The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1874-05-22
BOARD OF EDUCATION.
May 81, 1874.

IL
A regular meeting Of the Board o
Education was held last night, Nh
Hall in the chair. :. sura
. Present--Messrs. Bickel, Caldwell
Crawford, Elliiritz, Hall. Hupp, Hub
bard, Launder, Maxwell, Otto, Rogers
Stewart, Scott, Todd, Wilson, Whea
aud Wei,zell.
The minutes of the last meeting were
read and signed.
ne resignation OF Louis Stifel, Com
missioner from Madison district, wa
accepted.
The communication from Scott Il Co.
of Cincinnati, in relation to iron root
ing, was referred to the committee or
Buildings and Grounds.
The offer OF Mrs johnson, Of certain
property in the First ward 10 the Board
was rejected. 1920.
80 eUPERlNrBNDENr's REPORT.
The Superintendent submitted TIT
following report for the month o
April:
WHEELING, May 2let, 1874.
To the Board of Education
GENTLEMEN during the month o
April the enrolment in the schools o
the district was somewhat create
than for any previous month OF TIT
year the increase being mainly in th'
lower primary grades. Tabular re-
ports for the month are herewith sub
mitted and attention is invited 10 thu
following abstract and statement:
Number OF pupils enrolled, boys
II 4S3; girls .457; total 2.94O. Averag'
tdsily attendance, boys, 1916; girls
| 1910; total 1855. Average daily alb
sence, boys, 1871; girls, 1877; total, 354
Per cent OF average attendance on en-
Iollment, So; number OF cases OF tardi
ness, First ward, 205; Second and Sew
euth, III; Third, 1872; Fourth, 243
Fifth, Dol; Sixth, 243; Eighth, 49l
colored school, AZ. Number OF pupil
perfect in attendance, 1903; uum'
Der of cases Of discipline referred to thu
Superintendent SO; number OF pupil
suspended for intraction OF the rules, 5
number OF corporal punishmenta; FRS
Ward, %; Second and Seventh, I
Third, 4; Fourth, &C. Fifth, IA; Sixth
II; Eighth, ~; colored school g.; total
90: number OF visita, SUPERINTENDENT
SO; Commissioners, 6; others, 40
total los. Number in the sesera
branches of study, Orthogrsphy, 1899
Reading, 2649; Penmanship, 1895
Mental Arithmetic, 1926; Writer
Arithmetic, 1896; Geography, hob
Grammar, 2S2; History. 81; Physl
ology, ~; Natural Philosophy, 81
Chemistry, 10; Astronomy, 10; Alge'
bra, SO; geometry, 20; Rhetoric; IA
L nited States Constitution, "a; Botany
l6; German Language, 537; Drawing
CTS. Number OF days OF school, l9
Amount paid for tuition, including in.
struction in German, s3,30S.50.
GERMAN DEPARTMENT.
Number engaged in the study: ls
ward, 65; %, 43; Sd. SO; 4th, IS; 9th
Al; 9th, 81; TIN, As; Stb, l6l total
537. Number OF glasses taught 33
number OF pupils of German
parentage, 3l3; number OF pupils not o
G>rman parentage, 224; number of rec
itations lost by absence OF teacher, =
number of lessons lost to pupils by
absence from class 507. Amount paiC
for instruction, $4,000.
1t will be observed that the number
of lessons lost by pupils during TIT
month in consequence OF absence from
class at the time Of recitation, aggregat
ed i've Hundred and seven. During tht
month of March the number was ever
greater. Why the members OF thu
German class should 30 often be suffer
ed to be absent from recitation, car
not explain. They are certainly moi
permitted to neglect their other studies
to such an extent. would advise the
adoption of rule providing that, wher
at school, pupils should under no cir.
cumstances be excused from attendant,
upon their regular class exercises.
ENUMERATION OF YOUTH.
The time is near at hand when thu
Board will be required to make provi-
sion Tor taking an enumeration o
youth as provided by section 10th OF tn.
law Of the district. Heretofore it ha.
been the practice to employ parties tc
do this work and to pay fixed amoun
for each sub-district, the same for the
smaller as for the larger or more popu-
lous sub-districts. 1t is plain to be
seen that those employed to canvass
the smaller sub-districts have received
more than a just compensation for their
labor, and those who have done the
work in the larger sub-dislricts have
not been very adequately paid. But il
is to the thorough work rather than tn
compensation for doing it that | would
call the attention Of the Board. The
amount received from the State dis
tributsble school fund was, last year
and the year before, nearly $3.50 pen
capita oil those between six and twenty.
one years of age. From this it will
be seen that should the number re-
turned from the district OF Wheeling
fall short of the actual number by one
hundred, there would be loss to the
district Of about $l50-a sum sufficient
or nearly 30 10 pay for the enumeration.
1t is believed by all who ave given at.
tenton to the matter, that due care in
all cases has not been taken to obtain
full and exact information, and that
the numbers returned from someof the
sut-districts nave fallen below the true
numbers by hundreds, and that the
district has, in consequence, been the
loser nv hundrfds il not nv thousands