Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-03-14
Superintendent 5. E. SKULL.

No. in grammar classes =. 1887
No in high school classes 267
No teachers employed 49,. 81
The report then continues:
Teachers.
Our present teaching force num-
bers 81, an increase OF twelve since
the report of last year. OF them
selves, these figures would convey to
the mind of the reader nothing other
than a growth of school population;
but back OF them is a fact to which
the people of this city should give
serious attention. Twenty-one teach
ers sent in their designations during
the year and all were accepted. Of
this number all but four accepted
positions in communities where sal
aries serve as an inducement not only
to permanency, but also as an incen-
tive to more effectual work.
THE re-opening of the enlarged
No ! necessitated the employment Of
a number of new teachers. These
latter taken in conjunction with the
others employed since last March to-
tai thirty-one new teachers within one
year; that is, one-third of our teach
ing force (91) is new. This number
of changes during the past twelve
months is not exceptional, since about
the same rate of influx and etfiuX has
characterized each of the past five
years.
Effect of Change.
at Is needless to comment on the
effect this ceaseless change of teach
ers may or may not have on the sta
bility and effectiveness on any system,
whether it be educational, industrial,
or of any nature whatsoever. The
management of system of schools is
a matter of business, and what effect
such marked impermanency OF the
working force may have upon the
success of an establishment is hereby
referred to that part of our popula-
ton at all conversant with business
affairs.
"A large addition to our teaching
force from year to year would not of
itself be fraught with evil, but, on
the contrary, could be made to con-
tribute nightly to the furtherance
of our scholastic welfare if the ad
ditions We're composed of a fair pro-
portion of experienced with inexperi-
enced teachers. The difficulty with
us consists in our inability to induce
any considerable number of success
full and inexperienced teachers to
accept positions at our salary sched-
ule; hence our trials become appar-
ent at once when it is stated that from
a total of thirty-one new teachers en-
ployed during the past school year,
1905, twenty-five were without pre-
vious teaching experience.
1T is a fact, pretty universally
recognized, that it is of greatest ad-
vantage TO schools to hold their teach
ers, if competent, for long terms OF
service 1t is certainly the part of
wisdom for boards of education, If
their resources will premit, to make
the remuneration such that success
full teachers are satisfied to remain
where they are; such, that ineXperi-
cuCSu ISdClIclo ., uitcl tiiS u piilhtS VI
a year or two, do not, as with us,
pick up and give the benefit of their
training and experience to other COM
munities.
Buildings.
"The building operations of pre-
vious years were intensified during
the year just brought to a close.
School No. 7, was completed in April,
and all of the pupils and teachers of
school No. l were transferred to the
former on May 1st. BY this move
NEXT the contractors we're eaa5led
to begin the reconstruction and en-
largement of No. | at a date sufli-