Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-05-29

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wheat at 81 per bushel; and the rest oats at AZ
cents per bushe; required the number OF bushels
purchased. Ten credits.
A wall to be butt SO feet high, was raised fee
BY men in II days how many men must be EN-
ployed to finish the wall in days. (Soiye by
| Analysis) Ten credits.
What will be the distance from corner to corner
through the center OF a solid body whose dimensions
are 40 feet in length "a feet in hight and u feet il
| width? Ten credits.
Name the quantities considered IN Commission
What is meant by the term Net Proceeds : Two
credits.
! a town whose property was assessed at s602, $50
built schoolhouse which cost 81 $50 IS, the col
lectors commission being 81 what was the rate o.
taxation? (Taxes) Eight credits.
| send a quantity of goods into the country to bt
/ sold at auction on commission OF o. What amount
of goods must be sold that my agent may buy pro
duce with the ayails 10 the amount OF $500 aftei
retaining his purchase commission OF 81 (Com
misson.) Ten credits.
FAILURES.
As has already been shown, there was in the
| Sacrament Grammar School failure on the
these questions, while in the Capital Gram
mar School very nearly all of the first grade
passed and had high credits on the foregoing
! questions.
1t has been popularity supposed that there
I is a degree of bad blood between the Prin-
cipal and Vice Principal of the High School
Ito which the first grade of the Grammar
Schools goes after graduation) and the Prin-
! cipal of the Sacramento Grammar School,
and it is entirely natural that many people
| should connect this in some way with the
4 s.: IS &ha 81 nono1 If Ia holIoyad
generally that Superintendent Landes has no
| great love for the chiefs of the High School
faculty, while he is a relative of the Principal
| of the Sacramento Grammar School.
1t is also known that the Principal of the
Sacramento Grammar School believes that
the High School chiefs desire to crush him
out, and to do SO by depreciating the record OF
his class.
1t is also known that the High School fac
/ ulty, in part at least, does not consider Mr.
! Mcdonald a competent teacher of mathe-
mates.
The class to graduate out of the Grammar
School into the High School is examined by
the teachers of the High School.
The foregoing paragraphs express fact;
which are the subject of common street talk
and of debate among citizens, and of disputes
between educators.
SOME INTERVENING.
Superintendent Landes, a few days age
being asked, gave this information: The
Board of Education last year, by passage
4 of resolution, authorized a statement o.
the monthly examinations and marking o
pupils records to be considered togethe
with the annual examinations, in making VI
the final credit record of the pupils. The
pupils so understood it. Recently tina
resolution was suspended. A petitio,
100 h
repeal, as they believed it not a proper
method Of Judging, and because of want o
uniformity in the monthly markings. Thu
Superintendent had endeavored to correc
this want of uniformity by introducing {
resolution that in the monthly markings The
pupil shall be credited upon each study ire
spective of the standing in other studies-ir
short, to make the record of each study
stand on its own bottom. This wa
adopted by the Board of Educa
ton. The Superintendent thinks tina
the suspension of the first resolution in SOM
cases worked injury, and disguised scholars
who lost heart, and that in some cases tn
low credits are to be attributed to that fact
Mr.. Mcdonald taught arithmetic in the frs
Grade of the Sacramento Grammar School
Mr.. Bier of the High School examined tina
grade. Why the class named failed, tn
Superintendent did not know. The question
were made by the Board of Examiners, anC
revised by the Board of Education at a secre
meeting, of the proceedings of which he knew
nothing. He thought some of the question
in arithmetic too hard, and pointed out tht
third. fifth and tenth. Pupils ought to under
stand the principles involved, but under tn
statements of those questions they wer
rather difficult of solution in the nervousness
and excitement of an annual examination
The questions are more difficult than thos
used in San Francisco.
THE OTHER SIDE.
Professor Adams, Principal of the Higl
School, said that the questions were made b,
the Board Of Examiners, consisting of Mis-
Watson, Mr.. johnson Principal of the Capt.
tai Grammar SCHOOL,, Miss Slater and him
self (Adamsl When the questions in arith
metic were prepared Mr. johnson and Mis-
Watson, first grade teachers, were excluded
from the Board, and had no knowledge o
them. The Board made out in the ties
studies three full sets of questions Thesj
three full sets-three in arithmetic and twc
each in spelhng-weres submitted
to the Board of Education. Out of the thirty
questions that Board selected, in secret ses
sion, ten for arithmetic, and the proper mum
Der for the other studies. The Board of FIX
aminers did not and could not know wha
had been selected On the questions 81
selected the examinations were had.
There are no catch-questions in the tel
used, nor were any submitted. Why tn,
Sacramento Grammar School first grad
failed he did not know. He did not examin,
it. He had nothing to do with i
in any way. and wanted that clearl!,
understood. There had been much tall
about him and the examinations, and abou
his enmity to the Sacramento Gramma
School and its Principal. 1t is all unjust, al
cruelty unjust. Two years ago he told tn
. Board of Education that he wanted the ru
mors and talk and the charges and intima
lions about him and the schools investigated
} If he was wrong, put him out; if Mr.. Nc
, Donald was wrong, let him be put out;
both were wrong, fire both out. He hat
sought to bring the High School up to a goo,
standard he had no other ambition in tn
matter he had not sought to crush Mr.. Nc
Donald or helittle his classes. He wantec
all things just and fair and no injustice don
any pupil by passing hun or her on wronJ
! credits. He had only sought to have tn
pupils get 60. 100 of credit. Had he elaine,
for full credits, 100, then it might be said h
was too severe. The late classes from tn
Sacramento Grammar School had not com
well prepared to the High School. This wa
notorious. He had to teach one class extr'
! weeks to help it up. The present junior elias
nau tnaue The poorest SloWlIlS III LlaIuSllat IC
of any yet sent up. 1t was prepared in tn
Sacramento Grammar School by Mr.. Melon
aid, and it shows by its work that it was ill.
prepared. He had no personal feeling agains
: Prof. Me Donald He utterly disclaimed it
Ii he had it he would say so and make j
openly known.
ANOTHER SIDE.
Prof. Mcdonald Principal of the Sacra
mentO Grammar School, was surprised whel
first told that his class had largely failed
there must be some error, he thought. III
had not expected all to pass He was NOR
surprised when told that the failure wa
mainly in arithmetic, and that in othe
studies the pupils made good records. II
considered some of the questions too difficult
too technical. He believed his class wei
grounded in the principles involved, and full
competent to pass to the High School
had not done itself justice.
Director Hornblower being present, her
remarked that the Board Of Education re
ceived from the examiners thirty questions i
arithmetic The Board picked out ten an
then rejected some of them and put IN ques
tons of its own.
Mr.. Mcdonald said that there are not man
pupils who enter The High School who ca
work the fifth example, ana the sixth is ais
difficult. The first is worked and stated dl
ferently. He made the plus and minus sign
separate the quantities. The textbook s
states it also. He understood that Nj
, Brier held this to be incorrect. The e,
aTnpies are not too difficult Il