Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-10-17
GOOD SUGGESTIONS.
The Committee on Schools Makes a
Comprehensive Report.

o~eniDg In adjourned session. Supt.
= -. - lad =, eseIt6 report ore
49, "a ago and after considering IL aid
lDaLing sOne personal OBSERVATIONS tle
committee on schools, rules and regu-
lations, Messrs. Dewey, McMaster and
Baker, made the following report which
was adopted and the suggestions en-
bodied ordered carried into effect:
THE COMMITTEES REPORT.
We would respectfully report that
the first month of school closed Friday,
October 5th, with total enrolment Of
936 which is SO less than the total en-
rollment for the corresponding month
of 1883. The per cent. Of attendance
has been SIS, which is about the same
as last year, there being an increase of
one-half per cent.
Thus far we have succeeded in get
ting along with sixteen grade teachers,
but if the attendance continues to in
crease in certain grades we must ar
range for another school. Three of the
schools now have sixty or more pupils
and six have more than fifty. The en-
rollment has been equalized as far as
possible by transfers, but this can be
done no more.
HARDNESS REDUCED.
We desire particularly to indorse and
recommend the system of reward for
promptness as suggested by Prof.
jerks: Each room reporting no case of
hardness is given a half holiday at the
end of the month. Under this system
only 222 cases Of hardness are reported
for last month as against 367 for the
corresponding month in 1888. At the
end of the month a half holiday had
been earned by the pupils in the rooms
of Prof. jerks, Miss Wilder and Miss
Jacoby.
Finding that one more teacher was
needed at the opening of the schools
we hired Miss Mary E. Hoisipgton
to take charge of rOum
number two of the First ward. She
had taught successfully in our schools
and upon that recommendation we
procured her. She has done excellent
work thus far and We recommend that
she be elected.
We would also report that upon the
of the superintendent NEIL
tai arithmetic has been taken from the
schools, believing that the same results
could be obtained from the analysis of
written arithmetic; also, upon his rec
Jones' First Lessons in
hin I,,s booD cY,hSfitntaI F,,r ITa,I-
ness Latin Reader. This has beend
lone without extra expense to the pIt-
pills, and the change is, undoubtedly,
o: the better. 1t is with pleasure we
announce that thirty pupils in tie high
school have commenced the study of
Latin this year.
REGARDING DISCIPLINE.
We have endeayOred to enforce or
cause to be enforced, all your rules reg
Ilatiug teachers and pupils. A SEEM
ing hardship may have been worked in
some cases, but We believe in every
;aSe both the schools and the person
have been benefited. 1t is
absolutely necessary that teachers
should he present at the time prescribed
BY the rule in order to protect the
and furniture. We know of
40 other way of enforcing this rule
han by deducting from teachers salt
les an amount in proportion to the
ime lost by hardness. The teachers
we're notified of this intention at the |
September meeting, and We ask that |
heir orders for salary be drawn ac-
,ordingly. Upon the suggestion of the
we recommend that the |
ime for recess be reduced TO ten min
ties each, and that the afternoon ses-
ion begin at 100 instead of 1:15.
We ask that the sum of 500 of the
library fund be placed at the disposal
# the superintendent and this commit
ee for purchasing new books for the
library, and that the further sum of
25 library fund, or so much thereof as
nay be necessary, be expended for sing
ng books for the high school.
After some further unimportant bust
ess relating to the care of grounds,
flowing bills, ETC., the board ad-
burned.