Western sentinel. [volume] (Winston [i.e. Winston-Salem], N.C.) 1856-1886, 1886-01-28
NEIGHBORHOOD NOTES.
WORD ABOUT EDUCATION IN FOR
SYTH.
County Superintendent Butner has Some.
thing to Say Regarding Public
School Matters.

EDITOR SENTINEL:-As every citizen in
the county has an interest in the common
schools, and the Board of Education has been
elected In order TO increase their efficiency
by every means in its power, it is thought
that brief statement of the public acts of
this Board will not prove uninterestine to
the general reader.
Many if not most of the resolutions of the
Board have reference only to particular
schools and localities such, of course are
omitted in this summary, and those alone
which have general application are select
ed for publication.
One of the first resolutions on the minnie
book of the board, passed at July meeting,
is this Resolved, that the Secretary notify
all the school committees to hand the deeds
for their several school-house sites over to
the Treasurer, as he is prohibited by law
from paying any charges for school house
repalrs or Improvements, unless the deed
shall first have been delivered to him. The
District Committee was also required ''to or
ganize as the law directs, and report to the
Superintendent, or the County Board, the
name of their chairman and secretary" At
September meeting the subject of Deeds
was resumed, and the Secretary instructed
to enquire of all the committees which had
not responded to the circular addressed to
them, where their deeds were to be found
If III their possession, to request them at once
to deliver the same to the Treasurer The
business of appointing the various school
committees were disposed of-but the list OF
them would be entirely two lengthy for in
sertion here. Every committeeman received
Il seperate notification of his appointment.
Among various orders was this, that the
Secretary shall requir every district commit
tee to report to the County Board "who
had been employed to teach their school,
and at what salary per month, which report
should be returned by the LIST of Dec" This
information would serve the Board as a
guide in appropriating to each district a
sum sufficient tic carry a four months
school. Many committees failed to answer
\ resolution in regard to the appointment
OF new committeeman was passed to this eff
feet: That whenever a new committeeman
Is to be elected in any district. the citizens
thereof shall vote for five suitable persons
living in it, and present their names, with
the vote for each one, to the Board, and out
OF this number the new committeeman Tor
mem shall be elected" This is the sub
stance, though not the exact words of the
resolution. The various districts have all
been notified of this, and if in future they
fail to have just such a committee as suits
them, the fault cannot be charged to the
Board.
At December session sum deemed suf-
flclent for the purpose was appropriated to
visiting the public schools by the Superin-
tendent, and the Secretary was ordered to
furnish a blank to every teacher, in which
ne shall state the enrolment of pupils in
school each month, and the average attend
ance, which report he is to make to the Su-
perintendent one every month the school is
10 operation. These two resolutions were
intended to keep the board advised as to
the efficiency of the teachers employed, as
well as TO ascertain which among them were
most Jealous and successful in their work
Besides the Superintendent, every member
Of the board is authorized, if so disposed, to
visit any school
The superintendent handed in the severa |
reports required of him by law, viz: His re-
port to the State Superintendent list of
the teachers licensed by him during the
year; and the census returns from the va.
rious school districts. All these would re-
quire more space than | feel at liberty to ask
for in any one issue of your paper. / will
therefore reserve an abstract of them for an
other communication. A I. BUTNER,
County Supt.