The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-12-25

| have in the way Of buildings, sites ana
| equipment property worth $1,573Oo3 90.
| The total current expenses for the past
year amounted to $425,174 20, of which
1924, 342 was paid for teachers sala-
| ries. The number of pupils attend
ing the high schools was 1919. Dlvld-
ing the total expenditure by the num-
Der enrolled gives $40 33 as the aver
age annual cost per pupil IN the high
schools OF California, which is q little more
than double the average annual cost per
pupil in the elementary schools. The
average daily attendance in these sec
ondary schools is 71S3-nearly II per cent
of the total number enrolled, whereas, in
elementary schools the average daily at
tendance is not quite II per cent of the to-
tai enrolment. As stated before, these high
| schools receive no State aid--the constitu-
| ton providing that all State and county
school moneys shall go to the support OF
| elementary schools exclusively. Those
communities that have thus voluntarily
! taxed themselves in the interests OF their
sons and daughters are casting bread
| upon the waters that shall return, not only
to them, but to the State and Nation after
| (not) many days. The high school idea is
| growing in California, and the time is not
far distant when the State will come to the
assistance OF this much needed secondary
education, as it has already seen the neces-
sity of aiding the elementary schools, the
normal schools and the university. Free
States, to be lasting. must educate their
| future citizenship--their verv existence
| depending upon the intelligence and
| patriotism of the masses.
| California !, oil
located at Chico, San Jose and Los An
| geles. The number of students enrolled
| for the last fiscal year was 1883, taught by
sixty teachers. The total current expenses
amounted to $104 146 So and the average
cost per pupil was $40 80. In connection
with each of these schools there is train.
ing school, where the students do practice
teaching under the guidance of expert or
critic teachers. These training schools
cost the State little or nothing. In Los
Angeles they are a portion of the regular
| public school system of the city, and are
taught by teachers engaged and paid by
the City Board of Education. In San ] ose
and Chico these training schools are sup
ported largely by tuition fees, and are in
charge OF teachers selected by the respec-
tive boards of trustees of these normals.
| The State thus recognizes the fact that the
| highest form of skill comes by combining
theory and practice.
There were graduated from the three
schools last year 1877 teachers, of whom 10
were men, a trife over 10 per cent The total
amount paid for salaries was $3.50, 1873 80,
being an average of $14S5 81 per annum, or
$123 SO per month.
COST OF BUILDINGS AND EQUIPMENT.
San Jose Normal 1857 ,282 95
Los Angeles. .-.....-.............. 1884 80
Total $685. 53S 10
THE STATE UNIVERSITY.
There were enrolled during the fiscal
year of 1S94-95 at Berkeley (the university
proper) 1927 students, and the current ex-
pen ses were:
From the general fund 1884, 545 50
/ From the special fund. ................ 46032 48
Total. 1910, 57s OIL
OF this amount $1S2 545 95 was for sala-
ries of professors, ETC., including those en-
ployed in the Lick Observatory. The av-
erage annual cost per student was 1902 o.
Recapitulation of total current expenses
and the average annual cost per pupil:
Current Expenses.
Elementary schools ,S75,175 %
Hgn sGno opeo;: ~
1
state University ................... 3lO,578 Ol
From what Source Cost per Pupil
Ele. schoOls-State County, local $50 20
High schoos-Local taxation ................ As SO
Normal schools-State. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. rs 80
| state University-State and special. =. Bog OF
| The course of study for the elementary
schools must include Il quote the exact
language of the law reading, writing,
photography, arithmetic, geography,
grammar, history Of the United States, ele-
ments of physiology and hygiene, with
special instruction as to the nature of al
coholic drinks and narcotics and their eff
| fects upon the human system; vocal
music, elementary bookkeeping, industrial
drawing and civil government: provided,
| that instruction in civil government,
physiology and hygiene, and elementary
bookkeeping may be oral no textbooks on
these subjects being required to be pur-
| chased by the pupils.
"Other studies may be authorized by the
Board of Education of any county, city,
or city and county; but no such studies
shall be pursued to the neglect or ex-
clusion of the studies in the preceding Sec
ton specified
Among the "other studies" many of the
| schools have added little constructive
geometry and some elementary algebra,
and in still others some general history
and experimental physics and some form
of manual training. The course, as gen.
eral thing, covers nine years work, but in
several counties, where longer terms pre-
vail, the course is finished in eight years,
while few devote ten years ON account of
the shortness of the school terms, caused
by lack of school funds, which is I'M
avoidable in counties covering large ter.
ritorv sparsely populated.
| The high-school course covers period of
three or four years, and the curriculum is
such that the graduates are prepared to
enter the State University. The univer-
sity has issued a skeleton curriculum COW
ering the actual requirements fo- adj
mission, which gives ample room for the
insertion of such additional branches as
the local conditions may demand. thus
making the high school the peoples Col
lege," as President Kellogg would say.
In regard to the various courses in the
State University, it is not necessary to go