Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1914-02-13
100000 County.

sufficient attention is given to school
matters by some of our school pa
irons
To get the best results, parents
and school officers must acquaint
themselves more fully with the
school, and the teacher, and should
allow no neighborhood or family
differences to creep into school man.
agement.
Deserving teachers must be encour-
aged and sustained in their efforts
to have a good school.
Schools Classified
Total number of Districts ..69
Total number of Rural Schools. SO
Number Graded Schools first
class) $3.50. ....... .
Number Graded Schools (Sec
ond Glass) -. -. -. ....
County Training School -. -. l
Parochial Schools 49,. -. ...... 2
New Buildings
During the past year four new
buildings were erected. At Conrath
modern four room brick building,
nearly complete, at cost of about
$4,000.
No. 3, Hubbard, a new district, and
it. 6, Hubbard and Thornapple, have
each completed modern cottage style
buildings.
No. g. hurry has built on very
neat room to their former building,
and has entered the list of state
graded schools of two departments
No. 5, Stubs, (Kief school) has re-
modelled and greatly improved their
building making, it equal to many of
the best rural school buildings in
the county.
The over crowded condition in the
schools of Ladysmith, Hawkins and
Weyerhaeuser has forced the school
boards to rent and fix up rooms for
several departments. Larger school
buildings seem to be imperative.
While. this is true in the places
named, the school population has
diminished in some other sections,
viz: Apollonia and Ingram state grad
ed schools have each dropped from
first to second class schools. No. 3,
Willard, has been closed, and Nos.
1 and 2, Washington combined. Num-
Der 4, Atlanta, is closed and the pu-
pills transported to number 10 At
| lanta.
School Visitation
Since my last report l have Wis
tied all the schools of the county,
and large number of them Sec
ond or third time l found most of
the teachers doing good work, and
striving to render efficient services;
only a few appeared to be keeping
instead teaching" school. In one in
stance only was it found necessary
| by the school board to dismiss a
teacher.
In company with the State Graded
School Inspector several days are
spent each year visiting the graded
schools.
| Supervision by the Superintendent
is of paramount Importance, but I'M
til he is relieved of large share OF
the office work by having a perma-
nent office clerk eight or nine
months of the year, it will be i'm
possible to devote the time that
should be given to supervision in a
county as large as Rusk county
Forty-three, about one-third of the
teachers in our county this year,
are new, and inexperienced and it
is very essential that adequate SUI
pervision be given that the best re-
suits may be expected.
The small appropriation of $25
made by the Board for clerk hire
was gratefully received, and has
helped a little, but several times
that sum could be used to splendid
advantage and profit to the schools
of the county.
Examinations, Wages, Etc.
During the year the customary
examinations have been held in the
spring, late summer and in Deem
Der, at Ladysmith and at Bruce Ger
tificates issued:
To men, First grade 0. Second
grade /. Third grade 2. Special 2.
Total 5.
To women, First grade 3. Second
grade - Third grade IS. Special A..
Total 81.
High School diplomas counter
signed, 2.
Total number certificates issued, A..
Number of applicants refused GER
tificates, Z.
Graduates of Training School 1918,
10.
Better Equipped Teachers