The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1875-04-13
School Committees Report.

The Prudential COMMITTEES Of School
District No. 4, Middlebury, VT, submit
the following report for the year ending
March 80, 1875:
A good degree of success has attended
the public school during the past year.
The teachers have been painstaking and
industrious, and well deserve the hearty
commentator Of both the committee and
the public. The number constantly
engaged during the larger part of the
year has been nine.
A teachers class was organized, in
structed and sent out during the fall term,
a portion of the members of which return
to take place in the school at the begin
ming of the spring term. Private classes
also in drawing and writing have been
sustained.
The number Of scholars enrolled during
the year has been 446. Of these there
attended the High School, 70; Grammar
School, II; intermediate, so; Sd
Primary, So; I'd Primary, II; LIST
Primary A and d 124. The number of
scholars from abroad has been So.
Fewer idle children, truant from the
school are found in the street than former.
ly. l. is earnestly recommended that
tho requirement of the law demanding
the attendance Of children at the public
school be strictly enforced.
The grounds have been further graded
but not enclosed. The committee were
authorized to make the enclosure but
owing to unforeseen and necessary ex-
penditures in other departments it was
thought best to defer this work.
These unexpected expenses have arisen
from several sources. And in addition
to these real expenses some apparent ones
appear in the statements of accounts
Outstanding orders which were made
years before and which ought to have
been presented and paid at the time OF
making, have come into this years accoun,
to swell the sum Of expenses. Taxes
abated and collectors commission, amount.
ing in all to very nearly s400, have been
put into the account, increasing it by the
sum named. These items have moi
probably appeared in previous reports.
The exceedingly severe winter has
necessitated the use OF an unusually large
amount of fuel.
The warming apparatus, though costing
so much has always been source o
perplexity, and has never, until tbi.
winter, performed to the satisfaction o.
those who have had the care Of the house
Now, however, tho building can be made
comfortable from bottom to top on The
coolest days This has not been don't
without cost and good deal of cost. TC
accomplish the result boiler which wa
the property of the district has been reset
and the steam pipes re.arranged. so now
with the two boilers the system Of heating
with some trlfing exceptions, may
be regarded as satisfactory and complete
In addition to these unforeseen ex'
penditures there has been still another
The bell which had done service so long
failed and its place was Of necessity fileC
by new one at cost of S1SS.
1t is the opinion of the committee tha
it would be greatly to the advantage O
the school to have the parents and thu
friends of education visit it more frequent
ly. The committee have been unable tt
do this work of visiting as they have
desired and probably the new committed
will find the same difficulty. To supple
ment this work and to add to the interes
of the public iu the school, the committed
recommend that board of visitors, five
in number, majority of whom shall be
ladies, be appointed by this meeting. The
duty Of such board shall be as indicated
to visit the school as frequently Al
practicable, and to assist by their advice
the Prudential Committee in their work