The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1881-12-13
For THE TIMES.
Educational Report for November 1881.

Mr.. Editor lin accordance with the ex-
press desire of many persons and with your
permission will state the result of my exam
inatlon of the papers of pupils sent to me by
many of the teachers of the County. Many of
the teachers failed to hold the examination for
Novem ber, as they were required, consequent
ly have no specimens of examination work
from number of the schools.
In general, the work Is creditable and
fully as good as could be expected when it is
considered that In most of the schools even the
name Determination" was as much of a mys-
terry as that of Edwin brood.
Some of the teachers seemed to have had q
very vague idea of the nature of an eXamia-
tion and of the result to be attained, and
have, as consequence, confined themselves to
generalities thus betrayng that they have no
settled line of school work. This is mistake
and should be remedied. We are desirous of
having the examinations consecutive in time
and thought. The papers from some of the
schools were gotten up very neatly and con-
veniently, as we shall afterwards notice but
from others, very hastily.
A few papers were mailed to me which con-
tain neither the name of the teacher, pupil,
school nor district. These points will be ex-
plained at the coming Institute.
In my record book for these examinations, l
mark the grade of each school, for that month
in the respective branches, so that when n
teacher fails to hold an examination in any
columns are so marked. From this record
expect to make up my mark in ''practice,"
and hope that every teacher may have, at
the end of his term, totals of which he may be
proud
copy from my ''notes'' the following re-
marks jotted down as the work was examined {:
Greenwood twp, Mt. Pleasant, j. M. Eshle-
man teacher, work of school excellent. PEN
manship of Ollie Writ, and map of Perry by
Annie H. Bruner, very good. Landlsburg,
High, L. NJ. Shumaker, teacher-Good work
in grammar and penmanship. Madison N. E.
Henry w. Shumaker, teacher - Credltable
work in geography and grammar by Florence
Good. Blain Dor. A. w. Frazier, teacher
Examination, with the exception of history,
thorough and complete. Papers of Hamilton
Downin and Ruth Lupfer, worthy of meution.
Duneann on Dor. Primary, Miss Amanda
Passmore, teacher-Object lesson by Calvin
Cromleigh, neat and complete. Carroll twp.
Shermansdale, Miss Aunie Smiley, teacher
Work in grammar by Lizzie Smiley and map
| of Virginia by Mertie Stoufier well DONE
! Newport, termediate-Papers by VIM. A
Kopenheffer neatly and accurately done. Jack
son twp. Red Corner-Papers of s. Ellen
Owings and Milton s. Kistler show evidence
of care. jackson twp. Mt. Pleasant, Miss
| May Seager, teacher-Papers well written.
l have selected the above papers for honora-
BILE mention this month because they excel in
the particulars noticed. In the report for
December shall be more explicit and more
| critical and shall deal less In generalitles.
have undertaken this labor for the purpose OF
stimulating both teacher and pupil to do thor
ough work, and, also, that the patrons and
the general public may know something OF
our schools. l shall be very much disappoint-
ed If our teachers fail to try to make record
when the opportunity is offered. We have
good teachers as well as poor ones-I seek
recognition for the good ana shall earnestly
labor for the dismissal of the bad teachers
Let all the schools of the county send in exam
ination work for December and have specimen!
of this work on exhibition at the Institute
All the work must be done by the pupils. Ny
visits TO schools during the past two months
convince me that reading and language arr
taught with less success than any othe
branches in our public school course.
j. r. FLIoKINGER, Co., supt.
December 7th, 1881.