The Kosciusko star. (Kosciusko, Miss.) 18??-1898, 1895-05-03

School Trustees Monday night, Prof.
BOYD submitted the following valuable
report:
Kosciusko, Miss, April 90. 1895.
To the Board of Trustees City School:
Gentlemen-The session of 1891 and
and 1895 closed by order of the Beard
of Aldermen on April 26th The sess-
ion was one of hard work and general
! harmony. The school continued eight
months, during which time two exami-
nations were held. The school work
being graded on a basis of nine months
work, many of low standing in the
grades were not reported for promotion
One hundred and fiity-five promotions
were made in all, this being nearly all
who came during the full term.
There is an irregular element whose
connection with the school proves iniu-
rious to the grades and the general
progress Of the work. ] have gwen
this special attention, both in trying
to find out the causes and in helping
them to do the work of their grades
Many have been helped while many
have not been benefited on account Of
irregularity. The scholarship of the
grades would be much higher was it not
for these. They are not those hinder
ed by circumstances SO much as by in
difference.
The faculty gave much earnes.ness
to their room work, and to the work of
professional study, which met weekly
as faculty work. This has been one of
the most successful features of the
term in great improvement to the fac
ulty as a whole. You should order it
to be continued daily during the next
session and give time from the regular
work Of the day to do the same. A
progressive faculty makes progressive
school.
The attendance of the teachers upon
the literary club has been marked by
good results. This is an age IF itefa-
ture of all kinds; hence it become S
part of school work to teach the child
what is best to read, and to read with
him until ne may have formed an adj
mirati for the best thoughts OF the
best men. / would recommend that
the attendance upon this york be made
obligatory upon the students of the
high school, or that those pupils of this
department who do not attend this
work, do not be promoted on the same
average scholarship as those who at
tend. This will raise the scholarship
of your school and give standing to
this department. The library, even in
its infancy, as it now is, seems the
pride of every teacher and every pupil.
II owes $3.50 as \ balance on the Ii.
brary of American Literature. The
school needs an instrument to be used
at the opening exercises, and we trust
one will be provided during the sum-
mer.
The expenses OF the session were
Teachers salaries, 5000; coal, SIP;
janitor, $50; and snndry expenses, $l7 0.
Total, 81, 29j so for the white school. |
am unable to secure facts relative to
the co!ored school, but approximate
the cost $7C0, teachers salaries $500
and incidentals 500, making a grand
total Of $685. 80. OF this amour,
1903 80 was paid by the c. unity and
SO" 20 by the county pupils, making q
total of $2S5 50 paid by county pupils
This leaves $500 80 paid by the towi
for both schools. have made every
effort to collect the tuition of the coun
ty pupils in full, but turn over to vo,
accounts unpaid to the amount o
SOS 20. The money collected has beer
paid INTO the town treasury. TIL,
school property and furniture has beer
well kept during the past session. The
desks need to be frightened at ever,
joint before being used again.
This is the year appointed by law fol
the re.adoption of books. Many oil,
and second rate books are in use /,
your school and need to give place t.
those books from which the best result,
can be obtained
/ herein recoHmen that an addition
a teacher be employed for six months
and longer if necessary, and that do2
, en- double desks, suited to the use 9.
10 or - wears old children, be purcl
ed and made ready for the next scr sion,
Respectfully Submitted,
E G. +. BOYD, supt. Schools.