New Iberia enterprise. (New Iberia, La.) 1885-1902, 1899-08-05

| colored
Tho average salaries to teachers has
boon For white malos, $10. % for white
females. - 90 for colored maloa, 90 80
for colorod fomalcH, 2IoO
| bf the white tcachcra. sovou nro males
aud twenty cight are females OF the
| colorCd toachor- two arc males, eight are
| females.
Tho school torn for whites and colorcd
alike has hocn n nino month term with n
few exceptions
OF tho total parish enrolment, 2G05.
| $40 arc in attendance mt tho Now Ihoria
city schools, COG being whto and 213
! colorod
Tho parish owns and mnInia aims property
to the valuation of about f37 goo, and hns
~ buildings III uso for school purposes
all, with tho exception of the Contoral High
School Building which ia masonry of the
finest pross brick being of franc structure
aud were in pretty good repair,
We have but recently completed tho
construction of four new modern school
houses having comfort able sonting
average cost of f6l5 including paint
cistorns aud closets We havo already
contracted for wo similar buildings already
| located by tho board
Owning as much property M tho school
board does and not being in q position to
run nny risk as to its destruction by fine,
| tho question of insurance cost has gotten
to bo quito al itom. However notwith
standing this fact, we were able this past
yoar to avail ourselves Of tho insurance
rate war which ragged so iiorcely, and in
consequence we saved neat sum of
money on cut ratios.
Tho item of repair. cost IN excess OF
what IL should be. There should be less
doprodations and broader spirit of assis
tanco to the teacher in different sections
to keep the property in excellent repair
without calling upon tho board for nll kinds
Of holp.
Repair alone tho past year has aggregated
about *lII. In future, moro 60 operation
should be extended to the local teacher
and the patrons themselves should mako
littlo repairs thus relieving tho school
board of this unnecessary expense.
Every effort has been made to furnish
each school house with comfortable desks
and tho different toachors with tho required
paraphonala - for without educational
m,nition there can bo no great proficiency.
We have expended the past yoar for this
salutary purpose tho sum of*lOOS.0 90 and it
was money we'll spont,
70 write o detailed report of each scpa
rate school would prove fatiguing to you
and would be without future benefit,
hence shall speak Of those schools which
are of tho two extremes os-tho most pros
porous and the most backward.
Tho Now iberia city schools, 1t is unnoc
cessary to say. continue to be in salts
factory condition, and their work is broad
ening and the attendance Is largely
increasing. The grades arc daily supervised
by Mr.. koony Principal OF the High
School, and better system of organiza-
ton and higher curriculum IL carried
| out.
The country schools most deserving
complimentary mention are tho bernard,
Loreauvile, Derouon, Stewart, Bsllo
Place and Wychc schools. At caoh school
there is n genuine, alive, and business
| liko school appearance. Tho onrollments
arc fair, the average attendance is pro
portionatoly larger, discipline, order,
organization and progress are good. But
! in this connection would recommend Nh
| addition to the Loreauville building
which Is now inadequate and the moving
back of the building itself to tho centre OF
tho lot The crowded rooms and m
increasing attendance warrants this i'm
| provement. | would also recommend
an increase of salary for the teacher at the
tho Stewart and the Wyche schools.
On the other hand, the schools showing
tho least sign of progress aro the Petit
| Anse, tho Coteau and tho Patoutvillo
schools Tho enrolment is too small for
tho number of cducatblo youths In those
different neighborhoods, the average
| attendance poorer still and there is not
that snap and activity that should charac-
terize every school premises. However,,
tho Patoutville school is gradually doing
some better work now.
A word Of admiration will not be amiss to
bo said of the Grand Marais colored
school, taught by Mrs J. B. Olivier. Its
work is hourishing and tho building ia
crowded almost beyond comfortable seat
ing capacity. This work is worthy of our
highest corporation which ! have over
freely given.
The removal of the Duboin from tho
Stansbury noighborhood of tho Hamilton
Deroucn from the De Blanc neigborhood,
have proven very satisfactory and under
those now arrangements, each school IL
doing worry much better school service
with larger and more regular attendance.
A few words about our parish institutes.
/ have aimed to got tho very happiest and
most beneficial results, and in attempting
to do So have concluded that the institute,
every other month of two days session,
Friday and Saturday, gives this result.
This plan brings out larger attendance,
and two days session affords the conduc-
tor better chance to carry out tho pro
gram of exercises without haste and
excitement to the teachers. There il
hardly another parish in tho state better
geographically situated and the different
wards better arranged than in Iberia
parish, so as to afford such excellent
opportunities, at 30 small cost to the
teachers themselves, for regular and sys-
tematic institute work which has accom-
plshed 80 much for our public schools and
the children in attendance. In but one
instance IL q school situated from New
Iberia at greater distance than II miles.
Witnesses, jurors and attendants OF oil
Court sessions como TO town in the morn
Ing and return to their respective homes
every night.
Poor roads and bad drainage are our
greatest contention in this parish and are
problems that must be solved in finan-
cial way by our intellectual and wide
awake population. Tho necessity for
these improvements are indeed sufficient
ly urgent to warrant such Oh issue in our
public affairs, and the filling Of important
and prominent positions.
The past year has been an unprecedent-
cd year in so far as bad roads and miser-
able weather are concerned Inadequate
drainage is the cause and large expen-
diture OF money is tho only thing that
will afford any relief at all
During the past summer we conducted
in our city four weeks Summer Normal
Peabody school, with an able faculty OF
six white teachers and one colored teach
or, having an enrolment of ll3 white
teachers and 80 colored teachers. The
advantages and benefits TO our local
i. parish teachers were manifold, and tho
money spent, which was 1895, to carry
on this institute was that amount well
spent
The change in the school term for many
of the country schools, from the winter to
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