Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1862-11-27

uraWh upoh, ny tue pIeseut ConuIllon oI natlon- |
al affairs, there is exhibited a gratifying i'm
provement in the condition of our common
schools.
The statistics furnished us by our CORES
pendent from the report are as follows:
"Statsticsl aggregate of school returns of
Vermont for 1862, as made to the Secretary
of the Board of Education.
Number of heads sof families, $1,000
do children between and Is yrs, 500
do weeks school by male teachers Ia 500
do do by female teachers, 81 ,065
Amt of wages paid male teachers, $62,5l2
do do female teachers, SOL 400
Amt paid for board of teachers, $6o,560
do for fuel furniture, &c, $2S, 067
do for erecting school-houses, S54,0l9
do for repairing schoo-houses, $l3,S59
Amt money distributed March 1861, SOS, l65
Amt raised on Grand Last, Sll73lS
Amt raised the scholar, so go
Amt of wages, board and fuel 1921 PSI
No. weeks school supported by Dist 29,036
Average number attending school meeting, IL
No. Of School Registers required, 3,006
No. of different teachers, 4,9O4
No of private and select schools, 300
No. of scholars attending select and prI-
vate schools, 1921
No. of weeks of board and fuel on the
scholar, 9,434
Average attendance between and 20, Al ,455
No. attending between and Is, 63'72S
No. attending between Is and 20, 2,642
Number Of cases of hardness, S57 452
Number of cases of dismissals, l09 l44
Number of scholars having no absences, 6,84l
Ne, of instances of corporal punishment, 7, 40l
No. of visits by Superntendants, 6,8l9
No. of visits by prudential committees, 3,l75
No of visits by others, 50,lU7
Whole number of Dictionaries in the
Sc eral school dis'ts of the state ll3
90 do Globes do do 100
do do Outline Maps do 3l2
do do Black Boards do 2,449
do do Clocks do so
do do Thermometers do Is
Number of teachers boarding around, 1854
Number of teachers teaching without Ger
tfcates, 63
Number of legally organized districts in
the state, 2,471
Number of fractional districts, 457
Number of districts in the state voting to
have no schools, 81
Amount of the bills OF town superintend-
ents for 1861, $4,S44
Number Of districts in the state not re-
turning the school district registers in
compliance with the law, 222
Number of reports of town superinteud-
ents which have been printed, 90
Number of Academies in the state, "a
The Secretary of the Board of Education
says in his annual report in reference to this
statistical aggregate:
can examination of the above statistics will
corroborate in the main, the opinions and con-
| illusions given in the reports of the superln
| tendents, aud commend them to general con-
| sideration but somewhat minute inspection,
together with a comparison Of the above ag
gregate with that of the preceding year is re-
CURED in order to full perception of its real
bearing and significance.
=" But before taking such survey and COLA
ton, it will not be amiss to call to mind the
extent to which our state in common with
others, has been disturbed and shaken by the
tremendous CONFUSION of our nation that is
threatening its very existence. Every one Of
the great interests of society, outside Of the
schools, has been jeopardized, and must have
been seriously injured. by an almost total en-
grossment of the public mind in matters per-
tanning to an actual struggle for national unity
certainly, and perhaps for national life. Hence,
If survey of the statistics should ascertain
only dlmlnutiou of interest in the schools, and
OF attendance upon them, proportional to the
very perceptible abatement of prosperity in
every other direction, we have no special cause
Of encouragement with regard to the educa-
tional interests Of the state But if on the
other hand, the statistics should upon careful
examination, reveal steady and progressive
| improvement In the most prominent and I'M
| portant directions, there would be manifest
grounds for encouragement and rational hope
| fulness."
| When these remarks of the Secretary are
duly considered, the facts revealed by the re-
port, which will b.. apparent by a comparison
Of the above STATISTICS with the previous ones
upon the same subject, viz: that larger sum
has been expended in the last year upon
school houses than in the year previous; and
that the attendance upon schools as well as the
aggregate number of weeks taught, has been
increased-are especially gratifying, and afford
the best tribute to the workings of our educa-
tional system, and especially to the indefatiga-
BILE labors of the Secretary himself. A
In the last year it will be seen there was
expended upon school-houses the sum of $54,
0l9, beides the large amount expended for re-
pairs. In the year previous the amount ex-
pended for the same purpose was $44 ,6l7.
The average attendance upon schools in the
last year was At ASS; in the preceding year
Is, 442. In the last year there was an aggre-
gate of 65. SOS weeks of schools, in the proceed
ing year the aggregate was 64,7s4. BY
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