Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1863-11-05

duration of her schools.
The expense Of the schools has been
as follows:
The amount paid for wages of teach
ere in all was, exclusive Of board, $685.
The amount for board for 640A
weeks, estimating the same At
$40 per week, is S6,066
The amount paid for fuel, furniture
and incidentals, is a go
honses. il 2o,ss4
The amount expended in repairs IL STA
The amount of bills of Superintend-
enis as the same are claimed;is l,S47
Making in all the sum of sslo,eAs
If to this be added Q per cent interest
on the amount invested in school
lots and houses, estimating the
same at $500 each in 2,722 dis
tricts, which gives gross vaua-
ton of $l,0sS,so0, ON which 9 80
per cent is 6.5zs
And we have ss75,s7e
as indicating the. total expenditure for schools
during the preceding school year,
The Report speaks of great detrment
to the schools from the much too prevalent
practice of making frequent changes in
the teachers, as shown by the statistics
Il exhibits the fact Of an increased en-
ployment of female teachers, and while
the average wages paid to male teachers
has increased from s II "a, paid last year,
to $500, the ayel age wages paid to ie-
! male teachers has decreased in the same
time from $7.92 to Ss7.76. The schools
have, however, been as a whole unusual
ly good during the year.
The Report discloses the startling fact
that the erage daily attendance of the
children of the state, between four and
eighteen years Of age, upon the schools,
though gradually increasing, is now only
fraction over 81 per cent of the whole
number of such children.
The Secretary speaks of the injury re-
Suting from the causeless multiplicity OF
districts congratulates the we'll wishers
| of schools that the practice of "boarding
teachers around" is on the decline; and
that the average attendance upon school
| meetings has much increased remarks
upon the Importance Of faithful and
thorough enforcement by superintendents
and citizens, of the law in regard to the
public examination of teachers, and upon
the dlscreditable condition of our schools
In regard to articles of apparatus
furnished them shows that the last four
years of our schools have been marked
by diminished resort to corporal pun
ishment, and at the same time a general
Improvement in the department of the
schools; speaks Of the Importance of
town school libraries of the good ac-
, Somplished by voluntary associations of
teachers in counties, ETC.; earnestly recon-
mends the consolidation of districts and
ths adoption of the graded school system
IN all towns and villages where it is prac-
tleable, and discusses other equally inter-
est, 6 and important topics connected
with the good of our schools, of which
our limits will not permit further mention
The Secretary closes his report with
reference to the scheme of uniting the col
leges at Middlebury and Burlington
| and suggests what seems to US the
most feasible plan, at least, yet proposed,
70 accomplish the result, VIZ: to compen-
safe for the loss which may result by the
non-selection of either Of the two towns
named as the site for the location of the
consolidated college, by rendering to it.
Its selection as site for the establishment
Of the proposed Agricultural College,
perhaps in connection with that of a
State Normal School,
The Secretary proposes certain modif-
cations of the school law, which, with the
other topics discussed IN the report, will
engage the attention of the legislature.