Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1908-05-22

No. % is at Sandtown, eleven mile
west from Dover. This school needs re
pairs badly to make it what a publ
school should be. 1t has beliry, is larg
enough but the steps are very bad, porcl
floor is worse, the Misunderstanding i
broken, plastering is off in places, anC
the floor is in need of a new one. Furni
ture is very old and in bad condition
blackboard is all right has a United
States map has pump in vestibule NJ
flag and worse than no closets at all, fol
the wrecks now there, are unspeakably
filthy. This school has not been visited
or inspected by any Of the school com
mittee of that district during the year, SC
we we're informed, and this accounts fol
its bad condition. 1t needs a general re-
construction. Miss Hodgson is the teacher.
No. So is Frazier's, aud the house is
well built, with a nice porch and vesti-
bule, but the school committee appears
to think that their duty is performed to
simply meet once each year, and levy a
tax, and then leave the school to its own
operation. The building shows it. The
froHt door is shattered and broken,
weather. boarding is ripped ofand broken,
porch floor is practically gone, glass out
of windows and floor needs repairs. All
need painting. The furniture is in good
condition, blackboard is excellent maps
of United States, but none of Delaware
no pump no flag the closets are a total
wreck and useless. The boys have used
them as a mark for sticks, coal and the
ak. Here is a rich district, where the
parents are permitting their children to
grow up under adverse conditions from
their own csrelessness.
No. $50 is a colored school at South
Camden, where so children attend school.
The house is very good, having been re-
paired by State aid furniture is old and
no good blackboards fair; a pump no
flag closets the average.
No. 1853 is a colOred school at Marydel.
The house is good, with a vestibule, but
the front door stands open because the
door latch is broken. Comfortable old
style furniture, and a blackboard reach
ing from the ceiling to the floor across
the entire end of the building. No maps,
no pump, no flag and closets ordinary.
No. SO is at Westville, and the house
has belfry and makes a very attractive
appearance. 1t need new floor. The
furniture is all right. 1t has neither flag
Dr. a pump. Closets are substantial and
n fair to good condition. The floor was
Uttered with paper and part
If the childrens lunch was scattered under
he stove. The interior is attractive.
No. 90 is Oak Point, where Miss Jones
s the teacher of a large school. The
house is old but well cared for has a
metal roof and vestibule, all nicely white.
Washed. Furniture is very good, black
boards sufficient, one map of United |
itates, but no pump or flag. Closets very
air. Interior OF school was very good.
| painstaking and careful teacher.
No. 50 is Pratt's, west of Dover, nice
ocation, has belfry, good building but
badly kept interior. The weather.
cards are battered and broken in places
nd all need painting. Furniture is old
nd much carved, plenty of blackboard
pace and cabinet of maps. No pump
7 flag. Closets very ordinary.
The board was unable to visit the
,hool at Woodland Beach by reason Of
verhowed roads, also the Hartly School,
ne Bethesda School, the Sandfeld School
le colored school at du Points or Nc
lees. The school for white children at
Iarydel is not used, as the children from
elaware go over into Maryland, and the
strict pays for their tuition there.
18th these exceptions, every school
lilding has been inspected by the
ounty School Commission, and the rec
are, that the recorded criti-
SIMS should be remedied by the school
,mmittees of the various districts.
All water closets should have keys that
ould be in the charge Of the teachers, !
no could thus keep tab on the indi- I
dual boy or girl who commits a nui- {
nee against sanitary conditions, and {
ey be made to either clean property, I
leave the school for failure to comply. I
The cutting of desks appears an easy '
after for the various school committee i
put an effective stop to. Let the L
,chers at once when q cut or MALI
JUS carving is made, report the matter a
the school committee with the name q
the offender. Then they should send
Dill to the parent for the entire cost of V
g desk, and place the distigured desk a
his or her disposal, and compel him "
her to replace it with perfect desk, l
der penalty of expulsion of the child o
IN school. This will forever put the b
nknife as a tool for carving desks out a
business. p
The Commission has travelled about II
2 hundred miles in eight days by 81
5omobile and carriage in making this al
pection at an average expense of ten W
lars per day without compensation, re-
'ept a mileage of six cents, and in adj III
ion have paid their car fares to and Il
m the starting point, their hotel bills II
I their time to the public. all in be- N