The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-04-07
new JERSEYS schools
Annual Report Of the State
Board ofEdueation-Inter-
esting Facts Made
Known.

The annual report of the State Board
of Education for the school year ending
N 30, 1887, has just been received,
and those who are interested in the pub
lie schools will find much in it which
commands more than ordinary attention.
On April 6 the Board made the appor-
tionment, the reserve fund being 10 per
cent. of the amount of the State school
tax. and by that a-pportionment Hudson
county received as it's share the full
amount of tax raised by it, namely, $42,-
44s. %. OF the 1853 teachers in the pub
lie schools of the State 1,2Ss or % per
cent. of the whole number are graduates
from normal schools and 253 are college
graduates. The total number of pupils
enrolled in the public schools has in
creased 1850 and the average daily at
tendance has increased 1881. while the
total number of cases of hardness has
decreased 81 913.
The State Board recommends the pas
sage of some legislation for kindergarten
| comes more pressing each year.
The advantages to be derived from
| proper kindergarten instruction can
not be over-estimated, says the Board.
Each State Superintendent advocated
this also. high schools and supervision of
school building construction. This is in
brief the Boards report.
The value of Hudson county's school
buildings, the report says, is 81, PIP, $50,
Hoboken's buildings are worth $25s. go.
and Jersey City, SLOT coo. The per capita
cost of the average daily attendance IN
Jersey City is $l9.5S. During the year
Hudson county spent S2I4.9l9.29 for build
ing and repairing. exclusive of debt and
interest. Hudson paid Sif. 769 for debt and
interest and &,2SI.10 for aking school
| census. The salaries of teacher footed
- - G-0h A DC E&fNd 60. 20 a a RIGS
fuel and supplies, she paid 1862
Jersey City, during that period, one
year ending June 30. 1897. paid $S19,0S0.3l for
teachers salaries: s33, 5000 for her jani-
and repairing, and s14, 600 for her debt
and interest.
Embodied in the report is one from
Superintendent Henry Snyder of Jersey
City, in which nc says that during the
course of the next year QS9S) new
schools will be erected in the Sixth,
Ninth. Eleventh and Twelfth wards. Mr..
I Snyder has proven a true prophet; these
| schools are under way. Continuing, he
says that in the coming year QS99) about
$435. eco will be spent for new schools and
lis an ample proof not only of the pro
gressiveness of the Mayor, Board of FL
| nance and Board of Education and of our
citizens but of their anxiety to provide
ample accommodations of the most APP
proved type for our children
Not the least Interesting part of the
voIuminous report is that which speaks
of the training of New Jerseys deaf
mutes. The tremendous problem of
reaching the brain when the ear and the
tongue are of no avail, and only the
touch and the eye can be used, seems
to be almost superhuman, but yet it is
accomplished, and this illustration Will
give q slight idea how it is accomplished;
Tine teacher seeks only to lead the
children's thoughts and impulse toward
expression into the familiar hannels of
daily life. Amy subject that k IN
terest is taken up-perhaps the daily Wis
its of the postman, with the occasional
delight of a letter from home. The active
little fingers soon learn to shape the
mail bag and the uniform cap of the
postman, TO fold envelopes and to en-
close the letter, to cut out and affix the
stamp and to provide whatever else is
necessary for the play. All the opera
tons connected with the mail. from the
writing of the letter TO its final delivery,
are gone through with the greatest zest.
At every step the teacher uses language
to give directions, to relate what has
been done. and to ask questions. The
finger alphabet is the medium generally
used. as it is used with much more ease
than writing, and, our experience is, can
be more readily made agreeable to the
children thar can speech. The pupils
are not urged to try TO commit any form
of expression to memory nor II an in
correct form is used is any further notice
taken of the error than to substitute the
correct form. In this way the objects
and occupations which take the chiidfs
attention in his daily life at home or in
the school come up and are made the sub
iect of conversation and furnish practice
for the ehild's mgenuity IN making MOD
els
This instructive report closes with a re-
view of the Manual Training and Indus
trial School for Colored Youth, located