The New York herald., 1872-11-18

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sixteen and under II, males. 1921; females, ,SS4
number over twenty-0n years OF age males, f,S56j
females, 7S7 Tne average attendance during lne
1884, less than one-half OF the total number regis
tered at the opening OF the term.
As general thing the teachers employed In the
day schools are employed in the night schools, but
the selections made are not by any means exclu.
young men in business anxious TO increase thelr IN
come proftably to themselves and 10 thslr pu-
pills by spending their nights in teaching In the
Of teacher and are selected: II does on,aTt not
@aSes ISSM nso good eta teacser in day school that
he she is certain to succeed as an instructor IN
the evening schools. The teachers here have quite
q different set Of pupils to manage In the evening
schools, and to mould them into habits OF study
and obedience requires rare tact combined with no
small amount OF ingenuity and great deal OF
1rmness At one time the greater portion OF the
positions were filed by Young primary sclooi
teachers who had neither the experience nor tne
determination necessary to success, and thus IL
often happened that while In the same school one
class under an "Outsder'-n0t teacher ny pro-
get along wel was found to be doing splendldly.
another under tlmid primary school teacher was
going to the do9s-the pupils being entirely beyond
control and consequently learning
MORE MISCHIEF THAN LESSONS.
The teachers are nominated by the various ward
trustees and the nominations are sent 10 the
after the Superintendent decides that the persons
nominated are competent. Last term the gross
$27,353 GO, and to the female teachers Sli,2lb 73
The salaries are paid as lollows:-Male teachers,
assistants in male schools So 25 teachers, prlnci-
pals, SO 70; assistant teachers In female schools,
50. IL should be borne in mind that because there
are not male ana female schools In every ward the
residents OF those wards are not debarred from
going to the schools in the other wards. Pupils
can 20 to whatever school Of whatever ward they
see fit. The schools are located as foltows:-
First iStrtct.-Mae-Gramniar School No. 20, In
First ward; No. l, III Fourth ward; No. "A, IN Filth
NJ
Eighth ward.
Second District Acknowledgements School No. 81, in
Seventh ward; No. ~. in Tenth ward Female
No. 2, in Seventh ward No. "a, in Thirteenth ward
No. 81 in Fourteenth ward
| Third DiS;ritt.-Malc-Gramm School No. 49, IN
| Ninth ward. Fenalc-No. H. in sixteenth ward
/ Fourth ict.-Male-Grammar School No. 49,
4 in Eleventh ward; No. 13, In Seventeenth ward
Female-No; 10, in Eleventh ward; no. 10, in Seven
F,1h District --Mae-Primary School No. 2s il
Eighteenth ward.
Twentieth ward. Female-No. 33, in Twentieth
ward; No. IA, in Twenty-ilrst ward.
SeUenth -Ma!e-Grammar School No. 81
in Twelfth ward; No. 40, in Twelfth ward; No. 81
| in Twelfth ward No. II, in Twenty-second ward
No. e. In Nineteenth ward; Female-No. q, Il
| 2S, IN fwcnty-second ward.
Co'orea lschoois.-No. 2, Laurens street, nea
| BroOne; No 4, Seventeenth street, near Sixth ave
nue.; No. g, 95 Allen street.
This Winters term promises to be very sue
cesslul one, Judging from present indications.
/ THE "EXHIBITIONS" GOOD AND BAD
| In conclusion 1t may be said that many OF tht
| eveaing schools often have exhibitions" either
during the term or at the close OF the season, fO
the purpose of giving the general public an idea 0
the 'progress OF the pupils. These exhibitions
are very good in their way; but It often happen.
the occasion, oitentmes turn out to be da,
scholars OF the grammar schools, and the cxhibi
tion of the progress OF the evening school scholar
is, therefore, in many instances fraud
This ingenious trickery should be put
stop to, and If the Superintendent this yea
gives all the schools to understand that the dodg
must not be played. the evening school term 0
1S72-73 wil-in one important particular, at least
be very much unlike its predecessors 1t should b.
added that the time OF even the bona ttde pupil
of the evening schools Is occasionally almost ex
| ciusvely taken up from the beginning to the end O
| the term in preparing for exhibitions This i
wrong, no matter In what light it is looked at.
Is true that there is now regulation that no eXb
bion can be given at the schools without the writ
ten consent OF the committee in the Normal Col
| lcge evening and col0red schools; but Ii tina
consent" is not kept within bounds there nigh
as well be no regulation at all on the subject