The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1873-07-10
COMMUNICATION.
SACRAMENTO, June 20. 1873.

In henosna mas closed, perhaps 1T
would not be amiss t, tellyou some
thing about the schools here in Sac
Iramento, the City of the Plains toa
The schools in this city are con-
Quoted more on the plan of the east
ern schools than [ had expected to
find them. think the people in the
east have formed very erroneous ideas
in regard to the Public Schools in
Cal. They are fully equal to any OF
eastern schools, and are far superior
to many schools which pride them
selves on being fully "up to the times.
The schools are more thoroughly
graded than the schools of Kenosha,
and are divided into the High School,
Grammar School, the Grammar School
including the First, Second, Third and
Fourth grades; intermediate, includ-
ing also four grades, and the Primary
Departments. s'a"2 <at '# r 'n''
The High School course is very
similar to all High School courses,but
it is so arranged that only three years
of study are necessary to complete
the entire course. This certainly is
no improvement upon the Kenosha
High School as there is too much
examining done, and the education is
necessarily rather superficial. But
this is a fast country generally, and a
pupil is rushed through the last few
years of school study, time hardly
being allowed to breathe. The grades
in the Grammar School are in differ
ent rooms; only one class or grade in
each room, each pupil in that room
pursuing the same branch of study in
the same class and under the same
teacher. No studying allowed in
school hours, but one lesson after an
other rected until the close of school.
School begins in the morning at half
past two, with but an hours inter
mission at noon. One very noticeable
feature in the schools is the practice
of Calisthenics. Every pupil from
the Primary scholar to the High
School graduate practices these Calls
themes daily, going through all of the
various movements to the accompani-
ment of music, with the precision and
regularity of clockwork Indeed ev-
erything throughout the schools has
been so systematized that every move
ment is done with the utmost regular
ity. The scholars march in and out
at commencement and close of school,
march to and from their classes and
from one room to another with all the
exactness of well drilled soldiers. Ev-
cry building has one piano in it, and
the scholars in the upper rooms of the
building march through the lower
rooms and up the stairs to their own
rooms to the time of music.
Another noticeable feature is the in
PRODUCTION of Industrial drawing. A
teacher being employed to give these
lessons twice week. Also teachers
in French, German and Spanish. AS
there are great many Spaniards in
California, the latter language is al
most asnecessary as German. There
are niue school buildings; one High
School, four Grammar Schools, the
Franklin, Washington, Jefferson and
the new Grammar School these are
all, but one, large three story brick
buildings; the other four buildings
are intermediate an / Primary schools
including the colored school which
numbers about sixty pupils. There
are between two and three thousand
scholars enrolled in the city and
about fifty teachers employed. This
year the city built new Grammar
school which is the largest on the
coast. 1t is not yet quite completed.
but will be ready by Sept It's cost
is about fifty thousand dollars. r. ia