Wilmington daily commercial., 1873-04-29
Educational.

MEETING OF THE SCHOOL BoARD-PRoMoTIoNs IN
NO. Z, EXAMINATIONS, &C-THE PURCHASE OF |
NEW SCHOOL BUILDING SITE IN THE BIRD WARD |
THE REMOVAL TO TIE BOARD OF TRADE ROOMS
ELECTION OF SUPERINTENDENT - TIE ADAMS
MEDALS, 8c.
The Board of Public EIncation held its regular
session, last evening, President Hilies in the
chair.
The report Of the transfer committee laid over
from last meeting, was taken up for considers
ton, when Mr.. Zebley proceeded to state his OBJ
iections to the proposed lplan which had it's
merits, but resulted in great dissatisfaction to
parents, children and all concerned. The plan he
thought might be successfully carried out in the
case OF young children. just entering tie Public
Schools, but the advantages to be gained were
not commensurate with the disappointment and
dissatisfaction it produced.
Mr.. II. NJ jenkins thought it was pity that
we should be compelled to build new school
houses, while we had a sufiicency of room. The
attachment of a scholar to any particular teacher
| or school was OF secondary importance, and would
gradually he forgotten as new associations were
| formed He, however, would offer no serious
opposition to the motion to indefinitely postpone
| the caryring out of the proposed transfer plan,
| At the suggestion of Mr. Shortlidge, the fur
/ ther consideration of the subject was deferred
/ until the Committee on the purchase of a new
| lot in the western part OF the city shouldreport
| MIR. Fraim, from the Committee on teachers,
offered the following report
| To the Board Of Public Education of Hse city Of
| Wilmington,
GENTLEMEN: Your Committee on teachers
beg leave to report that, owing to the resgna-
tion of Miss Carrie Allen, teacher in School No.
| 7, they have made the following appointment of
| teachers in said school, to wit Miss Sale g.
Pugh to the position formerly occupied by Miss
Allen Sallie ]. McKeag to the position occupied
by Miss .Pugh Miss Louisa Smith to the posi-
tion occupied by Mrs Mckeag Miss Lizzie
Duncan to the position occupied by Miss Smith,
and Miss Josephine Jenkins (new, ,teacher) TO the
| position occupied by Miss Duncan.
Your Committee would furnish report that the
following named persons passed satisfactory
| examination for teachers Sue Fenton, Mary
| H. Mackey M Irene Hawkins, Lizzie Graves,
Matte Kenworthy, Matte Craig, Beckie l..
Pierce, Anna T. Burke, Emma NJ. Houston, Vic
toria A. Vandeyer, Maggie s, Hill Anna NJ. Har-
| ley, Sallie j. MeHenry, and Ella E. Todd.
In reference to the examination of teachers
now in the employ Of the Board, and all who
shall hereafter become such, your committee
beg leave to offer the following resolutions
| Resolced, That the rule in existence in ref
erence to the examination of teachers, be re-
scinded, and the following substitute in lieu
thereof be adopted to wit: That the teachers
hereafter appointed shall be examined, annually
in Orthography Arithmetic, English Grammar,
Geography, and History Of the United States,
provided that those teachers who have passed,
or shall pass, thorough examination in the
above named branches of knowledge shall be ex-
empt from the next following annual examine
tion, and that if within two years time they
| passed the said examination, they pass a satis-
| fatory examination in Algebra, Geometry, Gen
eral History and Natural Philosophy, and if they
have, by two years teaching in the employ Of
the Board, proven themselves successful in
structors and discplinarians they shall receive
from the Committee on Teachers, a certificate
which shall exempt them from examination. ant
render them eligible to any position in the Pub
lie Schools of Wilmington for which they aTt
qualified.
The report having been accepted, on motion
of Mr.. II. NJ. jenkins, the various recommends
tions of the Committee considered sepa
rately and were unanimously adopted.
Mr.. Lynch, from the Committee to purchas
q a new lot in the Western part OF the city upo
which to erect new school house. reported il
VI favor of purchasing lot on the N. W. corne
| of Third and Harrison streets, fronting 101 fee
on Harrison and 110 feet on Third, at s25 pc
foot, and that 101 feet being more than suff
cient for the purpose 16 feet could be sold fc
$4OO still leaving 85 feet flont for the schot
house, costing S425.
Mr.. Higgins desired to hear the views of som
| of the members in relation to the need Of q ne
n school house in that part of the city
Mr.. Lynch urged the rapid growth Of the Gil