Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1905-01-30

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made by County superintendent
ID. l.. darlington:
To the Board Of Education and
Citizens of Tyler County:
Having visited all of the free
schools of Tyler county, l submit
the following report:
l find the teachers in general
interested in their work and do
ing the best they can under ex-
isting conditions for the educa-
tionaI advancement OF the pupils
under their charge. The pupils
seem to be orderly, very studlous
and eager to avail themselves OF
all the opportunities offered IN
our public schools.
The average daily attendance
is about $40 of the enrolment.
There has been much hardness IN
the last year, but in the early
months many pupils have work to
do in the morning before school,
sueh hardness is excusable. But
we hope to reduce hardness to
minimum. There is no trait or
virtue more admirable than pune,
tuality, and boys and girls should
learn this early. Going to school
early and late, being present one
day and absent the next, have
formed a. very bad habit, one
that will initiate greatly against
him in the years that are to come.
I suggest that teachers make a
special effort to reduce hardness
to the minimum.
Some useful apparatus in the
way of globes, charts, etc., II
purchased would add much to the
efficiency of the schools. L lind
many of the schools without die
tionaries. A good dictionary
should be in every school. Pupils
should be taught early the exact
meaning and correct use OF words,
and this cannot be well done
without a dictionary. Pupils learn
to spell many words, many can
spell all the words in McGutfy's
speller, containing $4,000 words,
but the number which they can
define and correctly use, we can
more than represent by dividing
that number by fourteen. A boy
does not need to know how to
spell word unless he can define
it and use it correctly.
| would suggest that the Board
of Education provide a dictionary
for every school, and further that
they also provide a good primary
chart for every school.
No teacher can teach primary
pupils to read successfully with
out a primary chart. Teachers
can and do use the first readers in
teaching pupils to read, but the
work can be done more effectively
and in less time with a good
chart. Life is too short, especially
that part which the pupils spend
in school, for any of it to be vast
ed with bad and Intellectual meth
DDS and poor text books. Only
the best is good enough for the
boys and girls in school, espec-
tally when the best cost no more
than those which are medium or
poor.
We used to be taught by the
a b method, which was all right
in it's time, but it's time has pass
ed. We do not care to have any
but the latest and most approved
methods of teaching employed IN
Tyler. We want to be up-to-date.
am glad to report that there
is a growing sentiment for bet
ter school houses and that the
Boards of Education in response
to this sentiment have been build
ing some very beautiful schools
during the past year. New houses
have been built this year in the
following districts: Centreville,
Arnold's Creek; Ellsworth, Bor-
der; McElroy, Booher; Union,
Little.
l find that the school grounds
as a rule are not fenced and not
we'll cared for and in many in
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