National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1873-05-17
THE COLORED SCHOOLS.
MONTHLY MEETING OF THE TEACHERS.

Statistics OF Attendnnce-Twcniy schools
without n Case Of Tnrdin,ss-Interest-
Ing Facts and Fisures-A splendid Re-
cord.
The regular monthly meeting Of the teachers
connected with the colored schools Of Washing
ton and Georgetown was held yesterday after
nooh at Sumner School building, Seventeenth
and NJ streets northwest. The interest taken In
these meetings was made manifest by the large
number Of teachers and others present. Proml-
nent on the platform were Trustees vashon,
Pope, a. Lewis Ferguson, Marshall, W; Lewis
Taliaferro, Prof. John p. sampson, Prof. VIM. ).
Wilson, VIM. II. Smith, ESQ.,; ex-frustee Alfred
Jones, and Charles Bruce, esq.
The exercises yesterday were rendered more
than usually attractive. As preliminary to the
opening chorus composed OF 30 voices, selected
from the schools located in the sumner school
building, under the musical dlrectorshlp Of Miss
aeneyleye !. Fleet, music teacher for the west
ern school district, sang " Twilight" In manner
which reflected credit upon their conception and
1ne training. Supt. Cook, In brief speech, ex-
planned to those present the object and purposes
OF the meeting, after which he reviewed and
compared the statistical showings Of the schools
for the month ending May, with tho following
nattering and gratifying results:
Percentage OF attendance for the month In the
several school districts stood as follows: First
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% Fourth district, pb.2 Fifth district o5.S. The
general average was pS.s, which was q gain OF
~ over the corresponding month OF the last
school year, The cases OF hardness were 292,
which were 100 less than the number OF the pre-
vlous month, and 4si less than that OF the CORE
spending month OF 1873.
There were twenty schools that passed through
the month without case OF tardfness, the low.
est percentage Of attendance In any OF which for
the month was ~ and the highest u, which shows
conclusively that the excellent punctuallty In at
tendance moi pnpgtpl nv Tpluainu admit
tardy pupils.
me remarks made by the superintendent,
based upon the reports Of teachers and facts I'M
der his immediate supervision, were fully ex-
panatory Of the great changes relating TO attend
ance, which have been wrought In these schools
Ths sSowsd maj from * Beginning
Of the school year 1901 to May I, the cases OF
hardness numbered 2, $50; to the same period Of
the year isIl-Iq, us; and to May OF the cur
This almost remarkable reduction OF hardness
In the schools Is but the natural sequence OF the
strenuous and persistent efforts which have been
msle during the past two years TO remove from
them this great school evil.
The records also show that by similar efforts
the percentage OF attendance which, since the
school year ls6I-6s, had nuctuated between 80
and 81, was increased TO 93.6 In the past school
year and the statistics Of the current year In the
monthly exhibits, and comparisons not only In
dictate that the ground gained has been held but
that a slight step In advance has been taken.
The items OF corporal punishment and sus-
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