Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-07-17

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The ages of seven and thirteen, / .56
attended the public schools tweIv
weeks or more, 39l the private schools
mat Is, 93.l4 per cent. of these chill
dren between the ages of seven an,
thirteen attended some school at leas
twelve weeks. Last year the per cen
was 1884 per cent. The attendance
still too low, but has improved through
the kind assistance of some of GU
police officers who have watched th
truants closely.
There were employed during tn,
year seven male teachers and fifty min,
female teachers. In 1896 we employ, {
three male teachers and forty-nin,
female teachers. For the coming yea
we shall have ten male and sixty fe
male teachers. The increase in the nun
Der of male teachers is noteworthy.
During the year three of our teach
ers were advanced to better position.
outside of our city, Miss Margaret
Harris going to the stale school al
Sparta, Miss Mayme Bump from 8
second grade here to a high school,
position in Merrill, and Miss Grove te
a position in thefaculty of Lawrence
University.
Seven kindergartens were conducted
with an enrolment 446 pupils, an
average of SO to a room. During the
spring we were obliged to have
halliday sessions in some of the kinder
gartens on account of the large after.
dance.
The Oral School for Deaf enrolled
eight pupils and will draw 1926. 66 from
the state fund some time this month.
THE FINANCIAL REPORT.
The financial report, copy of hich
is appended, shows that we received
into the general fund during the year
$37, 6O5.64, and that the running ex-
penses were $37, 349.97 leaving $3.50. 81
to the good. AS we had 2,872 pupils
this brings the total cost per pupil to
$500. For teaching alone the cost
per pupil was 1899.
The high school building fund re-
ceived $l9,606.S1 and from it was dis
bursed the sum of $19, 494, 66 leaving a
balance of SS71 .05. This $S71.O5 was
turned into the general fund. Certifi-
Gates OF Indebtedness on the building
to the amount of $4,076.75 were paid
early in April thus leaving shortage
of S3462.76.
SCHOOL SITES.
There are also outstanding, and due
in January, 1901, school orders to the
amount S4, 25S.00 issued for the pur-
chase of real estate for the Longfellow,
Lincoln and Irving schools. Each of
these sites now consists of 8 lots. The
purchase of these additions is generally
commended by our citizens, and it has
not been done any too soon, for as the
city grows the need of this land will
be more and more evident and the
cost would have been correspondIngly
higher. The mayor, the common
council and the board of education
have acted with commendable fore
sight, and the wisdom of this policy
will grow more and more clear each
year. Making small parks out of parts
of our school grounds for the use of
our citizens will make them doubly
valuable.
COST OF THE NEW HIGH SCHOOL.
Ii is now possible to determine
pretty closely what the cost of the
new high school is. Figuring in the
site, the furniture, the building and
everything that has been done to |
make it more useful and convenient
the cost cor1es to sol, 1880. That it |
could not lie built for less than $40, 900 !
is closely within the facts. l believe
it stands today the model high school
building of the state
The heating and ventilation have
proved satisfactory, while the number
OF cords of wood burned during the
year has been only 252
How greatly the building was
needed is shown by the fact that all !
but two rooms on the first floor were
occupied during the year, and almost
800 scholars were seated in the audi
Lorium, about 600 pupils having been
accommodated. Every room on the
first floor will be in use the coming
Tear, but the auditorium is large
enough to seat the high school, the
eighth grade pupils and the county
school for some few years 10
,cme.
THE MARATHON COUNTY TRAINING
SCHOOL.
The training school for teachers has
lad the use of two recitation rooms
md an Office on the second floor.
While for study purposes the scholars
lave been given equal privileges with
Ugh school scholars in the assembly
Dom. The presence of the training :
chool has been an incentive TO our :
'wn teachers. The very fact that il :
ooks to the professional training of |
eachers has been call TO them to {
prepare themselves for more efficient j
ervice. The number of our own |
eachers that are this summer taking {
professional courses in schools for ,
Methods Is Que of the indications of :
his QuickeniLg of the true teaching /
pirit. When a great county signifies /
IS purpose to secure trained teachers
or the country schools, the cities in l
hat county can hardly require less. q
The observation classes aud the I
ractice work of the training school d
tudents in our city schools have beer l
positive benefit on the whole and I
THAT seemed great favor 10 the a