Portsmouth, Virginia, Public Schools

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Excerpt from Portsmouth, Virginia, Public Schools: Report and Survey of School Housing Conditions Practically ten years have passed since we were elected School Architects for the city of Portsmouth and submitted to you a report on a survey made of your school housing conditions. At that time the immediate problem was that of satisfactorily locating a new building so as to best serve the City's future population, but the survey was made without attempting an extensive analysis of conditions throughout your City. This method was repeated when considering the location of your new high school. Since t his time there have been material changes in conditions and territory has been annexed. The following report is, therefore, supplementary to reports already made and is carried further into detail in order that all important points may be considered. The most remarkable fact to present itself is that even with the changes due to war conditions and annexation the basic principals determined in these previous surveys have not changed, nor are there any material alterations to be made to your program. Today's problem is to care for your population increase occurring since your last white elementary school was built in 1912, and to replace old buildings which have outlived their usefulness and are not well suited to the demands of a modern school system. On the thoroughness of your school system of today depends the grade of citizens you will have in the future. Political capital has been made of the fact that we are today developing sixth grade citizens, it having been shown that the average child leaves school in the sixth grade. The demand for better education is insistent, and unless the school housing conditions can be kept practically on a par with the educational standards, material improvement will be unattainable. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.