The evening tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 189?-190?, 1897-06-09
THE SCHOOL
COMMITTEE.
Small Docket Of Business
Transacted at Last
Nights Session
The Committee on Qualifications
Was Not Ready to Report
Relative to Appointments.
MUCH ANXIETY STILL PREVAILS.
Report That Dozen or Fifteen OF the Teachers
Are to Be Dropped Plans For the
Graduation Exercises.
MUCH ANXIETY STILL PREVAILS.

The monthly meeting of the School Com
mittee was held last evening every member
being !present. Chairman Blodgett pre-
sided. The itemized expenditures during
the last month amounted to S428.98, were
ordered paid.
Mr.. Pierce-of the Committee on Pro-
psrty-reported that said committee had
received but one bid for the repairing Of
the school buildings in the city, but were
expecting more. He said that he wanted
to have matters arranged SO that the work
of repairing the school buildings could be
commenced as soon as the school year
ended.
Mr.. Slattery of the Committee on High
School reported that he thought it sdvis-
able to adopt the method of employing
student teachers In the High School, to
teach three-ffths Of the time and tax
ing a course in pedagogy at the same time.
He said this system had been adopted In
the Providence High School with much
success, and he thought 1t would be ad-
visable to adopt the same method In this
city.
After some discussion the COMMITTEES
was Instructed to prepare plan for carry
Ing ont the recommendation and report ia
the Board.
For the Committee on Qualifications,
Nh Cfonin reported that the COMMITTEES
had been considering certain teachers for
the ensuing year but had not yet COM
pleted the task and asked for an extension
OF time to do %. The request was granted.
Upon motion Of Mr.. Littleheld Supt
Fisher was authorized to employ Mr.. G.
E. Davis Of Providence to engross the
diplomas of the graduates of the Grammar
School at the price of Is cents each; also
to secure Mr.. w. 8. Parker of Boston ia
deliver an address at the said graduation
The Superintendent was directed to
have programs of the graduation exercises
printed. The graduation of the class will
be held June Nth at o'clock at the hall
in the High School.
Mr.. Cronin moved that the exercises OF
the High School be held at the Assembly
Hall. This motion was carried.
After Supt. Fisher read his monthly
report he said that IL was his opinion that
kindergarten teachers should not be en-
ployed unless they have had High School
education before taking their course in the
kindergarten Training School. He said
that he would talk the matter over with
the Committees on Kindergarten and
qualifications and report at the next meet
ing.
Supt. Fisher was granted leave OF
absence to attend the State Convention,
June 30, to be held in New York, and the
National Convention which is to be held
in Milwaukee July6.
Chairman Blodgett said that numerous
complaints had been made to him by the
people residing near the Church Hill
schoolhouse that the yard is kept closed
and that the children played In the streets
He said that he could not see why the
gates were kept locked.
Mr.. Slattery said that the yard should be
opened for the use of the children as q
playground.
Mr.. Coop moved that the matter be left
to the Committee on Property. The mo-
tion was carried.
Mr.. Emerson called attention TO the low
state of the finances and the need Of econ
omy, and inquired II money could not be
saved by not keeping all the janitors dur
ing the summer vacation, or II the janitors
could not be employed in making repairs
Mr.. Slattery, from the Committee on
Property, replied that many of the janitors
could do such work, and the committee
has In view the idea of making them do
this work. The last month there was a bill
Of s5S for carpenter work which should
have been done by the chief janitor, who
was doing nothing. II the janitors will
not do this work let them 60.
Then followed IN informal talk about
the term OF service OF the janitors, when
their term expires, whether they can be
discharged at any time, whether they
must be hired for q year, etc, during
which 1t was plain to see that the opinion
OF the committee is that the janitors must
do some OF the repairing on the buildings
The Committee on Property was au-
thnrtzaA N LA A.. g.