The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1857-07-09
Public Schools.


Sixteen teachers have been employed in
Evansville, and from four to six teachers in
Lamasco during the year.
Expense Of schools in Evansville has been a., $50
+" Lamasco has becn........ 1851 |
There have been registered in Evansville |
about 100 children. .lrar
There have been registered in Lamasco |
about 800 children.
The average attendance in Evansville has
been about 700.
The average attendance in Lamaseo has
been about loo.
1t has cost to support the High School
about $3.50. Deducting the expense of sus-
tanning the High School in Evansville from
the amount expended will leave $4,000. The
Schools then in Evansville, without the High
School, wIllcomprise the same class of schol-
ars as those in Laniasco..
Fhe expense then for instructing 1850
scholars in Evansville has been $4,000; while
the expense for instracting 500 scholars in
Lamasco has been 81 ,sS7; which amounts to
s5,4s for each scholar in Lamasco and in
The Of schooling 100 children in Evansville for the
While the same number in Lan,asco cusi.... 1857, 90
Making difference in only 80 children off,. s4i,G0
If IKE Evansville schools had cost Us much
per scholar as the Lamasco schools the en-
pense for 1850 scholars would have amount
cd to s5733; which would exceed the amount
actually expended, sl733.
tb, axaraoa attopIonoo nf ooIolo 20
in Evansville was over sixty per cent of. the
scholars registered, while in Lamasco it was
less than forty per cent of those registered.
About 200 children was the average daily at
tendance in Evansville while in Lamasco. it
was only about loo, and if we estimate the
cost of the schools According to the average
attendance of the scholars, tie tuition. or
cost of each scholar IN Lamas:o would be
more than double that OF each scholar in
Evansville.
Again the teachers in LaniaSco were not
paid as high salaries a. in Evansville. The
salary of the male teacher in the Grammar
School in Evansville. was 500, AMI that al
the teacher in the female Grammcr School
ceivol but SGDv, and the highest female
teacher but 1915. The explanation for all
this difference in the cost of these schools
and in the attendance of scholars il, that in
Lamasoo, there is no school building 70 ac-
commodate over 1ep children, and no desks,
out houses or fence enclosing even the pitt
able apology for a school house which they
have.
The. teachers in Lainasco, a. a salary Of!
$500 were compelled to teach primary schol
ars, which female teacher at half the sala-
~ would be better qualified TO teacc. As
sistant teachers in Evansville AZ one-fourth
the salary of principal teachers, perfosmed
the same amount of labor, under the guild
anee of the principal, as the principal teacher
himself while in I.amasco the rooms were
too small for principal and an assistant
The teachers in Lamasco laborod as hard and
faith ully as the teachers in Evansville, but
their scholars neither made as mach prof
cheney, nor did the teachers give so good sat
isfaction to the parents or even to, themselves
as the teachers of Evansville. They could
not grade their scholars for want of saitabl.
school rooms and school accommodations, hul
were compelled to have large and small, adj
vanced and backward, primary, secondary
aud Grammar scholars altogether under on
teacher, and not enough of one grade TO max,
full classes. Ii there were suitable room
and ACCOMMODATIONS in Iamasco, there is nC
reason why the proportion of average atten
dance Of the scholars should not be as larg
as in Evansville. 1t may be said that man,
parents in Lamasco are poor and cannot loos
the time of their children to send them t
school. We find the reverse of this to b
true. In Evansville the children of the poor
er people are the most regular and punctua
scholars ut school, while the children of tin
wealthiest parents tindexcuses to be tardy an
absent.
There are now about 5000 children in til
,, city entitled to tho privileges of our publ
schools. About 500 of these reside belo'
Main street, The school building aboy
Main street has been so crowded for the pa.
year, that over 200 have been provided Il
3 elsewhere, and it will not be possible, niue
d longer, TO accommodate any of the childre
a below Main street, in the school buildin
above. If nothing better than sheds can
d obtained below Main street, all the childrs
= residing below will be compelled to use the
S or 60 without schools. The cost of GOO
Q school building below Main street, includir
e the ground, $50 by 500 feet, will be abo,
c $4,000, which building will nccommoda
: from 600 to 500 children, aud when compile
O all the school buildings and rooms in the eli
% will not accommodate over half the Chi
e dren in the city, and such building vi
e save 81 500 each year in the expenses
d the public schools.
% Below we give tho cost of instruction
'f Evansville, compared with other cities. {
:, the past year: uss
N COST OF INs'EIoy. PER scHo'
Boston ~ ,a2i.---......-- 81 Is
Is Philadelphia. 51-,lD!.... 10
Cfncfnnaft ..-..-....... Hi,1l3............ > ~
lnuanfp oiis----..-..- ls.sh....-.-.--. " ~
N Evansville. 5,,-0.....-...... 4 a.
"a Indianapolis will require So 900 from &
= city to continue the schools another Yea