Annual Reports Of Town Officers Of Dublin N H For The Year Ending February 15 1898 Classic Reprint PDF Download

Excerpt from Annual Reports of the Town Officers of Dublin, N. H: For the Year Ending February 15, 1901 It is well at the commencement of a new century, to give more than a passing thought to the school children and the condition of our schools. The town or one district system has had a fair trial, and while it is impossible for us to know in what condition our schools would have been, had we kept on in the old way, it is certain that it is not now, perfection. No permanent change has been made either in combining or grading our schools, but it is evident, that in the best interests of our schools, both reforms are much needed - neither of which can be successfully wrought without the hearty co-operation of all, and especially in the matter of grading, will it take time and patience. Our school year is short and we raise only enough money to satisfy the law (about $5 in excess). This condition has been the cause of our failure to hold some of our best teachers from year to year. They want to secure positions where they can have three terms a year, and graded schools if possible. It is with pleasure that we can report the past year, as a whole, to have been unusually harmonious and profitable, but the harmony and improvement have not been equally divided. Nos. 3 and 4 have been fortunate to have had the services of the same teacher for both terms, but in the other schools, three in number, we have had six different teachers. So much changing of teachers is one of the greatest difficulties the school board has to encounter. It is the result, in part, of the indifference of the people to education and literary improvement, and also to our school system. During the past year no resident of Dublin has taught in our schools. In the past ten years there have been but five native teachers, namely: Miss Emily E. Derby, Miss Emma J. Allison, Miss Mabel P. Allison, Miss Hannah M. Harrington, and Miss Claribel Baldwin. In this lack of native teachers, it is almost impossible that the school board can know the characteristics of the teachers they are hiring, their methods or their manners, therefore they are assigned to the different schools as their training seems best to have fitted them, and with such results as we can see. Although the school board provides the same number of weeks of school in each school house, they are unable to keep any uniformity of classes or work throughout the town. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.