Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-05-19
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belong. atten'g of at'ce tardY.

Trimble'.. .....155 147 "a 13$
Total. ......2860 2,261 95 40;
'COlored.
have prepared some notes of instruction:
which, in my opinion, it is necessary to give
for conducting the approaching annual ex
animation and they viii also serve as an an
swer to inquiries likely to be made as tC
how those examinations ought to be CON
Quoted.
l wish all books furnished by the Board
of Education, and distributed to pupils du.
ring the present season, collected by the
teachers on the day the schools are closed
and sent to the office of the Principal in each
building. 1t is obvious what the object is
in doing this. 1t will save the city conside.
rable expense. If these books were taken
home by the pupils they would be probably
lost or mutilated and at all events in some
instances difficult to recover. They can be
redistributed next Fall.
Each teacher will be furnished with a
programme showing the days upon which
each class lin the public schools gene
rally throughout the city.-REP.] will be
examined in their respective studies Ton the
occasion of the final examination.-REP. I
Notify all children TO leave their books at
home, (for instance if the examination on
particular day is to be in geography, then
their geographies) on the specific study up
on which the examination will turn on a
Particular day, with the exception of their
reading books which, Of course, they viii
have to use. Before the examination Gem
mences inform the children that they must
not have any communication with each 9TH
er during the examination. Nor shall the
pupils communicate with their teachers in
reference to the examination. l want no
room for any suspicion that the pupils have
been assisted in any way.
wish the questions prepared for the ex-
animation, to be furnished to you by my
self, to be given out exactly as prepared,
without hints or any other assistance as to
their solution or the answering of them; if
it is a question to be written on the black
board, then written as received; if oral,
simply announced.
The examination papers must be dis
tributed among the pupils promptly, and
not retained by them later than II NJ. Any
class which gets through before this time
must be kept at work proftably. Do not
let the children rush over the work assigned
lLlGlll III Tie CAGluLAdLlDll, WHICH, LLltH VIII
do particularly if them get an idea that
they viii get away as soon as they get
through with their papers. After the papers
are sent in no pupil shall be allowed to make
any alteration or any suggestion with ref
erence as to what be or she intended to
do"
After instructions to teachers as to rout-
inc duty in the making up of per centages
and out of report to the 10th proximo and
a table exhibiting the attendance of pupils
by sessions and the completion of registers,
he said : ~ have been Intercepted as to
whether the pupils shall be allowed to write
on both sides Of the foolscap. If they do
it neatly they may. The papers shall all
be collected and without folding, and de-
posted in the Office of the Principal in each
building. Thence 1 viii have them trans
ferred to my Office"
The remainder of his remarks, about ex-
Editions in the public schools respectively,
the coming exhibition by the Senior class
Of the High school and the reorganization
Of the corps of teachers for the Fall term,
have been anticipated by reports already
published in the UNION AND AMERICAN,
with the exception of: 81 wish the teach
srs of the Third, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth and
Seventh grades TO collect some statistics
which they will, as far as they can, have
'eady by next Thursday morning: The
number of children using a-ithmetics;
low many have received them from others
II came second handed"
In reply to an interrogatory by the Prin- |
ipal of the Howard school, he said that |
lie schools were to be dismissed on the |
asst day of the session at the same hour as |
N any other day, and orderly. 1t would |
ave bad effect to parmit anything demon
lizing to creep in on that day on the pu-
lis when they reassembled for the fall
ERIN. If it was DESTROYS to employ the lat
er hours of the session for contests in
pelling or other unquestionably profitable
there was no objection to that.
The Principal of the High School called |
Or information as to the enforcement,
Practically, by the Principals generally, of
be general rule on the subject of tardi-
ess.
1t was found that in one of the schools
be Principal considered only those tardy
Tho were not inside Of the yard line at
prescribed time. Another considered
My those tardy who wee not
4 the school building at this same definite
me- dllU dilOJu6I NbuC L IllClDdl OF JGe |
Ugh school) those who were not in the
chool rooms when the bell rang, and at
bis given signal had all the doors of the
chool rooms locked, so that those pupils
4 the yard or in the halls of the building,
t that time, were marked tardy.
Mr.. Brown called attention to the fact,
nat unless there vas a uniform course pur-
ued by all the Principals, the reports of
ardiness in one school OF another were of
o value, as indicating that the pupils of
Il the schools were not all equally pune
Ial in their attendance.
Superintendent Caldwell, am glad to
ear this discussion among teachers. 1t
bows you are eXerting yourselves to do
you can on very important OBJ
ct, and you have accomplished surprising
esuIts, all of you. think it is rather as
,nishing that you have accomplished as
luch as you have.
After remarks by Arthur d. Wharton,
ne Secretary and Treasurer of the Board
Education, in part on the subject of the
avment of the teachers salaries, and his
obby, as be expressed it, definition,
nd someStimely remarks by Gen. James
!. Dunlap,
Superintendent Caldwell: {" 1 think can
evise plan, by the commencement of the
all term, if am in charge, thai viii be
inform, satisfactory and beyond the posi-
ility of unintentional misconstruction,
The class was then dismissed.