The daily gazette., 1880-07-27
alar in attendance are generally disorder

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sence they lose the connection of the les
sons, their habits Of Study are broken off,
and they come into school with their
minds full of thoughts OF the things that
have kept them out of school. Five such
pupils In division of fifty will often
consume and waste half the teacbiro o
power of teacher. They waste the
teachers energy; for what they deprive
others OF, does them little good.
Teachers are held to pretty strict ac-
countability for the good order and the
promptness and accuracy of the recita.
tions or their pupils. Any considerable
detention after school brings some irate
parent to the school house. Corporal
punishment Is poor remedy, and the
teacher who resorts to 1t is almost certain
to get into difficulty. Under these cir
cumstances, the suspension of pupils till
their parents will give a guarantee for
their regular attendance and good con
duct, is of frequent occurrence. A con-
siderable Lumber of children thus sus-
pended never return to school; yet these
are children who need, more than any
others, to be cared for at the expense of
city. From these come the youthful
offenders against law. These are the So
called "publc school graduates" that
are found In penitentiaries and prisons.
Their diplomas are certificates of sus-
pension.
In addition to the pupils that are sus.
pended tor bad conduct and irregular
attendance. there are many that with
draw themselves from school after fe W
weeks attendance, and a considerable
a1%oer sshoof' that make no effort to get into
The following important facts appear
among other things in the statistics of
the High schools:
That the junior or first year classes In
the Boys school have in the last six
months enrolled respectively 81, %, 80,
30, 26 and 36 pupils, and in the Girls
school IS, 10, 16, Is, II and 81 pupils.
That more pupils entered the Junior or
trst year classes this last year than In
any previous year.
That in the Boys school there were in
the class of TAFT thirty-five members,
Dine of whom graduated; in the class of
1918 there were thirty members, eleven
of whom graduated; In the class of TT
10 there were thirty members, five of
whom graduated.
That in the girls school there were In
the class of '74-'77 sixteen members, eight
of whom graduated; in the class Of TO
'78 there were twenty members, ten of
whom graduated; in the class of 1919
there were seventeen members, twelve of
whom graduated; in the class OF f'77-'8O
there were sixteen members, eight of
whom graduated.
That the numbers of papiIs received
from the lower schools, with the gram
mar school department of the boys high
school, In the last 1--WE years, have been
respectively 76, 50, 90, 75, ~; and that
the mbers received into the grammar
school department in the girls school
for the same years have been respective
Iy At, 50, 80, 66, 49,
That the average age at which pupils
have been prepared for admission to the
grammar school departments of the high
schools; has varied very little for several
years.
HEATING AND VENTILATION.
Each fall and winter, for several years
the subject of heating the school-houses
has claimed your attention and thought,
and has been a sourca ofconsiderable ex-
pense. In school houses Nos. l, 3 and 8
sIeam-heating apparatus Is used exclu-
sively. In No. l the heating is by both
direct and Indirect radiation; In No.
and by direct radiation only. In Nos
Z, 13 and 16 the rooms are heated by
stoves, ard the others by furnaces and
hot air fues.
In parts of Nos. 3, 8, 10, IL and IA, on
windy days, large volumes of cold air
come into the rooms, and when the wind
is in certain quarters 1t is difficult to
heat the rooms. The furnaces of No.
IL have never thrown out enough heat
to keep all the rooms warm. Notwith-
standing the efforts of teachers to COM
ply with the rules as to heating and VEN
tilation, the pupils last winter In many
Instances we're kept In rooms where for
half day the temperature did not rise
| above 65 In this connection the report
quotes copiously from paper OIL school
hygiene, prepared by j. NJ. Lincoln, M.
| d., of Boston.
The superintendent closes by tender
| ing his thanks to the members of the
Board for their cooperation with him
in the years work now ended.