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The following will show who were members of the school dur- ing the year :
Elizabeth Hoxie, entered Sept., 1890; teaching, Bromfield street.
Edith G. Johnson, entered Sept., 1890 ; teaching, Abelene, Kan- sas.
Josephine W. Kimball, entered Feb., 1891 : teaching, Congress street school.
Gertrude E. Lewis, entered Feb., 1891 ; not teaching.
Ellen H. Greeley, entered Feb., 1891; teaching in Newbury.
Ethel A. Savage, entered Feb., 1892 ; not graduated.
Hattie Seeley, entered Feb., 1892 ; left during first term. Lillian Collins, entered Feb., 1892; left during first term.
Since the close of the school year, in June, 1892, the following new members have entered :
Eunice H. Smith, Grace M. Tuxbury, Alice E. Hatch, Julia J.
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Hubbard, Lillian D. Hamilton, Charlotte K. Dickins, Lillian K. Buckley, Alice A. Bartlett.
After graduating, in February, Miss Edith Johnson was re- tained for a time as assistant, owing to the small number of pupil teachers then in the school. With the present term a larger num- ber of pupil teachers entered, and no assistant is employed.
The office belonging to the training school was enlarged during the April vacation to accommodate the increase of pupils in the grammar department above, and the lower room previously used by the training school was again occupied by the pupils of that school. This arrangement affords sufficient accommodations for the pupils, but leaves the normal department of the school with no especial place for its work, which is a decided drawback to its suc- cess as a training school.
So far this school has confined its work to the preparation of teachers for the four lower grades. In view of the success achieved in that direction, and considering the fact that we are now more likely to be called upon to fill vacancies in our grammar schools, it would seem advisable to either extend the work of this school to other grades, or to make some arrangement for the training of teachers of the higher grades. This is a subject de- serving of serious consideration.
The following are extracts from the regulations adopted at the opening of the school :
The committee, feeling the importance of employing trained teachers and be- ing unable to compete with larger cities for high-priced teachers, established the Normal Training School in September, 1889. The school is pleasantly located in the Kelley school building, on High street, at the head of Market street, and is now in successful operation.
The lowest four grades of the Kelley school serve as a practice department, where the pupil teachers engage in the actual work of teaching under the direc- tion of the principal and her assistant.
Candidates for this school must be at least 17 years of age, must have completed the course in the Newburyport High School, or an equivalent course, and must pass a satisfactory examination.
The course of instruction in the school shall continue for three terms of 20 weeks each, and all pupils entering the school do so with the understanding that they will remain for this length of time unless excused by the sub-committee. The arrangement of the course of study provides for the pupil teachers one year's course in the normal department and a year and a half of actual teaching.
There are three classes of pupil teachers: a senior or third term class, each member of which has charge of a room an entire term ; a middle or second term
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class and a junior or first term class. The members of the junior and middle classes divide their time between study and recitation in the normal department and assisting the seniors in teaching.
At stated intervals the principal shall report to the sub-committee on the train - ing school her judgment of each pupil teacher as to her fitness for the work and probable success as a teacher. Pupil teachers whose work is not satisfactory, or who do not promise success for the future, may be excused at any time during the course. To those who satisfactorily complete the course the committee will give a certificate stating the fact.
During the first term the pupil teachers do not receive any compensation; dur- ing the second term they receive two dollars per week; during the third term, three dollars. Non resident pupil teachers now receive no pay.
When a vacancy occurs in the corps of city teachers it will be filled by a gradu- ate of the training school, if one suitable for the position be available.
COURSE OF STUDY.
JUNIOR CLASS.
Reading, numbers and arithmetic, geography.
MIDDLE CLASS.
Psychology, theory and art of teaching, school organization and school manage - ment, school government.
JUNIOR AND MIDDLE CLASSES UNITED.
First term-Vocal music, penmanship, school laws of Massachusetts, object lessons.
Second term-Drawing, history of education, language, grammar, elementary science, calisthenics.
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EVENING SCHOOLS.
These schools were maintained, as they have been for several years past, at the Temple street school. The corps of teachers consisted of Mr. L. G. Smith as principal of the boys' school, with Miss E. Dodge, Miss Margaret Sargent and Miss Harriet Colman as assistants ; Miss Sarah F. Badger as principal of the girls' school, with Miss Elizabeth Pearson and Mrs. Frank Hale as assistants.
Good order was maintained in both schools, and much valuable work done. Nearly everywhere in evening schools there is a large enrolment in proportion to the average attendance.
