The Arizona daily orb., 1900-01-18

MISS sTowE's RooM-aRADE 1.
 Total enrolment. ..143 Monthly enrolment. .12s Daily aattendsnce. nce............... 90 Cases tardiness. 38
 SUMMARY FOR ENTIRE SCHOOL.
 Total enrolment t.......,.,.5 .5O3 Monthly enrollment.. .478 Daily attendance. e.................. 1881 Cases tardiness. .l32
 The attendance for the past month shows material falling off in every room but two, and a total loss of 32 from the month of November. This can only be accounted for by the prevalence of sickness among pupils, as the enroll mens is considerably above that of last month. The tardiness has greatly in creased, and calls for strict measures on the part of teachers.
 There are two or three things neces. sary for progress on the part of pupils. One is regular and punctual attendance. Another is willingness to work at school. And still another, at least among all older pupils, is willingness to work up lessons at home. The parents may feel all such work should be done at school. It cannot be done.
 The beginning primary contains about 100 pupils, who receive about PA hours instruction each day They are expect. ed to do all thelr work at school.
 The advanced First grade, the Second grade and the Third grade now contain ! about 70 pupils. The first two rooms run until 2:4O D. m., the other until 4. The wo:k in all these rooms is mainly oral. But ading and spelling lessons must be learned from books, and this can we'll be done at home. Que half hour of faithful work will perform this task. The advanced division ct the third grade will begin book work in clement ary geography and elementary arithme- tic at once, and can we'll afford another hali hou- on those studies.
 The Fourth grade marks great step in school work. Then is usually begun book work in language, arithmetic, ge- ography, history, beside the never. to be forgotten reading and spelling. Never less than one hours faithful work at home should be done by these pupils This room contains over 50 pupils.
 The Fifth gr ade are expected to finish the books begun in grade 4, and to re- view them thoroughly. This will call for not less than one hours work at home, and more would be still more helpful. This room contains over 50 pupils.
 In grade 6another long step is made, and advanced books are begun in gram mar, geography, history, mental arith- . metic and written arithmetic, an half : finished during the year.
 ' In grade the advanced books begur in grade must be completed. Neither , grade can hope to make standing with
 out less than one and half hours home ]. study daily.
 ] These two grades number about 4 pupils and contain no pupil less than l.
 years old, the average age being IA
 These pupils are able to do all that il
 asked oi them. Pupils in this room, ant a in that of the principal, where the av craze age is l61s years, do not suffe
 from over study, but rather from lat
 hours, and too many shows, and to,
 many parties. Much social pleasure ant
 high rank in school rarely, if ever, g T together. Education is more importan
 than pleasure.
 ' In Grades 8 and 9 there are but l: pupils, and yet the principal has some
 thing to do. He hears 10 lessons eacl
 day in Algebra, Arithmetic, Rhetoric
 American Literature, British Literature l, Physical Geography, General History Q U. S. History, Grammar and Spelling
 Incidentally he looks after the genera
 welfare of about 500 pupils and z teach. } CTS. He tries to see that the school |
 kept we'll classified. that discipline i :, maintained, that obedience is enforced that the evils of truancy and tardines } are kept at a minimum. He ought tt ' know something about the chara ter o h,