The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1911-11-23
URGES NEW SCHOOL PLAN
Leading Men and Women of the
County Appear Before Board in H.
terest of Proposed School for Teach
ers-other Business of the Board.


sha county were never in better con-
dition than at the present time was
shown by the annual report of County
superintendent John J. Kerwin which
was presented to the county board of
supervisors on Tuesday afternoon and
following the unanimous adoption of
the report the board has taken up the
discussion of the problem of building
a training school for teachers in the
county. County Judge George w. Tay.
lor appeared before the board in be.
half of the proposed school oD Tues.
day afternoon and this morning Mrs.
Mary d. Bradford appeared and
strongly urged the establishment of
the school as the best possible way to
secure high grade teachers for the
schools of the county.
In his report County Superintendent
Kerwin stated that the number of
school districts in the county was sixty
four with a total of seventy-eight de-
partnents maintained during the year.
The number of teachers is seventy-nine
an increase of three over the number
in the preceding year. Three new state
graded schools were organized this year,
one at Wilmot, one at Basset' s and
the third at Silverlake, making a total
Of ten graded schools in the county.
The report showed that the school
boards were investing more money in
the schools this year. Superintendent
Kerwin spoke of the new district high
school at Wilmot and stated that forty
students were enrolled in it this year.
This school is planned to furnish a
school of accedited standing for the
young people of the western part fof
the county and it viii have connected
with it strong agricultural depart
ment The number of school children
in the county between1the ages of 4
and 20 years is given as 1888 and the
number attending school during the
year was 2052. There were two
schools with an enrolment of eleven
or less and the average attendance in
the schools was placed at about twenty
FIVE The average attendance for each
school was twenty-three.
The financial report for the schools
showed that the total amount received
from all sources during the year was
$68, 59j.6S and at the close Of the
school year on June 30th there was on
hand of this amount $15,418.73. The
value of school property in the county
is placed at $77,415 and the cash value
Of all apparatus is $S,620.26. The
average wages paid to male teachers
in the county was $69.33 while the
average pay of the female teachers
was $44.00.
In his report Superintendent Kerwin
made a strong plea for greater SYM
pathy between the home and the school
and declared that this one thing was
needed to make the schools of Kenosha
more successful. He showed that 81
students of the county schools had
been granted diplomas during the year
and that the work of the schools had
been of a higher grade than in any
previous year.
In concluding his report Superinten-
dent Kerwin urged that the people
of the county take more interest in
the schools and give to the children
the best possible chances of securing
the fundamentals of an education He
declared that the school must come as
the solution of doing away with crime
a..d criminals and that no money spent
by the city was spent to better adj
vantage than that spent in the educa-
tion of the children
In closing he made strong plea for
tie establishing Of the training school
for teachers in the county and declar
ed that this school would do much to
raise the standard of the schools of
the county,