The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1883-10-25
REPORT OF COUNTY SUPERIN-
TENDENT OF SCHOOLS.

those persons who secured certificates at
the late examinations held in this county.
The grade and classification are men,
toned in terms, and relative standing is
indicated by the order of arrangement.
FIRST GRADE - Valid throughout the
county and for a period of tsoo gears.
John Moeller, Albert Guttmann.
SECOND GRADE Valid throughout the
county and for period of one gear.
J. P. Council.
THIRD GRADE-V Valid throughout the
county and for a period Of one gear.
Auerage above 20 per cent.
Ernst Prizes. Kate E. Dempsey, Henry
Deters. Ida Merk, @. A. Gielow. Martin
Mcmahon, Mrs. B. L. Oakley, Frank
Karbaum, Albert Dassler, Floyd West
gate, Hattie Burne., o. F. HUM, Mag
gle A. Ryan, Agnes Scott, Eva Murphy,
Lucy Niquette, Clara Tostensen.
Average above IS and less than 70.
Sarah A. Cornell, Mary E. Burke, Adj
die Van Week, Mathilde Eller, Emma
Schneider, Robert Rudolph, Clara Fill
holm, Helen Richardson, Alice V. Symes,
Joseph Pospisiel, w. o. Dumke, Fran
els Boughton, Richard Nicolaus, Bridg
ct Morris, J. W. Fitzmaurice, Hannah
McCarty, Theodore Wolf.
Average above SO and less than IS.
Mary Walsh, Katie Fardy, Hugo
Grosser, Joanna O'Connor, Cora NJ.
Lawrence, Alice @. Kennedy, Martha
Magee. Martha Mcmillan, T. j. Walsh,
John E. Hewitt, Maggie A. Morrissey,
Maggie Cody, Hattie Mcintosh, Stephen
J. Nash, Maggie Peppard, John E. Sui
livan, Carrie Edwards, Fred Christian
sen, Thomas J. Morris, Lottie G.. Sibree.
Ida Mason, Pauline Helms, John Dunbar.
LIMITED THIRD GRADE-Linited to
particular toa0a and for a period less
than one gear.
Minnie A. Torrison, Threna Johnson,
William Dunbar, j. r. Minaghan, Sarah
| Peppard, Elizabeth O'Connor, Hattie
Symes, Dele Lawrence, Kate E. Snath-
urst, Francis Gray, J. P. Cody, J. M.
Upper, Walter E. Long, Griffith Pritch-
ard, Sarah Connell, Michael Minehan,
Julia Sullivan, Maggie Kelley, Nellie
Doyle, Lizzie McGill, Anna Heineman,
James Keehan.
Limited to q toa0n and for brief
period of time, dependent on report of
school boards for continuance.
| Edmond Burtt, f. G. Kummerle, @.
J. WAX.
The following persons received stand
ings sufficiently high to entitle them to
certificates, but their ages made it unad
visable to certificate them; two of the
number did not write on all the subjects.
Addie Prochaska, Katie Kirwan N.orob
Lantry, Fred Meisuest.
The result of the examinations NAV be
summarized. as follows:
Ninety seven persons attended the ex-
aminations; of this number eight failed
to reach the standing required for eerti-
ficates of any kind; four, whose standing
was satisfactory, were barred by their
youth, and three received certificates for
a brief period, conditioned for contlnu-
ance to the period covered by limited
certificates, on the success of their hold
ers as attested by the school boards I'M
l yul1n hnr H.
ceiving certificates is 80, distributed
among the different grades as follows:-
First Grade, 2; Second Grade, 1; Third
Grade, 81; Limited Third Grade, o.
One certificate which expired by its own
limitation this fall, was extended until
April l, 1884, under iustifable circum-
stances.
At no time within the official expert
ence of the present incumbent of the
superintendency, has it been possible to
secure number of qualified teachers in
excess of the demands of the schools.
without depressing the standard of quail
ifications to such an extent as to serious
ly depreciate the value of certificate as
evidence of scholarship. This fall so
narrow is the margin left to school boards
in the selection of teachers, that practic-
ally there is a scarcity. To demonstrate
this the following statistics are submitted:
| Number of teachers required to
supply the schools, 1Ao
Number of state certificates. or
equivalents, whose. holders are en-.
gagged IN tear'.alng in the county, 9
Namber of First Grade certificates
issued in spring of 1882 and still
valid, 6
Number of First Grade certificates
issued in fall of 1882 and still valid,
Number of certificates issued in
spring of 1888, and valid for / year
or more, IS
Certificates issued in Fall of 1888, 50
Certificates, conditioned, 3
Certificates extended, /
Total in force, 159
Number included in above whose
holders no longer teach in the county II
Number of available teachers in
County, 142
While itinerancy and early discontinu.
ance remain features of the business of
teaching, any hope of permanent and
considerable improvement in the COM
mon schools must be deferred until more
favorable conditions prevail. The causes
of frequent changes of teachers and early
desertion of the business are various, and
constitute the basis of everything unsat-
isfactory in the public schools in the
| line of instruction. not one per cent. of