The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1874-03-31
Annual Report of the Supcrintcn-
dent OF EsutIand Graded Schools.

In spite of some decided hindrances the
schools of the Graded District have had
on the whole, Il very successful year. This
is especially true of the High and Gram
mar Schools, in which the same teachers
have been employed as during the preced-
ing year. The general spirit of the High
School has considerably improved. There
has been more apparent interest in
study rs well as more careful attention to
department on the part of the scholars,
while as natural consequence, the
teachers have labored with more enthusi-
asm and more hopefulness A Debating
Society has been organized by the boys I'M
der the general supervision of the Prnci-
pal, which has met once Il week. and In
connection with which some of the boys
have showed good deal of ability.
In the first division of the Grammer
School there has been a steady improve
ment in attention to study and in deport-
ment similar to that in the High School
In both cases this improvement is largely
due to the continuance in the school of the
same teachers, they being at the same time
good teachers. No school can attain the
highest results under a frequent change OF
teachers, even, though each SUCCESSIVE
teacher be as good us his predeces-
sor, and all be thoroughly competent for
their work. A teacher and his school need
at least six months to come into anything
like thorough sympathy with each other
Where that sympathy is once established,
although there may be, from time TO time,
considerable change as to the individual
members of the school, the general spirit
of the school remains the same, and Is N
harmony with the spirit of the teacher
When, therefore, we succeed in securlns
good teachers, it is simply sound policy tt
keep them as long as possible, and to keel
them in those very positions for which they
have showed themselves to be qualified
Even though we might save few hundred
d liars year by dismissing good teacher
whenever he or she can command large
salary elsewhere than we have been paying
common sense would suggest that tina
teacher is worth more to us than he or sh
is to any one else, for the very reason tina
he or she is alreay thoroughly familiar wit
just the work TO be done here, and mus
have time to become familiar with simila
, work elsewhere.
The Second Division Of the Gramma
School, better known as the intermediate
has prospered after similar fashion, an
Z largely for the very same reasons. Tn
trustees are, therefore, very sorry to los
: the teacher, Miss Bishop, who resigned Q
the close of the last term, after sewers
= years of faithful and efficient service.
a The unclassiaed, the Secondary and til
3 Primary schools, have had varying an
: more or less satisfactory fortunes accorC
0 ing to circumstances, which the trustee
b have sought to control so far as they we
G could. In most cases where the sam
teachers have been employed through IL
year the schools have been reasonably SUI
: cessful Some schools have suffered an
C some have gained through change {
D teachers. l shall not attempt to specit
j In this connection. Suffice it to say, tina
however much reason the trustees {