Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1869-03-16
School superintendent Report.

Bible. LUTHER.
School superintendent Report.
BARTON.
Gentlemen Of the torn Of Barton -
The welfare of our schools is not a
matter Of secondary Importance
They exert such an influence upon the
character Of our children and youth !;
they are so closely connected with
the happiness Of our homes, and the
morality OF our communities and they
determine 50 greatly the future of III
dividuals, families, churches. and pos
siOly states, that we do we'll TO real
ize their Importance, and attend to
their welfare | comics that as | re-
view the record OF these schools for
the pas year, that | may present this
my second annual report upon theiI
condition, | am oppressed with the
thought OF the magnitude OF the inter
estS which have been entrusted to my
official care and supervision. | au
renewedlv conscious both of my OWL
inethclcAcy, and Of the Iuadequacy OF
the time | can spare from other dutie:
for the oversight ana directions OF thes,
schools.
| submit to you, lellow-citizens til,
/ following account OF my stewardship
in tin, ouerous and responsible sta
ZION:
The amount expended for common
schools III town last year
was Sl58S.9
For building and repairing
school houses. $3.50,
/ Tuition OF 100 scholars vino
attended select schools
or academy IL town (es-
timated a. ,nJy $500
each,l 5000
/ L ulllOH OI tuDSt DIT SCuOOi
out oil town at d small
estimate) 500
Public funds III aid of Barton
academy (the lowest
figures 60
- Making d total of the large
sum OF $2873.9
Besides this We might refer to the e.
ira expenses for board and clOthin
DC, incurred by those away from hon
at school, aud must see that as una
t ter OF pecaRidry Importance to say Ii
D thing about higher consideration
o this is second to no otter reported
you to-day. You who pay the tax
=. tor the common schools, or are col
PEELED by their insuticiency to p;
J the tuition Of your scholars at priva
a schools, may well inquire how til
money is expended and what it bu
- for your children and youth. If it
true, as Que has written, that "wh
you touch the picket, you touch t
J. heart Of a New Highlander" our hea
e ought to be moved by this subject
" We scrutlnize (and rightly enoug
f. every item OF the report Of the Owe
seer OF the Poor, and groan inward
il not audiOly, at the thirteen or fol
: teen hundreds OF dollars which we o
" out each year under his direction.
u Ought not similar Importance to alta
4 to this other expenditure reported l
,. on by that official whom another b
dubbed, The Overseer of the pc
II schools OF the town ?"
y We investigate attentively the
y port of the selectmen concerning d0
h. ages thai have occurred on our hi.
10 ways, ana which they have settled
propose to iitigate. Ought We not
y be equally Interested i'll the DANA!
ID Inflicted upon ourselves, our chiIdr
st and upon generations yet unborn,
IS our schools are not what they gu!
"a to be? We speak with bated breat
of the debt which rests as heavy b
!! den upon the town. Shall we for,
the debt which we owe to the gene
IS ton now In training for the work
H. the future, or fail to realize in so
es measure the magnitude of the int
$500 estS that center in our school svSteI
, Two questions spring to our lips
eli we approach this subject | VIVA
ur the present condition Of our schoo
n 2 What may be done for their
? provement My observations as
~ perintendent enable me to answer
perfectly, but yet with approxim
"' truth, the first question, and sugg
Die some answers to the second wh
oh may not be wholly valueless. | b
he spent portions of more than 70
de days during the past year in att
}. ton to the teachers and schools.
" Barton. | have held two public
y; aminations at which seven teach
10, presented themselves for certifca
by | have examined fifteen persons in
III. vate. | granted certificates in full
IN eighteen, rejected one applicant,
limited in one form or another tt
Vi others. From the character of II
lch OF these examinations. | was led
of expect an Improvement in our sch'
o. over the preceding year, and a