The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-12-02

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First reader, IA pages so 10 so IL
Second reader 208 pages ........ IS 20
Third reader. 316 pages ....... % %
Fourth reader, 4SS pages. ........ 27 80
Fifth reader. Ole pages. ......... rs 50
Primary arithmetic. $50 pages. Is 20
Intermediate arithmetic, 1870
pages 49,. ................... IS 20
Complete arithmetic, 205 pages. p %
Elementary geography, same as
now OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. % 0U
Complete geography same as
row ............r.. ............. 80 90
Supt. Curtis then submitted his re-
pert. There were in it some sugges-
lions concerning the recent high school
imbroglio, and in regard to the opening
Of the schools to admission to the pri-
mary grades in February, which did
not suit the board, and were stricken
out, after some of the members had
INDUCED in cauStic observations as to
the effect all these discussions were
having on the school abroad and the
report as finally permitted to go on the
minutes of the board was as follows:
Attendance for the month of November
1897:
Whole number enrolled ..................21,27 5
Average daily attendance ............... Is, 215
Whole number admitted .................2,77 IT'S
Increase in enrolment over September. SGT
Number admitted since September ...... l. Ais
Decrease in average daily attendance. -. 209
The decrease in average daily attendance
is due to the prevalence Of scarlet fever and
diphtheria in certain districts.
TEACHERS TRAINING SCHOOL.
Since the resolution passed by the board
in 1896 in reference to length of course for
training school pupils and relating to their
practice in the schools as cadets under critic
teachers may be considered dead letter, ,"
and, inasmuch as it is not now practicable
to carry out the original plan, l hereby SUBJ
nit for your consideration the following plan
for the class now in the second year of the
q the Teachers Training school
1. The length Of the course to be year
and a half or as much longer as the prin-
cipal and superintendent shall deem neces-
sary for a thorough preparation.
2. Then, after two months practice in the
schools, provided such practice is success
full, in the judgment of the principal of the
school and the supervisors, the candidate
shall be graduated and may receive appoint
ment as regular teacher at minimum sched-
ule salary
The two months practice without pay will
be equivalent to a payment of $50 tuition
for each pupils training, which should s.;
lence, once for all, the idle talk about the
Teachers Training school being an unneces-
sary expense in the school system.
Not but that the city reaps benefit from
well-equipped and well-trained teachers suf-
icient to compensate for all expense in
volved in their training, but when there
is an actual saving and full return pay
ment in service which be reckoned in
dollars and cents, then it may be we'll to call
the attention Of the people to the facts of
the case.
The most of the substituting for the past
two months has been done without pay by
the pupils of the present senior class, saw
ing to the city a total of S427.
In addition to the substitute work done
assistants have been sent to crowded rooms
in the following schools: Webster Garfield
Hawthorne. Hancock, Jackson, Smith, Har-
rison Cleveland, Van Buren, Scheffer, Frank
lin. Ramsey, Drew, Neill, Douglas, Monroe,
German.
The committee on schools reported as fol-
lows:
Appointments: Miss Louise Hoyt kinder
garten assistant, Webster.
Miss Mary Nelson, Third grade, Lafayette
Transfer: Miss Marie Howard, assistant