[Sidenote: Dismissing School]
The bell rang for dismissal in the Bronx Park Grammar School. Miss
Forbes, the seventh grade teacher, took her place at the door of her
room leading out into the hall.
“Rise!”
“Pass! First row, second, third!” etc.
One row after another filed out of the room in perfect order. She stood
where she could see the line march down the stairs out-of-doors. At the
same time she watched the line formation in the room. Before the last
row had passed out of the room, she had taken a second stand at the head
of the stairs leading out of the building. Looking back she saw the last
child in the last row close the door of her room.
After her children, came those of the eighth grade, while on the other
side of the staircase the third grade followed the second and the second
followed the first.
Then the four upper grades came down the stairs, from the second floor,
the boys on one side, the girls on the other.
Just two minutes had passed from the time the bell rang for dismissal
until the last child left the building.
The foregoing method of line formation may be used on every occasion. By
keeping a rigid form of discipline in moving lines up or downstairs, the
children may be depended upon to march quickly and in good order in case
of fire. This matter of perfect handling of the orders of march cannot
be too strongly emphasized. Any lack of firmness in such regime will be
sure to bring disastrous results in a fire.