The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1889-12-05
REPORT OF SUPERINTENDENT OF
SCHOOLS.

fall series of examinations for 1889. The
relative standing in each class is shown
by order of mention:
FIRST GRADE,-Vdlid throughout the
county and for q period Of four gears:
Flora Waldo.
SECOND GRADE,-Volid throughout the
county and for a period Of taco gears:
John V. Erickson, Mrs. Fannie Bough-
ton.
THIRD GRADE,-Valid throughout the
county for a period Of one gear.
Acreage Is per cent. or OUer.
Marie Gould, Louis Jerman, J. G.
Naser, Katie Taugher, Martha J. Steph-
enson, James Kennedy, NJ. A. Guidin-
ger, Lizzie Meany, Oscar Stockmeyer,
Maggie Mullins, Alice P. Newcomb, Henry
Wernecke, Nellie Doyle, Floyd Westgate,
Frida Krieger Griffith Pritchard, lisa
O'Conner, r. G. Nicolaus.
Aeerage 70 per cent. or .ouer and less
than rs per cent.
Cornelius ]. Mulcahy, Timothy Burke,
Mary Meinert, Maggie F. Grove Neoma
Gray, Maggie A. Hayes, Thomas Conner,
Marcella Hall, 10. L. Eggers, Chas. J.
Pierce, Joanna O'Connor, Katie J. Sech-
rist.
Arerage IS per cent. or oUer and less
than 20 per cent.
Julia Densmore, S-e Tullis, Tena j.
Arnemann, Cora de Garmo, John W.
Roberts, David L Fitzgerald, M. G. Tough
lin, Matte Sechrist, Selma Hoeh, Lizzie
Sechrist.
Acreage 50 per cent Or oUer and less
than 50 per cent.
Joseph Volta, Josie Thompson, Rosa
Safer, .Lottie X. Richardson, Carl II.
Greve. Frances Grey Martha Schlundt,
Ida Luebke, Catharine Nicholson, Ida
Olson, Bridget Long, Arlet @. Bailey,
Lena Miller, Lillian Swarts, P. J. Sham
beau. Victoria Pelishek, Agnes Doolan,
E. S. Schmitz, II. A. Schmitz, G. Plockel-
man, Mona Cooney, Annie Falge. tt
LIMITED, to q particular torn and for
q period less than one gear.
Average betaceen 50 and 50 per cent.
CD. Groth, Wenzel Tomek, Minnie
Luebke, L. A. Schmitz, Bertha Stirn,
Katie Simon, Emma Hammel.
In the above list few who appear to
have received full third grade certificates
have had them limited because of failure
to reach the required minmum in one or
more branches. Their general average
entities them to the classification they re-
ceive. Some who wrote for the higher
grades, and failed, have been granted per-
mission to write next spring upon the
subjects in which they appear deficient.
This privilege they earned through the
general excellence of their work.
The percentage of failures for the last
series of examinations is less than for any
preceding examination. This is to be at
tributed to growing appreciation of the
fact that teaching requires more init
mate knowledge of the subjects taught
than may be sufficient to meet the ordi-
nary duties of daily life. Too often the
intention to teach was made contingent
upon the results Of the examination and
the applicant trusted to chance to obtain
a teachers credentials. When the GER
tifcate was secured the equipment was
complete. While this idea prevailed the
was considered to be kind |
Of experiment educational station whose
tests were final and all-sufficient; and as
the applicant, in many cases, mainly
directed his efforts toward securing GER
Iificate. he was not conscious always, that
the permission to teach imposed duties
which the certificate merely attests he
las the mental strength to perform.
There is nothing IN the line of a superin-
lendent's duties which causes him more
iisquietude then the prevalence of the
lotion that certificate has active and
qualities to make its possessor
/ teacher. Examinations are attended
~ many impressed with this idea: school
boards make provisional contracts and
ustify their action by this fallacy; and,
indeed. it may be said that in some cases
chool has been taught by virtue OF the
certificate rather than by the activity OF
he teacher. Rigid examinations have
,een applied as a remedy in this county
or the last twenty years, and when one !,
outsiders how firmly intrenched in pub /:
ic opinion the false notion has been. he
annot but be gratified by the results t
chjeved. Each succeeding year there is
violence of enlarged appreciation of the 7,
eacher's duties and OF a purpose to be !
quail to the task of their proper dis
barge. And these healthy signs are by
o means limited to those whom expert
nee and age have taught. Teaching liz