The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1878-08-08

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There has been an increase OF $50 in
these ten years. In the last two arsthe
increase has been 1856, or one-half Of the
total increase in ten years.
The increase this year is 7 per cent OF
last years enrolment The average
monthly enrolment for the last year was
l,5l7, for this year 1871, an increase OF IL
per cent. The average daily attendance
last wear was l,3O9, this year l,469, an in
crease of l2 per cent. Thus we see that
while there was large increase in tie
aggyegate attendance, the increase in reg
tLarity of attendance was still greater
Though there has been such marked
and gratifying improvement in the regu-
larity of attendance, the improvement in
punctuality has been yet more encour-
aging The total amount OF tardiness ior
this entire year was considerably less than
forthe first two months Of last year. Nine
hundred and eighty-two cases oftardiness
for the year, on an enrolment OF over
2, 100 is a remarkably good record for
punctuality. Such results could not have
been secured without earnest and persist
ent efforts on the part Of the teachers
One school had but single case OF tardl'
ness during the year.
The Importance of regular and pune
tual attendance can not well be over esti-
mated. Upon this will depend in a large
measure. the interest and progress of a
pupil at school. The irregular pupil
rarely ever likes school or attends long.
His inability to maintain respectable
class standing, has a tendency to drive
him early from the school room, More
than this, a pupil frequently absent or
tsrdy, will almost unconsciously form
habit of indifference to duty, which is
apt to cling to him in whatever avocation
in life he may follow. Children should
early be taught the Importance ofprompt-
ness in the discharge Of duty. A few OF
the evil results of irregular attendance
as they affect the pupil himself have been
alluded to; much might be said OF the
bad influence upon associates, and the
interference with the progress of the
school in general.
TUITION.
The cost of tuition depends upon the
average number Of pupils per teacher
and the salaries of teachers. Last year
the cost of tuition, including salaries Of
Superintendent and special teacher of
music, based on average daily attendance
was Sl4.l5; this year with an additional
salary of $500 for special teacher Of writ
ing and drawing, and an aggregate in
crease of $4OO in salaries Of D Primary
teachers, it has been $l296; decrease in
the cost of tuition per pupil, of Sl.l9.
This is owing, first, to reduction i'll
the number of classes Of B, @ and ID
Grammar Grades, as recommended last
year, and thus reducing the number OF
Grammar School teachers from IL to 10.
This was done without crowding the
Grammar Schools, as the average month
ly enrolment in those grades for this
year has been only 20 pupils to the teach
er. The second cause for the decrease in
tuition per pupil is the.increase in attend
ance, the average per teacher, on month
ly enrolment, being AZ this year, an in
crease of six over last year.
COMPARISON WITH OTHER CITIES.
To give those interested, an opportunity
for comparing the educational work in
our own city with that of other
places, as shown by leading school statis-
tics, give the following table which is
from the last report of Superintendent
Ellis, of Hamilton, Ohio. In the statis-
tics of the Canton schools 1 have substi-
tuted those for the school year ending
August 3lst, 1873, for those of the previ-
GUS year, and have stated the cost OF
buttons in the Columbus Schools, which
had not been given.
In the first column is given the popula-
ton by the census of 1870; in the second
the enumeration of youth between 6 and
81, as taken in September, 1875; in the
third, the number of different pupils; in
the fourth, the per cent, Of enrolment on
the enumeration; in the fifth, the average
daily attendance of pupils; in the sixth,
the per cent. of daily attendance on mum
Der enrolled; in the seventh, the cost of
tuition per pupil on average daily at
tendance, and in the eighth, the local
law in mills for school wear 1877.-78