Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-12-22
CAPITOL HOTEL,
@. MoaiNiY. Prop'r Houston. Tex.
The only F1Rsr-cLAss HOTEL in the city.

heretofore been $4,000 This sum has
paid the forty-one principals Sli634
each.
The Institutes could be made much
more useful II sum suiil .ient TO en-
ploy assistants at about seventy.five
dollars each should also be provided.
DR.. j, Il. NJ. Curry, general agent of
the Peabody educational fund, gener-
Ously furnished this Office with five
hundred dollars from said fund for
the advancement OF these institutes
during the summerof 1881 With that
sum an assistant was employed for
each institute The results demon.
strate that, TO obtain competent sue.
cess, assistants are necessary.
SUGGESTIONS
The public schools have been con-
Quoted since last September ] under
the law passed February a. 1884. The
law Is highly commended by all /
familiar with public-school systems,
but Il rs believed 10 be defective i'm
some important particulars The large
power given to the superintendent of /
public instruction, IL wisely exercised,
will make legislation upon many points
unnecessary, but some Of the provis.
ions of the law itself have been found
Objectionable
Teachers CERTIFICATES.
Chief among these Objectionable
provisions Is the one making /
teachers certificate issued by county /
board valid anywhere In the state |
Several county boards have endeavored |
to raise the standard of examination !
a commendable course-but they have. !
In nearly every instance, been thwarted |
by the indiscriminate granting of GER
| tificates by the neighboring boards.
TRUSTEES.
The law rs to the removal Of trustees
in community counties is specific, but
as to the removal of such officers In dis
trict counties ii ia not so.
There should be some shorter and
less expensive method arranged than
the one prescribed in the general stat
utes for the removal OF county and dis
trict officers Instances have occurred
in which public schools havebeen well
nigh wrecked through the friendship
or enmity OF trustees 20 teachers, and
through the indisposition Of trustees TO
submit TO the rulings of county Judges.
LOCAL OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.
Inspection of the accompanying Ia
bles Will show that in 1888 only l25
county judges reported 10 this depart
ment, and up 10 this dnte only 1873
were reported for the year ending Aug.
81, 1884 Many county judges think
that they should have no control OF
public schools. Even If their legal
Z duties RS to the managing OF the public
; schools were not disiastt ful to them,
} they could not give them such atten-
ton as the educational interests Of the
state demand. Local supervision of
: the public schools Is the one impera-
tive necessity; and without It the
greatest success must not be
! anticipated With local superinten-
= dents, devoting all their time 10 organ
, i2lng and managing the schools; en-
I ployiug and paying teachers and aid
r ing them ia The discharge OF their du.
ties; two important results might bt
9 confidently looked for-more success
full teaching and longer terms of the
! schools.
, Risking the danger Of being con
4 81 cred importuuate, ] reproduce
8 what / said on this subject in my
3 special report for 1898
y "The county judges might be con
tinued as the chief officers IN thu
= counties, but the past proves that th,
= plan would be unsatisfactory. County
t Judges as rule dislike the dute
: made incumbent upon them by tn,
" school law. Besides they have not tht
d time from their other dutie
Y to supervise shoots. They car
It only be the agents Of the stat
to distribute the school fund.
suggest that the state be divided int,
j. districts, and that superintendent b
h Amounted or elected for them.
~ scholastic population OF 1000 wouli
Al make district, TO supervise tn
schools in which would take all Of
J. superintendents time To make sucl
Il sized districts 1t would be necessary. II
d some cases, to put two or more countie
"a together. Ia the districts composed o
Y large territory, the superintendent
/ would have good deal Of travelling 4
Il do. but would have no more schools !,
~ supervise than others would have
They should examine teachers, gran
certificates, and visit and supervise IN
~ schools. They might be required I
O. take the scholastic census. In tina
~ case, the fees paid county judges an'
al assessors would be saved to q
!. 10 the salaries OF superintendent
u They should also be required 70 ~
prove all drafts on the county treasni
ID ers, and discharge all duties now y
nj curnbent on the county judges M
M Judgment Il that the greatest need q
/
h. OF no other plan that will secure it."
~ oITIRs AND TOWNS coNTHoLLIN
r. THEIR PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
-R.one cities and towns havln
be co Il The public schools With
III Aleir limits, only seventeen made u
So Iorts TO this department for the yea
n ending August 81, lsss Rnd-of flfia
or one. only thirty-four made report
al for ihe wear ending August 3
or 1854 Al can, therefore, readily 1
er seen why statistics of such cities an
or towns are so mesgeY. Repeated effor
ed have been made 10 obtain these r
he ports. Some school cffie3r !
re each city should be designated
Of make annual reports 20 the depaI
"a. ment Of education, and there shoul
M be An ADEQUATE penalty for his failui
I'D 10 comply with the law. The publ
NJ schools ia the cities and towns haN
been eminently succeesful, ana a.