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Show j oo iim High Crowded Superintendent Says The Ogden high school is crowded to capacity, according to Superintendent Superintend-ent W. Karl Hopkins and many pupils arc being held in the grade schools! -for lack of accommodations at thei high schools. There are now about' 800 students in the high school and it j Is stated that 900 are registered at Weber Normal college. This condition condi-tion exists at this time duo to the fact that the second semester, with i attendant promotions has just begun, j While the crowded condition of. the upper schools necessitates the reten- i tion of pupils in tho grade schools, the board has hired a number of extra : teachers and arc conducting part time classes in an effort to cope with the ' situation and give the retained pupils the work they should get In the higher grades. 1 The school population Is growing M much faster than schools can be built . to accommodate them and the situa-tion situa-tion will probably remain as it is now , until more schools can be built to ac- 'c emmodate the greatly increased attendance at-tendance at school. : According to Superintendent Hopkins, Hop-kins, tho completion of tho South Washington and Central Junior High schools will in a great, measure alleviate allevi-ate the crowded condition, but even then, he states, he is in doubt as to there being sufficient room, especially if tho school population Increases as fast as it has done in the past year. oo |