New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-01-20
REPORT or CITY SUPERINTENDENT.

The CT Superintendent of Public Schools the Hon.
S. S. Randall, has made his report to the Board of
Education. Some months ago, in accordance with a
provision Of the law which requires him 10 advise
with the Trustees in relat on to their dulles, the
"proper studies discipline and conduct of the schools
tie COURSE of instruction be pursued and the books
" OF elementary instruction to be used therein" the
SupeIinteDdcpt rent in comm 5jcation in which be
recon ended important changes in the management Of
tia ebools and sted the Beard Of Education to
mint il for the use OF the Trustees The Board refused
He has, however, Incorporated them III his report,
which will 20 into the hands of the Trustees.
lie reports 20 Ward schools comprising "A grammar
schools for boys Is for girls for boys and grs and
40 primary Department.; IS primary and colored
tchool. Pupils on register, 1885, $685. average attend
ance, 81 ,4S9 pupils in Free Academy $780, in the ii
evening schools Is $751; in the normal schools ESQ., and
in the IL corporate institutions which share in the
public money 1869, making in all l6l 28Pupils taught
Fnsnciaiy, he reports the expenses at salaries Of
teachers and anitoIs, $6l7 I2S 81 new schoohouses
a9d repairs 1853 SAG 3D. fuel so $50 10; books sta
tioDery and apparatus $2 4S5 81 salaries of Officers
of the Boaro $25 l67 g. Free Academy, S5O, l2 "a;
evening schools $69 csc g. Normal schools, 50 1855 49,
contingencies, 50 1884 81 Total, $,"46G00. Of ttis
sum 81 C3S Ca 05 raised by city tax and the
mainder SCI 532 70, appropriated from the State
fund, toward which the city contributed an equal
amount, and sl9l ,6S4 03 in addition.
The Superintendent reports a very considerable pro-
gress in The scholarship and grade Of schools. He
thinks that something of this is due TO the selection by
MANY Of the Wards of no ne teac but those of
tie highest grade who need devote portion of their
energies to study in q Normal school. He says that
there il full supply of well-qualifed teachers He
commeDds the order and dsc ppe of the schools,
dered easy by music and gymnastic exercises.
He explains the system Of examinations lately in
ase--a system lore perfect than any previously put
into opeation-and Which producing statistics of
the highest importance, when it was checked by the
remODs,Ianoes OF number Of male principals, who did
not like TIE opportunities which it afforded OF eompah
sons between schools and classes
lie deema The great excellence Of the system 10 be its
full and pract al recognition of the great principle o.
unyerfaland free education, commemorate with the
the bgbef sttapsbe standard of literary and scientific
acquisitions through the Ward schools for the better
attendance of which he recommends that the Board of
Educalion cl on the City Government! 10 enforce the
1Iuabt ard Yagabond laws through the Free Acade-
my, which be think should be duplicated for girls,
with normal attachment; and through the evening
schools, designed Tor ihose VINO are III "oiA III
the daytime for foreigners who do not know English
enough 10 Join the dayscbool classes, and for those
who, from any reason-as for instance, the want Of
suitable clothing the crowded condition OF the schools
nfrm health, not admitting of continuous application,
or the natural embarrassment arising from the back
waIdness OF their a,tainnents when compared with
other pupils Of their age, are unable or unwilling
10 attend the public schoos; and through the Colored
schools which, be says have enabled the children Of
This hitherto degraded and underyaued race,
fully to vndicate their claims to equal degree of in
tellectua and moral culture, with those of other
favorbly situated.
He recommends early tuition, but that the time in
primary schools be mainly employed in teaching a
knowledge Of things, in Unconscious tuition" and
lie suggests the utmost care in the sele aon of primary
teachers even should il be necessary TO pay higher
salaries He thinks the intellectual training given in
the Grammar should BE- brOadened by the general in-