New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1868-06-24
PUBLIC SCHOOL EXAMINATIONS
second District.

and we succeeded in making calls at most
Of them, greatly to our edifcation. The
first place we visited was the Girls, Rampant
between st. Louis and Toulouse streets,
where Mrs. NJ. G. Dubois is principal, with
the following named worthy assistants:
Misses N. Sassinot, j. SchiiermaD, NJ. vi
sarran, N. King ard Mrs. d. Begault. The
principals, voqm contains some of the
brightest scholaIs in any school in
this or any other district, and
in the short space of time allowed us we
were convinced that fair advancement has
been made by the pupils in each room. Mrs.
Dubois classes in arithmetic and geography
are extremely well cultivated, and a few of
the young ladies who took the trouble to
explain Gus difficult problems, convinced us
that they made the explanation under.
standingly; in fact, the msority Of the
young ladies recited lessons in a manner
that would induce the leas. observant Wis.
itor to make similar conclusion. The
building contains about three hundred
pupils, all of asuperior class.
The teachers here have adopted an excel.
lent plan, that is, postinga roll Of honor on
blackboard. The roll is made up from
the most worthy and smartest pupils in the
room, and eXcites spirit of emulation.
Miss schlierman's classes are worthy of
especial mention, and her influence was
perceptble in her bright little ones when
they rose to repeat lesson, We do not
mention this to in the least detract from
the other teachers, for they, too, have striven
successfully in their duties, There are a
number of scholars who have mastered
penmausLip in five or seven months. Quite
a throng OF visitors paid critical attention
to the exercises. The amount of good &C.
complished in this building siuce the last
examination can not be measured, except
perhaps oy the number that will be trans
ferred to the high school.
Itis not far from truth to assert that the
St. Philip street school for boys is the most
perfect one in the city so far as regards dis,
cipline, and our opinion is that the scholars
are quite equal to any in perfection of
studies, Principal Meylor when we entered
his room was holding an easy conversation
with his boys, the subject being geography,
The lads, through this method, were less
liable to become di4composej, and when
they replied to queries they knee what they
were saying. Not far from six hundred
boys are in attendance, but the building is
large and well adapted for Its uses.
Patience" is an appropriate motto for
the Rampant street school for 24O colored
girls, all intelligent aad neatly attired under
such persevering teachers as Miss Sallie
Ludwig, Miss N. Colongne, Kate stanislaus,
Mary Smith, and Ellen Dolan, This school
was established in October, 1867, and al
ready has made its mark. Misses Caroline
Mahony, Sarah Washington, Louisa Carter,
Ida Maloyd, Florence Brown and two or
three others, possess fine qualifications,
studious habits, and pleasing manners.
These teachers, it is unnecessary to say,
have encountered unusual difficulties in
training their charges to the work of edu-
cation, but they have proved themselves
equal to the task, and to day can well point
to their handiwork with pride. All the
children understand exactly what is de.
manded of them, and strive to excel. This
school was visited by several prominent
gentlemen and many parents, all leaving
well pleased with the progress made by the
classes.
The Dumaine street cOlored school next
engaged our attention. Here we found in
an Indifferent house fftySeyen boys and
eighty,three girls under the care of Mrs.
Peck and Mrs. Bennett for the past seven
months. Mrs. Peck informed US Tat during
her first week only eight children accepted
seats, then thirty, then fftyfye, sixty-six,
124, and finally the number reached 226;
but at present has declined to a smaller
number. The pupils appear to understand
what is demanded of them, are orderly and
studious, and making even more than usual
advancement in their books As a whole
they are more tractable and manageable
than children in other schools. One small
class in grammar excels beyond anticipa.
tions, while those in geography and arith-
metic are fully up to toexpectahons. Visitors
did not call frequently, probably because
the building is so far from usual routes, but
the school is doing well and promises tc
reach fair state of accomplishments, and
in course of time will send forth those who
were blind to refinement and learning
furnished with that which is power
knowledge through the insrumentality o.
which they may enter the world prepared
TO I'LL positions to their forefathers utterly
unheard of.
The Bayou Road school for girls is stu.
ated on Claiborne street, between Bayou
Road and Esplanade street, and there was
nothing yesterday to distinguish it espe,
oially from an ordinary private dwelling
house, except that at one of the outer door.
were clustered several dusky faces peering
in to catch a glimpse Of the misses as they
went through their routine exercises, or
modestly declaimed in French and English
while at the other entrance stood one o.
the lady teachers dividing her attentions
between her scholars and her expected
visitors.
Mrs. s. Bigot is the accomplished princi
pal, and notwithstanding the clamor raised
against her by the parent Of one or two O
her pupils who feared there might be 1
doubt Of the purity of his own blood, the
exercises afforded positive proof that hel
capacity IS principal Of public school il
fully up to the average standard, and that
her scholars are proficient, thorough, and
advanced in their studies. There was pos
itiyely nothing in the appearance of he
scholars to warrant the assertion that sever
or twenty-seven Of them were not pure eau