Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1899-06-09
OUR PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
SUPPLEMENT TO ANNUAL RE-
PORT OF SUPERINTENDENT
A Concise Statement of Various Details
Which Shcw That the Service Has Been
Efficiently Managed and the Results !ndi.
-3.c HeathfuI Progress.

Efficiently Managed and the Results !ndi.
ca.l Healthful Progress
OLYMPIA, Wash, June ;, 1899.
r. the .S,toI Bouni District Ne. /,
Wgmpia, WaSh.:
GENTLEMEN have already filed
With the Clerk my annual report, but
in order TO place before you in 4 com
parativc way the facts shown in it and
to express some other thoughts which
| esteem to he OF interest to to you,
add this supplement to that report.
We may congratulate ourselves and
the city at large upon the fact that
the school grows in numbers and
in interest and corresponding efficien-
cy. Whatever the causes of these
pleasant conditions, think there is
no denying their existence. Eighteen
teachers have been employed during
the year and an extra teacher for two
months in the school down the bay.
In all there have been open II depart
ments. The high school has enrolled
lO5 pupils and employed three teach
ers. The result has been that have
had to devote nearly all my time to
instructing in the high school and
thus taking time which, devoted to SUI
pervision, would have made it possible
to attain conditions which at present
are only realized in the mind. Next
year the work in the high school will
be somewhat lighter, though still too
heavy to allow sufficient time TO q Su.
perintendent to accomplish those es-
sential elements of unity of system
and harmony of instruction which he
knows to be possible could lie only
get the opportunity of establishing
and guiding them. | hesitate to ask
for another teacher in the high school
although this is really the only solution
to this problem.
COMPARATIVE SCHOOL STATISTICS.
The following figures are for the
years 1897, 1898, 1899 and in that
order:
Total number of pupils enrolled
S74, S3S, 937.
Days attendance 1O2,76O!, 1O4,754,
1O5, S66l.
Days absence-7,355, 1876, 7,6495.
Average daily attendance-596, 595,
COS.
Per cent. of attendance-93.4, 1874,
93.2.
Cases of tardiness-2,5 43, 9O5, 1872.
Cases of punishment-l70, POP, l27.
Cases of suspension-1, 90.
Visitors ut school-46S, AIS, 465.
The following figures show the en-
rollment in the different grades for the
years 1898 and 1899 and in the same
order:
First year, 1877, 100; second year,
Ill, al; third year, 81, SO; fourth
year, 103, Is; fifth year, 1O5. 147 !;
sixth year, 81, 80; seventh year, Y,
so; eighth year, %, 43. High school,
81, 1O5.
During the past year the enrolment
in the Washington building was 461,
in the Lincoln building 800, in the
Westside building 107, in other build
ings 40. The average attendance in
the Washington building was 313, in
the Lincoln building 210, in the West
side building So, in other buildings "a.
Of the cases of hardness the Washing.
ton building furnished 157, the Lin.
coin building % and the other build
ings 1914 of which came from the
little school down the bay and include
those OF the spring term last year.
The cases of punishment were dis
tributed as follows: Washington
building y, all'of which were below
the 7th grade, Lincoln building 43, 2
of which were in the 7th and 9Th
grades and the rest below; Westside
3, all above the 4th grade. The other
buildings, 9. Of these 127 cases of
punishment the boys experienced 121
and the girls 6. The average was
something less than one case of pun
ishment to a room for each month
and the entire number was due to a
comparatively few pupils.
OF the days lost by absence the boys
of the Washington building are re.
sponsible for ! COLL and the girls for
2,5O0a: Total to Washington build
ing 4, l02.
The boys of the Lincoln building are
responsible for 1,OS34 days and the
girls for 1907. Total 2,29O4. The
other buildings furnished SOL days by
the boys and 666 days by the girls.
The girls in the Washington build.
ing earned 32,OO5 days attendance,
the boys 23,O96, total 55,1O1. The
girls of the Lincoln earned 19, 1888, the
boys 1904, total 36,377. The girls of
the other buildings earned $3.50 days,
the boys 1924, total 14,38S4. Grand
total as above los, 1861, being gain of
LILY days over last year.
The boys of the Washington build
ing were tardy SO times, the girls SO
times. In the Lincoln building the
boys were tardy II times, the girls 6
times. In the other buildings the
boys we're tardy u times and the girls
80 times. Mr.. Young's room in the
Lincoln building came off in the first
place having no case of tardiness dur
ing the year. Mr.. Leach's room in the
same building had but one case, Mrs.
Hale's room had two cases and Miss
Princes room had three. In the
Washington building Mrs. Coles room
and Miss Sickle's room were tie each
reporting six cases. The high school
drew the consolation prize with 76
cases, p of which are charged to the
boys and 40 to the girls. but this is
such an improvement over last year
that it is really very commendable
showing. Last years figures were:
Boys tardy, III times; girls tardy, ITS
times; total, 295 times.
COURSE OF STUDY.
Three years ago the school work
was planned upon a school year of six
months. During last year and the
first half of this year the school has
been growing out of that arrangement
and conforming to a nine months
year. During this year the course of
study has been completely gone over