The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-11-06
IN GOOD CONDITION
VISITING COMMITTEE MAKE THEIR
REPORT OF PUBLIC SCHOOLS
The Meeting LaSt Night an Intei est
ing One-Tne Management of the
High and Normal Schools Com
mended-4,14SP ubpils EnrOlled-
FAIRIES Kicks on New Boiler,

The school board met last night In regu
| lar session with all the mem hers preset
| except Mccoy. kirkwood and Fritch-
Superintendent Richardson reported
that there We're f. las pupils now enrolled,
bling an increase OF over 200 for the past
| mouth.
The principal Of the High school report
ed a3 pupils IN attendance, aud that
eighty-two of this number were non-resi-
dents and paid a tuition OF - eacl per
mouth. He invited the school board TO
attend che Southern Kansas Teachers AS
ISOLATION which will meet IN this city the
rhree last dnys of this month.
Tbe selection of princIpti for Irving
school caused the first hitch of the evening,
and the report OF the teachers ommittee
was voted down.
The visiting committee made the fol-
lowing report which WAS adopted, with
the exception of consolidating the sixth
AID seventh grades:
To the Mem lers of the Board:
Il compliance with the rules of this
board, the committee appointed to visit
the schools. submit the following report.
All of the schools have been visited by
two members of the committee, aud part
OF them BY the third member who was ua-
able TO devote all OF the time nrcessar, at
present he Will, no doubt. visit the remain
Ing Oaes before the expiration OF the first
quarter Of the school year We are salts
fed that the schools are in As good condi
tIon as can reasonably be expected, il be-
ing less than two months since the schools
opened, besides considerable work has
bean done by substitutes on account Of
sickness and death III our corn OF teach
erS, which has left = number OF our
scbo us in an unsettled condition. We are
satisfied all will be ruuniag smoothly be-
fore another mouth passes. While We
feel that every teacher is doug his
best we could not help bat
notice the discipline aud interest shown
by the pupils III number Of
our schools. where the teachers are really
In sympathy with their work. Your COM
mittee was very much grauiied with the
busiuess-like M inner in waich the High
school is conducted. II is an institution
of which We can all feel proud. We were
much pleased with the work IL our Nor
NAL school aud think it on hit TO b. en-
couraged in every manner. We could not
help but observe the excellent work done
by the teachers who are graduates from
this school. The experiment made Year
ago i'll assigning only Normal graduates
to one OF our buildings. has proved de-
cided success. We recommend the con-
solidation Of the sixth aud seventh grades
ut the Kellogg school as a matter OF
economy. We feel that an experienced
teacher should be as capable of teaching
forty pupils in two OF the higher grades as
one of little experience is of teaching sixty
in the lower grades. The change
in penmanship at the Lincoln
street school is verv satisfactory
and we think that the Vertical system
should be adopted in all of our schools
We are not satisfied with the present mode
of teaching drawing In our schools. We
find that while a number Of our tenchers
are especially fitted for this work others
are not. Consequently the work is very
irregular and should be abo ished unless
some means are adopted to make the work
uniform. Respectfully submitted.
Ed GOLDBERG,
l. NECK,
j. /. BAEHR,
Committee.
R P. Farris was given leave To address
the board, and en cred the claim that the
boiler placed in the High school building
WAS an old one, aud offered produce
witnesses to substantiate his assertions
The matter was finally left with the presi-
dent IF the board.
The board. after transacting some rou-
tina I'm adj ,urneb