, 1885-03-11

IUIO UIIE VINT VI 1IV5U"U o1O TE%TTTO ErVFN~
grown to $50. and at the close OF the year
the school numbered 606 pupils. AS it
NAV be assumed that nearly all the chill
dren of school age who do not otherwise
receive instruction are now entered in the
school, it is not likely that this number
will in the immediate future be in any great
degree exceeded. The Over-crOwdtd Sttte OF
some of The classes, which has been caused
by this greai influx Of pupils, has been met,
in accordance with the School Ordinance,
by employing 5 paid pupil teachers.
AS a very considerable number of the
pupils, about 200, were at their entry into
the school without any knowledge what
ever, and only q minor portion of the rest
had attained to a stage corresponding to
their age, il is II matter OF course that the
instruction in the several subj cts and Ill
the several classes has not been carried so
far as can be demanded when tue school
has been a longer time in eXlstencH Dur
ing the few months which have passed Siuce
the reconstruction OF the school there havr,
however, been attained definite, manifest,
and not incOnsiderable results. The teach
prS, with one exception, have understood
how to lay IA solid foundation on which
they can further build, and on the whole
the condition of the school must be deSCrlb-
ed as satisfactory.
The introduction of the compulsory Sys-
tenn has met with but little opposition
from the side of parents and guardians.
At first it was necessary to impose a large
number of fines in order to bring nome the
general conviction that the Order for regu-
lar attendance existed, and must be carried
ont. but the number of the fines imposed
has lately considerably decreased. In the
months from August to December there
were imposed altogether 242 fines, of which
1919 we're RENTED, III, amounting to
$17,55 were paid, and 2 were expiated by
imnrjS0nment. The attendance on the
whole must therefore be called good the
average number of pupils i'll November
and December was COG and the average
attendance for the same period was 525, or
86'6 per cent.
No public examination of the school in
it's new form has yet taken place: it is
contemplated to hold public examinations
of the town schools in May 1855.
The Free school in FrederikSted, which,
since the practical closing of the Burgher
School in 1879, was the only public school
in that Town, has undergone a similar
reconstruction, although the changes have
been fewer and more easily made. Partly
there was already found in he older school
q sufficient staff of teachers for the new
school-R. H. Cruise, j. e. Isaac, Miss
A%dolphsen. and as teacher OF needleWOrk
Miss Finlay-whO were all transferred to
the new school; partly the already existing
division of the school into 3 classes with
separate instruction and separate class
rooms made it eaSy to pass to the new plan
According to the latter, the school was
divided into 6 classes, 3 for boys and 3 for
eirls. of which the two lower boys classes
and the lowest girls class are instruct
ed in the morning, the Others III the
afternoon.
The school was reOpened on the LIST of
August with 1913 pupils, at the close of the
wear it numbered 80 pupils. Taa this
number is so much less than the number
of pupils in the Free School at Christian
stel. is owing not only to the smaller size
Of the town. but also to the circumstance
that there is a large private Sch0oi-Sf.
Patricks Roman Catholic School-where
many children are tau ght whO woIId
otherwise attend the public sch 'ol. The
attendance at the public school has on the
whole been very satiSfact Try, AM 1T has
not been founl access NY to impose mes
to 50 great an extent as Ill ChrIStlanSGrd
in order TO enforce regu arity. In all there
have been imposed for this school 80 fines,
OF which Is have been RENTED anu Il,
to an amount of $4.01, have been paid.
The stand poiut of the Scho VI Is for some
classes very satisfactory, while others hlve