-system school offers. The purpose was to secure
as nearly as possible the traditional work of the regular five-hour
full-time school, and it was considered only as a temporary expedient
until a sufficient number of new schools could be built to provide the
regulation full-time school. Since the main object was the building of
additional school-buildings for permanent relief, no funds could be
expended upon this temporary double-system expedient.
In contrast to this, the new program at Public School 89 is in no sense
an effort to relieve part-time by giving the children as nearly as
possible a five-hour traditional school day until a new building can be
built.
The sole purpose determining the new program now in use at this school
is that of securing a six-hour day and much richer opportunities in a
study-work-and-play school with a coördination of the activities of all
child-welfare agencies.
By making the following improvements at Public School 89, the increase
in capacity and additional facilities can be made permanent—a gymnasium
and swimming-pool, two rooms for branch of the public library, equipment
for science laboratories and auditorium, wardrobes for sixteen classes,
permanent playground, and drawing and music studios. With the exception
of the playground, the above will cost approximately $35,000.
The cost of the site and the proposed new fifty-one unit
school-building, to relieve Public School 89 and two other buildings,
will provide the funds for similar changes in ten schools after the plan
at Public School 89. These changes would make possible a permanent
increase in capacity of not less than two hundred classrooms, since in
the more modern schools a less expenditure will secure greater capacity.
Since a fifty-one unit building adds accommodation for only forty-eight
traditional full-time classes, the satisfactory accommodation of sixteen
additional classes at Public School 89 would justify the expenditure of
one third the cost of the new building and site upon Public School 89,
or approximately $170,000. But, as has just been pointed out, it is not
necessary to spend anything like this amount.
Under the old program there were only forty classes, but one class was
very large and was divided into two sections with two teachers in
charge. The number of pupils attending this school is increasing
rapidly, and therefore a program for forty-two classes is planned.
The forty-two classes in the New Program are divided into two duplicate
schools of twenty-one classes each. In the following programs these
duplicate schools are designated as the “X” School and the “Y” School.
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