The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1901-1903, 1902-09-21
YEAR WILL Be A
SUCCESSFUL ONE
OLD ACADEMY BUILDING TO BE
ABANDONED BY PREPARA-
TORY SCHOOL.
QUARTERS IN BRICK SCHOOL
A Number of other Changes to be
Made This Year-LIst of the
Teachers and Other
School items.
QUARTERS IN BRICK SCHOOL

The public schools of Brunswick and
Glynn county will open for the year
on Monday October 6. The teachers
have already returned from their va
cations, the school building has been
oyerhauled and is being put in thor
ough condition, the children are here,
rested and refreshed by their long va
cation and the majority are eager to
begin school work, now made pleas
IRE to a great extent by the splendid
new method introduced in the past few
years and that more especially were
applied during the past scholastic
year by Supt. Ballard
Mr., Ballard has introduced many
innovations in the course and meth
ODDS Of study for both the teachers and
pupils of our schools. He is RADICALLY
progressive and in thorough touch
with all that moves and makes for
better success in school WORK; all
taat tends toward higher education
and more OF it," During the coming
year marvellous improvement viii
manifest itself, if the superintend-
ents enthusiasm, energy and progress
sive spirit are reflected by teachers
and pupils and the standard of the
schools win be notably higher.
The course of study in the schools
has been woefully defective in the
past the different grades net having
the exact relationship and sequences
the harmony and progress require
This defect will be carefully RENE
died this year and the gaps in study
hitherto existing will be obviated
Hereafter teachers and Superintend
ent viii work in uniformity of meth
DDS, each grades work to be part OF
a nicely calculated and carefully
wrought harmonious whole.
In the twenty-ninth annual report
OF the city and county schools recent
ly issued these plans are set forth
A concise and conservative resume
is here given of the weak points and
inehiciencies of the schools IN the past
as well as the power Of the board OF
education, its rights and revenue. In
the report Mr.. Ballard generously com
mends the teachers and principals OF
the city and county schools. their 10y
atty and competency and says they
deserve the highest commentator.
Mr.. Ballard also says that "the cry
ing need is the development Of real
live interest in school affairs among
The pupils of both city and county
We can never hope for real success.
in his opinion, until these schools are
a matter of love and pride with the
people.
the old Academy building Is to be
abandoned for the future. The assem-
bly, room of the Grammar school
las been divided into four rooms to
accommodate the preparatory grades
now to be known as the primary
grades of the Grammar school
1t win be good move and an evil
dence of real prosperity when Bruins
witk is able to build suitable school
house for these grades on the splendid
lot where the old frame building con
demned as unsafe, now stands.
Mr. Ballard suggests that the teach
ers be first elected AMI then assigned
to their. respective grades at the dis
erection of the board Of education.
The SCHOOLS are to be designated
Grammar and High schools. The
Grammar school is to comprise seven
grades three of them to be known
as the primary department of the
Grammar school. The High school
comprises four grades or classes.
Rigid rules as to attendance,
punctualitys average, departments
and study will be enforced and
this alone viii do. much toward rails
ing the average and excellence.
In the Hign school there are to be