The Jersey City news., 1906-04-03

i Mary II. Won GottSehalck, NO. 20
month ol March
Hannah Stanley, No. IS, months Of
March and April
SCHOOL COMMITTEES.
MI. Dieffenbaeh expressed satisfaction
with the progress en- 80. 2T extension.
Mr.. Coyie, Chairman Of Sub-Comlnit-
stee, stated that water supply at the New
High School is not sufficient at present
for utilization of heating apparatus. but
| that the trouble is being remedied.
Mr. Barnes reported that Training
School graduation exercises would be
held March 8. ! F. NJ, at School No. 3.
SPECIAL COMMITTEES.
Mr.. Lewis, as Chairman OF the Joint
4 Committee of High School and Teachers
Committees, read the following report,
which was adopted on motion of Mr..
1 Ward, with one dissenting vote and or
dered spread in full on the minutes
70 the Board of Education Of Jersey
The Committee on High School and
fhe Committee on Teachers' and Salaries,
| OF this Board, appointed on the twenty
NTH day of January, nineteen hundred
and six, to which two committees was
referred the petition of Rev. John A.
| Sheppard, ID. d., and others, rectOrs of
Catholic churches, petitiening the Board
OF Education to extend to their Parochial
school-children graduating the right to
enter the High School on the approval Of
petitions, report as follows
Your two committees met as a joint
COMMITTEES 40 consider said petition, copy
! or which is annexed to this report as Ex-
hibit Al, and directed the chairman of
| the committee to communicate with petit
lonerS and invite them to meet to the
| JOINT committee in conference on the sub
Jeet matter of their petition, and appoint
| ed Friday February 16, 1906, at half
| past three O'Clock in the afternoon, at the
Board Of Education room in the City
Hall, as the time and place of meeting.
The chairman of the committee, bv let
ter addressed to the Rev. John A. Shep-
| pard, u. d., Vicar General, invited him
and the other petitioners to meet the two
! committees in conference at the time
named in respect to their petition.
Copy of this letter is annexed to the
| report and marked Exhibit B.
! This letter of invitation contains in
quiries for the information of the com
mlttees, as shown by an extract from the
/ letter, which reads as follows:-
Ihe committees desire to learn from
| you and petitioners something Of the
methods and grade work in your Paro-
| chlal schools, and studies pursued, and
what record you keep of the work and
! advancement of pupils, and of their
scholarship and standing at graduation
| form some idea of their fitness to enter
the Jersey City High School, and to hear
! your views as to what tests or examlna
ton should be required to admit pupils
| to the High School, who have not been
! educated in the Public Grammar Schools
of Jersey City"
To which invitation the Reverend DR..
John A. Sheppard, in behalf of the petit
/ toner's, by letter dated February u,
copy of which is hereto annexed as Ex-
hlblt Y, replied acknowledging receipt of
the invitation to meet the joint commit
tee on Friday, February 18th, and com
mentlng on the petition. This letter was
understood by the committee as a refusal
| to meet the joint committee in confer
| ence.
Notwithstanding, your joint committee
met at the time named, in the Board
room in the City Hall, hoping that the
| petitioners would meet it in conference
on the subject matter of the petition, but
none of the petitioners appeared, whereby
your committee then understood by their
absence, as well as by the Vicar Gener-
! ais letter, that they declined to meet the
joint committee in conference respecting
the petition and respecting the matters
| of inquiry contained in committees in
yitation
/ These inquiries remain unanswered.
The two committees in joint session
then took up the petition and discussed
| it among themselves, and after fully con-
| sidering it and the grade work of the
| 0Dl1C anu 0TdlQI1dIa SScuOO1S.
and the high standard of the High School
| and the requirements for admission to
| the High School, deem it unadyisable to
| admit pupils to the High School from
private schools. solely on the certificates
of the principals thereof. without exam
inatioh or some satisfa story tests show
| ing and esta blishing the uualiheat ions
and fitness of the applicant TO be admit
| ted: and considering that the Board of
| Education is charged with the RESPONSE
bility of the High School, and with main
tanning it's high character, and cannot
therefore properly delegates its duties to
| others not in it's employ, and not under
| its direction; and not having control over
| the private schools or the right to inspect
| them for the purpose of learning their
/ grade work and the fitness of their schol-
| ars for entry into the High School, we
| accordingly report and recommend to the
| Board Of Education that the application
! of petitioners to have pupils from Paro-
| chial schools admitted on their approval
| and without examination be not granted.
| We recognize that every student or
! child in Jersey City, whether from public
| or private schools, who has the qualifca-
| tons possessed by graduates of our pub
lie grammar schools fitting them to enter
the High School, is entitled to a High
| School education in Jersey City. And
| every such person who has heretofore ap-
| piled for admission to the High School
| has been admitted.
Applicants from private schools must
submit to examination or such other tests
as the Superintendent of Schools deems
necessary to show whether they are quail
| ified to enter High School
We recommend that the Superinten-
| dent be authorized to provide for the ad-
mission of all applicants who are grad
uates of private schools on the basis of
an examination, or to admit such candi-
| dates on his certihcates If, after inspect
| ing and testing their record and school
! work in the manner followed in the pub
| lie schools provided that all the means
and opportunities necessary to the appli-
1 cation Of such inspection and tests Shall
! be afforded him), he is satisfied that their
| qualifications are equivalent to those pos
sessed by graduates of the grammar
| schools.
The claim has been made in support
Of the request of the petitioners that the
| plan they ask Us to adopt has been tried
| in Boston and is now pursued there with
satisfaction to all concerned. Your com
mittee has investigated this claim, and
| has ascertained that the Boston plan diff
| fers from the plan now proposed by the
| petitioners in the vital point that the
| power or discretion of determining the
| fitness or High School candidates from
| private schools is lodged in the Board of
! Supervisors of Boston, school authority
consisting of the Superintendent of
! Schools and six Supervisors. represented
| in our system by the Superintendent al
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