Litchfield enquirer., 1872-10-17


 this district indicates that the school at both terms has been deprived of it's high est usefulness by a want of harmony among the people of the district. Mount Tom. Henry 0. Goslee, Commit mittee. Winter. Miss Ellen M. Raven l scoft. Summer, Miss Nettie l.. Beach. This school has been very small at both
 terms. The teachers appear to have been I faithful and the scholars have learned 1 we'll
 Bradleyville, Jesse Stoddard, Commit tee. Winter, Miss Ettie L. Dudley. Summer. Miss Emeline A. Keeler. These
 were both pains-taking and industrious teachers. The great lack of uniformity in text books, and the want of regular
 classification caused thereby, has made this school appear deficient in discipline
 as it has certainly retarded the scholars in study.
 Bantam, Lewis c. Hotchkiss, Commit
 tee. Winter, Miss Mary E. Pratt. Sum-
 mer Lottie A. Bissen. Miss Pratt is an experienced and thorough teacher. Miss
 Bissell has had less experience. Under each of these teachers the school made good progress. ..- Harris Plains, George W. Mason Com-
 mittee. Winter, Charles D. Kilbourn. This was one. of the first class schools. It l was first class in it's scholars and first 1 class in it's teacher. At each visit to this school there was readiness and enthu-
 siasm on the part of the scholars which indicated that they had been led to great zeal in study. This school at the winter term had the highest average attendance
 of any school in town, either summer or 1 winter. Summer, Miss Alice Bissen. Miss Bissell was laborious and careful teacher.
 Lltohfeld Center, David eForest, Com ! mittee. Winter, Miss Orrie Davidson, Miss Charlott Wooster. Summer, Miss Charlott Wooster. Miss Davidson was prevented from finishing the winter school by sickness, her place was taken by Miss Wooster who was continued through the summer
 North Street, W. T. Marsh, Committee Winter, MT. Francis M. Pratt. Summer, Miss Isabell F. Scott. South Plains, E. O. Peck, committee Winter, Miss Mary A. Peck. This school opoorry tho vn,.xr hoo& koxr,, ~. celled in discipline and surpassed all the schools in the whole town in the excellence of its reading classes. It had & very high rank in its average attendance. Summer
 Miss Mary B. Wheeler. This was Miss Wheeler's first attempt at teaching. She
 was industrious and pains-taking With experience she will be an efficient teacher. North Farms, Charles R. Smith, Con-
 mittee This school was taught both win ter and summer-and most excellently we'll taught-by Miss Elvira J. Pierpont Chestnut Hill, Asahel Morse, Commit tee. Winter, Miss Ellen A. Peck. This was among the first class schools ill town. It was good in every respect. It. excelled in the thoroughness of it's. instruction. The summer term of this school was com l menced by Miss Maria Woodruff, who was prevented by sickness from going through the term. The term was finished by Miss Hattie E. Merriman. Miss Mer- riman gives evidence of becoming an un-
 usually scccessful teacher.
 East Chestnut Hill, John McNeil, Con- mistee.. Both terms of this school were taught by Miss Alice B. Perkins. Miss Perkins is a very superior teacher. In the excellence of its discipline, in the thoroughness of it's instruction, in the
 general advancement, zeal and attention, of the scholars, this East Chestnut Hill school is second to none in the entire town.
 Depot District, Hector Barber, Com mittee. Winter, Miss Edith R. Baldwin. Miss Baldwin is an industrious and eff
 cient teacher and very successful one. There was nothing in the school to tax her
 capacity or to afford her any opportunity
 for display. The summer term was
 taught by Miss Ida s. Barber.
 The most prominent cause from which
 our schools suffer, is the want of interest
 in them. Hean the want of interest in the schools, as such. There is no lack of talk and discussion about the school tax about the items of expense. As soon as the tax is raised there seems to be an end to all zeal. There seems to be no care
 whether the. money is expended to the best adventage; whether all the children
 attend school, or not whether those who
 do attend, are constant and punctual in 1 their attendance, or not: whether the
 teacher is faithful, ,vigilant, ,and competent,
 or otherwise. All these and many other points whereby our schools might be raised to higher standard and to great degree of usefulness, seems to be wholly forgotten.
 This almost. entire want of interest is I manifested in many ways-no parents visit the schoosl.
 I lonk through the register and in a ma
 iority of them, the only visits recorded l are those of the school visitor. In at least
 three out of every four, the visits are l made by the school visitors and the dis trict committee and it is only in very rare | inatances that the record shows any sort of attention that the schools have received from the parents.
 l Those of you who are accustomed to
 employ workmen, are in the habit of
 looking carefully after them to see that
 they are attentive and industrious. Think I you that a school teacher would be less
 likely to Le thorough and diligent if care
 fully watched and looked after, than if
 suffered to go from the first day of the Il IL