, 1902-06-13
FORWARD
WILL Be THE PROGRESS OF THE
PUBLIC SCHOOLS OF THE
CITY NEXT YEAR.
Improved Methods To Be Employed to
Bring Up the Efficiency Of the Pu.
piIs-Assignment Of the Teachers
to the Respective Grades-Modern
Methods and Live Teachers.

Already work on next years session
of the city public schools is going on
and Superintendent Lee and Principals
Gerig and Grant are getting together
on methods that will improve the
schools.
Mr.. Lee will take the title superin
tendent, which rightfully belongs tc
the position, and will have close and
direct supervision of all the schools in
the city. Heretofore he has been little
more than principal of the East Side
school. and has had to do much class
work, taking from his time as superin'
tendent. This year his class work will
be nominal, he having decided not to
tract from his supervision Of all the
grades. The work of the two schools
will be turned over to the principals,
Misses Gerig and Grant. each of whom
is fully qualified to do it and willing to
work to make complete success of the
schools.
Mr.. Lee stated this morning that the
coming year would show a number OF
changes for the better in the methods
employed. and that more attention
would be paid to drawing. which had
fbeen neglected through necessity. and
geography and arithmetic. Miss ORR.
ana Williams will have general charge
Of drawing. in the basement of the East
Side school. and the drawing teach
ers on the two other floors and on the
West Side will make special study At
the subject this summer and 1T. them.
selves for the advancement expected
along that line. y
The pupils will be given a lift in the
study of arithmetic and geography.
They will use the laboratory method in
both. The board of education will be
asked to provide a complete set Of
necessary apparatus for the study of
arithmetic-weights, measures, ETC.,
and the classes will be given more or
less field work. They will be taken
out and given opportunity to study the
measurement Of land ~excayatine and
lrradinp d,tch dire;np. tho surface III
the plains. and things Of that sort. that
will greatly AID them in working ppt
the mathematical and peosranhfcai
problems that will confront them IN
aetna, life
The system of pupil government
which has been in o~peration in some
Of the grades. will he applied in all the
rooms. Where II has been tried II has
proven very successful, especially
among the pupils who have
taken to It kindly. The past year it
was not apnlied on The third floor of
tho Fast Side school
The teachers have been assigned as
| follows.
superintendent-F. W. Lee.
Principal. East side-Miss Ida Geris'
PRINCIPAL, West side-Miss Martha
Grant.
Miss Ida Gerig, in addition to her
duties as principal, will be in charge Of
the eighth grade pupils. These will be
divided INTO TWO DIVISIONS, A and d.
h will have direct charge OF the A
division n the pupils OF the ninth
grade, with Miss Maude II IN
charge OF the 3 division.
MISS Josephine Barker Will nave
general charge OF the e grade
A II B dfvifion, with Miss Nettie
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fourth grade, which will not be sub
divided.