Morning journal and courier., 1893-09-16
THE PUBLIC sCHOOLs.


 FRANCIS G. ANTHONY.
 THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS. Features eff the Annual Report of the superintendent of Schools Subm1t- ted to the Board of Education Last Even1ng-SOme Interesting Figures and Statistics-The High SchoOl- The Manual Training School-The Normal School - other Reports or General Interest.
 To the Board of Education of the New
 Haven City School District:
 Gentlemen: In compliance with the rules of the board I herewith present my third annual report of the condition and progress of the schools of New Haven for the year ending June 30, 1893, with the usual tabulated statistics: The approximate population of the New Haven city school district is sS, 900. Property valuation for 1692-Assessed valuation of real and personal property of the town, $55, ,5S7, ,2SS; of the district, $52,- AT, ,297.
 The rate of district taxation for all school purposes on $1, .OO35; the town sp- propriation for same, .001; total taxa ton for all school purpos. 8, .GO45. Enumeration of children: The number of persons between the ages of and 16 years enumerated in October, 1892 19,O64; increase since October, 1891, 3S7. School buildings-Number of school houses occupied and owned by the district, 32; number occupied and rented by the district, 6; number of orphan asylums county homes where schools are held, l; number of school houses occupied by the district, fl; number of school rooms ocou- pied, 2S4 increase in number of schools, 12; number of seats, 13,433; increase, Number of puplls-Whole number regis tered during the year, 15, 5,463; average number registered (belonging) during the year, 11,ss2; decrease, S8; average number in daily attendance, 1O,830; de- crease, 169.
 Principals IA, special instructors 6, ori- tic teachers 2, high school teachers 2s, grade assistants II, intermediate grade teachers 76, primary grade teachers 129, | primary grade assistants ', extra teachers | l3, substitute teachers 10, kindergarten teachers 12, evening school teachers 15; total S73.
 Children not attending schcol-Under five years 1889, between five and eight years 1,056, between eight and fourteen years 1S7, between fourteen and sixteen | years 1 ,164; total not attending school B. ! 746.
 Children attending sohool-In public ! schools 12,952, in private schools ], ,979 total attending school 14, ,931; total numbe, in district IS ,677.
 Number of solo singers, 7,650; number of rooms marked ten in sight singing, 128 l number of rooms marked nine in sight singing, 75; number of monotones, 5S9 number perfect in dictatiop, l, ,726; average of rooms in dictation, Fl.
 TRUANT OFFICERS REPORTS
 Number of cases of non attendance anG of irregular attendance of children a school, investigated, 99; visits to homes O. the children, GA; found to be absent on ac count of disability, Il; found tt be absent on account of want of cloth ing, 5; found to be absent or account of lawfully employed, 13; found to be unlawfully absent from school, 83 visits to factories and stores. 30; childrer under sixteen years of age found employed 425; having certificates signed by teachers 30; having certificates of age eigned b, parents, 29; number who could not reat nor write, 9; under fourteen years of az unlswfully employed, 4; prosecution o parents for not sending children to school it.
 Number of calls to families having chil dren at school, with reference to non- at tendance of said children, 2,041. Number of children found on the etree and immediately returned to school, $40. Number of children found at their home and not attending school, 292.
 Number of transfers from graded school to the Fair street ungrsded, 40.
 Number of boys placed before the cit, court and reproved by the same for per sistent truancy and disobedience of par ents, 20.
 Number sent to the state echool for boy at Meriden by the city court sitting il chambers (parents consentine), 13.
 Number discharged for good behavior etc., 13.
 ! EVENING SCHOOLS. l Statistics for evening echools-Numbe of schools, 8; whole number of pupils en rolled, 9l6; average attendance, 249; mum Der of teachers at beginning of term, 15 number of teachers at close of term, 14 average number of sessions, 54.
 Expenses-Sal teachers, $1, ,49G salaries. janitors, $202 76; rent, fuel an light, $2s6 O5; stationery, books and othe supplies, $39.39; total, $1 1,9T.19. A LONG WAYS OFF.
 duties of the school teacher, Superintend ent Curtis says in summing up:
 "There should be but one standard b which to measure teachers; that is fitnes and ability. No social, political, religion or personal considerations should eve | hou olj~htoot xuofChf Rrk Is theory that usually fails in the prac I tice. We must wait for the millennium. KINDERGARTENs. Additional kindergartens were opened i September in the Lowell and Wincheste districts, which were so well patronize from the first, that 1t was found neeessar to employ assistants in each. The deman for the establishment of kindergartens i other districts was pressing, but could no be met owing to lack of room.
 AS the benefits of the kindergarten seer to be fully appreciated, need not in thi report advance further argument in thei favor. l strongly urge upon the boar the importance of taking this step to pro vide for the Webster, Dwight and Woolse the same advantages enjoyed by other dis tricts. We now have six kindergartenf each with an attendance of over fifty chi dren. Twelve teachers are employed, min of whom are graduates of the Welch trair ing school.
 PRIMARY SCHOOLS.
 Our primary schools are reaping the ai vantsgss of the kindergarten spirit, which aside from its immediate effect on the chi dren, is worth it's cost in its vivifying an elevating influence on the other grader There Is less of the mechanical routine an more of the natural development of th , childish mind without the old-time reprei sion of childish instincts. Occupation mi terial Is Hberally furnished for the primar grades and most of the teachers know ho to use 1t to advantage.
 THE HIGH SCHOOL. Effective work has been done in the Hig school during the year, in spite of insd' , quate room and other discouraging cond tions.
 The High school fulflls a grand purpei in the public school system and 1t needs T extended argument to justify It's existene . or to defend It's right to maintenance { E l the expense of the city. Amongst all the departments of educs f tional advancement which the last twent, five years have witnessed, by far the mol marked development has been in the estal lshment and growth of high schools a