The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1906-06-06
Report of Point Pleasant Public
Schools for the Year 1so5-1sOs.

Tho the enumeration in this dis.
trict is 80 less for the year 1906
than for 1905, the total enrolment
is 10 greater. and the average daily
attendance is greater. the percent
of attendance increasing one per
cent. This increased enrolment
and increased daily attendance is
very I.rgeIy due to more active CO.
operation between teachers and
truant officer. If the Compulsory
Law covered the entire nine months
our school term we could count on
much more satisfactory condition
of work at the same cost as at pres.
emit
The work of the year has been
good and the results satisfactory in
most respects There are yet
many improvements to make, but
they, can come only as the founda-
ton are well laid The clasfifica.
ton by grades the flexible is much
more sharply defined than here to
fore and our work is more as q
unit, the energies of teachers and
board being directed toward har-
monious development of the school
system as whole.
Owing to the number of pupils
in the second grade the work was
divided between two teachers. the
division being made alphabetically.
During the first two months it
seemed as if we would have to use
two teachers for the first grade,
also bat at the beginning of bad
weather the attendance decreased
so much that the one teacher did
the work satisfactorily. The Board
of Education has steadily sho Wn
its interest in all of the work of the
school and under the law, they
can be paid for only 6 meetings in
year, yet they have never hesitat.
ed to meet for consideration of
school affairs whenever asked by
the superintendent or any other
interested person. They have
visited the schools while the regu-
lar work was going on, and have
seen for themselves the work of
superintendent and teachers. Dur
ing the year they arranged a spe-
oial classroom for the high school
GLASSES that reoited to che superin-
tendent and to the epeoial teacher
of English and History. This
was step in the right direction to
enable US to improve the work of
the high school. But we need an
additional room for this purpose if
we are to broaden our high school
course of study so IS to allow
optional studies for children with
different aims in life.
Tho the Board furnished us last
fall with another stack of sectional
book cases we find the shelves al
ready crowded and feel that more
shelf room will soon be necessary
We have been very much pleased
at the desire for reading that has
developed on the part of most of
our pupils, and we anticipate a
broader culture and more whole.
some outlook on life for these boys
and girls because of this contact
with great minds. This broaden
ing process has been materially
FASTENED by the work done in Flo.
cution and Music, and we feel that
the school as whole is more in-
terested in work than formerly
Our Arbor Day exercises showed
very deoioed improvement in
thought along that line, and we be-
lieve that the children as well ss
their parents and teachers will be
more critical of the appearance of
the buildings and grounds and
more careful to keep their sur
roundings neat and clean. During
the year we have been called upon
to take some very drastic measures
to maintain order and to secure =
better quality of work on the part
of some pupils. While We regret
the necessity of such action we
feel convinced that the school as
whole has profited by these meas
ures tho they worked merited
hardship upon the individual pupil.
L wish TO express to the Board of
Education, to the Principal Of the
High School, and to the teachers,
one and all, my grateful apprecia.
ton for the hearty support, en-
couragement and help that they
have given ne in my efforts for the
Al.