New-York tribune., 1866-12-25
OUR COMMON ScBOOLS.
PRESENT TsrTUATIoY-wHAT THR oIrr sUpErlETEYDKYT
WILL RECOMMEND.

WILL RECOMMEND.
Mr. S. s. Randall City Superintendent Of Common
Schools busy the preparation Of the Twentlnh Annual
Report o. the Board Of Education HIS assstalts Messrs ~
Chkins and Henry Riddle have courteousy afo6od or
reporters such documents contain tic information
which Nj Randall will ombody in his report and we present
below q summary Of the main points
The subject o. prime importance in school system The
oyeIorovdng Of the primary schools Assistant Suporinten-
dent Cains recently found in small room Of Primary School
no A. in the Tenth Ward hundred and thirty pupils OF
the alphabet class where the accommodations were insufficient
TOR more than seyeny.fye, and he learned moreover
that severtyfyc or eighty pupils at home who
would attend school in tie afternoon in lieu Of the one hundred
and thirty who taught at the morning session Several
primary schools which designed for 1000 pups each as
the maximum have from 200 TO 1000 names on their repoo
tive registers and an actual attendance Of from 100 to 1850
children These remarkable facts carry their own comment
A Kddo says that the first have mentioned Of over
crowdng anomalous in Now York but that tie primaries
in eight uopuous wards crowded IN like manner
and be believes that the cN N could adyanagoy increase M
number Of primary schools by ten situatng them perhaps
follows In the Seventeenth Ward two M the Tenth Ward
two ana one eaeh IN the eleuth IWeIi4 Nlhe
stood that Superintendent Randall will recommend that least
eight new primary school oihces be erected OF the earliest
practicable date Here and there among fytwo grammar
schools found Of insufficient capacity 10 accommodate tie
number OF youths Offering but generally the grammar schools
have for all and are IN good sanitary condition
II Is in public schools that may best see and eOmpTe
hend the real greatness and muucenco OF oar opucnt city
and nowhere therein these conspicuous THANH the gift
Of textbooks No other city under the both eucates its
youth anu supplies their textbooks gratis In tins latter grain
10y the Board Of Education expends about s00OW annually
With reference % the scholastic standing and p0nCon! OF te
children under the of 1900 teachers do no
better than quote the Superintendent OF Schools OF ChaestoW
Mass who after recent visit OF inspection declared the
scholarship Of our youth superior TO that Of any IKE number
Of like age that he had and IN respect Of our system
generally may without egotsm quote superintendent ohn
D. Phillrck of Boston who declared ours the imperial ys
Of the world Why not Where else on the planet are
free schoos-happy thrice happily at last truly free thrown
open throughout the year morning and nigh Where
which gives the poor Of genius literally without cost
the diploma Of the collCs sanl
Tho latest report Of Superintendent Phiick Of Boston
marks that Wherever schoohousc heated Il should az
all events have good surroundings that Is y should be IN
good neghbohood the best uanabe with respect to morals
health Quenes aud taste Tie point would make IS ICON
tnue Superintendent Phbrc that such requisites these
anoo to be travelled over by pupils Of the hundred and
school buildings which the Board Of Education and has
m use not more than hy can De SAID TO Do wen situated h
respect Of either their ncaess TO center OF population or
their surroundings Long ago when many Of them were bI
the fact might have beeu-and probably was-oheTW IN
0e norhwaId maIch Of commerce has nearly depopuaod
those regions Of the city which wer cenes o. wealth ana cu
turc n the days OF our ats ana many OF inc bcooous
Of those days longer hanked By pa9a mansions but
rather by ginhops and hovcls Uuhappy the great city
with al It's wealth has not cOcT6 deep as 90 warrant the
purchase of lots adjoining school property And what q
DO II such lots fan into unworthy hands
The Board erecting school building in Vostry.st TO
be used primary school aud TO cost st6l3 Grammar
school No Is In Ffy rsst between Lexington and Fourth
The Greenwch-ave School building IN which tho fearful
calamity Of ddozen years more occurred demolished
imposing cdhce whose solid walls and wo protected stair
afford guaranty against Of the Green
Me- SicuorS t @ u , a. 81 M ran 'J 11 m Gn od rbooi
distributed around the Nnth Wand awaiting the complo
soy s!r. ~ 10 <. seventh awe aid ne primary
department u the basement Of the Scycnhavc Pefyiei1n
other property Of the Board Of Education we refer Ao reader
10 tAo following table