Brown County High School - Shadows Yearbook (Nashville, IN)

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4 New School? Old Question! For at least seven years school boards of the County School Corporation of Brown County had decided to build and not to build a new high school. Teach- ers and administrators have made recommendations for at least three buildings, even going so far as to confer with an archi- tectural firm and to have final plans drawn in 1976. Several groups opposing these plans halted them and the board decided to name a committee to study and determine what the real needs of the school system were. In the summer of 1977 this committee of concerned citizens finally decided the most feasible course of action would be a new junior high school. The location of this building on the present school site of BCHS and Nash- ville Elementary School was vetoed by the state's division of school house planning. Further action was delayed by a class action suit filed against the school board in the fall of 1977. The answer could not please everyone, but one fact remained definite. BCHS was bursting at its seams. With 40 students and less than 40 operable typewriters, this class has an apparent overcrowding problem. BCHS: the school constructed to house approximately 800-850, now has an enrollment of over 1100. Some classes find the need to expand classroom space by moving doors, as is the case with this industrial arts class.

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Senior High 3

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1 1Rd Mrl Pr GunkC' Share 3 U S- History class f°urI 1 period in the library: thus closing the library to other students. Overcrowding Cuts Classes One really tragic aspect of the overcrowded conditions was the reduction of class offerings over a period of years, because there was no room. Just to keep several advanced classes alive some foreign language and busi- ness teachers shared one class period with two different levels. Both classes of students suffered in these situations. Several classes were dropped com- pletely. Overloading classes, par- ticularly in the junior high, caused the teachers to have little time for necessary individual instruction. 5 Sacenf cafetm5 jUS' ° C °f fiW f°rCed to USe Ihe stage as a c!assroom while study hall meets in the