Appendix to the Journals of the Senate and Assembly of the ..session of the Legislature of the State of California . ut one half being 20 by 24. Rooms that are used for suchlecial work as bookkeeping, drawing, domestic science, manual arts andience laboratories must of course be larger, and should varj in sizecording to the size of the school. Lighting.—The lighting schould always be from the left side of theapil, and the window nearest the teacher should be about eight feetom the end. while the last window at the other end might come as near ~ 6 — the rear wall as practicable. This rule, howe
Appendix to the Journals of the Senate and Assembly of the ..session of the Legislature of the State of California . ut one half being 20 by 24. Rooms that are used for suchlecial work as bookkeeping, drawing, domestic science, manual arts andience laboratories must of course be larger, and should varj in sizecording to the size of the school. Lighting.—The lighting schould always be from the left side of theapil, and the window nearest the teacher should be about eight feetom the end. while the last window at the other end might come as near ~ 6 — the rear wall as practicable. This rule, however, can not alwaysfollowed rigidly without seriously affecting the external design. In the ordinary one-room school often found in the country districts,with three windows on each side and perhaps two in the rear, the defectin lighting can be remedied fairly well by painting the glass of thewindows on the pupils right and rear a solid black, thus receiving allof the light from the pupils left. If this is insufficient, the light can beincreased by the introduction of prismatic glass in the upper sash of the. CLOISTERS. Mr. Allen highly recommends cloisters for California schools, tempering the light and affording sheltered places for play. windows at a very small cost. If still more light is needed, leave theblack paint off the rear window nearest the left side and cover it with awhite Holland shade, which diffuses the glare of light from the fan ventilation is used all rooms would be best lighted fromthe north, but where there is no means of mechanical ventilation, thewindows should be so placed as to admit sunlight into all rooms at sometime of the day. The best light for a schoolroom is north; next best, northeast; thensouth, then east, and lastly, west. — 7 — In schoolrooms lighted from one side only there should be two or threehigh transom panels on the opposite side above the blackboards, whichcould be opened for direct ventilation across the top of t
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