During the first of the term the number present will be much larger than later on
The statutes require evening schools to be kept, and also re- quire the attendance of all minors who cannot read and write in English. With such regulations the illiterate class would soon disappear, were it not for the constant influx of children and adults from foreign parts, only a small percentage of whom are able to read and write in any language.
CHANGES AND RESIGNATIONS.
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It will be seen by the list of names given below that the schools lose the services of several excellent teachers,-teachers of long experience, some having served the public for more than
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30 years. Their names will never be forgotten by their pupils, nor their influence soon cease.
RESIGNATIONS.
Oliver B. Merrill, High school.
Rhoda Tilton, Jackman school.
Abby Short, Kelley school.
Eva J. Smith, Kelley school.
Cora B. Lougee, Bromfield street school.
Emma H. Parker, High school.
PROMOTIONS.
Anna L. Whitmore, from the fifth to the sixth grade in the Kelley.
Clara J. Edgerly, from the fourth grade in Congress street to the fifth grade in the Kelley.
Elizabeth H. Cheever, from the third to the fourth in Congress street.
Sarah L. Ross, from the second to the third in Congress street.
Abbie L. Frost, from the first and second to the third and fourth in Bromfield street.
NEW APPOINTMENTS.
F. H. Tarr, of Gloucester, first assistant in the High school.
Bertha Atwater, assistant in the High school.
Alice G. Pierce, assistant in the High school.
Elizabeth Hoxie, third assistant in Bromfield street.
Josephine W. Kimball, second assistant in Congress street.
Grace G. Rogers, first assistant in Jackman school.
Henrietta E. deRochemont, first assistant in Kelley school.
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SCHOOL DISTRICTS.
ADOPTED BY THE SCHOOL COMMITTEE, MAY, 1892 .- TO APPLY TO FUTURE ADMISSIONS ONLY.
1. Moultonville-all grades to centre of Jefferson street.
2. Wesley street-all grades to Three Roads.
3. Ashland street-First, second, third and fourth grades from Jefferson street to centre of Oakland.
4. Forrester street boys'-Jefferson street to Carter street, fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, and ninth grades.
5. Forrester street girls'-Jefferson street to Broad street, fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth and ninth grades.
6. Congress street-Third and fourth grades, Oakland to Olive street, first and second grades, Oakland to Boardman (Wash- ington street and below to railroad).
7. Kelley grammar-Carter to Federal street for boys, Broad to State for girls ( west of High both sides of State street).
Primary, boys' -From Congress street line to Federal.
Primary, girls'-From Congress street line to State street, (west of High street, on both sides of State street.)
8 .- Temple street girls'-first, second, third, fourth grades, from State street to Federal street.
9. Jackman boys'-Seventh, eighth and ninth grades below Federal street ; fifth and sixth grades, Federal street to Bromfield street : second, third, fourth grades, Federal to Bromfield street.
10. Purchase street-First grade, boys and girls, from Frank- lin to Federal as far as and including both sides of Milk street ; second grade girls' in same district.
11. Bromfield grammar school,-Girls, from Franklin and Allen streets to State street. Boys of fifth and sixth grades, be- low Bromfield street.
Primary school-Girls, from Temple street line, except those included in Purchase street school, to Franklin and Allen streets. Boys, below Bromfield street.
12. Johnson school-Girls, all grades, below Franklin and Allen streets.
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CONTAGIOUS DISEASES.
The schools on Ashland and Forrester streets suffered very se- verely from the prevalence of diphtheria for several months. Every effort was made by the school department to protect the children from danger at school. While there was nothing that the committee or the board of health could discover in connection with the school buildings to give rise to the disease, yet the great- est precautions were taken to prevent it from spreading. Books used by pupils who were taken sick with the disease were de- stroyed, the buildings were twice thoroughly disinfected by the board of health, and the schools were closed for three weeks by order of the school board. Whenever this disease breaks out among the children of any school, there at once enters into the public mind an idea that there is something wrong about the schoolhouse. Those who have given attention to the spread of the disease will come to a different conclusion, and will see that the proper place to fight it is in the homes of those who are at- tacked, by thorough isolation and disinfection. The real danger, in schools, from contagious diseases is not from any unhealthful conditions of the premises, but solely from the attendance of chil- dren who may have contracted the disease, or may wear garments not thoroughly disinfected. No one would suspect that small pox would be developed from any unsanitary conditions. Is it not equally absurd to think that scarlet fever or diphtheria may be ?
