St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1919-10-11

third grade certificate, We can rssdi-
ly see that something must be done
to help out.
l wish to sumit for your considera-
ton the advisability of building
homes for the teachers at the Cen
tarl and Audubon schools. | be-
lieVe this can be done during the
present year, and should help us in
the matter of securing teachers and
accommodations for them after they
have been secured.
Beca use of the fact that the cost
OF building material has very much
increased and because of the fact
that we cannot replace GU buildings
for anywhere near what they were
originally built for, l have deemed it
advisable to increase the amount OF
insurance carried upon them.
trust this will meet with your ap-
proVal.
The painting of the Waldheim,
Audubon and Ridgs schools has been
completed, and l trust the Peace
Grove school will be finished long
before your next meeting.
l have advertised for the building
of the Sand Hill school and l expect
that bids will be opened by you at
this meeting.
New heaters will have to be in
stalled in the schools at Madison
vile, Folsom and Pearl River.
The attendance this year appears
thus lar to be much greater than
ever before, and / trust that it will
not be necessary to have any more
violators of the compulsory school
attendance law in court, because
those matters are always unpleasant
| to both sides.
Your committee appointed to in
vestigate the ACCESSIBILITY Of operat-
ing a transfer running from the Mill
tary Road to the Waldheim school,
beg to report that they went over the
route and after careful considera-
ton have awarded a contract to MIR.
w. p Galloway to operate an auto
truck for the price of $4,000 per
month. Mr.. Galloway is nav carry
ing ON this truck from ninentee to
ItWenty-one school children each day
and as far as we can see, everything
is goin we'll as can be expected.
We recently had visit from Mr..
c. F. Trudeaux, at Slidell and Gov
ington, spending day in each Of
these schools. He also visited the
junior high school at Vaudeville and
the graded school at MadisonVille,
that had made application for ap-
prevail as a junior high school. The
following is his report as to the con-
ditions found by him:
Supt i. H. Harris, Baton Rouge, La.
My Dear Sir:-I have just visited
the Covington and Slidell high
schools, the Vaudeville junior high
school, and the Madisonville graded
schoo lnoW asking for approval as a
junior high school, 1t is with much
pleasure that l report the school in
st. Tammany parish as doing better
work il every respect than / have
ever found them doing before. With
out going into detail l desire to say
that the work of the teachers, the
responsiveness of the pupils, the dis
cipline of the schools, the interest Of
the public, as evidenced by the larg-
er NUMBER of children sent school
this year-all these things make it
clear that this is undoubtedly the
best sessions work that this parish
has yet seen.
The enrollmetn in the Covington
high school, elementary grades, is
356, and the attendance on the day
of GU rvisit was 1886; the enrolment
in the high school grades of this
school is 81, the attendance being
SO. Five teachers are doing the
work Il the high school department
and ten in the elementary depart
ment.
The jacksonville graded school
has an enrolment in the grades Of
1875, 1872 of whom were present on
the day of our inspection. In the
eighth and ninth gardes OF this
school we foun d22 pupils, all of
whom were present on this day
Two teachers were in charge of the
high school department and four Of
the elementary department.
At the Vaudeville junior high
school lot pupils are enrolled in
the elementary grades, 96 Of whom
were present on the day OF inspec-
ton; II pupils are enrolled in the
high school grades, rs of whom were
present on this day.
At the Slidell high school 43O
pupils are enrolled in the elementary
grades, 395 Of whom were present
on the day of inspection; and, in the
high school grades So pupils are en-
rolled, 81 of whom were present on
this day Five teachers do the high
school work and thirteen the elemen-
tary work in this school,
We wish to recommend for the
following schools those things that
we consider mostly needed at this
time in order that the work may be
raised even to higher levels than we
have found it.
Covington-A bookcase, feet
wide, for the principals office, in
order that a place be provided to
store away extra books, notebooks,
etc. rhe third grade room at this
school needs bookcase. The small
case now in the principals office
might be used for this purpose. We
again recommend typewriter swing
board to be attached to the princi-
pals desk. The study hall should be
Immediately provided with forty ad-
ditional desks. The principal should
have in his Office a substantial case
in whi:h to file away and keep for
future reference the record cards OF