Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1901-11-21

Platteville ..................4Ts $50 loll
Total................. s4s 9si ia
Grand Total - 6sss $3.50 1905
No Of school districts in county,. a'9
No of joint districts ............... rs
! No of free High schools . u
NO OF teachers required TO teach all
the schools of the oounty $50. S07
NO OF male teachers employed during
No of female teachers employed dur
ing the year. ..........'...... - 249
attended school, ................ -. sS6s
FER cent. OF attendance of persons of
No of private schools reported -. 3
No OF pupils enrolled in private sch'ls ss4
Cash value OF apparatus in schools
Cash value of school houses and sites 24474s
Amt paid male teachers ...... 1885
Amt paid female teachers .......... $3.50
Average wages male teachers .... "a
Average wages female teachers...... ~
Total received for schools. ........... 1854
Total expended for schools ........... lOss76
NO OF certificates issued to male teach
No Of certificates issued to female
Gradustes Of Normal schools teach 10
No Of other teachers who have at
tended Normal schools .............. 100
No OF schools which held eXamina-
tons for diplomas. ................. lis
NO OF diplomas granted. .......... 1888
NO OF schools graded according TO
No of school districts which have
pi aaPRsd fn s5 9f 1s1 Sss books
| cost or school houses built during the
year .-.....-..S 3434
THE NEED FOR BETTER EQUIPMENT
The records of the past year show but
little change along the line of school work.
In many districts there is still need of better
! equipment in the way of apparatus for IL
/ Illustrating the work of the school. Maps
for teaching geography anu history. es-
/ pec.ally of the United States. are often
| lacking. Good blackboards are a most i'm
/ portant factor in the work of the school.
and no child receives the full benefit of his
school work who is deprived o: the use of a
| good blackboard. book case, to contain
| not only the library books but other books
/ and apparatus. should be in every school
! room. complete set of the textbooks in
use should be furnished to the teacher for
| his use The above named necessities are
/ lacking in many districts, and their alb
| sence is a serious hindrance to the daily
/ work of the school On the other hand in
many districts additions have been made
| in school supplies and apparatus. and the
work of the teacher and the pupils has been
made more efficient.
Each wear shows some Improvement in
school houses and school accommodations;
and, it is hoped, that the time is not far
| distant when all the children will be fur
| nished with all the school privileges and
and school accommodations to which they
| are entitled.
THE SCHOOLS OF THE COUNTY.
! Grant county is divided for school pur-
| poses into two hundred nineteen districts,
| including three cities and eight incorpor-
| ated villages.
There are twelve free high schools. eight
| OF which have a four-yearS course, and
! four others having a three-years' course.
Graduates from the high schools of Bos-
cobel. Fennimore and Lancaster are ad-
mitted to the State University without ex-
animation. The other high schools having
sfour-years' course are Bloomington, Cass-
| vile, Montfort, Platteville and Potosi.
| These schools will soon be accredited bv the
| University.
There were graduated erom the high
schools this year thirty-eight males and
will join the teaching force. and. judging
| from the past, it is safe 10 assume that
among them will be found capable. earnest
and sensible teachers.
There are eight graded schools of two de-
| partments each. situated as follows: Ar
thur. BaRley, British Hollow, Georgetown.
| Livingston, Patch Grove and district No 4,
Lima.
SCHOOLS ENTITLED TO STATE AID
These schools, by law passed by the last
Legislature, may receive state aid of one
hundred dollars each on complying with GER
tain requirements which are only necessary
conditions that ughtto exist in every school.
tricts which have but few children of school
age, and the school term is short and wages
low because the school is small.
The evident remedy for this seems to be-
/ hitting several districts, building a central
school house. organizing a graded school
and transporting the children to and from
| school
graded school is much more enicient in
| its work. has fuller and more complete
course of study, a1d the pupils are able to
do more advanced work and yet remain at
| home.
These facts are not tribes, and they should
receive due consideration when the ques-
| ton of consolidation of districts is sug-
1 gested.
NUMBER OF. TEACHERS EMPLOYED
The twelve graded schools, each of which
eliminates in high school department. en-
! ploy ninety-two teachers; the eirht graded
! schools, of two departments each employ
! sixteen teachers; the remaining one hun
/ dred ninety-nine rural schools employ one
/ teacher each. making total OF three hum
/ dred seven teachers employed when all the
/ schools are in session. No other county in
/ the state has so many I CHEERS under the
supervision of the county superintendent.
INSPECTION OF SCHOOLS OF THE COUNTY.
The country schools vary in length from
/ seven to nine mcnths though all are in ses-
4 sion during the late fall and winter months,
when attendance reaches the highest limit.
! TO visit and inspect these schools requires
4 many hundred miles of travel, and in order
4 to see them when the attendance is great
! est and most regular much of this travel
| must be done in the late fall and winter
| months when the roads and the weather are
not al their best. During the past year
nearly every school has been vfsted the
work OF some three hundred teachers has
/ been inspected, and suggestions and in
structIons given when necessary.
/ CAPABLE TEACHERS SHOULD BE EMPLOYED
SCHOOL RECORDS.
1t is to be regretted that so many districts
! change teachers several times during a
school year. Instead of engaging capable
teacher for the entire school year. young
| inexperienced teacher is engaged at low
wages for the fall term, then another, per-
haps a male teacher, is engaged tor the win
ter term, ard possibly another. probably a
| female is engaged for the spring term.
This is wretched economy and occasions
much loss of time and Work on the part of
both teachers and children. Employ a
| capable and efficient teacher to take charge
| of your school at the opening: visit your
school; support and assist him in its organ
| iZation and management and unless abso-
\ lutely necessary. make no change through
out the year Every change of teacher en-
| tails loss of time and labor which amounts
to much more than few dollars apparent