Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-12-06
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MEETING OF THE ScHooL BOARD. -rhe last
meeting of the present school board was held
last evening, but the political excitement was so
great that only few attended The suggestions
made in the monthly report of Superintendent
Marble were made the basis of action, and moth
ing was done except to act upon the matters
presented to the board by the report. Itno.
ticcd the changes in teachers, which have been:
Miss Ella J Pratt has left the Lcesvillc school,
and Miss Newton has taken her place; Miss
Adclla Hills has left 1.-THE South Worcester school,
on account of i'll health and Mss Wetmore is
transferred from the Quinsigamond school to
take her place, Miss L. L Perry takes Miss Wet
more's place, and Mrs. Walker takes Miss Per-
rvs place.
The report mentioned that the evening school
at South Worcester recommended at the last
meeting, has begun with thirty pupils, under
the instruction of Mr.. Preston Jones.
The matter of merging the Burncoat Plain
school into the Worthwhile school was referred
to special committee with power to act.
The committee on the drawing school reported
that during the season $50 applications have
been made. Thirty Of this number were from
the public schools and could not be admitted;
forty were advanced in free hand drawing,
thirty in mechanical drawing, and the rcstwere
beginners The classes were organized Monday
evening. The advanced classes will meet on
Monday and Thursday evenings of each week,
and the class of beginners is divided into two
parts, the first including carpenters and ma
chniStS, and the second some Thirty calngs.
They will meet Wednesday and Saturday even
ings and each will receive exactly the same in
structions for the first ten lessons. Afterwards
any other arrangement may be made for the
interest of the classes. Prof. Thompson, of the
technical sch DOL, made short address TO the
school on its opening, giving the purpose for
which it was established and also the history of
similar schools in other countries.
Remarks were made in the report concerning
the kind of reading pursued by pupils when out
of school, aud the need ofdrcction from teachers
in the choice of books, A proposition has been
made to furnish all the teachers with MOore'S
work "What to read and How to read it," and
Mr. S. S. Green, librarian, has kindly voun-
teercd to select and make a list of few hundred
DOOhS dbupLCtl 10 oCllOOl tilllNltN, llC InulltI
was referred to the committee on books and
apparatus with power to act The teachers will
meet at the Orange street school-housc at two
o'clock next Saturday, and the matter will be
brought up for discussion.
The following circular was included in the
report accepted:
OFFICE OF SUPT. OF PUBLIC SCHOOLS,
WORCESTER, MASS.
To Manufacturers and all Employers of children:
by the state law, parents and guardians required
to send to school twelve weeks year, all children
between the ages of eight ana fourteen years. under
penalty of twenty dollars for each offence.
And no child under ten years of age shall be em-
pl0yed III any manufacturing or mechanical estab-
lishment. 10 child between the ages of ten and
fifteen shall be SO employed who has not attended
some day school three months within the year next
preceding such employment under teachers ap-
proved by the school committee, under penalty of
fifty dollars against the employer and against the
parent permitting the employment.
See general statutes, chaps. Al and A. and chap.
2S5 of the laws of 1861
The public schools are in session from the first of
September TO the first of July, except week in
December, in February, and one in Nav
Evening schools, also, are open from October to
April.
In a single evening school dozen children were
found the present season detained from school, and
employed ia violation of law There were nearly as
many in each of the others. But these children
wished to learn else they would not have been in
the evening school. len times as many ave kept IN
lgupTduCe WHO care nhlillug ABOUT II.
Prominent causes of this defrauding of the chill
dren are the incidence, avarice or dissipation of
parents, poverty and Orphanage. To withdraw from
such parents the earnings of childish hands is PEN
atty only too light and some way must be devised
for relieving orphans and the worthy poor; but nei-
ther of these causes ought to be allowed to keep
child in ignorance.
The school authorities are in duty bound to see
that children are not thus cheated and they rely
upon your corporation and the support of all good
citizens in enforcing the laws the subiecin their
broadcast spirit. They presume that you, not less
than they, recognize the right of every child to
fair amount of learning and the necessity of his OBJ
tanning 1t for the safety of state where the people
rule. And you, perhaps better than they, know
that intelligent labOreTs are the most profitable.
10 aid in securing attendance at school you are
respectfully requested
I. To require of all children under fifteen years
old, now or hereafter in your employ a card
signed by their last teacher containing the name
and age OF the child, the date of leaving school, and
the number of weeks attendance the year previous
IL. To examine these cards regularly twice a
year. on the first of September and the first of
March, to see that the law has been compiled with
calling attention to the time by note in your
calendar.
III. To fix placard in some conspicuous place
about your factory counting room, setting forth
the requirements and penalties of the law and sig
mfytng to parties who obtain employment and i'm
pose upon you in violation of its spirit that they
will be reported to the legal authorities.
These placards will be furnished on application at
this office fromS to 10 A. NJ. and u to l. or to P.
NJ.
Any influence you may have, directly or indirect-
~ IN informing parents and children of their duty
respecting schools Will be public benefit And
parties eglectng the requirements of the laws re-
ferred to above will be prosecuted.
By order of the school board,
ALBERT r. MARBLE Supt of Public Schools.
Worcester Nov. 1871.