The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1882-11-16
REPORT OF COUNTY SUPER1N
TENDENT OF SCHOOLS.

The following list comprises the names
of those persons who secured certificates
at the late series of examinations. The
different grades of certificates are indi-
cated, and relative standing in each is
shown by the order of position:
FIRST GRADE Valid throughout the
county and for a period of t,co gears.
/ Carrie G. Pierpont, James Murphy,
Julia Bressler, James Cahill.
SECOND Valid throughout the
county and for period of one year.
James Kirwan, James Burke, Emile
Richter.
THIRD GRADE Valid throughout the
county and for a period of one gear.
average above 20.
G. F. WheIan, John A. Hussey, Alice
Canright, Annie Magic, Minnie Richard
son, Henry Deters, Veroqua Sheldon,
Kate Z. Dempsey, P. J. Taugher, Helen
Richardson, @. A. Gielow, Fay Richard
son, Charlotte Hecker, James Connell,
Mary McClement, Evelyn Murphy, J. d.
| Brockert.
Average betWee,a IS and 70.
Aggie M. Scott, Bridget Morris, Cora
Bean. August Krause, Floyd Westgate,
Maggie Peppard. Mathilde Eller. Cora
Lawrence, Clara Filholm, Lou A. Harris.
Lucy Niquette, W. G. Dumke, Katie
Fardy, E. K. Gibson.
AUerage above SO and less than IS.
| Mary Walsh, Maggie Cody, Hattie
Burnett, Theodore Wolf, Mrs. Fanny
Boughton, Sarah Connell, Della A. Shove,
Kate e. Snathurst, Fred Christensen.
Maggie A. Ryan, Mary E. Burke, Ed
ward s. Grove, Johanna O'Connor, Eliza
Walsh. Constance Roeffs, Joseph B.
Rick, Joseph Zahorik, William Ross,
Hannah Mccarthy, Alice G. Kennedy,
| B. q. Patnode, Maggie Morrissey, Jen-
ME A. Koelzer, Emma Schneider, John
E. Sullivan, Anthony Skubahl, Alice V.
Symes, Mary A. Davis, Isaac Cratic, Jo-
seph P, Cody, Willie Grove, Addie Van
| Week.
LIMITED THIRD GRADE-Linited to q
| particular tom and for period less
IL. uo,a one gear.
1iary Hewitt, Sarah Peppard. Maggie
IN Davey, Henry Werneke, Mary Short,
Mary Falge, T. B. Morrissey, Sarah
Walsh, Lizzie Baetz, Lottie Sibree,
Frank J. Stangel, Belle Chisholm, Pau
line Helms, Maggie Kelley, James CARR
gan, Minnie A. Torrisop, Martha Nc
MILAN, Threna Johnston, William Dun
bar, Elizabeth O'Connor, Alice Andrews,
Kittie E. Sullivan, Minnie Berger.
| Ninety four applicants attended the
examinations and of that number IL fail
ed to receive certificates of any grade.
| The 80 who succeeded received certifi-
Gates as follows: Four secured First
| Grades; 3, Second Grades; 81, Full
Third Grades; "a, Limited Third Grades.
Some of those whose standing entitled
them to certificates were debarred by
their youth or by need of that gravity of
| demeanor SO essential to successful teach
ing.
There were issued last spring Al certi-
ficates valid for one year or more. There
are in force, 5 certificates as result of
former examinations, and state certifi-
Gates or equivalents. making in all 140
certificates now in force in the county.
But some holding these certificates have
discontinued teaching and others have
secured positions outside the county,
thus causing scarcity, the schools of
| the county requiring 1877 teachers A
few private examinations have been grant
ed, but as yet no certificates issued upon
the standing secured. A second supple
mentary examination will be held De-
cember 16, for those teachers who have
engaged schools and have passed salts
factory private examination since the
close of the regular series.
In the last report issued from this
Office the hope was expressed that the
necessity for allowing applicants to at
tend more than one of a regular series of
examinations for the purpose of earning
certificate, would cease to exist, and
with the necessity the privilege would
terminate. But scarcity of teachers has
again interposed in behalf of those who
secure certificates through series of at
tempts. If failure on their parts would
| be attributed to its real cause,-insuffi-
cient preparation if not actual want of
knowledge, there would be good reason
for persisting in the practice which my
judgment now condemns. But num-
Der Of young people who attend exami-
nations appear to act on the supposition
that success at examinations is solely
| matter of chance, and that successive
| series of experiments with questions may
result in a solitary instance of success
To secure permission to attend the sup
Elementary examination to work upon
branches in which standing is unsatis-
| factory, is q summation of the efforts
made the intervening tims, to achieve
better results. This has been tested by
submitting the same set of questions to
the same applicant at successive exami-
nations and receiving essentially the
same answers. 1t is gratifying to be able
to state that comparatively small num-
Der find it necessary to have their stand
ing rest on mere fortuity, and that some
who are compelled to attend twice. i'm.
prove their time so well that they i'm
drove their standing materially.