The Port Gibson reveille. [volume] (Port Gibson, Miss.) 1890-current, 1893-09-22
EDUCATIONAL COLUMN.
CONDUCTED BY PROF. REGAIN.

F. To-Day, anu Win IL commences i0uF
weeks onerous and disagreeable Ia
D Dor for the board of examiners.
The decks will be cleared for the
whites next Friday.
There were, on an average, about
/ FIVE applicants for each white school
, in the county. Three recorded
nine applicants each. If trustees
make any injudicious selections,
"their blood be upon their own
, heads"
Some of our patrons and friends
have been disappointed in the
choice of teachers but we beg them
submit quietly to the decision of
the majority. An airing Of their
grievances will only create dissen-
sions among the patrons, and make
irremediable breaches, which will
work disaslrously for the children
in the schools. Let us not wreck
our schools in providing ourselves
with munitions of war for our petty
factional battles, begun without
principle and waged without reason.
Let as have that month of private
school taught in October, as recon.
mended by the superintendent.
Several schools have already ar
ranged to begin at that time and
have made satisfactory terms with
their teachers. The amounts raised
for paying the teachers, while not
large, nor commensurate with what
teacher should command, have
been cheerfully accepted by the
teachers, as a special concession, 10
favor the patrons. Let the conta-
gion spread until it affects every
school in the county. Trustees are
requested to report to the superin-
tendent full list of such schools as
will open in October, as he wishes
to place in the hands OF the teach |
ers, the class lists and grades for
each school, 80 opening, in order
that a thorough organization of
classes may be effected without de- |
lay. While the superintendent
claims no power to dictate a line of
policy for the teachers who teach |
in October, yet the very instincts of
nature ought 10 convince every pat
ron and teacher that a plan of class
organization, which would not have
to be altered or broken up i'm No
vember, is the proper one to adopt
in the beginning.
Greenbrier school at Herman
vile has the distinction of having
enrolled the greatest number Of
white children during the past term;
the list having included seventy
eight children.
Watson's Chapel, near Russum,
enrolled 1872 colored children, and
thus takes the lead of all the
schools.
Only FIVE public school pupils
completed the course OF studies,
and thus babe farewell TO the free
schools, during the past term.
These are all white children. A
reference TO the Glass Register
shows that at least 70 will graduate
for the next term. A systematic,
uniform course Of final examina-
tions will be arranged by the super
intendent for those finishing the
public school grades, and all teach
ers will be required to hold these
examinations subject to such rules
and restrictions as ne may lay down;
and no pupil shall be furnished with
a certificate of graduation who
does not make the required aver
age. These certificates will be sign
ed by the teacher and countersigned
by the superintendent.
The following figures show how
much money will be required to run
the county schools for 1893 1884:
Teachers salaries rs mos. }. .$15, 500 ,
Tuition fees to Port Gibson. 225
Co. Supts. salary. $50
Co. Examiners fees. ....... IT'S
Co. Assessor for census. .... 160 I
Co. School Board fees. s...... As
and Printing. 40l
Postage for Co. Supt. ..-... Is
Grand Total. 6,810l
The means to meet this expense
account will be raised from The fol-
lowing sources:
From State distribution. S12, 800 :
From Fines (estimated).... 500
From Sixteenth" rents. $50 =
To be raised by Co. 2-mill tax 1880
Grand Total. .......... s16,810 '
As the estimates are based on '
those of the past term, and cover
same items Of expense except cas-
SCISSORS fees" there will be no in
crease in teachers salaries, to speak J
Of. The item OF s175 for enumer-
ating the educable children was not 8
included last term but comes in,
next term, to scut out7 the margin i,
on which raise in some salaries o
was indicated. o
The monthly amounts for teach @
sr's salaries will be sl938. This is 0
10 be prorated among sixty, or more, Il
.eachers, according to their expert I
snce, qualifications, grade, and size
,f the school. Hemmed in as the
5upt. is by these several restrictions ke