Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1915-09-03
COUNTY SCHOOLS
Will Open During the next Two
Weeks-The Supervising Staff-Pos-
sible Shortage of Teachers -Ex-
animation Saturday-New Elemen-
tary Course for Rural Schools.

During the next two weeks the
rural as well as the town schools of
Fulton county will open for the
school year Of 1856. There are
two new members on the staff of
county supervisors this year; Prof.
G. d. Perry the new County Superin-
tendent who has been selected as the
successor of Supt. C. ]. Biery, and
who is not stranger to the schools
of this county, also a new district
superintendent in the person of Mr..
Henry Jay who comes into this
county from Kalida, Ohio and who
will have a district comprised of
German, Clinton and Franklin town.
ships. Messers Chase and Weber
and the superintendents of the vari-
Gus town or village schools make up
the balance of the supervising staff
for the county.
Teachers and persons who have
kept in touch with the work and life
of the schools are well pleased with
the results accomplished last year by
county supervision and there seems
to have been developed a new inter-
ct in the schools and in educational
matters generally among the people
in all parts of the county. Improved
and systematic methods of teaching
comfortable, sanitary and attractive
school houses the tendency toward
making the school house a social CEN
ter for community, the unification
of courses of study and uniformity of
text books; these are some of the
things that have been developed by
only one year under the system of
County and District Superintendent
and much more is in prospect for this
coming year. It seems certain that
we have entered upon a new era in
the development of the educational
system of Ohio.
Rural school teachers, will this year
have the advantage of following an
Elementary course of Education,
which has just been issued from the
office of the State Superintendent of
Schools. This course was prepared
under the direction of the State Sup
erintendent, and edited by a COM
mittee consisting of Supt. A. G. Yaw-
berg of Cuyahoga county, Prof. J. W
Heckert of Miami University, Princi-
pal Clark Fullerton of Portsmouth
High School and Supt. c. J. Biery Of
Fulton county. Leading practical edu-
Gators of the state contributed to this
course of study and the result is 8
practical well articulated course OF
study which will be followed in al
the rural schools of the state anc
which covers the school work of the
pupils from the beginning year uI
to and including the eighth year. This
course of study will be of in estim'
able value to the teachers of the
rural schools and as well to the chill
dren who attend the schools
The County Text Book Committee
of the County Board of Education
have recommended uniform text
books in all the rural schools for the
three subjects; reading, history anG
arithmetic it is gratifying to learr
that practically every township boart
of education has adopted the recon-
mendations of this committee an(
that the county is well on the wa!
to complete uniformity of text books
Another help for the teachel
comes in the shape of a duplicating
school register which has been pre-
pared especially for the schools o.
Ohio and is one of the most concis'
and at the same time comprehensive
school registers we have ever seen
1t is a time and labor saving device
for the teacher and at the same tim,
a most complete record of the schoo
work and of the work of each in
dividual pupil. We anticipate splen
did year for our county schools; onl.
one feature that seems adverse il
the possibility of a shortage O.
teachers for the rural schools. 4
Teachers Examination held at tn,
High School building in Wauseon las
Friday brought out forty-one appli
cants. There will have to be thre,
or four more teachers who can max
the passing grades and secure tn
necessary certificate in order to fl
all the schools in the county, but ther
is one more chance before the school
open; a teachers examination vii
be held on next Saturday and we hop
there will be enough who make tn
passing grades to fill all the vacan