The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1876-07-05
Education in Ohio.

VI Gno StateS making an e4nlDlb VI
their progress in education, and of the
practical workings of their system of
public instruction, at the Centennial
Exhibition, none has her articles in q
shape 80 easily to be understood and 30
readily to be ascertained as Ohio. By q
peculiar method of shading, and by two
or three zigzag lines across plain chart,
an amount of information is conveyed
that would require the perrsal Of q
small volume to ascertain. Here, for
instance, is map showing the per cent.
of the enrolment of the youth in actual
attendance at school, the highest being
from sixty-seven to seventy-three, and
the lowest from from forty-two to fifty
five. OF the eighty-eight counties in
the State, only six attain the highest
per cent. A large majority range from
fifty-nine to sixty-three, while very fair
number show per cent. running along
scale from sixty to sixty-seven.
Tracing with the eye single line
across another chart, we learn the total
expenditures each year for the past
thirty-eight years, both for tuition and
for all educational purposes; and
further, that up to 1862 the teachers and
all others who were paid from the school
funds of this State were paid either In
gold or in paper that commanded its
face in gold on presentation at the coun-
ter. It is interesting to trace the
changing rate in teachers wages for the
past twenty-one years. From 1855 to
1876 the wages of both gentlemen and
lady teachers has been on gradual In
crease but the wages Of gentlemen
teachers has increased more rapidly than
the wages of the lady teachers. In
1854 the average monthly pay of men
was $25, and of women $15; but in
1875 men commanded $55 and women
$50 per month. But though the women
teachers were paid less for their services,
they have gradually taken the places OF
the men, so that to-day the scales are
completely turned. Up to the breaking
out of the war the gentlemen teachers
employed in the public schools out
numbered the women by thousands /;
but the war drew heavily upon the
teachers ranks. Thousands of her best
and worthiest teachers, not only in the
common schools, but in her higher
schools and colleges, resigned their
posts and enrolled themselves among the
citizen soldiery. Their places in the
schoolroom and in the recitation classes
were in a large measure filed by lady
teachers and SO we'll have they done
their work, which before it was believed
could only be done by men, that it has
been impossible to crowd them out of
the situations they were called to fill by
the exigencies Of the war. So to-day the
lady teachers of Ohio exceed the gentle
men by more than two thousand.
To note the increase or decrease in
the number of the youth of this State OF
legal school age, and to show the great
est per cent. of daily attendance, or the
highest per cent. of the enrolment OF
the youth who are in daily attendance
upon the public schools, another chart
is prepared which informs US that in
1872 there were in the State more chill
dren between the ages of six and twenty
one than at any other period between
1854 and 1876 and that the highest per
cent. of attendance ever reached in the
State was in 1927; the greatest per cent.
of the enrolment in actual attendance
was in 1850, when it reached over eighty
per cent it was the lowest In 1875,
there being O steady. and almost gradual
declinefrom 1850 to the close of the last
school wear.