EXPENSES OF SCHOOL DEPARTMENT.
It is not an uncommon thing to hear criticisms upon the amount expended in support of the public schools. Those who have not examined the subject with the attention it deserves do not fully realize how unjust such criticisms are, nor appreciate the small
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when they are satisfied that such teaching equals in thoroughness and efficiency the teaching in the public schools in the same local- ity, and that equal progress is made by the pupils therein, in the studies required by law, with that made during the same time in the public schools ; but they shall not refuse to approve a private school on account of the religious teaching therein.
AN ACT RELATING TO THE EMPLOYMENT OF MINORS WHO CANNOT READ AND WRITE IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE.
[Chapter 433, Acts of 1887.]
[Section one was repealed by chapter 348, acts of 1888.]
SECT. 2. Every person who employs, or permits to be em- ployed, a minor 14 years of age, or over, who cannot read and write in the English language, and who resides in a city or town in this commonwealth wherein public evening schools are main- tained, and is not a regular attendant of a day school, or has not attained an attendance of 70 per cent. or more of the yearly ses- sion of the evening school, shall, for every such offence, forfeit not less than 50 nor more than 100 dollars, for the use of the evening schools of such city or town.
AN ACT IN RELATION TO THE EMPLOYMENT OF CHILDREN.
SECTION 1. No child under 13 years of age shall be employed at any time in any factory, workshop or mercantile establishment. No such child shall be employed in any indoor work, performed for wages or other compensation, to whomsoever payable, during the hours when the public schools of the city or town in which he resides are in session, or shall be employed in any manner during such hours unless during the year next preceding such employ- ment he has attended school for at least 30 weeks as required by law.
SECT. 2. No child under 14 years of age shall be employed in any manner before the hour of six o'clock in the morning or after the hour of seven o'clock in the evening. No such child shall be employed in any factory, workshop or mercantile establishment,
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except during the vacation of the public schools in the city or town where he resides, unless the person or corporation employ- ing him procures and keeps on file a certificate and employment ticket for such child as prescribed by section four of this act, and no such child shall be employed in any indoor work, performed for wages or other compensation, to whomsoever payable, during the hours when the public schools of such city or town are in ses- sion, unless as aforesaid, or shall be employed in any manner during such hours unless during the year next preceding such em- ployment he has attended school for at least 30 weeks as required by law ; and such employment shall not continue in any case be- yond the time when such certificate expires. The chief of the district police, with the approval of the governor, shall have au- thority to designate any kind or kinds of employment in factories, workshops or mercantile establishments as injurious to the health of children under 14 years of age employed therein, and after one week's written notice from the said chief to the employer or his superintendent, overseer or agent of such designation no such child shall be employed in any such kind or kinds of employment in any factory, workshop or mercantile establishment.
SECT. 3. No child under 16 years of age shall be employed in any factory, workshop or mercantile establishment unless the per- son or corporation employing him procures and keeps on file the certificate required in the case of such child by the following sec- tion, and also keeps on file a full and complete list of such chil- dren employed therein.
SECT. 5. In cities and towns .having a superintendent of schools, said certificate shall be signed only by such superinten- dent, or by some person authorized by him in writing; in other cities and towns it shall be signed by some member or members of the school committee authorized by vote thereof : provided, how- ever, that no member of a school committee, or other person au- thorized as aforesaid, shall have authority to sign such certificate for any child then in, or about to enter, his own employment, or the employment of a firm of which he is a member, or of a corpo- ration of which he is an officer or employee. The person signing the certificate shall have authority to administer the oath pro- vided for therein, but no fee shall be charged therefor; such oath may also be administered by any justice of the peace.
SECT. 6. The certificate as to the birthplace and age of a child
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shall be signed by his father if living and a resident of the same city or town; if not, by his mother : or if his mother is not living, or if living is not a resident of the same city or town, by his guar- dian ; if a child has no father, mother or guardian living in the same city or town, his own signature to the certificate may be ac- cepted by the person authorized to approve the same.
