St. Tammany farmer., 1921-04-16

very enthusiastic and her enth usl
asm was reflected by every child in
the school. This was all the mor>
ton like this in u one room school.
Pearl River.
Pearl River is three room school
The building originally had only 1wC
Central.
This is at present three teacher
school but plans are now being made
to erect an additional building anG
make it Junior High School, This
will be done by transferring the up.
per grades from Talisheek and Au
dubon schools. l think this is 3
good plan as it will give a suitable
number of pupils for the upper
grade classes. At present the uppe:
classes in all OF these schools arr
too small for efficient work The
school is especially well equipped
1t has domestic science department
Delco light plant and good teach
er's home. When the present plans
are completed it will be a real as
set to the community as a communi-
ty center.
Sand Hill.
This is one room school. This
school is now using a new building
although it is far from compiete.
When it is complete it will be vc1y
good one room building. The coma
munity is small having only abou1
twenty-five children Of school age
The work that we saw in this school
rooms. This year a third room has
been added. This room has not been
painted. The Old part of the buiid-
ing has never been painted inside.
Sun, Talisheek, Audubon, Oak Grove
and Onward.
Sun is four teacher school. The
building is satisfactory but shows a
lack OF proper care. Audubon and
Talisheek are three teacher schools
The buildings are new and in good
condition. Oak Grove and Onward
are two teacher schools. The build.
ings are in good condition.
The parish has had supervisor
since the beginning of last year and
her work was reflected in every
school, especially in the primarg
grades. The teachers showed that
their work had been carefully plann-
ed and preparation was evident in
nearly every instance. The quailfi-
cations of the teachers as a whole
were not as good as we have seen
in other parishes. Many of them
have had little or no professional
training and I understand that the
parish is now using about thirty
emergency teachers. We did, how
ever, see many good teachers and
some excellent teaching. Most OF
our time was spent in observing and
conducting recitations, and in dis
cussing the classroom work with the
teachers and supervisor.
In some of the schools the pupils
are not well distributed among the
teachers. The Taiisheek school had
fifty-four pupils present at the time
Of my visit. TA} }(y were distributed
as follows: LoI er grades, twenty
nine pupils; mid; se grades, eighteen
pupils; upper g>,>ades, seven. The
teacher Of the upper grades also sent
two classes into the primary room
for recitations. BY computing the
amount of the teachers time that is
given to each pupil, l find that in
minutes while in the primary grades
each child gets 8 minutes. l feel
that every effort should be made to
make the division Of time more in
favor Of the primary children. These
children do not know how to study
and practically all that. they learn
is obtained from the recitations. the
condition stated above is not confn-
ed to- this school but is found in
many Of the schools of the state.
The Executive Committe presented
the following report:
Covington, La, April Z, 1921.
St. Tammany Parish School Board,
Covington La.
Gentlemen:-We, the Executive
Committee, met in the office of the
superintendent on the night of the
above date and examined and ap-
proved bills to the amount Of
$952.O3.
Respectfully,
-. 4N- II. IL Lol
II. H. LEVY, -
DAVE EVANS,
Executive Committee.
Moved by Mr.. Evans, seconded by
Mr.. Levy, that the Superintendent
purchase roofing paint and have il,
placed upon all iron roofs Of school
houses where needed.
The superintendent reported that
the plans and specifications were now
ready for the parish training school
for negroes to be built in Slidell.
Moved by Mr.. Evans, seconded By
Mr.. Keller, that building committee
be appointed 10 receive bids ana
award contract for the erection of
this training school, with authority
to advertise for sale the present Sill
dell school house for negro children
Carried. The president appointed
the Ninth Ward School Director, the
and Mr.. F. F: Wig
ginton, of Slidell.
Moved by Mr. Levy, seconded Dy
Mr.. Tal1ey, that the Elementary
School Supervisor he engaged for a
third year, beginning July /, 1921
at salary of $500, to be paid in
Twelve equal monthly payments.
Carried
Moved by Mr.. O'Keefe, seconded
BY Mr.. Oswald, that a two-room
school house be built on the site Of
The former Savannah Branch school
house, and that the plan prepared Dy
Mr.. Charles Jenkins be adopted.
The business ARRANGEMENTS were Left