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Do Our Schools Merit Bond Issue Support ? sisal \,T.^ ^ -2SL2 mm % * £2m ;?wi • ^,4- K"*- -(>. <•<•, \. '•.'. It's hard to get your question asked when there are forty-three other students in the same room, asking their questions. So seems to be the story of this picture of Mrs. Jurack's sixth grade class in Edgebrook school. Classrooms with forty or more students are not uncommon in the MoHenry schools, and the teachers and teacher secretaries find it hard to solve every student's problem without disrupting class. In this picture, desks were pushed together to show all the students in the class, but even with the desks in their original order the classroom was crowded. The bond issue for $2,000,000 being presented to the public on March 9, 1968 would help to alleviate crowded classrooms in our schools. . .making it easier for teachers and students to pursue the matter of education facing them. The need for more space in the local elementary school district is beginning to be actite; there is only one empty classroom left iri the district for expansion, and class size is growing steadily to a peak that will be unacceptable in the near future if quality education is to be maintained. Factors causing this need are the population growth in the Mc- Henry area and the institution of the shared time program in cooperation with the city's parochial schools. The need for more space can be seen in the pictures on this page; whether ina classroom, in a principal's office, or in the cafeteria. The crowded conditions hinder the orderly process of education. Because of these conditions and because the District 15 school board does not want the conditions to get out of hand, a $2,000,000 bond issue is being presented to the public for their approved. The money provided by this bond issue would go for the construction of a new middle school housing grades 5 through 8. The middle school would solve the immediate problem of the crowded Junior high school by providing classroom space for seventh and eighth graders by the 1969-70 school year. Classroom space for fifth and sixth graders would be added soon thereafter (financed through this bond issue), relieving the elementary schools. The need for this space is now, as there are problems in the school that can only be solved by a new building. Administrators and board members believe they can best be solved by a middle school building. PLAINDEALER PHOTOS Shared time students from St. Patrick's school seventh grade class leave their bus as they go to classes in the Junior high buildings. Next year the eighth graders from St. Pat's, as well as the seventh and eighth graders from St. Mary's school, will join this shared time program. This expansion will bring over 150 more students into a building that is filled to capacity this year. Five Valley View first graders from Mrs. O'BenauPs room talk with their new principal, Larry Wald. Teachers, as well as administrators, ai-e finding it harder and harder to talk to individual students and to understand each child's personal problems. As one teacher aptly expressed the problem. "There are just too many students in just too little space." •mmM . . ; Typical of space planned for utmost use is the Edgebrook Multi-purpose room. Notice the casters on the cafeteria seating arid the basketball baskets on the" wall. Junior high school students, as in the picture above, cross the playground each day to eat in this space. Highly usable space such as this can be found throughout the design of the new middle school; every available square foot is put to maximum use. -Stoteati' tfbm". the ~J'u/i!or high~s^<»rT«»dr inlt^e^oolr'caC^irtataffimtiM-WdMdl^lpfo^ across the playground to get into the lunch line vided for in a multi-purpose room much like that in the Edgebrook school cafeteria. The chilly pictured to the left. walk awaits all who want a hot lunch. In the new