The morning call., 1891-08-27


our public schools has been about stationary, so
that deductions from these statistics be de-
, nded upon correct Out OF 1920 pupils IN
lie second grade primary Oniy 20 feaeh the
senior class OF LIE nigh schools, that is only l
Iupil IN every -, or I per cenl.
Ihe falling oil III school attendance begins at
lie end OF the second year at school, wien The
number Of pupils reduced by 1923; next year
S74 disappear; al The end OF the fourth year 4I9
fAll Uui; next year 623, or 16 per cent; at tile
eud OF lie sixth year $50, or 20 per cent; in the
seventh yer 734, OF 3S per cent; Al the end Of
th- eighth year 42l, OF IS per cent; the nlntu
year 472, or 62 per cent
PRIMARY GRADES AND GRAMMAR GRADES.
Tie total number Of pupils In he five primary
gSdes IS 24.oGli in The four grammar grades
S&l4 IN the lhree high SchOOI grades 1884.
Thus 1t appears that OF the whole number in
the primary grades only IS Ter cent reach the
grammar grades. or lie 92l+ IN The grammar
grades only Il per cent reach the high schools
and The commercial school
In the three high schools there were 1912
pupils. or II cent OF the number In the four
grammar grades. OF lie number entering lhe
high schools only 40 per cent are graduated.
In The Boys High School the number in the
middle grade or second year is only G3 per cent
Ct tie number IN the junior OF first year; and the
number IN senior Eraue or Third year is Only GS
IsI cent ol tbe lfiod,e year. Inc number OF
graduates from lie three San Francisco nigh
schools last year was lSI OF whom thTty-One
veie admitted on recommendation TO lhs n-
NeIsity of Callionia-lhIrty from lie Boys High
School and one from tile Girls High School-that
Is u per cent Of the graduates went 10 the
State Oulyersiiy, or only one out OF every six.
graduate class or the high schools WAS eighty
i've, OF ~ per cent OF the graduates-nearIy all
from The Girls High School.
Thus II appears that out Of every 1920 pupils
tn the tEild grade primary only thirty reach the
Stale University, or six tenthS Of l per cent, or
. one puJil in every 164. One in every Sixty one
enters the normal class.
The total number of undergraduates in the
Safe University from the high schools OF san
Francisco Is reported al sixty-thTce or per cent
OF The whole number In high school attendance.
TEACHERS CERTIFICATES.
submit the following opinion from the State
Superintendent OF Public Instruction:
STATE OF CALIFORNIA,
DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION,
SACRAMENTO, aug. ~. 1891.
CRY Hall san Froncioco-DEAR sIR: Replying TO
yours Of Tue 10th inst. permit to say that have
tions very careful consideration In the opinion
which l express the Deputy Attorney-General (the
AttorneyGenerAl being absentl. after an equally
careful investigation cOncHrs. The conclusions at
which l arrive are as foiows
l. Section lISl authorizes the appointment OF a
City Board OF Examination. Section 1888 desig-
mates .he parties that shall constitute such board
1871 defines the powers OF the board when ap-
pointed Among these powers is (Sub. - the
Constitution IL is true Article TX SECTION 7. last
clause, says that the County Boards shall
ing OF teachers certificates. This control your
board have thought proper 10 exercise through tina
Board OF Education having under the law consti-
tuted city Boar OF Examination, have In so do
with the granting or certificates. in other words
the law invests the Board OF Examination with all
power relative 10 the granting OF certificates and
the Board Of Education. having in; appointment OF
the Board OF Examination aequieseed in the pro-
visions of the law, have under the law delegated
the granting of certificates to the Board OF Exam
instion This board having been appointed hold
their onceS for the period OF TWO years, and they
be removed by the Board of Education
They are vested with the power examine teachers
and grant certificates and the Board OF Education
have no power under the law 10 do
.. The Board OF Education cannos change the
q RsfA faIh hu fNn.a
animation. nor have they any other power in con-
nection with certificates granted by ths Board of
Examination Neither can the Board of Examina-
ton change the grade except In compliance with
law. Very truly yours,
j. W. ANDERSON, State Superintendent.
TEACHERS SALARIES.
From a careful study OF the salary schedule
aud from the fact that thus early in the begin
ming of The year the number OF teachers has been
increased eight, l am absolutely certain that the
SS25,OOo set apart by the Board of Supervisors
out OF the annual appropriation as a reserve
fnnd Tor ihe payment OF teachers salaries VIII
be insufficient for that purpose. There will be
lhe usual chronic dercit OF a half months salary
Tor The month of june next. therefore recon-
mend that the remaining part of the State Gram
mar School moneys, amounting TO S22, 644 be set
aside as teachers salary fund.- and ADDED to
the sum reserved by the SUPERVISORS. This will
make altogether tie sum OF S847, ,844, which
may carry the department through the year
without deficit.
DESIGNATIONS ACCEPTED.
The following designations were accepted:
Bartlett Primary; Mrs. Ada 3. Holmes. as
sistant in the James Lick Mrs. Julia Brady,
teacher of sewing in the Cogswell Mission
High; Mrs. NJ. Arendt (nee Cohen, assist
ant in Hamilton Grammar.
An application for position as teacher
in the department was received from Mag
gle T. Mcdonald.
On the recommendation of the Classifca-
tion COMMITTEES new class was ordered
opened in the FairmOunt Primary School,
Miss May Sankey was ordered transferred
from the James Lick Primary to Bartlett
Primary; Miss Lizzie F. Harvey, from La
fayette Primary to FarmOnt Primary; Miss
j. I. Banks, from Irving Primary to La-
tayette Primary; Miss L. Geist, from North
Cosmopolitan Grammar TO John SWEET
Grammar. and Miss M. E. Kennedy, from
Hawthorne to Mission Grammar.
Assignments from the day school substi-
tnte class were ordered as follows: Miss
Jennie Bowman and Miss Mary T. swift TO
the James Lick Primary, Miss E. Smith
son to Irving Primary, Miss S. S. Morrison
TO Horace Mann Grammar. Miss Nj. Lori
gan 10 North Cosmopolitan Grammar and
MISS NJ L. Gleason TO Pacific Heights
Grammar.
CREDENTIALS SATISFACTORY
The following nominees to the day school
SUBSTITUTE class were reported 10 have salts
factory credentials Miss Gertrude j. Gull
Ter, MISS Josephine Downey, Miss Edna
Cotrel, Miss Susie C.-Farwel Miss Jennie
i. Hatch, Mary g. PHommedeu; evening
school substitute class, Miss Veronica Har-
rod.
Miss Maggie F. Haussler and NG.s Eliza
beth j. Moynihan were recommended to the
Stale Board of Education for State educa-