The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1897-08-13
THE YALE SCHOOLS.
A Review OF the Past Years Work and a
Few Suggestions by Ex-Prlneipal
Campbell.

| To the Board OF Education
Gentlemen: | herewith submit my
annual report of the schools you have
placed in my charge, together with
such statistics as are important, and /
desire also to call your attention to
some features in the working of your
school system that seem to me worthy OF
your careful consideration, and to make
some suggestions, which, If adopted,
will, in my opinion, add greatly to the
improvement of your school. The
weather during the past year has been
very favorable to successful school
work, but the diptheria scare in the
early part of January and measles and
humps near the close of the year has
caused the attendance to be somewhat
| irregular. Another cause of irregular
| ity of attendance / believe is willing
ness OH the part of many parents to
allow their children to remain out of
school for the most trivial reason-a
ball game, a visit, errands, ETC., when the
best interest of the child demanded that
it be in the school-room. TO my mind,
nothing but sickness or death should
be taken as an excuse for nOn-attend-
ance at school. Irregularity of attend
ance always produces disastrous results
not only to the child, but to his class
and grade, and the pupil must, in after
years, pay the penalty of the parents
neglect.
TEACHERS MEETINGS.
Regular teachers meetings have been
held weekly at which time methods of
teaching have been discussed, plans
formulated and explained, questions
that were of mutual interest asked
and answered.
LIBRARY.
A partially successful attempt was
made in the early part of the year to
collect the books of the old library.
Those when returned were re-number-
ed and fifty new volumes added, max
ing a total of about one hundred and
twenty books now in your school libra
ry. \ commodious case has been pro-
vided, and by Il judicious expenditure
of library money each year we must
soon have a good working library.
Friday afternoons from 400 to 500 the
library was open and your principal
has been the librarian.
HORTICULTURE.
During the fall term contributions
from teachers and pupils, amounting
to about three dollars, were expended
in bulbs, which were planted in beds
near the buildings. The blossoms in
the early spring added much to the
beauty of the grounds and were a
source of pleasure to the contributors.
BLACKBoARDs.
Fifty-four square feet of slate black
board was put in place in the first and
second primary departments. The need
of another hundred square feet is i'm
perative i'll the first primary.
MATING.
Mating has been placed on the stairs
leading to the north basement. Enough
for the halls and stairs to the other
basement would relieve teachers from
much of the annoyance of pupils pass
ing to and from the easements from
the other rooms.
ORGANS.
\ Lecture Course under the auspices
of the High School, and some pleasing
school entertainments by the pupils of
the primary and grammar departments
raised a fund from which three chapel
organs were purchased and one old
organ repaired. We now have one
organ for the Primary rooms, one for
the intermediate rooms, one for the
Grammar and one for the High room.
Much credit ought to be given to the
teachers for their faithful and hard
work in raising this organ fund.
SCHOOL COLUMNS.
School columns edited by pupils of
the high school have been maintained
in both papers which have been of
al, 20 no, IS -,
terest to the patrons.
READING TABLE.
a table was provided for the High
school in the early part of the year
upon which were placed regularly
The School Moderator, Timely Topics,
Current Events, Intelligence, M. A. &.
Record, Literary Digest, McClure's and
Godey's Magazine, The Scientific
American, and the local papers to-
gether with exchanges from Brown
City and Croswell. We are indebted
to Mr.. Will Lennon and Editor Men
Zies for Godey's and The Scientific
American respectively.
COMMENCEMENT.
The graduating class consisted of
five boys and two girls. Each member
was required to prepare an essay upon
an assigned topic. An admission fee
of ten cents was charged which result
ed in a fund sufficient to pay for an adj
dress by President J. l.. Snyder, of the
Agricultural College, and the other
expenses of the exercises.
TEACHERS.
Your teachers are faithful and earnest
and nowhere, to my knowledge, in the
county or state, is so much required of
the teachers for SO small salary. |
should recommend that the salaries of
each be increased proportionate to the
work required and that all above the
primary grades have either second or
first grade certificates. And, further,
that once every term each teacher be
given one day off for the purpose of
visiting corresponding department in
some of the adjoining village or city
schools. Such plan cannot fail to in
crease your teachers power in her
school.
JANITOR.
BY employing the janitor for the
calendar year instead of by the school
year, the school grounds and buildings
would be properly cared for during va
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