The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-06-17
TEXT BOOK LETTER ADOPTED
BOARD OF EDUCATION AP-
 PROVES DRAFT.

Teachers of Long Service Accepted
 Mayor studIey Will be Asked to Dis
 tribute High School DipIomas--
 Schools to Reopen September II.
 The special committee appointed to
 prepare letter to parents of school
 children in regard to the purchase by
 those who desired, of text books from
 the board of education at cost, submit ted the following letter to the board at
 it's meeting last evening. The letter
 was approved and will be forwarded to the mayor for consideration. If he ap- proves it the letter will be signed and
 sent to the parents as soon. as the board of finance passes a vote enabling the board of education to recover the money which it pays into the city | treasury on this account. The letter adopted reads: To parents:-~
 Free school books have been sup piled to the pupils of the New Haven
 schools for fifteen years. The practice has certain advantages and the board of education has no desire to discon- tinue it. For the following reasons, however the board believes that when
 ever it is practicable for pupils to own l their books it is desirable for them to | do so. 4%
 l ; I. In most cases, especially in the up- 1 per grades, g. pupils school books are needed for reference and review after 1 they have been laid aside at school. l Some of them have permanent value
 for easy and ready reference. These 1 books should remain in the family and
 should form the beginning of the child's 1 library. In the high school there are 1 many subjects in which it is difficult l to make satisfactory reviews or to do 1 thorough work with the limited number | of books that the pupils are allowed to retain in their possession. .s II. However careful the books are
 used by pupils-and they are frequent 1 ly nisused--it is impossible for the
 board to guarantee that they are kept l in satisfactory sanitory condition. The l life of the average school book, in con- 1 stant use, is from three to four years. I During this time the book is used by several children, from few weeks to 1 a year by each child. Many of the books are taken home for study. They 1 become, in this way, badly soiled and I the possibility of infection from them | always exists. .". III. The moral influence on young people of the ownership of books is inn portant. Furthermore the influence on
 pupils of the use of books that are cni1ni and floi1ff1ofa5 ic 7py.oIt tnfy teaching children disrespect for books and encouraging carelessness in their use!
 For these reasons the board, believ- ing that many parents may wish to | furnish their children with books of
 their own, has decided to provide the opportunity to those wishing to do so, to purchase school books at est, These books will be on sale after September I at the office of the board of educa- tion, S7 Orange street, and will be sold at the same rates at which they are furnished to the board by the pub- fishers. James E. Wheeler, '' F. H. Beede. The following resignations were &C., CGpLGu. Ihl5S ulitt A DluWSlIt ordHR6 street school, room 10, grade VII, and Miss Mary A. Bronson, same school, room 9, grade VII. Miss Bidwell has taught in New Haven schools since 1865 and Miss Bronson since 1869. Su- perintendent Beede reports the transfer from the unassigned list of Miss Bes- sic Moore to fill the vacancy caused by Miss Bidwel's resignation and Miss Agnes B. Northam to fill Miss Bron- sons place for the school year, d905-6. The committee on schools recon- mended the correction of the following clerical errors in the salaries of teach CTS in the list adopted by the board June 2:
 That of Rosamond V. Mccormick, Carlisle street school, room 3, grade IT., corrected from $400 to $450
 That of Ida $. Betts, winchester school, room 5, grade IT,, corrected
 from $45O to $500.
 Superintendent Beede was requested
 by the board to wait upon Mayor Stud
 ley to request him to distribute the di- plomas at the high school graduation
 exercises next Friday evening In ac-
 cordance with the usual custom. MT. Wheeler was appointed to repre-
 sent the board at the meeting of theI committee on retrenchmnt and reform