The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1915-08-12
one YEARS WORK.
County Superintendent Thomas Submits
Report Of Condition Of Public
Schools in Fulton County.

In submitting this report, it
must be admitted that some very
discouraging conditions were met
during the school year, but as a
whole | feel that the school work
has made progress. Sentiment
in our county in favor of better
school buildings and equipment,
and in favor of better teachers is
certainly increasing. This senti-
ment is not confined entirely to
those persons who have children
to send to school, but in very ma
ny cases to persons who have no
children, and who act with un-
selfish motives to promote the
cause of education in such a way
as to give the boys and girls of
the present the necessary educa-
ton which the future will so
much demand.
In our preliminary meetings,
which meetings were held at two
points in the county before the
opening of the school term for
the purpose of discussing ques-
tions vital to the opening and to
the first few weeks of school
while the discussions were most
interesting, lively and beneficial
to those present-we are sorry to
state that a number of teachers
were absent from both of these
meetings. This is one of the
things discouraging to a county
superintendent.
Another means for promoting
advancement and professional
growth is our local Institutes.
Each of six of the districts in the
county held these Institutes on
alternate Friday evenings during
almost the entire term, scarcely
a teacher missing one of these
meetings. The time was spent
in discussing educational ques-
tions which very materially in
creased educational sentiment in
those districts and gave renewed
inspirption to teachers to do bet
ter work. But again we met
with Encouragement from some
of the teachers of the other six
districts who gave local institute
work little consideration and for
this reason left sentiment in the
district in which they taught
about as they found it. May
those teachers see their mistake
during the coming year and make
use of these excellent means for
promoting professional growth.
Still another medium promot-
ing professional growth was CIV
en- to the teachers. Our la S t
County Institute adopted in it's
Teachers Professional Reading
Course James Talks to Teach
ers." This book was not only to
be read but to be studied by the
teachers. All our teachers have
been examined in this text but
we are sorry to say that we found
some teachers who knew nothing
about its contents. | hope that
all teachers hereafter will famil-
iarize themselves with the pro-
fessional reading matter adopted
at our County Institute.
An evidence of Increased school
sentiment in our county is an in
crease in the number of our stu
dents attending the different
State Normal Schools. Fulton
County during the year that just
closed had a large enrolment of
students at State Normal and |
the enrolment of the coming |
school year promises to surpass
that of 1914-15.
The year has not been barren |
of results. Twenty-seven pupils
passed the Spring examination. |
Many of these have since passed |
the teachers examination for
provisional certificates and have
been elected to teach in the pub
lie schools in the county.
The teaching force, with few
exceptions, did well the work put
upon them. The exceptions re-
ceived salary enough and too
much, but the live, active, ener-
getic teachers received too little |