Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-11-19
SCHOOLS RECEIVING STATE AID.

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school department, employ 101 teach
ers; the nine graded schools employ
10 teachers, and the 1919 of one depart
ment each employ one teacher, or 1919
teachers, making a total of 319 teachers
at work when all the schools are in
, session.
No other county in the state has
SO many teachers under the Supervi-
sion of the County Superintendent,
Dodge County, with 233, being next
in number.
SUPERVISION AND INSPECTION OF
SCHOOLS.
The country schools vary in length
from seven to nine months, though
all are in session during the late fall
and the winter months, when attend
ance reaches it's highest limit.
To visit and inspect these schools
requires many hundreds of miles of
travel, and to see them when the at
tendance is greatest and most regular
much of this travel must be done in
the late fall and winter months when
the weather and roads are not at
their best.
During the past year nearly every
school has been visited; the work of
more than three hundred teachers
has been inspected, and suggestions
and instructions given when needed.
CAPABLE TEACHERS SHOULD BE EN-
PLOYED FOR THE ENTIRE YEAR.
1t is matter of regret that many
districts change teachers several
times during the school year. Instead
OF engaging capable teacher for the
entire year, a young, inexperienced
teacher is engaged, at low wages, for
the fall term; then another, possibly
male teacher, is employed for the
winter term; and another, probably a
female, is engaged for the spring
term. This is wretched economy, and
occasions much loss of time and eff
fort on the part of both teacher and
pupil.
These changes also work much con-
fusion in the School Records and
make it next to impossible for the
District Clerk to make correct re-
port of his school to the Town Clerk
at the end of the school year. Many
Town Clerks can attest to the truth
of this assertion.
An efficient and capable teacher
should be employed for the entire
year; the Board should visit the
SCHOOL, assist and support him in it's
organization and management; and,
unless absolutely necessary, no change
should be made in the administration
and work of the school.
GRADUATION AND ATTENDANCE OF
PUPILS.
Section 439 of the School Code says
-"The Board shall have power to
make all needful rules and regulations
for the organization, graduation, and
government of the school," 1t is Sug-
geSted that in no other way can Dis
trict Board improve the character and
standing of their school as to require
their teacher to begin, as soon as
practicable, to grade the school &C.
cording to directions given in the
Course of Study, and to make and con-
tinue complete record OF the work
of the school, so that the records may
show at any time, the Form, Class,
and Standing of any member of the
school.
Harvey's Register is best adapted
to this end, and may be found at near
ly all bookstores. The recent change
in the School Law, requiring country
pupils to complete the "Course of
Study" before attending High School
at the expense of the town in which
they reside, makes it especially deSir-
able to make it possible for them to
receive the proper training towards
this end.
THE PURCHASE OF NEEDED APPA-
RATUs AND SUPPLIES.
The schools of the county are gen.
orally we'll supplied with the neces-
sary apparatus for illustrating and ex-
employing the work of the school.
The few exceptions to this rule COM
pei me to refer to this subject here.
The best results IN school work can
not be obtained without suitable ap-
paratuS, and it will be seen that
children of schools not SO supplied,
cannot compare favorably in subject
matter and intelligence with those of
schools we'll supplied with useful
appliances.
An ample extent of good blackboard
surface, reading charts for the pri