Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1884-10-13
MIR. DARTS REPORT.

MIX. DARII . h6E O6I.
The report of Justus Dartt, super
intendent of education, fills book
of ia pages with facts and figures.
The whole number of scholars be-
tween the ages of five and twenty
years enrolled last year was y, 744
in 1882, 73,O6S; the number attend
ING private school estimated at 8 1904.
Last year $40 male teachers were en-
ployed and 1928 female. The aver
age weekly ages of male teachers was
$3.50, an increase of 46 cents over
that of 1888. The average weekly
wages Of female teachers was S5.O1,
an increase of Is cents from 1888.
"In 1874 the whole number of teach
ers employed was 4 ,406, and of this
number 667 were males. Since that
time the whole number Of teachers
HIS UcClCstScu lulSC atuQ OuC lOlil III pei
cent and the number of male teachers
has decreased nearly twenty per cent.
This decrease of male teachers is to
be regretted. The larger part of the
elementary work in our schools must
DE done by women, and it is we'll that
it should be: they are better fitted for
the instruction of young children.
But every scholar at sometime during
school-life should come under the
training and control Of men, and to
leave out the male element from
school instruction is to leave it one
sided and unbalanced. There are
quite a good many schools in the state
now which need the discipline and ex-
ecutive ability of thorough and eff
| cient male teachers, and every effort
should be made to secure SUCH"
Some wholesome suggestions are
| given with regard to graded schools
from which we quote: ''Too much
Importance may be given to grading
All scholars cannot be made to pass
through the same mould, and lose
their individuality; and they ought
not to be. There should be elastici
ty in the courses of study. If les:
prominence could be given to me
chanical test examinations and mark:
for promotion, and more to self-ac
tivity and the cultivation of habits o
right thinking on the part of tn
scholars, better results would be OBJ
tanned.
eff the whole time of the principa
of high-school must be given t
teaching one tenth of the scholar
Latin and Greek to the neglect of tn
other -tenths in those practices
English studies which all must under
stand in order to be prepared for tn
active duties of business and citizen
ship, then it would be much better
the work of such high schools wei
wholly given to instruction in Ems
lsh branches, and that the teachin
of other languages be left, to the e2
cellent fitting schools and academic
''Principals of graded schoo
should have time and opportuniti'
to look after and superintend,
some extent, all the studies, al
methods of instruction, from the pr
mary departments up to the hig
schools, which are under their mo
immediate care and supervision.
Nineteen towns now use the TOW
y system of schools, securing more c
" ficient management and better result
. The furnishing of text books fir
~ for the use of scholars Is recommen
ed.
= The total amount expended t
N past year for teachers wages, flu
81 repairs, new buildings, new fur
:, ture and incidentals was $500, $780,
no an average of $S.12 for each scho
a enrolled.
o. Among the suggestions are that
no town system be made compulsory
- all the towns of the state instead
vs optional that it be made the spec
duty of some officer in each town
-, look after truants; that there be
- normal school wholly under the c.
= troll of the state, instead of the til
now assisted.
- We wish that the report could
+or in the hands of every person intert
: ed in school work and the public
ucation of children.