The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1902-02-11
courses of study, and more adequate and

courses of study, and more adequate and
sanitary school accommodations.
The report will show that the amount
expended for teachers salaries during the
school year of 190O-1sO1 was a, 10, 295. So,
az against 81. 6O5, 1872. 40 for the preceding
school year, an increase of 1904, e13.1 10.
The number of school teachers employed
during the year was 1851, showing the
average monthly salary to be $500. This
was marked increase over the preceding
year, when there were employed 7,012
teachers at an average monthly salary of
$3.50. The large addition to the teaching
force was made up mainly of those just
entering the profession and employed at
minimum salaries. This increase in teach
ers and salaries is held by the superin-
tendent as evidence that the well-equipped,
experienced and efficient teacher is re-
',eiving in many municipalities. a larger
measure of appreciation, and in this con-
nection he writes as follows:
'The patrons and supporters of our
schools and those who administer our
school interests, do well to realize that
teaching, like all other forms of service,
varies widely in quality and can, in each
specific instance, command its market
value. Each school district will secure
just the kind of service it elects to pay
for, and the most liberal will be the best
served. Weak, spiritless and perfunctory
teaching is always available on any terms,
and is ever dear at any price; that which
is thorough and inspiring cannot be un
duly appreciated or overpaid. Let US moi
forget that school daysL come to eacI
child but once, and that it behooves bott
the municipality land the state to make
the best possible provision for the training
and development of its youth during thil
period"
| Further evidence of the Strengthening
of the educational sentiment is adducet
by Mr.. Baxter in the fact that taxes wer'
levied for school purposes in S89 schoo
districts out of total of 1876, as agains
similar levies in but 3O2 districts during
the preceding year. The amount of dis
trict and city tax levied during the yea
was 81 027, 1852, an increase of $24S, 423.
81 over the preceding year
At the close of the school year there
were 1928 school buildings in the State
owned by the school districts, the tota
valuation of which was given as $17, 494.
s42,l and their average value as 50, ESQ.
This was an increase of thirty buildings
and 81 $3.50, 81 in valuation over the pre-.
vious year. In this regard Mr.. Baxter
writes that the advance is much the largest
ever recorded in an annual report from
the State school department, and it proves
he says, that modern and more adequate
school accommodations are the order OF
the day in New Jersey.
The increase in school enrolment last
year was 1887, and the percentage OF
daily attendance on the average enrolment
was eighty nine, an increase of one pei
cent. over the previous year. The total
number of pupils enrolled was 1886, 432, an
average of about forty-four pupils fol
each teacher, substantial increase over
the year previous.
las the increase in school enrolment il
largely in excess of the normal increase in
our school population" the report states,
the above data clearly proves that
pupils are remaining in school for longer
average period than formerly, and that
there is constantly diminishing percent
age of our school population out Of
school"
Interesting statistics are given as to
school attendance. They show that 1860
pupils were neither tardy nor absent dur
ing the year as against 1896 for the pre-
vious year, an increase of roo The rec
ord for the entire state, in respect to tar
diness, is highly satisfactory to Mr.. Bax-
ter. The total number of days attend
ance was Al, $40, 740, and the total number
OF cases of hardness was 452, 517, showing
but twelve cases of hardness In each l, 100
days attendance.
The effort of the more rigorous school
census enumeration to form the basis of
the State school tax for 1900 1901 and for
the school year of 1900 1901 is shown in a
decrease in the school population from
1853, 565 to 457, 479 and corresponding de-
crease in the sum of the tax from $2,317,-
625 to g.. 2S7, 1896.