The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1908-03-11
tAMBeRTVILLE SCHOOLS ON the AP.
PROVED LIST.
Supervising Principal Tells OF Needs :
Letter from State Superintendent.

PROVED LIST.
Supervising Principal Tells Of Needs =
Letter from State Superintendent.
At Il recent meeting of the Boar q OF
Education Louis T. Boutwell,, super.
vislng principal of the Lambertvila
Public Schools. made the following
report: Gentlemen of the Board OF
Education:
The registration for our public
schools IL us follows: First Ward, $50;
Third Ward, 143; Second Ward, 81;
Grammar grades in High School. Ia;
High School, 20. The largest grade
Is the fifth with 10 pupils; the small.
est is the eighth with 26 pupils. In
the primary grades the largest room
Is the second grade in the First Ward
Miss Mckeeyer y, with 42; the small.
est is Miss Purcell's, the third grade
III the First Ward, with 10. The nv.
efase number IL 36, which is not too
i''''N W WI II h'il W IiI ilipN ltittt Oiilff
| conditions nre fairly favorable. In
the three lower grammar grades the
average ~ 10, ten more thnn III the
primary grades. The smallest grade
| IL Miss Mckee, with 10, while Miss
Petrle has the largest with ~. These
grades are too large even when con
| lttinpq favor ,rnnI u.,,L -, a,I,., -,
| specis. In these schools, when other
conditions are not good, it is quite
impossible To give TINT aid To back
ward pupils which is surely their
right. An additional teacher should
be employed in the grammar depnrt.
ment, if justice is to be done to the
| pnpils of these grades who have won
promotion To them hy ambition and
| by hard work
Another need wich have mention
ed III previous reports is thai of sys-
tematic drawing and music through
out the schools. To those former re-
| commentator wish to ndd writing.
As you are no doubt aware. no regu.
lar work in any of these three sub
Jects has been attempted in your
schools. Whatever may be the zen.
eral opinion about music, thero can
be no doubt Of the training aud utili.
ty of drawing aud penmanship. A
for music, II is generally the only
chance nine-tenths Of your children
have to get IN school that essential
part Of education called culture. A
knowledge of elementary music is
necessary in the home, in society and
in the church. And nothing yon
could give to the children will bring
with it more pleasure to themselves
and 70 others than Il degree Of power,
ability and confidence in singing
But beside the effect on the children
individually IT is valuable in school ms
means of instruction and discipline
! wish to urge this condition to our
course of study, ms strongly as | may
| assure you that unless my expert
| ence has been in communities rad
ieally different from tins, public
| opinion will endorse the Introduction
| of music, as well as drawing aud pen
maDsbIp, into the school.
] am asking then for the addition
Of two new teachers to the present
faculty, assuring yon that we cannot
reach desired ends without them
| The time too, seems ripe, for W it'll the
| increased amount received from the
state, this can be done with no in.
crease in the tax rate.
/ received this morning the follow
ing letter from State Superintendent
Baxter, which explains itself
Supervising Principal Lonis f..
boutwell,, Lambertville, n. j
Dear Sir enclose herewith Ger.
titcate OF your approval AZ high
school for the four years course, etc. >
The certificate is attached to this
report. While the increase in rev
enne is acceptable and reason enough
for desiring this approval, yet there
is n greater reason for congfntulatine
ourselves than that 1t means thu
this school ~ at last ranked among
those to which its size and import
ance should have drawn it long ago
You will see that the number our Ger
tificate is SO. That means that what
ever the relative size of the place MAJ
be, at least 81 communities hay,
brought schools to specified ranl
before Lambertville did A schoo
which should have been first is il
reality among the last. Personally
feel an added responsibility. an
satisfied that the State Inspector o
High Schools took much on trust
which we must make good. 1t is my
ambition. that our schools may be st
organized, taught and supported tina
the pupils we send abroad may b.
second to none and that those whom
we keep at home may be standin!
monuments to our faithful and untir
ing efforts, and to the thoronghnes
and firmness OF our teachers. woulo
ask that the certificate be framed AM
hung in the Office.