SECT. 7. No child who has been continuously a resident of a city or town since reaching the age of 13 years shall be entitled to receive a certificate that he has reached the age of 14 unless or until he has attended school according to law in such city or town for at least 30 weeks since reaching the age of 13, unless such child can read at sight and write legibly simple sentences in the English language or is exempted by law from such attendance. Before signing the approval of the certificate of age of a child, the person authorized to sign the same shall refer to the last school census taken under the provisions of section three of chap- ter 46 of the public statutes, and if the name of such child is found thereon, and there is a material difference between his age as given therein and as given by his parent or guardian in the cer- tificate, allowing for lapse of time, or if such child plainly appears to be of materially less age than that so given, then such certifi- cate shall not be signed until a copy of the certificate of birth or of baptism of such child, or a copy of the register of its birth with a town or city clerk, has been produced, or other satisfac- tory evidence furnished that such child is of the age stated in the certificate.
SECT. 8. The truant officers may, when so authorized and re- quired by vote of the school committee, visit the factories, work- shops and mercantile establishments in their several cities and towns, and ascertain whether any children under the age of 14 are employed therein contrary to the provisions of this act, and they shall report any cases of such illegal employment to the school committee and to the chief of the district police or the inspector of factories for the district. The inspector of factories, and the tru- ant officers when authorized as aforesaid, may demand the names of all children under 16 years of age employed in such factories, workshops and mercantile establishments, and may require that the certificates and lists of such children provided for in this act shall be produced for their inspection. Such truant officers shall inquire into the employment, otherwise than in such factories,
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workshops and mercantile establishments, of children under the age of 14 years, during the hours when the public schools are in session, and may require that the aforesaid certificates of all chil- dren under 16 shall be produced for their inspection ; and any such officer, or any inspector of factories, may bring a prosecu- tion against a person or corporation employing any such child, otherwise than aforesaid, during the hours when the public schools are in session, contrary to the provisions of this act, if such em- ployment still continues one week after written notice from such officer or inspector that such prosecution will be brought, or if more than one such written notice, whether relating to the same child or to any other child, has been given to such employer by a truant officer or inspector of factories at any time within one year.
SECT. 9. Every parent or guardian of a child under 14 years of age who permits any employment of such child contrary to the provisions of this act, and every owner, superintendent or over- seer of any factory, workshop or mercantile establishment who employs or permits to be employed therein any child contrary to the provisions of this act, and any other person who employs any child contrary to the provisions of this act, shall for every such offence forfeit not less than 20 nor more than 50 dollars for the use of the public schools of the city or town. Every parent, guardian, or person authorized to sign the certificate prescribed by section four of this act, who certifies to any materially false statement therein, shall be punished by fine not exceeding 50 dol- lars, or by imprisonment not exceeding 30 days, or by both such fine and imprisonment. A failure to produce to a truant officer or inspector of factories the certificate required by the provisions of this act shall be prima facie evidence of the illegal employment of the child whose certificate is not produced.
SECT. 10. The expressions "factory" and "workshop" used in this act shall have the meanings defined for them respectively by chapter one hundred and three of the acts of the year one thou- sand eight hundred and eighty-seven.
TRUANT OFFICER'S REPORT.
GENTLEMEN :- I have the honor to submit my report for the year ending July 2, 1892. The proper execution of the duties of this office is of vital importance. There are many parents and children who consider regular attendance at school as of not much importance. Unless such children are sharply followed up they fall below in their studies, fail of promotion, and are sources of much trouble to their teachers. I most respectfully recommend to the board a few prosecutions of those parents who fail to comply · with the law which requires the parent or guardian of any child between the ages of eight and fourteen years to cause his atten- dance for at least 30 weeks of the school year.
Constant watchfulness, and systematic co-operation of teachers with the truant officer, are required to secure the attendance of such children at school. The following table gives a correct ac- count of the year's work.
Respectfully submitted,
ROBERT G. ALLEN.
Truant Officer.
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TRUANT OFFICER'S REPORT For year ending July 2, 1892.
1-1891-
~- 1892-
Sept. .
Oct. . .
Nov ..
Dec ..
Jan ...
Feb. . .
March
April .
May ...
June ..
Total. .
Number of schools visited . . 176 179 196 163 155 177 166 143 126 170-1651 No. of absences reported . . 221 265 295 201 161 305 209 207 195 208-2267 No. of parents notified .... 209 250 285 176 143 264 198 186 177 191-2079 Truancies determined by in- vestigation . 5 6 5 7 7
Truants returned to school .
5
6
5
7
7
5 5
6 6
8 8
7- 61
Children returned to school from streets.
5
2
I
I
2
5
IO
8
5
I- 40
Children placed under tem- porary arrest .
I
. .
. .
I
I
..
3
Children placed on probation
I
. .
. .
I
. .
. .
I
. .
..
3
CENSUS OF CHILDREN OF SCHOOL AGE,
May 1, 1892.
