St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1914-01-10
SCHOOL BOARD

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after the said hearing the children
be again allowed to attend the pub
lie school at Madisonville.
Very truly.
FRED ]. HEINTZ,
Attorney
You will pass any vote or resOlu
ton regarding the above matter tina,
you desire.
l have received a deed to the
school property at Manacyi'le made
out in the name of the par-s.. schoo
board. Before this deed comes into
force it will be necessary for you tt
pass a resolution author zing the
president to accept it in the name
of your board. Before you do tn s
wish to call your attention to the
fact that according to the word ne
OF the deed the property is to revera
to the town of Vaudeville should II
ever cease to be used for school pur-
poses.
At this point l wish to state that
the Vaudeville school house has be-
come entirely too small and that now
children are sitting two and threo
in seat only large enough for one.
The primary room has over sixty n
1t when it is barely large enough tot
thirty. This simply means that ar
addition to the old or an ent rely
new house should be built, and you
have no money available for such a
purpose. l believe 1t q only ques-
ton of time when the taxpayers OF
Vaudeville or the fourth ward viii
be compelled to vote special tax for
the purpose of erecting new school
building. Now II this is done l de-
sire to ask will the house be placed
upon the same lot where the present
ons Is? II it is not then according
to the terms of the deed you have
before you today, the present schoo'
house, the land and any money you
may have expended for the repairs
would 60 back to the town. I am
only mentioning these points that
you may take them into considera
ti0n when you vote upon the matter
o. accepting the deed. ~
At one of your former meetings
was instructed to proceed to get &.
many Of our elementary schools up.
on the State approved list as possible.
and to that end Iapplied for approx.
al Of the Oak Grove school at Bush
and in reply received the following
letter which explains itself:
Baton Rouge, Dec. Is, 1913.
Supt. z. E. Lyon, Cov.ngton, La.
Dear Mr.. Lyon
Oak Grove school. as well as sew
erel other schools OF your parish, are
excellent In many respects, but IN
one important respect they are ineE-
gible for State approval. The mum
Der Of grades to each teacher is sucl
that good wol3 an not be done
After studying the situation for tw
years. preceded by many years OF my
own experience, and after consider
ing what other States reQue1re alon,
this line, It was decided that for {
one teacher school five grades was {;
maximum number; in fact, that IL
Is too many for good work, but x
is q compromise with the actual t
uation. Two teachers can not wei
handle more than seven grades;
three teachers more than nine grades
and four teachers more than te.
grades. In fact. the State requires
at least six teachers, even with :;
small number of children, for ap
proval and appropriation Of q higi
school. The State Board of Educa
tIUA has been IN the frame Of mint
for some time of making this grade
limit mandatory but we have thought
6est to advise a little more time
Already we have a few parishe:
Where all schools within the boun
daries comply with these conditions;
in.many others. there are but few ex
ceptions. In parishes wlfera'th plan
o generally practiced the popular
IL almost unanimous ate;
! fsme, because OF the better work.
I hope your parish may act on tn;
C. J. BROWN.
State Supervisor Of Rural Schools
and Professor OF Rural Educa-
tion Louisiana State University.
According to the law regarding
fiscal agents for the school fund 1t
will be necessary for this board te
ldvert's De for bids beginning on the
El1st OF. March. and running for
period not less than fifteen days. ]
I'm gong to ask, therefore, that yor
pass q resolution today directing the
pFesident-and secretary to advertise
IorA bids sfok- fiscal agent according tc
law.
kwish Is report that have visit.
I'd the following schools and places
Ia the interest Of thu school work:
Audubon new build ing, August 81
Pearl River. and spoke In favor Of
he ,pfop0aed school tx Oh August ! 1.
Visited the new Oak Grove school
Went to Talisheek to speak at
meeting Of the patrons on September
H.. Inspected Audubon school Sept
NJ Visited Singletary school Sept
e. Garden District school Sept. ~
Ramsay (white). Ramsay (coloredl
0nvil (whiteC and Folsom schools or
|ept. Is. Oak Grove school twice. the
ast tine being on October s. Hick-
Try Grove Oct. s. Folsom October 9
)nvil October 3. Sun, colored, Oct
4. Line Graded school, Oct. IA
ralisheek, Oct. Is. Violin, Oct. Is.
Oct. Is. New Violin
school. Oct. Is. Audubon
Jet. Is. Ridge, Oct. Is. Cause.
)ct. II. Startling. c0lored, Oct. II
Il'dell. Oct. 90. Alton. Oct. 20.
'earl River, Oct. 20. Audubon, Oct.
%. Dunbar. Oct. 20.
On October / I went with Mr.. Jas |
robert, Mr.. C. w. Crawford and Mr..