The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1884-11-20
REPORT OF COUNTY SUPERIN-
TENDENT OF SCHOOLS.

OF persons who secured certificates ut the
Fall Series of Examinations for 1884 -
The relative standing is indicated by the
order of arrangement under each grade
or classification:
FIRST GRADE. Valid throughout the
county and for a period OF taOo years.
Edward Brown.
SECOND Valid throughout
the county and for a period Of one year.
Mary A. Maloney, Minnie Richardson,
Charlotte Hecker, Hattie Burnet.
THIRD Valid throughout the
county and for q period of one year.
Average Adore so per cent.
Annie Nagle, Mrs. Byron Oakley, Kate
E. Dempsey, A. W. Dassler.
Average bet,ceen 80 and IS per cent.
B. ]. Thomas, Mary Falge, John G..
Naser. Clara Tostensen, Addie Prochazka,
Oscar F. HUM.
Auerage betooeen rs and 70 per cent.
Emma G. Schneider, Mathilde Eller,
Alice V. Symes, Helen Richardson,
Robert Rudolph. Ernst Prizes, Anna j..
jenkins. Floyd Westgate, Maggie Pep
pard, James Carrigan, Lucy Niquette,
Mary E. Burke, Joseph Pospisiel, Maggie
A. Ryan, Katie Walsh.
Average bet,Ueen 70 and 65 per cent.
Joseph Chermak. Richard Nicolaus,
Clara Filholm, Martha Msgee, Eva Muir
phy, Hannah McCarty, Julia Densmore,
Maggie Cody, Aggie Scott, A. Jone,
John E. Hewitt, Mary Walsh. Thomas
Hopper, Joseph zahorik.
4verage betWeen SO and IS per cent.
Mary Ahern, Maggie Pinter, T. B.
Morrisey, Isabel O'Connor, Bridget G.
Patnode, Maggie A. Morrisey, Fred
Christensen, Fannie Boughton, John
Dunbar, Lizzie Hammond, Paul Sims,
Lottie G. Sibree, John E. Sullivan, Grit
fifth Pritchard, Pauline Helms, VIM. J.
Guetzleo, Theodore Wolf, Dele Lawrence,
Lizzie Baetz, Bridget Morris, Maggie
Grove, Alice r. Monahan, Nellie Doyle,
Mamie Solberg, Minnie 81. Runge, Hat
tie v. Mcintosh, Carrie Edwards, Will
liam Dunbar, Katie Egan, Nellie Carey,
Ida NJ. Mason, Alice Garrett, Elizabeth
O'Connor, Addie Van Week.
LIMITED THIRD GRADE. Limited to q
particular tom and for a pc, iOd less
than one gear.
average above 50 and less than SO per
cent.
Maggie Kane, Mary L. Patnode, Ros-
alind Pospisiel, Francis Gray, Ella B.
Scott, Mary Berhan, Lizzie Jahnke,
Mary A. Davis, Hattie G. Symes, Nellie
G. Fenlon, Rose A. Burke, Maggie Kelley.
Limited certificates issued at Second
Supplementary examination.
John Lyons, John Loughlin.
Eight persons attended the examina-
ton for certificates OF the higher grades,
and 1O3 for certificates of the third grade.
One candidate secured a certificate Of
first grade, four of second, 70 passed for
certificates of the third grade and IA linn
tied. A number Of the persons in the
above list did not receive certificates be-
cause of their youth, and some whose
names are in the list of those having
received full third grades received only
limited certificates either because the
required minimum was not reached in
some branch or because of the inexpe-
rience OF the applicant. In two cases
limited certificates were issued to appli-
cants whose average standing was little
less than SO per cent, one because of the
experience of the teacher and the second
because special nesting of the district
would be necessary to enable the board
to engage an available, qualified teacher.
Remonstrance against the practice of
engaging teachers without certificates,
oondition-ily, seems to go largely IN
needed. In one case teacher was thus
engaged who at the examination stood
zero in every branch required for third
grade certificate with the exception OF
reading, writing and spelling. A petit
ton from the board and subsequent
one signed by every patron of the school,
did not cure the defect in education aud
the board was compelled to provide
means for the teachers salary outside of
the district treasury. Boards have been
cautioned repeatedly, personally and by
circular, to make no contract with appli-
cants for positions as teacher, provision
al or otherwise, unless there is a valid
certificate to give the contract effect, or
an expired certificate which gives evil
dence of scholarship which leaves no
doubt Of the ability Of the holder. The
duty of school boards in this particular
is in no sense matter of conjecture. 1t
is defined so clearly that the practice
herein deprecated is manifest evasion
of the law, and is absolutely without
justification or excuse, 1t operates
against those teachers who have no favors
to ask but whose industry, conscience
and professional spirit demand reoogni-
ton. I. is wrong to the district whose
interests are confded to the school board
with the reasonable expectation that DO
personal considerations or favoritism
toward individuals, will outweigh tie
sense OF duty which this Important trust
should impose. 1t is injurious to the
teacher thus employed as it inclines him
toward the lottery of chance and draws
him from the labor which commands
success.
During the past school year all legiti-
mate means were employed to draw the
attention of teachers and the people OF
the county generally, to the merits of the
Course of Study for Country Schools.