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Show "A Gary Plan" Experiment with a Broooklyn School Ono of tho prnclpal advantages of tho Gnry plan is that tho number of children that can bo accommodated accommodat-ed In a slnglo school building will bo almost doubled. This statement Is sustained by tho experience of thnt system ln tho two schools In Now York City ln which It Is now on trial, namely, School 89 ln Brooklyn, Brook-lyn, nnd School 45 ln tho Uronx. School 89 wns selected for this experiment becauso thoro had boon a persistent demand from tho peoplo of that particular section of Brooklyn Brook-lyn for a now school building. It wns not to bo denied that tho present school failed to houso tho children of tho neighborhood. Tho Indlgnntlon of parents at tholr Inability to sccuro instruction for their children wns justified, jus-tified, and tho city ofilclals woro execrated ex-ecrated becauso thoy would not authorize au-thorize tho oxpcndlturo ot n largo .mm nf monov for a now bcIiooI build- Ing. Consequently, Mr. Wirt, tho vlrllo minded founder of tho Oary system, was asked to experiment with School 89. Ho had ono of tho most difficult school problems In tho entire city; ho solved It. Obstno'cs which had appeared lnsurmoun'ibl" to tho av-erago av-erago school master woro nothing to him. Our learned educators, tho associate as-sociate and district superintendents, most of whom aro opposing tho Introduction of this systom genor.U-ly genor.U-ly Into Now York City, had been unnblo un-nblo to find n means of relieving tbo conditions in School 89. It wnB necessary nec-essary to bring a man from tho outsldo out-sldo In ordor to do this, a fact which 11 will bo Interesting to thoso who m- $1 dulgo in chenp talk against Import- ,r2 lng talent from outsldo of New York $j Why did not our own educators a find tho way for solving tho dlfllcult Ul school problem. Then it would not m havo been necessary to, send for ifl Mr. Wirt or anybody elso. Tho trou- Jm bio is that too much dcfcrcnco Is !jE paid to tho "mossbacks" In tho cdu- cationnl system. Thoy aro treated 6i too seriously; tho moro seriously you v treat thom tho moro dignified ou "f$ mako them, and thoy nro really ablo . to arouso somo public sympathy for j tholr reactionary viows. They should 'I bo laughed nt; then they would lo J brought to tholr proper level. i If tho Gary plan, or tho dupllcalo school idea, wero genornlly adopted fj great economics could bo effected In '," expenditures for now school build ings. liVen I"" IJIUUUl I-AUIIUIIUIIUII rjfl which has thus far been made by B Mr. Wirt of tho city's phvslcnl I school equipment leads to tho belief 4 that nbout 20 per cent of tho prcs- M ont school buildings could bo nbau- ' donod. When real cstnto conditions M Improve, tho buildings nnd lands a could bo sold and ,n very consld-ra- M bio sum realized thcrofor. Wlntcv- M or is realized would be an offset to tho expenditures required for com- M plotoly installing tho Gary system M How can anyono dlsputo tho efficacy 'M of a plan such ns this, ns against tho M old prlnclplo of putting up nn oxpn- e - alvA cMinnl hulldlnc. wlilcli costs, ex ',., cluslvo ot land, from $250,000 to M $500,000, with tho usual result that M it doos not euro tho part tlmo evil? m American Itovlow of Itovlows. m |
