Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-09-24

Report of the Board of Visitors to the
 Se1ectmen

Report of the Board of Visitors to the Selectmen.
 At meeting of the selectmen and town board of education last night petition from sixteen residents of the Town Plot district, east side, to be set off in new district, was received and | the matter will be acted upon at the annual town meeting.
 The report of Acting Visitors George H. Cowell and John A. Moran was adopted. The schools were found to be | in very satisfactory condition, the only serious ground for complaint being the irregular attendance in some of the dis tricts. In their report the visitors say: In the Hopeville district, which is the largest, good school building furnishes accommodations for three schools with an average attendance of 130 pupils. The attendance in the primary school has been constantly large, sometimes as high as seventy-five and eighty, and thus the teachers time is mostly taken up
 with the duties of nursery and maid.
 This excess of scholars causes the neces- sity of having a noisy and boisterous contingent of the smaller children occu- pying the play grounds while the older 1 tiOn. This can and ought to be remedied by the erection of another school build 1 ing of two rooms near intersection of l Chapel and Piedmont streets. In the two schools in the Waterville l district, especially in the grammar room, ] there has been a marked improvement l in two years. In the primary room the l attendance has been of an intermittent, spasmodic character, and as a conse- quence the results were not so satisfac- tory. There has been an average at-
 tendance of sixty-two pupils here. Little need be said about the Town
 Plot school. The school is new, we'll ventilated and lighted, and the discipline satisfactory. The average attendance was twenty-seven.
 ] At Bucks hill small. low school house, poorly ventilated, sitting like some famished mendicant in the public highway between two intersecting roads, offers an unpleasant contrast to the well kept farms of this thrifty locality. In spite of the poor accommodations the school has maintained high standing. l Average attendance twenty -four. At Bunker hill there is a school house that it is a pleasure to visit. It is spacious, l clean and well ventilated and with plenty of light. Average attendance thirty-three.
 For some years back the school in the l Oronoke district was not regarded as a great success, but the standing of the school has been very perceptibly i'm proved. The building is in good condi- | tion.
 In the Saw Mill Plain district is 6 very good school house, we'll located, on high ground with ample and well shaded | play grounds. The building is cheerful within, and light and ventilation well provided for. Average attendance thirty-nine.
 The East Farm district has one of the smallest school houses in the town, but
 it seems to supply all the accommoda. tions needed.
 The school building at East Mountain
 is also very small and the furniture very
 antiquated, yet as in the preceding dis.
 tricts the accommodations are fully ad
 equate to the demands made upon them
 for the attendance here seldom exceeds
 twelve and shows little likelihood ot
 increasing.