Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-02-12
ANNUAL REPORT
SUPT CLOVER|S
READY FOR PUBLIC

The annual report OF c. E. Glover
superintendent of the Wateryillt
public schools, was made public YES.
terday and in part it is as follows
To the Board Of Education:
Elsewhere will be found a sum.
mary of the expenditures of this de.
partment for the fiscal year endine
January 30. 1925. The city govern.
ment allotted to this department
$4,000. 1t will be noted that tn,
entire expenditures amount to S17O.
04!:S showing an oyerdraft o.
$o4I.SS. The needs for the year ius
passed were very carefully consider.
cd and an appropriation of $173, OO(
was asked for, which amount would
have been none too large to carr,
on the work required.
New District Lines
The present district lines were es.
tablished years ago and at thai
time were wisely drawn. Due to ar
increase in the school population
the Introduction of kindergartens
and ire opening Of new residential
areas, these lines do not now serve
their original purpose. Adherence
to them Is now impossible without
creating serious congestion in five
Of the eight elementary schools. The
North Grammar, Myrtle Street and
Brook Street schools have outgrown
their respective buildings: Western
Avenue and Walnut Street schools
Will soon outgrow theirs, and the
Junior High school must have more
room in the not distant future. The
following method of relieving this
crowded condition is suggested. Add
a second story of four rooms to the
Brook Street building. Discontinue
the use of Holland Hall by transfer
ring the pupils now housed there
to the enlarged Brook Street school.
house; establish kindergarten al
Brook Street, also one fourth and
one fifth grade. BY this means the
pressure at the North Grammar and
Myrtle Street will be relieved and
the sixth grade that belongs in the
North Grammar building may then
be taken from the Junior High and
returned. This will relieve the con-
gestfon at Junior High by making
available two rooms that must be
had there next year. There are in
the sixth grades at this writing 229
pupils.
Again, it may and probably will be-
come necessary to erect modern
building to take the place of the West
ern avenue school, either on the pres
ent site or else farther out on the same
street. In the three buildings just
mentioned the cost of up-keep is in
creasing yearly. The toilet facilities
IN each are wholly unfit and really
ought to be replaced by modern sani-
tary plumbing. Ventilation exists in
name only and the wiring of these
buildings will not bear very close in
spection.
Teachers and Methods
In large measure the success of any
school system depends upon the teach
ers and their methods of instruction
and discipline. Teachers, by virtue of
their position, are daily in the public
eye, consequently should see to 1t that
their every act, in school or out, will
bear public inspection. A community
has every right to demand Of it's teach
ers that they teach right living and
right thinking by both precept and ex-
ample. The teacher whose only aim Is
to train the intellect Is failure and
should seek other work. Success in
teaching depends upon personality,
professional spirit, ability to direct the
thought of others and ability to control
others, and every teacher may be fair
" judged upon these four points.
When 1t comes to judging methods
many Of US are prone to judge on the
basis Of methods employed in our own
school days. forgetting that times