The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1905-07-15
Proceedings Of the School Board
REGULAR MEETING.

| DoNALDsoNyILLE. LA, July IL. 1905.
The school board of Ascension parish met
| this day in regular session in the superintend-
ent.s office, with the following members pres
ent: E. N. Pugh, president; G. D. Gondran.
AdoIphe Meter. A. I. Picard. John F. Landry,
i and DR.. J. 7. Bringier. Absent: Leon Picard, T.
| W. Cook and Matthias Rodrignez.
| The minutes of the previous meeting were
read and approved.
The superintendent read his report on the
| condition. of the schools, giving a tabulated
| list of the enrolment and average attendance
of pupils in the parish for the past year, and
also submitted a financial report of the monies
received and discussed by the present board to
June so. 1905.
The reports we're approved and ordered pub
lished with the minutes, as follows:
DoHALDsoNvILLE, La, July 10, 1905.
To the Hon. President and Members of the
School Board, Parish of Ascension:
Gentlemen beg leave TO submit the follow
ing report for your consideration.
Since your last meeting. June IA. have
smoke Smoke Bend Whlte Oak, Germania. Dutchto town,
Oak Grove, johnson and Galvez. Colored-
| Mt. Olive, Smoke Bend. Elise, Moore's Bridge
and Prairiegille. The attendance was only fair.
due perhaps to two causes, heat and bad
/ weather and the necessity for some of the
children to work in the fields.
- FROM Jan. . 20 June q, l. UlaOS IL VlS1CS TO
schools in the parish outside of Donaldsonville.
I am pleased to say that in most of the schools
SPLENDID work has been done, and greatly in
creasid attendance was noticeable. | found in
most of the schools very little aid TO the teach
ers in the way of supplies such as maps, globes
and charts, and in some very poor equipment
in the way of benches and desks suitable to &C.
commodate the different grades OF pupils.
have found in a few instances houses almost
uninhabitabes To this last especially call
your attention, as feel that the health of the
children and teachers is very seriously involved.
However in connection with this | desire to
make commendable mention of the fact that
during the past six months you have purchased
and delivered almost thousand dollars worth
of school furniture and blackboards to num-
ber OF the rural schools. This good work must
of necessity continue until We shall have
equipped all our schools with suitable furniture
and apparatus. whereby the efficiency of the
" ork done may be greatly increased.
note with much satisfaction the desire on
your part to lengthen the school term and
trust your desire may be realized. and that the
revenues accruing to the school fund may JUS
tify not only the lengthening of the term but the
paying of better salaries to our teachers. In
connection herewith and consistent with the
resolution passed at former meeting, grading
the salaries, Il would recommend that the
schools be now graded thereby guaranteeing the
attendance of school children and grade of
work to be done,
Following is tabulated list of the ENROLL
ment and average attendance of children in
the various schools throughout the parish for
the term ending June %, 1905:
TERN OF 1sa4-1s05.