The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1870-12-08
PUBLIC EDUCATION.
Meeting Of the Board of Com
missioners.
Report for November q the superintendent
Proposal to Appoint Medical Officer
TO Report on Sick Teachers, &C.

The regular meeting OF the Board or Education
was neld yesterday afternoon, Commissioner Ber-
nard Smyth presiding.
After reading the minutes or The last meeting a
communication from tho Trustees OF the Seventh
ward nominating Miss Carrie D. FranSin as Princi-
pal Of Primary School No. IL was read.
Commissioner WOOD said he thought Miss Fanny
Murray, having occupied the position OF Vice Prin-
cpal OF this school for nine years. ought to be ap-
pointed. He therefore moved her nomination.
The motion was lost and The communication re-
ferred to the Committee on Teachers.
petition from the Trustees OF Common Schools
OF the Ninth ward was read, asking for an appro.
pration to pay the Clerk OF the Board for the said
ward for services rendered during the year 1870.
Referred to the Finance Committee.
communication was read from he City SupcrIr-
tendent stating that during the month OF Novem.
Der he had examined the various schools Of the
Fourth, Eighth, Ninth, Tenth, Sixteenth, Seven.
teenth and Twenty-second wards He rad
visited in all Oh schools aud examined 1913 classes
besides some 81 other classes which had been briefly
inspected. or these classes 242 passed an excellent
examination, 2s3 were good SO fair, 10 Indifferent
and bad; mat was u say, about IL u per cent OF
all the classes examined manifested decided de-
fciency, thus giving evidence that they had not
been properly Instructed or tho 600 examined onlv
A were were deficient In discipline While asa were
excellent. The schools on Harris Island and the
school ship had also been Inspected and were re-
schools had also been examined and attention was
called to the insuficlen accommodation afforded In
Primary School No, II, IN tine Twenty-secopd ward
and OF Primary school NO. 80, III the Fifteenth ward.
According to the returns made TO the Supernten.
dents department. there were on register in the
several schools On the Isl ultmo l0l 500 pupils dis
tributed as folows:-33,7 100 In grammar schools,
so, 500 IN the primary schools and y45 In the coored
schools, showing an increase OF 666 since October l.
The study oil German had been introduced into
some or the SCHOOLS OF the Eighth, Eleventh and
Thirteenth wards with very satisfactory results,
The report was ordered to be printed.
communication from Mr.. John Peterson, OF
Colored Grammar school No. l, was read. Mr. Pc
terson, while proceeding on the 10th OF OCTOBER
from the Broadway Bank with the sum or xg53 IA
~ bis pocket the monthly Salaries OF tue teachers
OF his schoo', was robbed Of $3.50. lie thinks the
money was taken by man on the car, whom he
had also seen at the bank, and who had got on tho
car without paying his fare. Mr. Peterson desired
the Board 10 use IT'S influence TO help MN to recover
the money. tLaughter) Referred TO the Committee
Teachers
A recommendation was read that all waste paper.
&C.. In schools should be sold by the trustees and
the proceeds applied to the purposes OF the Board
Referred 10 Committee on Teachers.
A report was read from the Committee on
Teachers, recommending that, in view OF the MANY
objections 10 the present system Of granting leave
OF absence 70 teachers. physician be appointed
with salary OF VI, 800 per annum, to attend to all
cases OF SICKNESS requiring an absence or more
than i've days. and report thereon TO the Board,
The following gentlemen were confirmed US inspect
ors Tor the various dlsrics.First district Robert
b. Leonardo Second district, John aecker; Third ais
trict James Kelly; Fourth district Andrew Mills.
Fifth district James W. Gerard; Sixth district John
Brice aud Farrell Dorothy; Seventh district Hosea
b. Perkins.
A communication read from several inspect
ors recommending X J. o'Sullivan, NJ. D., as ex-
an absence Of more than five days. Referred 10 the
Committee on Bylaws.