The Medina sentinel. [volume] (Medina, Ohio) 1888-1961, 1915-07-16
SCHOOL CONDITIONS
IN COUNTY REVIEWED

appeared IN the SenClnel anenC Cne
school situation in Medina county has
prompted several of our readers to
ask of us certain questions indicating
that the new school law was not clear
to them, also that the working of the
school system at present in the coun-
ty was more or less obscure. We had
supposed that we had explained the
Winans law some weeks ago in such
way that it would be clearly under
stood.
No district superintendent, says the
law, shall control less than 80 teach
ers, while another provision allows
a district which maintains first
grade high school to remain without
the district supervision, thought still
a. part Of the county system. The re-
suit of this made necessary rather rad
ical changes in the supervision dis
tricts of Medina, Seville, Lodi and Le-
roy villages and in the townships of
Granger, Hinckley, Homer and Liver
pool, which have decided to remain by
themselves. This condition has made
necessary the placing of the remaining
schools under two district men.
1t was because of this too, that the
boards of education of the county
i deemedslit advisable to reG-stSict the
county and thereupon petitioned the
county board to that effect. The east
ern district is to comprise Medina
. township, Brunswick, York township,
Montville, Guilford, Sharon and Wey-
mouth special, and the western dis
trict to consist of York special, Chip
pewa Lake, Lafayette, Litchfeld,
Chatham, Harrisville, Spencer town.
ship and Spencer special. In charge
of these districts respectfully will be
: M. E. Hawk of the Akron central high
school and w. c. Rohde of Brunswick
/, These men each will have supervision
over from 35 to 40 teachers with head
quarters in Medina with County Sup
erintendent jerks.
As instanced in the recent setting
of the pike school district in Mont
vile township into the Medina village
district, the new law makes it posi-
, BILE for the county board Of education
to set part or the whole of one dis
trict into another district or to create
new school districts and appoint
boards of education for the same. The
=, county board, we are informed. are
! already considering number Of
changes of this kind. In Brunswick
township 180 acres of the school dis
I trict have been placed into Hinckley
. In Seville the pike improved roads
, have all been utilized for the trans
portation of Guilford pupils to Seville
and of Montville pupils to Medina
i Part Of Guilford township which al
one time belonged to Wadsworth towr
e ship has been replaced in the GuilforC
e district.
1t is the purpose of the school off
:. cials to institute uniform course Of
I. study throughout the schools of the
d county and the various boards have
e been at work with the view of ulti
9 mately employing a uniformity il
I county and the various boards hav'
n mately employing uniformity il
text books, thus making possible fol
a pupil to shift from one township tt
:. another when necessary, without an,
l. trouble or break in his school work.
The common branches will receiv
c greater consideration in the future
r such as reading, spelling ard writing
e the latter two to be given special at
a tention.
The dates for the next coun' Y insti
e tute have been set for Sep. 2 and 8
4 three subsequent. meetings to be nell
d on Saturdays during the school term
I dates to be determined latter.
e In conversation with Superintend
: ent jerks two or three weeks ago, tn
f subject of our normal school wa
/ preached and Mr.. jerks spoke high
d ly of the work of this school. He be
u lieves that the normal school will con
s tinue to show greater value in it
: relation to the regular school system
d While there is much to be done in th
dI way of improving the school system
f of the county, says the county super
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