Ward One.
Ward Two.
Ward Three
Ward Four.
Ward Five.
Ward Six . .
Total. ....
Public schools.
313
165
254
218
190
389- 1529
Parochial school.
57
I73
IOI
94
178
25-
628
At work.
16
28
27
23
28
21-
I43
Neither at work nor at school,
33
32
25
26
27
36- 179
Private schools.
3
9
4
2
2
3-
23
Taught at home
I
3
O
O
2
I-
7
Total
423
410
4II
363
427
475- 2509
Respectfully submitted,
ROBERT G. ALLEN,
Truant Officer.
7- 61
5 5
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GENERAL STATISTICS.
Taxable property of the city
$9,702,058.00 ·
Estimated value of school property . 95,000.00 ·
Total sum available for school purposes for 1892
26,492.53
Total expenditures for school purposes (not in- cluding repairs) 26,228.45
Population at last census
13,947
Children of school age (5-15)
2,509
Number of different pupils during the year in pub- lic schools 1,881
Number in private and parochial schools (esti- mated)
660
Average membership of public schools
1,498
Average attendance of public schools .
1,376
Per cent. of attendance
91.9
Number of teachers now employed
40
Male teachers
5
Female teachers
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TABLE
SHOWING METHODS OF HEATING IN EACH SCHOOL.
GENERAL RESULTS
VENTILATION
Johnson school · stoves,
satisfactory,
poor.
Bromfield street school · furnace,
Purchase street school · stove,
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Jackman school. · stoves,
fair.
Temple street school · stove,
Kelley school · furnaces,
Congress street school furnace,
Forrester street school furnaces,
unsatisfactory,
satisfactory,
fair.
"
Wardroom .
stove,
Moultonville school stoves,
Wesley street school stove,
unsatisfactory in very cold weather,
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66
very unsatisfactory, very poor.
Ashland street school · stoves,
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STATISTICAL TABLE OF THE SCHOOLS
For the school year ending July 2, 1892.
SCHOOLS
TEACHERS
GRADES
Different
membʼp
tend'ce
Av'ge at-
High ..
E. C. Adams, principal
157
146
141
O. B. Merrill, ass't
Sara A. Leonard, ass't Emma H. Parker “
Mary T. Spalding " Bertha Stiles
VIII, IX VII
37
.33
31
F
VI
45
39
37
E
A. L. Whitmore “ L. C. Ireland
V, VI
49
42
37
Kelley-Train- ing school. .
Of. Frances W. Richards, principal
IV
41
37
35
III
40
38
35
II I
86
57
48
Johnson. . ...
D Anna L. Coffin, prin. C Emma M. Lander, ass't B Frances J. Pearson " Jennie P. Haskell «
VII, VIII, IX V, VI
29
25
23
III, IV
40
36
34
A
I, II
43
36
33
Bromfield st. ..
D C B
Priscilla G. Craig, pr. Susie B. Lowell, ass't |Abbie L. Frost 66
VII, VIII, IX V, VI
44
36
34
III, IV
49
42
39
A
Elizabeth A. Hoxie
I, II
58
41
37
VIII, IX
56
48
45
VI, VII
41
37
35
B
Helen M. Currier, ass't Rebecca W. Perkins "
II, III
46
36
34
Forrester st., boys'
B A
Sarah B. Chute, prin. Emily A. Hale, ass't
VII, VIII, IX V, VI
41
31
28
Forrester st., girls'.
Sarah E. Whitmore, pr. Ellen Frothingham, as.
VII, VIII, IX V, VI
78
64
59
Moultonville
B
Mabel B. Sanborn, pr. Eleanor J. Towle, as't
IV, V, VI, VII, VIII, IX I, II, III
33
23
20 20
Wesley street ..
Irving H. Johnson, pr.
Ungraded
43
35
32
Purchase street
Mary A. Roaf, princ'l
I, II
52
39
34
Temple street ..
Susan I. Adams, prin.
I, II, III, IV
57
33
30
D C
Clara J. Edgerly, prin. Elizab'h H. Cheever, a. Sarah L. Ross, assis't Kate B. Symonds "
II I
72
39
36
Ashland street.
B A
Frances L.Pettigrew, 1) Sarah F. Badger, ass't
III, IV II
44
31
29
50
34
30
Wardroom .....
Florence A. True, pr.
T
51
27
23
..
H
G
L. G. Smith, principal Abby Short, assis't Eva J. Smith 6
49
45
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