The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-10-06
SUPT. .KENDALL'S STATEMENT
MADE TO THE COMMITTEE OF IN.
 QUERY LAST NIGHT.

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 --supt. Kendall Says That He is Ready | to Answer Any Questions Concerning Supervisors -Interested Citizens Prcs- ent at Last Nights Meeting. The special committee conducting the inquiry into the system of supervisors
 in the public schools held another two-
 hour session in the city hall last night.
 The entire time was taken up in a
 statement by Superintendent Kendall,
 which is given in substance below. A
 large number of citizens were present, including Walter Leigh, ex-Alderman Dewell, Alderman Unger, Councilman
 r. J. Rice, Anthony Carroll, James K.
 Blake, Mrs James K. Blake and Alder
 man Atwater. At 10 o'clock the com
 mittee adjourned after having decided
 to meet again next Tuesday evening, when probably there will be some inter-
 esting questioning. MT. Kendall f1nish-
 ed his statement just before the ad-
 journment and Alderman Chillingworth
 of the committee said that he would
 like to ask MT Kendall some questions
 MT. Kendall stated that, by consent of
 the board of education, he was perfectly
 willing to answer any questions asked
 of him by anybody pertaining to the
 subject of the supervisors in the public
 schools. MT. Chillingworth said that 1t
 had been charged that schools without
 supervisors sent more pupils to the high
 school than schools with supervisors,
 and asked if that was true. MT. Ken
 dall replied that pupils who complete the work of the eighth grade to the sat-
 isfaction of the supervisor and the
 teacher in charge are admitted, on rec ommendation of the supervisor, to the high school without examination Then a number of the pupils and their parents are dissatisfied because some pupils are not recommended, and so to give all fair treatment an examination for ad- mission is given for pupils not recom- mended.
 MT. Kendall then read the following record of the number of pupils from each school who entered the high school lHlS ySdA, liiCiuoill6 tiIOSc ItCOiilIIlcilucu and those who passed examinations, the record showing also the number who failed to pass examinations: From Webster school, 40 admitted, 10 failed; Eaton school 35, 1: Wooster, 21, 5; Hamilton, 16 0; Dwight, 50, 3; Winches- ter, 3S, 5; Shelton avenue 19. O; Dixwell avenue, 4, 0: Lowell, 43, 1; Day, 29, 6; Washington, 6s 6; Welch, 26. O; Strong, S9, g; St. Johns parochial school; 8. Q; St. Francis parochial school, 8, |; Sa- cred Hearts parochial school. IS, 0; private schools 2O g. MT. Kendalps statement was in substance as follows:
 Relative to tn cost of supervision Mr. Kendall said that including the salary of the superintendent of schools, super , vising principals, supervisors of music, drawing, sewing and primary schools was in 1Sss-9O $S2600; 1S94-95, $34,5O0; 1S99- 1900, s32, 2,95O.
 Average registration, 1S89-9O, 11,374; 1s94-95, 12,SO6; 1S99-19OO, 13,9OO, esti- mated.
 Cost per pupil enrolled in schools be- low high schools, 1sS9,9O, $2.S6; 1s94-95, $269; 1S9s-19OO, s2.37.
 Average number of teachers to su- pervising principal, 1SS9-90, 26; 1S94-95, 26 1S99-1900, 37.
 In other words, while the average registration of pupils in the last five years had increased about 1,100 the cost of supervision had decreased in the cor time $1,500. Only $350 more Is paid for supervision in the schools now than was paid ten years ago, when the registration was nearly 5000 pupils less.
 Comparing New Haven with other \ cities of the same size as to the num- Der of supervisors MT. Kendall said that New Haven has one supervisor of primary schools, one of penmanship, one of drawing and one of sewing. How does this list compare with other cities of the same size. Ten cities, according to the census of 1890, are similar in population to New Haven. They are Syracuse, N. Y.; Columbus, O.; Toledo, D.. Scranton, Pa.: Patterson, N. J.; Fall River, Mass; Lowell, Mass; Wor- tester, Mass; Cambridge, Mass. In Syracuse there is supervisor of pri- nary schools, one of penmanship, two If physical culture, two of drawing, one supervisor of kindergartens and one of sewing. In Columbus there is one su- oervisor of drawing, one of music, one # penmanship, one of physical culture. n Worcester there are three supervis- ITS of drawing, one of kindergartens, hree of music one of physical culture md one of manual training. In Cam ,ridge one supervisor of primary two of drawing, one of botany, ne of gymnastics Toledo, two super 'isors of music, one of penmanship, one If physical culture, one of drawing
 MT. Kendall further said that super. ,isors are found in every system of city chools in the United States from Bos- on to San Francisco and that there vas no exception to this rule in New England or elsewhere. For example, in ther cities besides those he named be- ore in Springfield there is one supei- isor of penmanship, two of music, two i drawing, two of sewing. In New 3edfol q, one of drawing, one of music, IN, manual training and one sewing. II Providence, one instructor of music tith assistants, three drawing, one ewing with assistants, one physical raining with assistants, two supervis- IS of primary schools, two of grammar chools. Bridgeport, one of physical raining, one drawing, one music. New