WILL PUT AN END TO
HIGH SCHOOL USHERS.
HOUR FOR DISMISSAL TO BE
CHANGED SOON.
Many Boys Work Matinees at the
Theatres and Instructors Say
It's Bad for Them --
Lunch Room at Central.
In a few weeks the board of education will change the time schedule of both the Westport high and Central high schools so that school will be dismissed some time after 2 o'clock. Although it has been denied by some of the school officials, it is rumored that the primary object of the board in changing the schedule is to keep the students away from the mid-week matinees and off the downtown streets at the busy noon hour.
"Although it in not our object in changing the school hours to keep the pupils away from the matinees, still if it accomplishes anything in that way I am sure the teachers will have no objections," said Vice Principal H. H. Holmes of the Central high school yesterday. "Our young people go to the theaters too much anyway, and many of our school boys make a practice of ushering at the theaters. They see plays that give them an unwholesome and false idea of life and they are at that age when the impressions they receive are lasting. I have always had many of the boys who usher in my classes and I can safely say that nine out of ten of them did very poor work, and they were the boys with the capacity to do the best. They failed where they would have succeeded. Other teachers will tell you the same thing. If the new schedule does away with ushering I shall be glad.
