The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1907-03-11
SCHOOL BOARD IN SESSION
CONSIDERABLE BUSINESS TRANS
AcTER DURING MEETING.
Superintendent Evans Submits His
semi Annual Report, Which is
Of More Than Passing
Interest.


urday afternoon. The report covers
the workings of the public schools of
Ardmora during the past six months.
Estimate No. "a for $1,000 for work
on the two public school buildings
now under course of construction
was allowed c. +. Fraley. The resig-
nation OF Mrs. Eva y Wood, a teacher
I'm the schools, was received and Miss
Ella Davis. daughter Of Judge w. z.
Davis OF south Ardmore was appoint
ed to fiji the vacancy.
The pay roll for the teachers and
janitors for the month amounted to
s1.621S5. which was ordered paid.
The reading Of the report of the SUI
perlntendent consumed the greater
part OF the meeaing. The report is
as follows:
Ardmore. I. T., March s. 1901
Trustees of Ardmore City Schools
Gentlemen. IN making report to
you concerning the public schools at
the end of the sixth month 1t delights
me 20 be able to note so many things
accomplished for good and so little
which has fallen into weakness be-
cause of inability, lack of persever-
ance or poverty of spirit.
The school began with an attend
ance September the 18th, 1906, of
1909. The enrolment this day is 1924.
There were 1876 colored children en-
tering the first day, the whites num-
bering 1874. Today there are 337 col
ored children enrolled and 1887 white.
PA white children have entered since
the first day, or about 1G per cent of
the original white entry while PIP
colored children have entered since
the first day, making about II per
cent of the original colored entry.
This shows that the negligence, care
lessness and inappreciatiQp OF school
advantages as afforded by you dis
played I'm the fact that AS children
Of the city took six months 70 shame
their parents into doing their duty
does not belong to the whites so
much as to the blacks. In fact it is
shown that not more than 80 whites
per month have entered since the
first day and that the first two
months holds SIS per cent of these,
which. compared with this feature in
other schools of the more established
school centers, speaks in splendid
terms of the educational enterprise
of the white population of the city.
The daily. weekly and monthly at
tendance among the whites is mark
ed by the teachers and by the figures
furnished by them as remarkable for
evenness and stability. If the children
of hrdmore had facilities of walks,
yiaducts and stl eet cars equsl TO Their
energy and interest our schools would
be a record breaker for cop5tnnt at
tendance. While | speak of attendance
| am reminded that the next three
months are the periods OF greatest
trial to school and home in this mat
ter It may be that some intelligent
father or mother may read this and
/ put this statement before the eyes
of such an one. If home has any
care for the child to be fixed in hab-
its of perseverance, impressed with
the importance of education and kept
in line of promotion, let 1t beware
how It permits the child to pass out.
fall out. slough out or get out of
school in these next three months.
As / said at the first of the year
in report to you the evils of trdi-
ness had about disappeared. II took
heroic measures, based upon the be-
lief and fact that tardiness Is alto
gether a greater evil than absence to
bring this about. A rule was made
that after n child has been tardy
twice and the parent notified that
third act of hardness would demand
that the child be sent home 20 re-
main until the next session OF the
school day. This has worked, with
slight modification, admirably. We
need telephones, however, in each
building SO that the parent can at
once be notified, so the turning back
of the child may not end In truancy.
You have given phone to the First
and Third ward buildings, and will!
to the others as soon as completed.
There has been more corporal pun
ishment exercised in the past two
months than fear should appNd' N
the city schools.
A consistent and temperate use of
the rod Is an alternative which the
largest theorists and altruiStic trial
have never put out of the best school
centers. Yet any teacher that ever
struck a child will In serious mood
tell you that there was something