Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1890-05-10

Report Of NJ Th0mas. SgFerin'ch
dent Of Educatioa OF NoNs5ee CguatE
Ia the state Superintendent
The enumeration gwen by teachers
/. neariv correct A. f1- y = -1e- 5ut
il :, les than the tUtai given OY meas
.eS-or. because iherc are some sparse
Is settled localities that have not the
rroul,Ite number Of cliIttren % form
A ,eaoui district. and consequent! are
not enumerated by any % iac learners
! The sshool-h1a>cs fGF the wEiics zrs
very good excerpt in a icw Instances
The culDretl .ehoo : are taught almost
Altogether in churches. and near! A.
Uay- have plenty Ui room AMI benchr-
enough 90 seat them comfortably. but
have very few desk. the white sehool-
are poorly supplied with desk bhi
the schools, both white AMI black have
one or more biarsh,arl> IN each.
In the .egAYate school district, Ma
con. there ha. been 4 s!-Vp,1o audi
ton 70 ,he brick public school house
tor whites, and twelve OF iourleen
frame i,ou.es have beJn completed In
tie e.=nty. with TX OF eight Others
/ started bat not set completed. lse
citfzens Of >huqualas have in.t COM
plcietl 1.-TWO story frame building cost
ing about $500 90 tor A male high
.cADOl.
The total amount distributed was
equally appOrlioneI 10 the i've super
. visor. district. snsi wa. then given out
$1,000 at 1 time TO the trustees OF
variou. schools, who supplemented
thi. with 4 sufficient amount to build
A nice frame school-hOu>e, which was
then. together with The lot on which
the house wa. erected. decided 10 The
( COUNTY
All 18TH sections were disposed Of
I prior to The era OF public schools
There i. some school money Oh hand
lef, over from last year.
The county levy for 1882 Was u
( III mill and all warrants are paid 10
cash.
have maps showing the boundary
/ line OF each district together with the
IocafIsn Of the .choni-hoH.e.
Owing 10 the fact. that in many por-
[ tons Of the county the white peOule
are scattered over large ncighborhood.
their school district. are sometimes
rather large, containing u or Ii square
miles. on the other baud, however, the
negrOe. are 80 numerous that very few
OF their districts contain over Q square
miles.
This Of course required good many
changes to be made. especially IN the
, coi0fed school districts.
think that pupils should be con.
fined TO their oH district provided
they only 20 one term durin the wear
think the present plan OF cxamIna'
ton decidedly better than the old one;
though it may be A little inconvenlen'
for -ome teachers, it enables u. 10 have
uniformity in teachers OF the several
grades throughout the State, some
thing that could not be had by any
other method. also relieves tht
county superintendent OF all cen.urt
in reZaFltO The nature Determination
and prevents hi. showing any partial
it's IA The selection Ut his questions.
think iliattnc teachers Of this cOun
IS have improved at least 80 per ecu
under the present system OF examiua
tiOn,:Il il, wonderful to sec how !
stimulates teachers TO study end i'm
prove.
The Institutes have accomplished
:. great good, IN improving the method
, Of instruction, together with the disci
plIne aud school management OF man.
! Of the teachers. especially beginner
who have had no normal training.
| thing a change to a weeks iusti
-, ,utc would render the work mucI
more efficient, because il would b
more convenient for teachers to 60 l.
tie place OF holding tho Institute ant
. .pend q week during vacation. than I
, be making monthly Trip. during tn
school term. which in this county, j
Z nearly all cases a winter term,
think that teachers ought to he re
| quired to attend the weeks institute
for the samc reason, and in the sam
manner Is they are now required I
attend the monthly institute.
: 4 few trustees seem to take a grca
deal Of interest ia their schools, and d
all they can to build them up, but til
= majority take very lille interest in III
work aud do just =, l:ttle % possible
= think that 10 Join two teachers
l. tho superintendent would be bette
for several reasons. it would cxpedii
the work OF grading manuscripts, r
' licvc tie superintendent Of a part
r the responsibility of grading teacher
ii and prevent the practice Of fayoritlsT
of Where the per cent. i. s. or 30
your questions, | do not think il ncce
ssry for them TO be examined mo
u than once in two or three years,
III SOMc Of the textbooks arc alno
II universally adopted. while others a
r.. not uniform. Those in most genel
use in this county are n follows, V
~ SpeIlcrs-Swinton's. l.caders--Swi
&c tom. Gcugraphy-Swinton's. AriI
Is. Embellishments, Mental Arithme
nm --Robin.on's, Grammar Robinso
-. and Reed aud kcllogg's, Composiii
'H Reed and Keiloga'-, United Sta
OF History-Barnes's. Physiology-Stcel'
for Natural Philosophy Stcele's.
cs. There arc three high schools IN Z
40 county. One in Macon. the Macon
male Seminary, Rev. }. II. Buck, pr
NJ cipal. III very good condition, 81 pun
on enrolled last term.
,as Tho Shuqualak Female College
81, the town Of Shuqualak Rev l..
Stone, principal. in q flOurishing c.
re- dition, 1909 pupils enrolled last term
for The l,rooksvillc High School,
BrooksvilIe. in a good condition;
IN, pupils enrolled last term.
.p Very few districts extend their p
Tue lie schools by private terms.