The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1909-08-11
and loyal support to the end that our
schools may be better I am
Respectfully,
J. A. CARNAGEY,
Supt. City Schools.
supt. City Schools.

the lack of these things. The maps,
which | have been authorized to pur-
chase, will aid us very materially in
the teaching OF geography and his
tory.
The putting of good, reliable
clocks in all the rooms will help MS
in a decided way in training the boys
and girls in habits of promptness in
life.
For education Is more than knowl-
edge gained from books, and the
schools should train their pupils I'm
those things that make for success
when school days are over.
We have, during the past two years
at least, cut down the expenditures
for our schools to the lowest possible
limit. In fact, | am sure we have
denied the schools-that means the
'ehildren-of many things, the hav-
ing of which would have enabled us
to train and equip our boys and girls
better for successful living. This
rigid economy, so-called, has been
forced upon the board by circum-
stances and the apparent demands of
the public, but Notwithstanding all
this. II is the poorest business policy
for a community to think Il is prac-
ticing economy by cutting down the
expenditures for its own children.
Wise and far-sighted economists do
not curtail expenditures for the
schools, but cut down in other de-
partments where the loss is tenn
porary and not one or the future
failure of the coming generation on
account of lost opportunities in
school,
In spite of the lack of needed ma
terial equipment for the schools, and
this pinching financial policy, our
teachers have worked with such a
spirit and determination to do all
they can do for their pupils, that the
results are beyond what might have
been expected. A prominent minister
of the city, one, too, who has studied
school work for several years and is,
therefore, competent to judge, after
visiting our schools and studying
them carefully, made the public state
ment that Paducah's public schools
are doing better work with less
money than any schools he has ever
known. This is consoling and en-
we might do so much
more for our boys and girls in the
schOOls-and this is why We appeal
for substantial additional expendi-
lures for teachers and equipment.
The year has been sIngularly free
from annoyances and unpleasant
happenings in the routine work.
There has been almost entire unani-
nifty of feeling between the home
and the schools. and our efforts, be-
gun in the fall of 1907 to bring
about a better understanding between
parnts and teachers by holding
parents meetings at the different
schools, have resulted in a decided
improvement along that line. II has
been my constant aim, and is with
me a settled policy, to bring about
the closest possible cooperation be-
tween the home and the school to
the end that the child may be the
gamer.
The various ladies' CARNATIONS,
the ministers, the business and pro-
.fessional men, and the daily press OF
the city have all aided US in many
ways to make our schools better. |
cannot particularize. but l want in
this report to the board to give all
of them due and merited credit for
their assistance.
Especially must mention the I'M
selfish and arduous task assumed by
the ladies OF the jefferson School
League in cleaning up the building
before the opening OF school in Sep
TENDER, 1908. | mention this in par
ticular, because these good ladies' did
the work themselves. The school
building. the floors. the Easements,
the desks, the closets. the water sup
ply, and in fact every department,
has been looked after more carefully
and have been kept more sanitary
than ever before.
/ am convinced that children are
better. work better. feel better, and
leave school better in every way
when their physical needs and ma
lures are thought CT and taken care
of in sanitary school buildings.
The High school has during the
year been officially inspected in all
OF its departments by the two Off
cials OF the University of Chicago,
whose duty II is to investigate the
claims of high schools applying for
admission TO the accredited list" OF
the university. The report made to
the university board was favorable,
and the Paducah High school was
placed upon the Official accredited
list OF High schools. This recogni-
ton of the work done by our school
Is very gratifying. II also gives the
school a standing with other colleges
and universities. The conditions upon
which our High school secured adj
mission TO the accredited list require
us to keep up the high standard
which we have attained, both by re-
curing college or university trained
men and women for teachers, and
3 also by improving our laboratory