The Arizona sentinel., 1907-10-23
SCHOOL REPORT.

To the Honorable Board of Trustees,
 City Public Schools, Yuma, Arizona.
 Gentlemen: I have the honor to pre- sent for your consideration the follow i ing report for the first month of the city public schools, which opened Sep tembcr 2, and closed October IS, 1907:
 Days taught, 20.
 Days attendance, 6620t.
 Days absence, 3101.
 Number of tardinesses, 63.
 Boys enrolled, 19a.
 Girls enrolled, 1S2.
 Total enrolment, 3S1.
 Average number belonging. 347. Average daily attendance, 331.
 Percentage of attendance, 96.
 Neither absent nor tardy during the month, 179.
 Pupils on the roll of honor, 179.
 Official visits to patrons, ..l5.
 Visitors received, T6. ase
 Visits by trustees, P.
 Visits by county superintendent, II.
 Teachers meetings held, ,.
 Books drawn from the. library, IFS.
 The banner for attendance was awarded to Miss Smiths room, the percentage of attendance being go.
 The banner for punctuality was won by the fifth grade, the room taught. by Miss Kent, there being but single case of tardiness for the entire month.
 Rigid written examinations covering the first months work were conducted in every department on Wednesday and Thursday of this week and the re- suits are very gratifying to teachers and pupils. The report cards should be given out by the several teachers not later than Wednesday of the first week of the second month showing the work in full of every child as also the attendance and department. I shall urge that every parent examine these reports very carefully, and if the work is not satisfactory from the parents standpoint shall be pleased to well come that parent to the school for an investigation, and believe that patrons thus improving of this opportunity that we may be able to cooperate in such manner that it will prove beneficial to the child.
 The prospects are very encouraging for an eminently successful term. While the attendance is not as yet what we want, it is very much better than it was one year ago, and the punc- tuality is better than it has ever been since the school has become so large. There were recorded only little more than one-haIf as many tardy marks as were recorded in our best month of the last term. Promotion certificates held by children who have not as yet en- rolled must be presented early in the coming month of this term or they will not be honored and the child will be compelled to take the same grade over or pass a special examination.
 would like to urge parents who feel that their children are not advancing as rapidly as they desire to insist upon more home study from the child, and better results will be forthcoming.
 An English business department has been added to the high school course, and at the opening of the second month class will begin the work in bookkeeping, correspondence. etc. The course adopted is identical with that pursued in the Boston high school, the San Francisco high school and about twenty other leading high schools of California. This course will prepare the students for actual business life in every respect, excepting the work in stenography, which will not be intro duced dnring the present term. Stu dents who carry the complete four-year business course in the high school will be better prepared than the usual busi- ness college graduate, in that we give four years work in English above the eighth grade, while the average busi- ness college graduate has given but one year above the eighth grade to his en- tire business course and has not had much ot that year for the actual work