The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-09-08
SCHOOLS ARE FULL
Attendance on Opening Day Shows
a Big Increase Over Last
Years Enrolment.
Twelve Hundred Pupils Appear To-
T. day at the Central High
School Alone.

To-day begins the school year for 1903,
and the reports of principals go to show
that the population of Minneapolis Is not
on the decrease. a
Full to OVERCOMING" said Principal
Greer of the Central High school. 49,.
lone hundred new families have moved
into this school district alone, which gives
lis more than a hundred over last years
enrolment. There are no vacancies in
the teaching force. We couldn't stand
for that with 1900 for our first days at
tendance" .... ..
In, the Madison school there are six new
teachers and sixty new pupils. There
will be half as many more coming through
the week. said Miss S. J. Lewis princi-
pal of the school,. "As usual, the lake
children are late, and most Of them won't
be In for a week or more. Our sixty
new corners are chiefly outsiders, and
many of them are beginners in the pri-
mary grades.
Keep Children in School.
To get organized as quickly as possible
and to keep the children in school from
the start, is the watchword of to-day,
which sees the beginning Of another school
year. Fewer entertainments, less trans
ferring of pupils, closer investigation into
cases of pupils who leave school, teachers
reading associations, and the recording of
all visits made by principals in their re-
spective buildings, head the list of
changes scheduled for the next nine
months. ....
1--WE are not going to be less strenuous.
but we are going to be quieter, said Sup
erintendent G. NJ Jordan in outlining the
work Of the coming year. 1.-The Drawing
Teachers association and the N. E. A.
convention kept us all on a strain which
we are going to try to avoid this season
by giving fewer entertainments. Another
thing we are going to dispense with, is
the transferring Of pupils from one
school building to another. Heretofore
this practice has caused much annoyance
on account of the failure Of the trans
ferred pupils to report to the new princl-
pal: sometimes the principals have even
lost entire track Of their whereabouts
This year, if there is any transferring
DONE unless a report is handed IN within
three days after the pupils removal, the
truant officer will be sent out after him
|. Along the same line will be the investiga-
lions to be made into the cases of pupils
leaving school before the close Of the
school year. We shall spend more time
in this work than ever before and shal
make greater efforts to secure the pu'
pills attendance.
Regarding the work among the teach
ers themselves, feature Of this years
W ~>~~>>
! ing clubs. Teachers already read goot
deal. but we desire reading along profes
| sional lines, and that can be best secured
| by cooperation among the teachers To-
reading associations.
VIII Record All Visits.
"At the principals meeting last Satur
| day the chief innovation decided upon wa
the future recording of all visits made b.
| principals in their respective building
| This, however, must not be taken as re
Election upon the inspecting done by prln
| cipals in previous years. 1t is polio.
deemed advisable so that in case any com
plant arises on either over-inspection o
lack of Inspection the, record Is there t.
refer to. Furthermore, a principal IL
charge of an eighteen-room building ha
more time than one presiding over
twenty-room building, and her work of in
spection should be just 10 per cent NOR
thorough
1.-THE industrial work. concluded D1
Jordan, sis not going to be carried to tn
point of a fad; we shall give it in moder
| ate Doses On the whole, 1t will be car
| ried on much the same as last year.