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2 WINNETKA WEEKLY TALK, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1919 Superintendent Washburne Emphasizes Need of New Winnetka School Building "Make the teachers of Winnetka a part of the community life in your neighborhood; make the classrooms of your children homey; and, above all, help people to realize how badly we need a new building, and how desirable our new school site is," said the grade chairmen of the Parent- Teacher association at their first meeting, held in the Horace Mann school, October 31. The meeting was called to consider the general ities of the Parent-Teacher a tion for this school year. Mr. Wash burne was asked to address them, and to formulate plans. "Mothers have been very hospit- able to teachers. inviting them homze for luncheon or dinner frequently. There is a difference however, be- tween this type of hospitality, and the hospitality that makes the teach- er a definite part of little neighbor- hood affairs. If you are giving a party, invite your child's teacher as one of the guests. She will make it a happier party, and will begin to feel herself a part of the neigh- borhood. If you are inviting a few people in for the evening, invite the teacher too. Let her mingle with them and meet them. Our teachers have been selected with the idea of . their mingling with the people of Winnetka. You will find them the kind of guests that will make the evening pass more pleasantly for every one. "The second thing which you can do is to use your home-making in- stinct in making the class rooms not mere class rooms. See what you can do to give them a homey touch, so that when the children or visitors come in, they feel in place of the rigid old style school room, a room which savors of the home, a pleas- ant place in which to be. "But the main work for you mothers is to see that your children have room in which to be educated. Some of our class rooms are now 'bordering dangerously close upon 40 children. Your children can not get their share of the teacher's time, nor the individual attention which they need when the class rooms are crowded. You already know from the report of the President of the Board of Education that every pos- sible makeshift has been resorted to in order to accommodate those child- ren now in the schools. The enroll- meat in the Winentka schools is due to increase by over one hundred children * during this school year. Where we will put those children, I do not know. By next fall we must have a new building. "There is only one place where this. building can be erected. That is on the 12-acre site bought last year, four and one-half blocks west of the Horace Mann school. This site is within two blocks of the cemter of Superintendent Washburne to| He said in part:| 5 school population. It is so situated that nearly half the children of Win- netka can reach it with a walk of less than six blocks. On this site, as you know, a departmental school is to be built. The 6th, 7th and 8th grade children from all parts of the Vil- lage will attend the new school. All| three of the present buildings will be retained, and used for the tower | five gra des. 'ven with this school, | both the Skokie and Greeley schoo 1€ ax | irability of a departmenta universally recognized. very progressive school system in the United States establishing | uch schools. Sometimes they are] called Intermediate schools, some-| times Junior High schools, and some- times are merely referred to as the upper grades with the departmental organization. Whatever such schools are called, they provide a step be- tween the one-teacher lower grade work, and the hig hly specialized de- partmental work of the High school. They are fitted for children who are going into adolescence, with the varying interests and abilities of such children. They make it pos- sible for each teacher to 'be master of the subject she is teaching, and by the economy which comes with centralization, it becomes possible to man and equip a departmental school much more adequately than the upper grades of an underdepart- mentalized school can be. "The big thing you mothers can do this year is to create so strong a sentiment throughout Winnetka in favor of erecting a building at once on the new school site, that no ob- stacles will prevent this work from being done. Last spring shortly after I came here I asked you to help in securing more funds for the opera- tion of the schools, and for the pay- ing of teachers larger salaries, by passing the Hicks Bill. You did not fail me. There was only one dis- senting vote cast in the whole Vil- lage. The consequence is that our teachers are much more adequately paid than they ever have been be- fore, and that we have been able to secure an unusually capable corps of teachers. I know you will not fail in this work, which is nearly as im- portant. In order that our teachers can do their best work, they must have space in which to teach. I rely upon you mothers to put through the aew school project." HALLOWE'EN PRANKS The morning after Hallowe'en presented a scene of havoc in the: heart of Gross Poimt. There were su wrecked sheds, portions of damaged | gates, fences and porch railings strewn along Ridge avenue in helter-skelter fashion. A raiding party of approximately thirty-five Gross Point and Wilmette youths were said to have perpetrated the offenses. Two policemen were on the job but left the scenes of action early in the evening, according to the residents in that vicinity. 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