Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1879-06-21
The Public schools.

= statement OF them Will be IN Ordel'
Happily we are able to say thai
I, both the new buildings for the col
! ored and white schools will be in
order for the reception of scholars
at the commencement of the session
The ineoin modious, badly lighted
badly ventilated buildings therefore
which have hitherto been in use
will be abandoned, and the scholars
accommodated in manner favor
able to health, discipline and facili-
ties for instruction.
The arrangements for teaching
will be as follows: The high school
will be under the charge of the new
Superintendent, Prof. E. Perkins,
late Principal of the Heine School,
Nashville, and Mr.. A. G.. Mosely,
of Buckingham Court House, Vir-
ginia. Prof. Perkins has long been
known and esteemed as one of the
most successful teachers in Nash
vile, and his removal from that
city is spoken of with regret by the
General Superintendent, by his old
scholars and by the citizens in gen.
eral. We have at hand now an
article in the Nashville American
in which his loss is deplOred as one
of the results of the false economy
which has occasioned two successive
reductions of salaries in Nashville.
During a recent visit to Nashville
the present writer spent a whole
day in the school building under
his charge, and the excellent order,
the intelligent recitations of the
scholars, combined with the quiet,
urbane manner in which it was all
effected, together with the high
recommendation from Superin-
tendent Caldwell, from parents who
had children under his charge, and
from young men who had them |
selves been his pupils-all these to-
gether influenced the Board in their
determination to place the Clarks-
vile schools under his direction.
OF the result we have no misgivings.
Mr.. A. G. Mosely has been a sue
cessful teacher in Georgia, but,
being DESTROYS of perfecting himself |
in all the requirements of a first /
class teacher, has spent the last
three years in the Normal College,
which is in operation in the old
University building in Nashville.
He has carried off the highest hon
ors in this admirable institution.
The regular course for obtaining a
teachers certificate occupies two
years there, but they have an addi-
tional course of a year for those who
desire to achieve exceptional quail
tications, and in the examinations
at the close of this extra session his
marks were exceptionally high.
The numbers of marks are not pub
lished, but have been cOntidentially
communicated to the writer by the
Rev. DR.. Stearns, Principal of the
Normal College. Mr.. Mosely is at
present spending his vacation at his
home in Virginia, but will return
before its close to Tennessee and
travel with our State Superintend-
ent to aid him in holding his vari-
GUS teachers meetings throughout
the State.
The other teachers are Miss Kate
Rogers, the Rev. J. III. Gold, Mrs.
Shacllleford and Miss Lou. Lowell,
who were on the corps of last ses-
sion.
The corps Of colored teachers is
the same as it was at the close of
last session, and is a very efficient
one. 1t consists of: Male. w.
White, Principal; H. L. Merry and
j. Harris. Female-M. r. Jackson.
We think it right to allude very
briefly to some adverse criticism
which has been made in reference
to these changes. Not with view
to answer it; that course might be
interpreted as disparagement of
those teachers who have not been
reelected, which is a position the
Board do not desire to take; but for J
the purpose of reminding our read
ers of the position of the Board in
the matter. The Board of Educa- )
ton has so far been fortunately kept
free from those disturbing causes
which in other cities so much i'm
pair the efficiency of the school sys-
tenn. In some places Boards are
elected in the interests of competing
houses which desire 70 |
bring their books into use, in others
men get elected to the Board in or {
der to place their "sisters and their :
and their aunts' upon the I
corps of teachers, and still in others
political considerations have exer-
cised a baleful influence upon the
interests of education. So far the :
Board in this city has remained :
happily free from all these influ-
ences, and will continue so as long
as its present members remain on
its roll, and they will devote their ,,
and efforts singiy to tie
of the schools. That
they have done so we confidently !,
denial. They have been :
frequent in attendance in the school
rooms, they have been in CORE :
spOndence with men connected with q,
education in all parts of the coun-
try, their committees have visited :
schools and held interviews with
teachers elsewhere, and, in short,
no means have been left untried by
them for doing their duty with in
telligence and efficiency; and all +
this has been done without remu- 9
or the wish for it.
Had it seemed good to the people G
they could have had their teachers 9
selected by popular election; the c
rooSOp for oOnfidinU fbair SnlnptioO