The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1909-07-16

are planning to go to college an average OF
80 per cent must be gained =,
He calls attention TO the management OF
the high school fair held fof the purpose,
of raising money for the Washington fund
and its success. Mr.. Smith says this can
not all be credited to the fine. work 81 81
high school students; the tar wouid
of it all most loyal community ANXIOUS
to do everything in its power for the boys
and girls in the public schools.
The method largely employed OF raising
the money was to give the parents OF
those most interested an opportunity 70
contribute to the fund. They contributed
a third of the fund. Next year no effort
of post cards at the Valley fair. The
income from that source is too small and
the work too hard to make it worth while
The parents of the class of 1910 will be
approached first in raising next year
fund.- for at least another year Mr.. Smith
feels sure this fund can be raised without
over-taxing anyone. The result OF the
Washington trip Is OF inestimapie yaiue;
The supervisor of the grades, Miss Flo
renee M. Wellman, gives report of her
work which is very comprehensive. In re-
ferring to the hiring of teachers, the SUI
peryisor says: 81 wish our district might
take step in the right direction and pay
the grade teachers what they are worth
to the school system. If we retain our
best teachers we must pay them more. II
tbey are worth 5000 to 500 to Massachu-
setts or New Jersey they are worth more
than that to us for as they. learn our
methods they become more valuable each
year. 1t is not wise or necessary to pay
all teachers the same, for some are more
valuable than others, having had better
preparation and more experience.
Miss Wellman in her report discusses
attendance, teachers, manual training, mu-
sic and athletics.
Miss Mary G.. Goodhue, supervisor of
music, in her report says that no radical
changes have been made in the work SO
well established, but rather an honest eff
fort to urge forward that work. New
materials were added at the beginning OF
the year and have proved an incentive for
advancement. -
The director Of manual arts, Miss Flo
renee I. Goodenough, in referring to
manual training in the schools, says that
for the first time in the public schools,
the BOYS of the seventh, eighth and ninth
grades have had the advantage OF one
hour each week in the manual training
room. The equipment consists or twelve
benches with the usual tools for each,
collection of general tools, and the lockers
in which the boys keep their work, Al
though the equipment Is modest ana tne
room small and in many ways inadequate,
the results have been good and the value
Of this department has been, fully demon
strated. This training gives boys a KNOW,
edge of the use and care OF tools, leads
to careful. systematic thinking and an ac-
curacv and neatness of execution. To the
many boys who go into industry rather
than profession this training furnishes
the best foundation possible.
The report of the chairman of the vaca-
ton school committee of the Woman
club is incorporated in the school report,
and gives briefly an outline OF the WORK [h
done last year and the condition Oh the
finances of the committee