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Show PROTECT THE SCHOOL CHILDREN. Will you vote money for your schools? Have you the welfare of your children at heart? Have you an abiding interest in your educational facilities, or have you grown indifferent? Suppose The Standard were to tell you that a number of the best tvomen in the city have visited this office to make a personal appeal I lo the editor to help remedy the alaiming conditions of sanitation and housing at the Central Junior High and the Washington schools, would you, too. become sufficiently concerned to visit either one of those i buildings lo sec for yourself? If you discovered that those schools were a source of danger to the health and general safety of over 1000 children, would you vote for the bonds which are proposed as a means to changing that condi-1 condi-1 lion? Four school buildings are overcrowded. What are you going to do? Allow the congested condition to exist or apply a corrective? If Ogdcn is to giow, where is the money to meet the growing demands de-mands of the schools, if the bonds arc not voted? The following statistics on the schools of Ogden have been prepared pre-pared for The Standard: Present enrollment in the public schools makes it obligatory that extra buildings must be proided to house the children of school age. Washington school has a capacity of 350 pupils, according to standard regulations. The enrollment at the present time is 500 and 74 pupils are enrolled in one first grade loom. Pupils living south of Thirtieth street (grades 1 to 8) number 1152. Ninth grade pupils from this district are now attending the senior high school. At the present time about 30 pupils of school age have been refused admis" sion for lack of room. ' Pingree school has a capacity of 510 pupils. The present enroll ment is 650 pupils. In one first grade room 73 pupils are enrolled. Lewis school, capacity 600; enrollment 650. About 30 pupils' tvere refused admission for lack of room, 70 pupils is the present j enrollment in one first grade room. Central Junior high school would hae a capacity of 325 pupils, I if it were sanitary and safe. The present enrollment is 550. Overj 200 more pupils are attending this school than Utah standards permit. Grant, Dee, West Ogden, Lcrrin Fair and Quincy schools are filled. Madison, Mound Fort and Five Points schools are crowded. At the present lime 15 basement rooms are used as grade class , roomc. ( senior high school has an enrollment of 650 pupils, which is the rapacity of the school. Seven hundred and twenty pupils would now be attending school if proper standards of enrollment were maintained in the Washington, Central, Lewis and Pingree schools. On account of the influenza epidemic this year, it has been deemed advisable not to enforce the truancy law, and hence there arc, no i doubt, a great number of children of school age not attending. The present enrollment in the public school system is 7013. The 1 rnrollment has increased 500 during the last four years. Estimating on this basis, there will be approximately 900 children without school rooms in the present buildings. |