## Hamilton School Boundaries
Hamilton School has grades Kindergarten through 8th grade
4 8th grade classes
4 7th grade classes
2 5th grade classes
14 primary classes
Hamilton Branch 1 has students in grades I thru 4
Hamilton Branch 2 and Branch 3 are Rooms of 15 schools
Mitchell School receives some Hamilton children, grades 4 & 5 and all of the 6th grades
Wheatley School receives some Hamilton children at the primary level
Enright Middle School receives some Hamilton children at the 7th and 8th grade levels
## Hamilton School
Hamilton School parents are like most parents. Their concept of what is going on at their child’s school is limited to notes the child brings home, PTA meetings (most of which have nothing to do with what goes on in the classroom), open house (their only chance to talk with the teacher) and bits and pieces of information their child supplies.
No one — either community residents or parents — seem to know what actually goes on at the school, the attitudes of its teachers, the school programs, the educational goals of the school. This much has emerged from the series of meetings held recently to seek solutions to some of the school’s problems of overcrowding and lack of community involvement.
With this program in mind, THE PAPER has attempted to find out what is going on at the school and will in this and future issues feature stories on the school, the teachers, its programs and activities. In connection with the current effort to organize a community-liaison board of the school staff, parents and community residents, we feel this information will be of value.
## Education Programs
Following is a list of various programs going on at the School:
Both Washington University and Harris Teachers College send student apprentice teachers to the school. Those Hamilton teachers with Washington University student teachers may take three hours of classes at the University free. Several teachers at the school received their masters degree under the Triple T program sponsored by Washington University at the school last year.
The Board of Education provides a physical education instructor who conducts physical education classes Monday, Wednesday and Friday for all children except the primary.
Black Studies Program for seventh and eighth graders has been in effect for two years since it was begun by the seventh grade teachers. who attended a seminar on Black studies at Washington University. With the help of the University which hired a coordinator, Shellie Jordan (now at Herzog School) and provided supplies, the teachers set out to relate the Black experience to social studies. The series which includes textbooks is called “The Color of Man.” Hamilton is the only school in the city using the series.
The COP (Career Opportunity Program) provides three aides who are gaining practical experience in the classrooms at Hamilton as they work toward a degree in teaching. Two of the aides are assigned to rooms with high enrollment. The other helps in the library. An additional aide acts as a security guard.
Legal Education Project sponsored by the Legal Aid Society will start in late March. The program, which began as a mock trial at the school, is designed to send lawyers into the classroom to help children in the upper grades understand the law as it applies to the community, consumer law, the legislative process, juvenile law, the court system, drugs and their abuse.
As a Title I school, a designation made by the federal government, Hamilton School receives some funds for projects specified by the federal government. The RIT (Reading Improvement Team) is the major program at the school funded with Title I federal funds. In this program of a team consisting of a reading assistant, a reading teacher and a reading aide make a concentrated effort to improve the reading skills of 150 pupils. (Next issue the RIT program will be featured.)
Springboard to Learning program provides adults, many of whom are natives of a foreign country, who come into the school on a part-time basis to teach the students about their country. This year Israel Mantenge from Botswana Africa visits six upper grade classes one day a week. (see picture)
Original illustration caption
Hamilton School boundaries, with branch and receiving-school labels, as printed in March 1972.
Originally published in The Paper, March 1972.
Read this article in the original newspaper issue.
Original source: SD_Times1972_03.pdf, printed page 3, 4, 5.
