The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1908-08-29


Tuesday, with the president, Mr.. Thomas B.
Todd, in the chair, and Mr.. Albert 5. Cook,
secretary.
A delegation from the 18th district appeared
before the Board and asked that school be
re.established at Noonan's Corner, on the road
from Baldwin to Fork. No action was taken
in the matter.
The board decided to purchase a lot of 8
acres near Sparks Station, Northern Central
Railway, for an agricultural high school. The
farmers interested in the school raised over
$500for it. Mr.. u. H. Tarbert was chairman
of the committee that made the request for
t 81 SSn1pl uarnel,. reono auu luouns
schools and having the single school at Mount
Carmel The proposition was accepted and
Superintendent Cook will notify the trustees
of those schools.
MIR. Emory G. Chenoweth, principal of
School 3, 7th district, who appealed from the
action of the trustees of the school in sending
him notice of dismissal, lost his case before
the Board as it sustained the action OF the
trustees
County Treasurer Merryman appeared be-
fore the Board and asked that wagon be run
from Merryman's Corner, on the Oregon pike,
to the Cockeysville school. 1t was referred to
Commissioner Scott.
Miss Grace Deal was appointed assistant in
the grammar department OF the Franklin
Miss Ella V. Bowen, of Towson, was APP
pointed assistant in Govanstown school.
Miss Susan Wyman was transferred as as
sistant to Bare Hill school, vice MISS Kate
Novel;, resigned.
Miss Grace Reckord was appointed assistant
to teach Latin and German in Sparrow's Point
school.
Commissioners Rice and Shoemaker and
Secretary Cook were appointed a committee to
secure supplies for the commerclai depart
ments.
Superintendent Cook submitted his annual
report to the Board, in which he says:
| 1.-THE most urgent demands are for new
school buildings or additions, extension OF the
| work in manual training and domestic science
and art-cooking and sewing especially-and
the extension of high school facilities.
1.-THE estimated cost of building improve
ments demended at present is more than $780,
| 600. To meet this demand the tax rate for
| schools was increased II cents The growth
in population requires additional class rooms
and larger buildings and as the money has
| not been available the county, like Baltimore
| CITY, has gotten behind with its building I'M
provements. The people are demanding mod
ern buildings, and this increases the cost.
| Manual training has been extended to the
high schools and to the seventh and eighth
grades in many of the larger schools.
| In speaking of the supervision OF schools
Mr. Cook says: Carefully compiled statistics
show that in cities having population OF 70,
| O0O and over, the cost of supervision is from
In Baltimore county, with its widely scattered
schools making supervisory work especially
dificult the total cost that can be charged
against supervision is less than 2 per cent,
and part of this is for the salary OF officers,
considerable share of whose time is required
for clerical work in caring for the accounts Of
the board.
ITO have good supervision in Baltimore
county there should be supervisor OF primary
grades, which we now have had for three
| Nf ora which
Ne will have in September; supervisor Of
manual training, which we have had for one
year. but three-fourths of whose time has
been spent as an instructor OF pupils, ana an
additional supervisor for the rural schools
Later there should be a supervisor OF music
phase of school work that has been almos
wholly neglected above the primary grades
with one exception.
II wish to emphasize especially the impor
lance of an additional supervisor FOR rura
schools who would be permanently IN tne up
per end of the county and spend all OF hl
time looking after the welfare of those schools
conducting and organizing teachers and par
ents' meetings, visiting the schools frequently
and making special study of the one teache
rural school problem.
with this additional supervision Tor rura
schools, the county might be divided into thre
supervisory districts.
more and better supervision of the school
is needed because Baltimore county is schoo
| INIT comparable only TO cities DaVlDB pOpu
lation of 100, 600 and over, and it has outgrowi
the Anticipated methods ordinarily, PROVIDE
for a county school system; secondly, to Pre-
vide for better teaching and for the introductio
of better methods generally, and thirdly, NOR
and better supervision is needed, not oecaus
teachers do their work poorly, but because on
educational standards are high and are CROWN
higher in progressive civilization Our count
school system has been growing rapidly an an
supervision has not kept pace with tbl
growth"
OF the proposed agricultural school to be ei
tablished at Sparks Station Mr.. Cook says: .,
"a suitable building with four rooms, wit
manual training and domestic science room
in the basement, will be erected by Septemoe
{ 1909. The people interested will grade the Il
and do all the hauling of materials: Inc on
teacher schools at Philopolis, Belfast, Veron
/. and Glencoe will be closed and transportatlo
provided to the new school.
. IA thorough high school course Will be pr
! vided, but manual training and agriculture I!
i the bows and domestic science for the girls WI
. take the place of foreign languages A ma
! teacher, who is a graduate of an agricultur
college and manual training school,. Will
|, principal, and female teacher, equipped
4 training and experience for her WORK Win u
!, girls, will be vice-principal."
' Mr.. Cook recommends that centraI nlt
school be established at Highlandtown for Il
east and northeast sections OF the county.