Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1856-07-30
sUPERINTENDEETs REPORT
To the Board Of Education for Warrel
Public Schools, July, 1856.

TUE - ouT reg SulaLlOnS require at III!
time the Seventh Annual Report from
the Superintendent of yourPublic Uniol
Schools. With pleasure submit 10 yor
the following. my second report, fol
your consideration
The past ye:r. like its predecessor
has been passed with labor, yet pleasant
ly closed. The very general satisfac'
ton manifested by patrons, induces the
confident opinion that the hopes for fu
ture success, expressed at the close O
the last preceding year, have been a
least measurably realized. This one
conviction must have strong place il
the judgment of every observer; that oul
teachers have done years faithful
labor. The re-arrapgement of some o
our schools the previous year, giving
them more thorough classification, ha,
contributed n.uch to their success du.
ring the year just closed. Some similar
changes may be important at the open
ing of the next term, in order to classify
economically, and to equalize the num-
Der of scholars in the several schools.
In the progress of our railroad, the
south part of the town has been consid-
erabiy affected by removals of scholars
in and out of the schools. The atien-
dance rolls show this fluctualion. 664
different scholars, 3l5 males and 349
females, have received instruction in the
different departments of our Union
Schools. OF this number, 108 have
been members of the High School So
of the Grammar School AIS Of the Sec
ondary and Primary departments.
The average daily attendance during
the year has been about $50. The
exact average cannot now be given, for
want of two complete teachers reports.
There has been less truancy than last
year, yet from the transient state of a
limited floating population, there has
been an increase of that more deplorable
evil. vagraney.
The list of scholars from abroad has
been considerable, considering our here
tofore limited accommodations.
Although the tuition has been very
low (S3 per quarter) in the High
School, the footings from that depart
ment give s1a3,23. Among the for
eigu scholars are some of the most prom
ising students in the school. We shall
be happy in welcoming them to better
in our commodious new
school building.
There have been very few changes in
.eachers during the year. and we are
fortunate in having so few in
for the commencement Of
he next. The inevitable laws of en-
ightened society will induce some
changes. Yielding to these laws, one
,f cur most successful teachers, after a
service of three years, has left the school
oom TO perform the more quiet duties
md grace the name of Mrs. ADAMS.
Very many of our patrons have been
aithful in visiting the school room.
'ome parents, at least, see the advan-
ages of cheering the school by their
resence. They are thereby better pre-
ared to know whether the morals and .
lanners of their children are cared for, /
$ well as their intellectual growth.
The crowded state of the scholars
eretolore witnessed in some of our
;hool- rooms, can now be obyiated.
he advanced classes can be removed
ON the Secondary to the Grammar
chool. Now that noble structure, a
lonument of the assiduity of our Board
Education, and the liberality of our
lizens, invites the multitude Of ol,ler
outh to seek for the pearls OF knowl-
lge within its spacious enclosures.
-ay We not hope that parents, from the
sry first, will unite with teachers in
eir efforts 10 make our schools fully
lual to any of its kind in this or any
her country? Our teachers are con-
antly striving to qualify themselves
7 their duties, by observation, by re-
,ction, and by study of the most ap-
owed works both on the theory and
actice of teaching. Their efforts to ,
axe our schools all that we desire,
mot prove entirely successful until
rons fully cooperate with them. )
srents expect their children to be sub
It 10 discipline when they enter a
arding school abroad. No sucn
hool has ever succeeded in. gaining to
elf a cOmnaendaJls celebrity without the
'st stringent discipline. The best SEM
aries and colleges in all the country, Il
d the best patronized. are those most n
ict and straightforward in their con- t,
j over the youth committed to their f
re. Cannot parents at home control u
: time and department of their children S,
effectually, as to have these things
nmitted 20 the supervision of others d?
e grand difficulty is that very few n
rents have any system for themselves, IL
lch less for their children. Every c.
vanced scholar in ordinary health, Il