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as circumstances will permit"
al : 63.
The intention in this proposal IS, not only
to have the help of the teachers experience
in the settlement of the school questions
which ale suited for discussion ia teachers
meetings, but also to awaken and increase
the interest of the teachers, both Old and
Young, in the school work.
Under the circumstances here. however,
it has been thought best to be satisfied with
fixing, that school questions ca31, not ShaH,
be laid before the staff of teachers for a
statement of their opinion thereon.
adj s GA.
Committee of Inspection of school
buildings. such as is here proposed, consist
mo Of 2 representative of the granting au-
shortly. n member familiar with building mat
t4rs and a member acquainted with school
matters. would certainly be of Importance,
also in this re, pect, that the time for repair
mo tbe b ildipgs would be fixed by the
Committee of Inspection. At present the
repairs are hardly ever made daring holl-
DAYS, and hence the work has a disturbing
effect on the teaching
ad s IS.
According to the Ordinance now III force
il is the School Board that is bound to send
in a report on the condition of the schools.
As such a report can only be drawn up by
the member conversant with the subject,
namely the School Director, and as 1t Is no
longer o fixed matter, that he is the Char
man, the duty of sending IA such a report
must be transferred from the Board 10 The
School Director,
PARGVL
SPECIAL Provisions.
Principally this Part contains provisions IN
regard to future reforms, on winch the
Board cannot at present take II nearer de-
cision. but which are of SO much imp rtauce
and have been 50 much discussed, that they
neither can nor ought to be passed over in
the School Ordinance.
nd $50.
Such a division Of the pupils of the Ceua-
Ytry Schools would in a high degree help the
Reaching, when the bigger children attended
the school the one kn!f Of the day, the small.
or children the other; but as there are relt-
lively few school districts, and many of the
children have thereto e u long journey 10
reach the school, the smaller children cauDot
attend unle8, accompanied by the bigger
children. The idea Of such a division must
therefore be given up or at all even,s post
poned, but on opportunity Offering it ought
to be possible to taky it up ngtn, and that
is the intention with the provision in 5 IS
(see above -Remark to s l, clause y.
al s 81.
The question Of a~sylulns for caring q edu-
eating children must some day be solved
either by the Public or by private initiative(an
asylum for orphan girls is now established in
Frederiksted BY the K. NJ. A. Society, Dem
mark, without, however, having any school
in connection with i), and then it must be
possible to fix a special plan of instruction
for such institutions, according to which the
pupils could get the necessary time for bodi-
ly labour.
ad s 68.
The establishment Of evening schools, es-
pecially technical schools, will also become a
necessity-and cannot therefore be passed
over in the School Ordinance at all events
if there is to be a possibility for the island
again getting a class OF skllful mechanics.
which it is said to have had formerly. But
so long as the relation between the work
master and the learner is so loose as it is at
present, So long as there can be no talk of
any real time OF apprenticeship, still less Of
an examination as workman at the end Of it,
it will be useless to open such schools, which
no doubt would have some voluntary schol-
airs at the beginning, but IN the course Of a