Annual report. [1946]

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LEARNING TO LIVE

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service is delegated by the superintendent to
the director of adult education. A staff of
five clerical workers is now required to
handle this increasingly popular service. It
is operated on a cost basis, the scale of
charges being computed on the type of
services required. Auditoriums, for example,
cost more than a single classroom. A classroom in turn costs less than the use of the
swimming pool or gymnasium. During the
year, approximately 10,000 permits were
issued for community use of school buildings. The permits of some agencies, such as
the Boy Scouts, have covered twenty or
thirty buildings of an evening. A large
number of churches have for many years

held regular Sunday services in school buildings. Civic, charitable, and political organizations regularly make use of the city's
school buildings for public purposes. Board
regulations require that meetings be orderly
and free from motives of private profit or
overthrow of the government. Collections
and admission charges are discouraged but
are permitted in a limited way if proceeds
are intended to pay the cost of services
involved or to apply to charitable, religious,
civic, or similar projects. The use of school
buildings by the community embodies no
cost to the taxpayer. Yet it represents a
quarter of a million dollar job each year.