Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1878-05-17

ITEMS. 1877. 1876. Increase.
Whole number OF
scholars rppor' Ell. 2l74l1 BIS 400 dec. ,013
Number registered in
summer schools, l25,.i5 I2G4s; dec. 1927
Average attendance, lG0,gS9 90, LOS ,s76
Number registered in
winter schools. 1855 1870 a05 2gf2
Average attendance. l07 653 los go 1877
Whole number of diff
feren' scholars reg
istered during vear, lj5,4ls ljG l4s dec. 100
Aver age Ter 9Th Of sum
mer schools. in weeks
and days, 5ia days per
week, low. ID. low. I'd.
Number OF districts in
State, 4G3g 1872 o.
Number OF parts dds
tricfs, 34 $50 a
Sumher orschool
houses, 42a2 a,26l dec SO
Number reported in good
condition, 500 $50: 2l9
Cost of same $62 ,766 $lf4 800 dc l0l ,633
Estimated value of all
school property. 3.092,729 3,c0j 29l l7,431
Number Of male teach
ers employed in sum
Number employed in
winter 225S 2,l5l l02
Number OF female teacl
ers employed in sum
Number employed in
winter. 1851 2s5l 10
Average wages OF male
teachers per month
excluding board, s3l76 S35A5 dec &2.G9
Average wages o female
teachers per week
GLIDING board, ia 4.25 dec. IL
Average cost per week of
teachers board, 227 2.2 dec. o.
amount of school money
voted for common
schools, eis,sst es7.7o5 dec. s,l2l
Amount raised per
scholar, 253 2ts dec. 05
Amount expended tor
common schools. a5l ST. 1858. i97 dec. IOl $50
Amount paid for tut.
ton in private
schools academies
or college,, within
the State. 1892 1881 dec. 1929
Amount paid for same
ont Of the State, 5 f57 S019 dec. 2i72
In 1867, forty towns and plantations failed to
make returns to the office of the Superintendent.
In 1877 only eight towns and plantations have
failed to make any returns. The penalty for nom
compliance with the law i. loss of ten per cent.
of the school money. 1t is recommended that the
law be so amended that delinquent towns shall
not receive any school money.
The increase of scholars, according to the CEN
sus, from 1867 to 1877, was 5,l0S. The decrease
from 1876 to 1877 was 1873; while the decrease
from 1875 to 1876 was more than 1000. Probs-
bly, there errors in the returns, as the de-
crease in three years could not have been 5000.
The actual decrease was probably 1000. While
the census scholars increased in number from
1867 to 1877 by 5,l0S the registered scholars in
creased in the same interval by S,167, showing q
decided advance during the ten years in the mum
Der of scholars 10 the schools While the CEN
sus scholars decreased from 1876 to 1877 by 1913,
the registered scholars increased in the same
time by 957. showing marked progress The in.
crease in average attendance from the interval
II Ia. Al
in the number of registered pupils is only s, 767.
The increase in average attendance from 1876 to
1877 is ,92l, while the increase in registered
scholars in the same time is only 95, and the census
scholars have decreased by ,073. The length of
the graded schools is nearly twice as long as the
ungraded; but more than two-thrds of the schol-
ars are in the ungtaded schools. That is, one
third OF the scholars have the privilege of the
graded schools for 80 weeks while two.thirds of
them limited to the ungraied schools for only
l6 ID weeks. This is equality which ought to
he remeded.
Whole number of school houses in Site,
1877, 1922
Whole number of school houses in State,
1876, 426l
Whole number of school houses In State,
1867, 1892
Decrease in one year, from 1876 TO 1877, 80
Increase from 1867 to 1877, 440
The decrease of 80 in 1877, is owing to the
consolidation of schools in the large villages and
cities, in which several schools heretofore in sep
arate buildings have been put into one. The in
crease in the number of school houses 10 good
condition, from 1867 to 1877, was 9f9. The in
crease of such houses from 1876 20 1877, was 2l2.
The school houses which have been built the past
year, and the manner in which they have been
built, is an indication of progress. 1t is high
time that the 1908 poor ones should be replaced
by better.
The questions of teachers pay, and more con-
slant employment for good teachers, are of vital
interest to us State. Essential reduction of
pay means the rapid loss of our best teachers.
Within the year fifty teachers of superior ability
and proved success have gone from the common
schools of this State to teach in other States.
Nearly 100 pupils graduated from the two normal
schools during the year, Some of the recent
graduates cannot find positions since the great re.
duction in wages made by some agents during the
season. Thirty-four Of the graduates of our nor