Putnam patriot., 1919-12-05

caused his report to be sent to each member of the committee. It was then published in the same manner as the High school report
 This report, too. is full of misstate- ments and unfair insinuations.
 The buildings, the heating. the ven tilation, and the janitor service are exactly the same as those approved under the state system last year. While no one could maintain that our rural school buildings could not be improved, 1t is but fair to the mem. bers of the committee who have charge of the physical condition of these buildings to state that they have
 been as faithful in the discharge of their duties as time and means would
 permit. It must be some mysterious effect of the lack of sunshine eman- ating from the source of all light at
 Hartford that has caused such re-
 markable deterioration in such a short time.
 It would be ideal if every rural school could have a front lawn with
 beautiful floral decorations, d play
 ground equipped with proper appar-
 atus for all sorts of games, a play
 ground inspector, unilateral light.
 steam heat, inside toilets. swimming
 pools, and hot lunches But in words
 of the old proverb, one must cut the garment according to the cloth.
 The remarks about special super
 visors are grossly unfair. As far as
 the Inspector had any definite knowl- edge his criticisms referred to past conditions which have already been approved by his department. The present method, which received the approval of the Inspector. is as fol lows: The supervisor of drawing will meet the teachers ut the regular monthly meetings, at which time the work for the following month will be expalined and outlined. The teachers will teach this work, and at the end month mark it and send 1t to the su- pervisor for corrections and approval. This will enable the supervisor to de- tect the strong and the weak spots in every school. At the regular visits of the supervisor such defects as have appeared can be remedied.
 The music supervisor will continue the same methods as were used in previous years.
 There is one defect in rural super vision that cannot be remedied. Even with the use of the most modern means of travel considerable time must be lost in going from one school to another. Bad weather and bad roads add to the difficulty.
 There have been so far this year thnee teachers meetings and frequent visits to every school in town. The superintendent has discussed with each teacher the work of the school. As a matter of mathematics 2-3 of each week spent by the pesent super intendent is greater than l-2 of a week previously devoted by former, approved inspectors.
 Every teacher has detailed course of study and detailed statement of the number of recitations per week in every subject, the text book to be
 used, and the number of pages to be
 covered. Every month each teacher
 will send to the superintendent a
 statement of the amount of work to
 be covered that month and the pupil will be examined on the results of
 their study. There is, however, nc
 intention of putting words into the
 mouth of teacher and no attempt
 will be made to prevent her from us
 ing and developing the training which
 she has received by experience and 1T
 Normal school