St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1917-05-19

of confidence given at your last
meeting, and to say that l do not
know of a superintendent in the state
who has a more loyal or progressive
School Board to back him. You
realize that in order for my work
to be success this loyal support
and cooperation is absolutely nee
essary and l would be justified in re-
firing from this position il / could
not receive it.
Very truly yours,
ELMER E. LYON,
Superintendent.
The following petition was re
ceived from the patrons of the Au-
dubon school:
To the Honorable President and
Members of the Parish School
Board:
We, the undersigned patrons of
Audubon school, hereby petition your
honorable body to build an addition
al room to our school as we feel that
the average now in school will be
sufficient for a three room school.
Signed by C. G. Talley and twenty
five others.
Moved by Mr.. Evans, seconded by
Mr.. Millar, that building commit
tee be appointed to have in charge
the advertising for bids for the erec-
ton of a third room to the Audubon
school like the third room to the
Central school. These bids to be
opened by the committee on June
13 and contract to be awarded If the
cost does not exceed $1,000. Carried.
The president appointed as the
building committee to have in charge
the advertising and awarding of con-
tract for this work, Dave Evans,
ward director Of sixth ward, A. d.
Crawford and j. NJ. O'Berry.
Moved by Mr.. Levy, seconded by
Mr.. Kahl, that the superintendent be
instructed use funds from the sixth
ward special tax fund to retire any
notes that may be signed by friends
of the Audubon school in order to
provide funds to build the above
mentioned third room for the Audu-
bon school. Carried.
1t is understood that teachers sal
aries and the present loan from the
Coyington Bank & Trust Co.. for
$500, signed by Warren Thomas,
! Walter Parker and Dave Evans shall
have precedence in the order OF pay
ment.
On account of sickness of c. M.
Liddle, school director from ninth
ward, Mr.. H. U. Baker appeared be-
fore the board to present for Mr..
Liddle some of the needs of the Sill
dell school.
He presented the following reports
and gave oral explanations to the
statements contained in them:
Slidell, La, March 20, 1917.
Hon. C. NJ. Liddle, School Director,
Ward Nine, Slidell, La.
Dear Mr.. Liddle:-I wish to call
to your attention and Throughout to
the attention of the parish school
| board our urgent housing pfOaEem
for the year to come.
At this present moment We are
| taking care of all of our attendance
for full day sessions but this is due
solely to the prevalence of contag-
ious diseases. Probaly at least one
hundred children are being held out
Of school at this time on account OF
| having measles or chicken pox, &C
| count of another member OF the
| family having one of these ailments
| or account of fears Of parents that
| if the children are sent to school they
fav contract one of these roubles.
| Just before the breaking out OF
| this epidemic we were crowded fol
| room to care for all of our school
| with one room on half lay sessions
The present epidemic, which has
had an unusually long prevalence
will cause at least twenty per cent
of failures in the grades most affect
Internationally the first three. Par
| ents have withdrawn many begin.
ners from necessity or from fear anc
will not now send them back for the
small remainder of this session un
less there is an almost Immediate re-
| lief from this epidemic.
One hundred children failing to be
| promoted a half grade will crowd the
little grades still more-and they
we're sadly overcrowded before.
consider that we are fortunate tina
we have reorganized the school OF
the basis of promotion by the hal
grade, rather than by the whole yea
otherwise we should be confront
ed with serious problem OF pro
motion due to the present slack at
tendance at school.
Going back to the period imme
diately preceding the breaking gu
of the measles we we're overcrowdet
to the number of about thirty pupils
(Sixty odd were on half day ses
sions. We shall open in Septem
Der with that much of handical
inherited from the present session
! We have had to add two teacher
for the elementary grades each SEES
sion for two years and l think tina
it will be idle to anticipate any fall
ing off in that rate of growth.
will probably be wise to anticipat
4 q still greater increase but am nc
inclined to ask provision for NOR
J than three additional rooms an
Il teachers for the elementary depar
: .meut-one 10 relieve the Dfesez
shorAaeo aad two more g keep 9
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