Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1862-04-12

10 the Board Of Education:
GENTLENEN;-In obedience to your require.
ments l submit for your consideration my An
nual Report. say Annual Report, but you
are to bear IN mind that your Schools were in
the care of my predecessor the first term of
your academical year, which has just closed =
Aiy Report therefore, embraces period Of two
terms or twenty-nine weeks:
l. THR PRIMARY EPARTMENr.--The pros
perity which characterized this School when
first became acquainted with it, has been fully
sustained through the services Of faithful and
efficient teacher. But there is a serious evil
connected with this Department, which claims
your early attention. l refer to the limited ac-
commodations, and the injurious effects conse.
| quent upon the overcrowded condition Of this
school room. An axiom requires no formal
demonstration TO prove its truth yet there is
one in Natural Philosophy which is more than
abundnntly demonstrated here, namely-That
small bodirs occupy but lille space. One who
has watched the play of children at the age of
those in this Department, has uot failed to no.
tice the various postures which they take, and
the different positions into which they throw
themselves during the course Of few moments
--postures and positions whicL call into action
every muscle in the child's body, thereby pro
dueing a harmonious physical developement.
The room therefore, that such children are in
structed in should not only be large enough to
/ allow Of free ventilation, but also of those gym
nastic exercises which nature so loudly sug-
gests My interest in these little ones and my,
desire that they may receive the best trimming
mentally and physically that you can afford them
lead me to urge this subject upon your atten-
tion.
II. THE SECONDARY DEPARTMENT There is
much here to encourage those who are instruc-
ted in these Schools The excellent discipline
maintained the interest which the pupils mani
fest in their studies, and the progress made. give
to this school character which its friends and
patrons may well be proud of.
III. THE INTERMEDIATE FPARTMgNT.-Ths
school has not yet arrived at that standard Of
excellence which we are all anxious it should
reach Yet during the present term there has
been considerable progress in the right direction.
For some time past this school has labored un.
der serious disadvantages, one OF tie most i'm
portant OF which has been its unsettled condi-
ton, attendant upon frequent change Of teach
ers The first thing 10 be desired in this De-
partment is thorough discipline, disidrat um
rarely attained without uniform system oI
government from term to term.
". The GRAMMAR ScuooI. DEPARTMENT.
A commendable degree of progress has been
made in this school, enough at least to encour.
age those who are interested here. This De
partnent has been, and is, difficult one ia
manage, because the Young America element
in il is slow to learn the lesson Of obedience tC
Justly appointed rules and regulations. AS
people we feel the Importance OF Submission to
just law to-day, as We have never felt il before
as is manifested 10 the determination Of the
Government TO compel obedience to the Con
stitution and in the willingness of the people o
> the North to put themselves under the authority
of Military Leaders, and to obey the word Of
command upon the battlefield 10 tho spirit
which Oetuated the Light Brigade" at Bala
klsVs
Theirs not 10 make reply,
Theirs not to reason Why,
Their but 10 do or die"
While we who are older are thus learning iba
Liberty is not lawlessness, but rather perfec
obedience to perfect law" we should teach tht
same to Young America in the schoolroom.
We shall find them apt scholars if the teacher
can have the hearty cooperation Of parents ,bu
sioO TO learn II parents do not uphold the prop
er discipline of the scbooroom.
V. Tue hIGH ScHooL DEPARrMENr.-It al
fords me pleasure to report to you that thi
Department is in very aourishing condition
The uniform good conduct of the pupils instruc
ted here their studous habits, and cagerness I,
excel in all those qualifications which are lessen
tial to manhood and womanhood, have mad
0 my connection with this Department especial,
interesting aud pleasant The Assistant Prin
Il cipal who has served you so long aud faithful,
here, may well be proud of her charge for il
: none Of the schools are the indications of pro,
= gress more frequent
Since the Schools have come under my man
agement but three pupils have been advanced
70 higher grade, have made only these few
promotions for the reason that was to rails,
Ins standard ofschOlarship in oil of the Schools
pave no sympathy with any plan which pre-
: NOTES scholar simply for equslizing th
schools or tor any other reason than thai
oil sound scholarship The pupil who by ps
: tient application has fitted himself for the stut
les OF higher grade. should be boDored wi,
promotion, while bic comrades aud elders VIII