Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1861-03-14

Mr.. SUPERINTENDENT There are many things
about every school little known outside the building
Superintendent and Committee. at the end of the
year sum up the general things but these intern
nj operations are not known to the public Hoping
to reach the parents through you, have concluded
TO make the following report of the High School for
the past year
During the year we have had connected with the
school 100 different pupils. Spring term the whole
No was So; average attendance 5s. Fall term, whole
No IS; average 81. Winter term, whole No "A; av-
erase So, making an aggregate Of $50 members for the
year, and an average Of Gl. During Spring term 10
pupil, had absences Fall term ~ Winter G.
Spring term 81 scholars had 10 tardincsses; Fall 90:
Winter u.
The following branch, lave been pursued Read
ing, Spelling, Peumanshp, Composition and Dccli-
nation by the whole school during .the entire year,
except Penmanship, which was omitted during the
winter on account Of the freezing of ink, and Compo-
sition and Defamation during the same term, which,
was omitted because the school contained several pupils
who came only for that term and required the time
previously devoted to to the above branches In adj
dton to these general exercises we have had Glasses
in Arithmetic Algebra, Geometry, Trigonomctry
Geology, Philosophy, Physical Geography, 4. S. His
torv Grammar and Composition, Parsing aud Latin
together witt general exercises in Geography once
per week during part Of the year.
The general department OF the school has been good
application to study above an average rs compared
with schools we have taught before; and the pupils
have shown disposition to advance thoroughly mth-
er than rapidly.
Since our connection with the school there has been
no case of corporal punishment not that we are OPP
posed to it, but no case of discipline has arisen which
in our estimation required its use.
We have received twcntysix visits during the year
examinations not mcuded-eleven Of these were
from yourself eight from people out of the district,
and of the twenty-six only two were from parents
OF this we think we have just reason to complaint
We repeat it of nearly two hundred parents or guard
ans who have had children under our care, only two
have shown their faces inside the school room except
examinations, md even then we have seen but few.
Nor is this ALL very few of the parents in the district
are acquainted with u, and many hardly know us by
sight, and only two know any thing of MS in school
except by hear-say, and this must be acknowledged
doubtful information, if we be permitted to Judge
from reports which have reached our ears concerning
things said to have occurred within our school room.
lfvery many Of these parents had horse, no mat
ter how small his value, placed in the pasture of SONG
individual with whom they were personally unac-
quainted, no matter how good his reputation, they
would certainly feel bound to visit the aforesaid pas
ture Mt least once year. yet they trust the temporal
and perhaps eternal welfare Of their children to teach
crs Of whom they know nothing, except by reports,
and these otlenmcS heavily shaded from the truth,
without even so much Il, visiting the school or inqur
ing after the condition Of the immortal' committed TO
their care Can you blame Us then if we are half in
clned TO believe that hundred and nnetyeght of
the parents of this district think more of their horses
than their childten2
We know of certain parents who have said that such
and such teachers were not proper persons to be in
school room yet these very persons were never seen
in the schools never spoke to the teachers, never were
in company wish them, and had no means whatever