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Newark H.gh School 1899 common technique Decouse of his strict regulotions and frequent punishments, he wos hored by hts pupils ond feored by their porents A femole department was eventually established in connection with the Femole Union School on Horrison Street Public educonon wos still tied to pauperism Four grommor schools hod been established one in eoch of the four city wards. Classes met in domp. dingy church bosemenrs or other inadequate facilities It wos free but such schooling scarcely represented the right of all children to o dignified chonce in life The youngsrers endured the founts of more prosperous boys ond girls Inodequote os they were, dry-sponsored educonon limped along under-finonced out-of-sight ond out-of mind In 1645. John Whireheod who wos appointed to the school committee later printed a vivid memoir of his fight to improve public education. His fellow committee members were also dedicated but held bock by city authorities who required them to be economical in city expenditures After attending his first condle-lit meeting in o classroom In the musty basement of o Morket Street church. Whireheod set out to look or all the city schools One look wos enough. Whitehead met with Joseph N Tuttle president of the Council, who sympathized but told him that education must stand aside while the city sought on oddinonol supply of worer ond more policemen . Whireheod told the Council president that he must decide whether a generation 'should grow up uneducored ond unfitted for citizenship or whether the city should woit a while for more water ond police protection . Realizing the importance of Whireheod s statement. Tuttle ond 11 other city oldermen crowded aboard o horse-drawn cor for o tour of Nework s public schools. They saw classrooms so crowded that boys sot on stoirwoys or on the teocher's plorform. Whireheod pointed to walls green with mould , ond showed the group one teocher trying to cope with eight grades scattered over two floors He showed them dosses reciting to student monitors in the lobby ond outside in the yord A heod count showed eoch teocher responsible for 100 or more children of all ages Most of the oldermen hod never visited the schools or ever inquired obout their condition The tour shocked them Into action Thor some night the council unanimously granted the demands for more ond better schools About 1850, a Doard of Education wos created to institute a public school system. In 1852. The Doord of Education authorized the acquisition of a lot (90 feet front) on the corner of Washington ond L-nden Streets This site for a new high school building wos purchosed for 25.000 00 On Jonuory 7. 1850. olthough still Incomplete this new building wos opened It was three stones high, ond 9
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hod o student populonon of 498 boys and girls The second floor wos used exclusively by the girls, the third floor only by the boys Since the boys and girls were seporoted into two distinct departments, they were nor ollowed to mmgle either during or offer school Inside the brick building were two lorge dossrooms. eoch conromtng 190 double desks 8 small recitation rooms: and on the boys floor, in oddition to its lorge rooms 4 recitonon rooms ond o librory Isoioh Peckhom wos the first pnnapol of Newark High School, ond Elizo Chose wos appointed Heod of the Female Deportment In 1855. when the first store reochers college wos established in Trenton, fo- Class Officer — 1912 cilities were hostily creoted to educote Nework s teachers A Soturdoy morning Normal School for oil reochers who hod not been certified by the president of the Board of Educotion wos to be held ot Newark High School Teachers protested that five doys in the classroom were enough particularly for the poy they were receiving, but the odmmistrorion stood firm The Normol School opened in April 1855 with 9 mole teachers ond 35 femole reochers from Nework schools omong the 85 students Others were would-be teachers, hopeful rhot the school board would turn to the Normol School for its future faculty Enrronce requirements were simple about eight years of schooling.
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