The Cleveland leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1865-1865, 1865-05-20


Alta meeting of the Board of Education,
OF this city, held on last Monday evening,
the superintendent of Public Institutions
submitted the following special report:
GENTLEMEN: As your body has Just been
orgauizei, embracing new members who
NAV desire a more intimate acquaintance
with facts pertaining To our schools, II
seelns proper that should present = bfsei
special report .a.
There are under my care at the present
time ....
? High Schools, with teachers aud 2sz pupils.
Grammar "a q Is $50
9I Intsrinediate {" ., 's 81 hi23
a. Sea- and Prin. ls a47i
We have an instructor in vocal music,
also teacher of book keeping who devotes
To this business but fraction of hiss time.
Thus it seems that We have eighty schools,
| with ninety EIGHT teachers and seven
thousand three hundred and fifty pupila-
In the High Schools there are thirty.fEe
pupils 10 one teacher; in the Intermediate
/ Schools, sixty-fye pupils TO one teacher IN
| the Grammar Schools, ffty-four pupils 70,
1 one teacher, and in the Secondary and Pri-l
| mary Schools, ninety-thtee pupils 70 one
| teacher. '' +. -. /. =
| Most of our school buildings are in good
| condinop Several o. them, however, are
/ unsuitable for school purposes MOst Of the
rooms are sufficiently largo for sue . q nual-
| Der Of scholars in each AS should be COM
| Initted 10 the care of single teacher .,s1
| / am happy to be able. to say that the
teachers in your employmentareb both COM
\ petent and faithful. Some Of them are su-
| perior 70 others, as might be expected
among so large number; but as whole
ions to the tosehers in any other town m
onr State, or elsewhere. Is is my pleasure,
ss well as my duty, TO bear testimony to
| THAR professional excellence. Within the
last two years, more than forty teachers
have. by resienatien or otherwise, retired
from ycur employment. Among this mum
Der there were those who were equal IN
qualifications 10 any who are now engsged
in your schools This wAs not true OF all
| Of them, Gnd as whole they were, IN my
estimation, inferior 20 these who have sue
ceeded them.
Nearly every school in the three higher
deparLments is now in highly Buecessiul
, operation. Few of them exceed, in the
number of their pupils, the proper and me-
cessary limit. Five or six Of the lnterme O.
: diate schools would be better were they
I | Less crowded /; still their teachers manage
them withous serious difficulty. -.
Our Grammar schools were never, so far
!, az am able 10 Judge, in so good aeondItion
!, rs st present Greater strictness IN require
. manta for advancement, the more thorough
! grading which has been brought about, and
ehe new programme of daily exercises, in
J. troduced last year, are producing most de-
t sirable results. Moat Of the classes in thil
: department are at least six months IN adj
4 vancemeut of what the corresponding CLASSES
we're two years ago. And BY the close o
r. another school year, every class will, 1 an
! conhdeut, have worked up to the point pre-
Z scribed by your published rules. Two year
% AGO these cli IS were nearly one year be
3 hind time in this matter
10 Ia the two lower grades, the Primary an'
:, the Secondary, school not tundulYeroHde'
le with pupils, is an exception 10 the genera
rule, In enumsrating these schools, hay
le united and presented them as one.
p many instanees these two grades are bro
ne together in the same schools The disad
n yantages of this plan are so apparent as I
- need little explanation. 1t involves u
uo necessity of classes SO numerous As 70 IN
'r nose upon the teacher severe labor in q
OF lending 10 the multi piled reoitssions an
exercises of each session.. This iplao al
J. nscessitates hindrsnees 70 the adVsneemel
.Ws Of tne pupils, inasmuch as each class vi
receive less of the teachers care, than
or schools better graded and more strict
Vss classified,