The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1871-08-10
County superintendent Report.
Common Schools Monroe Co.
for the year ending june list.

While passing in review the educational
work of the past year in this county, | fee
there is good cause for encouragement There
is evidence that the spirit of progress Is among
us. New houses have been built, nsore and
better ones have been contracted for to be
built, more interest is being taken in the work
of the school room. The grade of the teachers
certificate is more closely scrutinized The
acknowledgement comes more frequently that
Teachers salaries are too low, and school term
too short.
Ofthe new houses built during the last year
one is at Mechanicsville-a new sub-district
in Chestnuthill, good house, provided with
good furniture. Also good house in the
Mountain sub-district, Jackson tsp MixelPs
in Ross, has a new house, and a new location
for the house. The old house stood where
three ways meet" But a change for the
better has been made. The new house has a
play ground adjoining, sufficient for the accom-
modation of the school. Kelersville, in Hamil-
ton, has also been promoted. The old, Octa-
gon, stone house has been abandoned and the
school has taken possession of a new house in
ferior TO none in the county. The cost of the
house is about 81 900, borne in part by the snb-
scrlptions OF the inhabitants of the sub-district
This is an example worthy of imitation. II
Directors will not, can not build a house
that In point of style or finish will meet the
requirements of the people then had they bet.
Ter add by private subscription to the amount
the Directors can appropriate to the purpose
new house in the new sub-distrct of Falls
in Barrett, has been built. Through the liber.
ality of Mr.. Geo. Price, Sec of the School
Board, the house is free gift to the district
1t Is sufficiently roomy and comfortable fol
the present requirements of the school, The
Directors of Smithfeld are about TO eclipse all
OF their former attempts at School Architec
ture. They have contracted for the erection
OF two story brick house at the village OF
Dutotsburg, al a cost ofabout $4,000, exclusive
of furniture. 1t is the intention to establish q
graded school therein. The Borough of East
Stroudsburg will also erect a building for the
accommodation of its schools 1t is sufficient
TO say the Directors are enterprising men, who
Will not stop short of house of the first order
There are still others that L have heard Of
and doubtless some that have not yet heard
from-that will be erected the coming season
But there is one township in particular, with
pretty long list of poor houses, to which nv
attention has been directed, and from which /
am anxiously waiting to hear, that the old cab.
ms WIZ be taken down and their places sup,
pied with substantial houses. | don't know
now long L must wait. As they now stand
they are detriment TO the health of the pupils
attending, and to the appearance of the respeo-
tive localities in which they are situated.
From the Statistical Report it will be seen
that no district ia reported as being well sup
piled with apparatus
The Borough of Stroudsburg, the township
OF Iobyhanna, Smithfeld, Paradise Barrett,
Chesnuthill, Polk and the Independent Dis.
trlct of Bushkill, are supplied with Globes
Stroudsburg and Coolbaugh with Outline Maps.
biackboards are found in nearly alb the schools,
ranging in quality from the frst-rate to the
worthless. Stroudsburg, Barrett BushkilI and
Eldred have excellent blackboard surface and