The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1878-02-22
No. of cases of tard!ness.l5O Is

EVENING SCHOOLS.
Enrolment for the month-Msdison,
lG; Clay, %; Union, 81; Webster, 81;
Richie, 81; colored, y. Total, 2S7.
Branches taught and number of pupils
in each-Spelling, 237; reading, 237;
writing, 223; written arithmetic, 2l5;
mental arithmetic, II; geography, s;
grammar, b.
Per cent of attendance on enrolment,
81.
Amount paid for instruction in even
ing schools $40.
These schools were all closed on Thurs.
day evening, January 81, 1878, the term
TOR which they were opened having eI.
pired.
The number in attendance during the
term WAS rs follows, viz: Washington,
&c; Madison, IS; Clay, 81; Union, 81;
Webster, 1877; Richie, lOli Colored, ~.
Total, $50.
Per cent of attendance for the term 81.
The average monthly attendance was
34s.
Total cost of instruction for the term
81, 049 so.
Cost of Instruction per month for each
pupil 81 .o0t.
At the last regular meeting of the
Board three resolutions were adopted
calling upon the Superintendent to re-
port upon certain special subjects. The
resolutions themselves were copied and
sent down to the Principals, with request
to report back to this office upon the sew
ersl subjects, with reference 10 which in
formation was asked. From facts stated
in these different replies, and from knowl.
edge obtained from other sources, we
draw the following conclusions:
First-A recess of fifteen minutes is
civer in the middle of each session OF the
school, except when the inclemency OF
the weather is such as TO make it preju-
dicisl 10 the health Of the children>to go
out, in which case formal recess is dis
pensed with. Gymnastic exercises are
In some schools substituted, and gener-
ally the session OF the schools is short
ened ten or fifteen minutes. Teachers
are at all times careful TO excuse children
from the room when convinced that oc-
cssion requires it.
Second-The schools have closed
earlier on Friday afternoon than on other
school days ever since the adoption Of
the common school system. The custom
prevailed at the time of the organization
of the public schools, ami has been prac-
ticslly part of that organization from
the beginning. Your rules require
select readings, composition, dec
lamation, etc, to be exercised
throughout the course. 1t would
not be profitable to engage daily in sll of
these, and Friday afternoon seems TO be
the best time TO attend TO them, as also
to music. The work has adjusted itself
to this arrangement, and the authority
for it rests upon the custom Migrated
into the school organized al the begin
ming and continued ever since.
Third-Some tes ;hers do have 8 sys-
tenn of punishment similar, in general, to
that referred to 10 resolution 8.
These rules, however, are not kept I
standing on the blackboard. The pupil
is not required to lay sside other studies
The plan is sometimes varied 50 as TO
require pupils 10 compare sentences, TO
solve examples. DC. These using it,
claim that il is more profitable and less
degrading than corporal punishment
When prudently administered, this
method of discipline is not Questionable.
By your rules both Principals and teach.
srs are directed TO use the most energetic
snd:edective measures ip their power TO
enforce your general regulations TO sup