Bisbee daily review., 1911-09-06
TIE SCHOOLS
 OF COCHISE
Annual Report 10 tke Superin- tendent of Public h.
 Struction
AN ENCOURAGING FEATURE
(By Oscar K. Coll. Stan Correspond.
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 TOMBSTONE. Ariz., Sept. 5.- County School Superintendent E. II. stover today completed his annual report on the schools of Coehise coun- " and forwarded the same to Kirk T. Moore, superintendent of public in struetion at Phoenix. The report makes interesting reading and will be of interest to the taxpayers.
 Comparing the school year of 1909- 10 with 1910-1i, the following in crease is noted: 314 census pupils; 135 in total enrolment: 24f in aver. age attendance daily; r teachers; l2 districts organized, and II school houses built, including the Wilcox high school.
 One of the encouraging features is that while the enrolment has ineceas ed only one hundred and thirty-tiye the average daily attendance has in creased two hundred and forty-one but there is still room for ample in provement
 During the past year S3 per cent of the school population has been enrol led. which is certainly a creditable showing. but only 6S per cent of the enrolment has been in average daily attendance, a showing not so credit able The percentage of enrolment in daily attendance should be higher. The average number to derive the regular benefits of the public schools should be increased.
 Fifty-eight districts have been in operation, three of which had no school. The distribution of teachers in the districts IS as follows: Forty, eight districts with one teacher; three districts with two teachers; two districts with three teachers; two districts with five teachers; one| district with ten teachers, and two districts with forty-nine teachers.
 Forty-eigbt out of fifty-eight dis tTicts in Cochise county can be class ed as strictly rural with only one teacher. This is very large proPor ton, over S2 per cent. But when the proportion and percentage is consid- cred in the terms of average daily attendance of the pupils, a different story is presented.
 The figures show that upward of S1 per cent of the average daily attend. ance in Cochise county was in the village and city schools, in districts where there was more than one teach CT, but at the same time these figures show a proportionate increase in av- craze daily attendance of the rural schools of about 5 per cent over the previous year. This means that the rural school problem, one, of the most difficult of satisfactory solution, is on the increase in this county
 The city system throughout the county is adequate. The villages are, in the main, well provided for. It is the rural district that positively needs the application of Superintendent O. J. Kern's commandment, Thou shalt en- rich and enlarge the life of the coun- try child"
 The problem of problems in rural districts is not that of increased sup port; or a modern school house; or a more direct, responsible supervision; or a more careful and intelligent ex- penditure of funds for contingent ex- penses Gmportant and very important as each of these are), but it Is the proper solution of the teacher prob lem. The key note to great efficiency is the teacher. The transforming power in school matters is the teach CT. It is indeed pleasing to note that 8 good number of the districts believe this and are putting their belief into action. The consideration then of first, of greatest importance Is the se- lection of the teacher. with the view only to the highest welfare of the children and the greatest efficiency of the public school
 The nineteenth annual meeting of the Arizona Teachers association and joint county institute was held at Douglas, December 27-3O. 1910, and at which gathering 154 Coehise county teachers were present. Plans are be- ing made for two teachers institutes in this county early in the school year, one 10 be held at Bisbee, while the