Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1909-12-17

superintendent Supervising Prir1-
cipals and Principals does not ex-
ceed $675, and yet some think the
schools are extrayagant. One Of
our township boards of education
has adopted salary schedule, based
upon experience, training and yearly
success. In the primary department
the minimum is $500 ard the MAXI
mum is $500; in the grammar de-
partment the minimum is $500 and
the maximum 5000; In the high
school department the minimum Is
$3.50 and the maximum $3.50.
These figures do not apply to prin~
cipals of either primary, grammar
or high schools. | would like very
much indeed IL this salary schedule
would be adopted by every township
and borough board Of education.
When these salaries prevail there
VIII be no more question about good
teachers.
NEW PROBLEM.
The problem which confronts us
today Is comparatively a new one
and educators are looking at home
and abroad for its solution 1t is
the problem of getting and keeping
the boys and girls In schools dur-
ing the grammar years and the high
school years, or one half of the high
school years. We have undertaken
and very largely accomplished the
great work in this county In refer
enee to the school attendance in
our boroughs and townships Month-
ly reports are sent to the Office OF
the county superintendent of the
attendance and non-attendance of
all the children in each district who
have been enrolled and irregularly
attended with the reasons for their
absence and also the names OF those
children who have not been enrolled
and who should have been enrnlled. :.
thus we follow every boy and girl
In the townships and borOughs be-
tween the ages of and ia Years
who have not completed. the sfh
year of work. These monthly re-
ports show that the pnpils In the
first 4 years of work attend school
very regularly; that the pupils In
the second years sf work do not
attend school as regularly as those in
the first 4, very many less in num-
Der and more frequently fail Of pro-
motion, with quite a percentage -
ing over the work the second Tin.
That the pupils in the last years
of work in the high school are very
much less In number than the pupils
In the second years and more FREE
quently' fail of promotion and quite
a large percentage going over the
work the second time. The conclu-
sion of the whole matter is that DUR
ing the sense period children in our
schools do very well That during
the period when imagination and
the reasoning powers should be
developed they fall out of school In
large numbers and those who re-
main in are held In largely by IN
fiuence or hope of profession This
condition of affairs Is recognized
throughout the county and the con-
elusion OF the students OF educa-
tion is that book learning alone will
not attract children after they have
reached the 9th year of work, as q
rule, and that something must be
Incorporated In our course of study
TO attract *hese children.
INDUSTRIAL EDUCATION.
That something is supposed TO
be what is called Industrial educa-
tion, which covers manual training.
vocational training and domestic
science. With this thought in view
there has been established the Ma
tional League of Industrial Eduea-
tion, which league has studied the
question abroad. A state branch OF
this league has been established for
the investigation OF this problem
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