The Placer herald., 1872-09-07

sketches taken from the annual report of the
County Superintendent of Common Schools.
10 teachers, school officers, and even the gem
eral public, they will, perhaps. be of some inter
est and value inasmuch as they are net only in-
tended to furnish dry statistical information but
also to give expression, in way, to a few of the
various and multtudinous defects of our County
Schools. In the county there are 40 organized
'ehoo' districts and Al public schools Whole
number of boys enrolled on Register, S3l; girls
S5I-tota 1893. Average number of pupils
belonging to each of all the schools. 81 daily
attendance, 27; percentage of attendance, 81
In the county, during the year, three schools
we're taught more then three and less than five
months; sixteen schools more than five and les
han eight; twenty-e;gi.t schools eight months
mi over Number of white Gill len between
i've and fifteen years OF age in tlo ,unty-boys,
liza; girls, JOY; total, 2,23) Children under
i've years of age, 1858. Number of negro chill
dren Z. 1Ldians, under the guardianship Of
white persons, IL. Number of children between
i've and fifteen years who have attended public
school, 1.790. Number who have attended pri-
vate school, 76. Not attending any school, 35o
white children, negroes and 10 Indian. Mon
5olian. un Ter fifteen years of age, II. There
IRE but six teachers in the county who have
taught over two terms.
COURSE OF STUDY.
Advanced grade, 0. First grade-frst division.
}; second division 75 Second grade-frst div
ison, 27l; second division, 357; third division.
3l3. Third grade-frst division, 266; second
livison. 2l0; third division, S5. Average
monthly salary for teachers, S5j. Total needed
to support the schools, per month. $76. Cash
paid for teachers sillries, 81, ,7I7. For fuel
contingent expenses, etc, S7li 81. Number Of
first grade schools, 0; second grade 35; third
grade, -. Male teachers, II; female As Av-
erage salary paid to male teachers, $50
average paid to female teachers, $G3 Our at
tention, or rather public attention, in the first
place, is called to the important fact that though
the number of male children in the county ex-
ceeds that Of the females yet the number of fe-
hat of the males. In view of this strange fact,
then, we trust, we shall not be considered, in no
light. as leading towards Utopianism, if we are
led to the inference that, at some future day. and
that before long, the long cherished hope of the
'sron5-minl.d shlll in evitab.y BE- consnm-
natal; tint tn, dominion OF mln as lords o.
creation shall be abnegated, and the thraldom Of
woman, to man rule, shall be thing of the
past. Is it not evident that while the sterner
sex salll have to spend its days in the field OF
the workshop, or where the more onerous duties
of life ctl it to, th) other sex shll b.. employed
IN the counting house, banking house, or in thos,
higher duties that demand the guidance of pen
md head Before we conclude this article, how.
ever, We woall respectfully ask the attention OF
the Boarl Of Supervisors. In the county
we shall, from a. mere glance ut the map-sup-
pose that there are from 600 to 700 square miles
of country i'll it. In this territory we have estab
llshed forty-two school districts. In many Of
these the school houses are placed in n corner Of
the district IA fact VIII ch renders it d flicu and
might say, excludes many of the children from
attending them Would it not be advisable
then, i'll view of these manifest facts, to have the
whole county redstrcted, and to have each dis
lict consist of-we shall say in the populous
portions of the county nine square miles or ono
fourth of q township, a5 in the case of the State
of Illinois In the more sparsely settled districts,
and II the children have to Co. from necessity
three or four miles to school daily, what of it
We ourself ha to do the same so have others
even under more favorable circumstances than
we had been brought up. We even had con
versation with n gentleman from Missouri lately
who told us that he had to go six miles to school,
laly, in that State.
We have wilton this huvrieily, aud have not
sufficient Information on the subject to give to
The honorable Board, to which we would, with
'he greatest possible respect, on this occasion
ID lress ourself. But one thing. however, ",
would recommend, that in no case ou ,ht ther,
% be n district established unless it contlne,
thirty or forty children who lld atten | sch Dol
The break up of districts is tha I'll IL of tn
schools. This is pap,be from the fact tn 1T only
twenty-eiSht schools 1t OF the forty seven hav.
had only eight months school. If the Board o.
Supervisors need any other information on this
very important Subject, tn, lperntendent of
Common Schools, we have no doubt in fact we
IRE certain, is better prepared than we are to af
.ord it.