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3,620.05
Hired Equipment
2,314.05
Materials
7,859.61
Total Chapter 81 Highways
$24,848.62
Unexpended
1.38
$24,850.00
Chapter 90 Construction
Appropriated by Town
$3,000.00
Allotment by State
3,000.00
Allotment by County
6,000.00
Total
$12,000.00
Expenditures:
Labor
$4,277.39
Workmen's Compensation Insurance
160.64
Rental from town owned equipment credited to Machinery Account
2,146.55
Hired Equipment
2,634.10
Materials
2,780.46
Total Chapter 90 Construction
$11,999.14
Unexpended
.86
$12,000.00
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Chapter 90 Maintenance
Appropriated by Town
$1,500.00
Allotment by State
1,500.00
Allotment by County
1,500.00
$4,500.00
Expenditures:
Labor
$1,618.11
Workmen's Compensation Insurance
64.72
Rental from town owned equipment credited to Machinery Account
365.90
Hired Equipment
206.00
Materials
2,242.91
Total Chapter 90 Maintenance
$4,497.64
Unexpended
2.36
$4,500.00
Snow Roads
Town Appropriation $8,200.00
$8,200.00
Expenditures:
Labor
$4,143.90
Workmen's Compensation Insurance
196.32
Rental from town owned equipment credited to Machinery Account
1,837.18
Hired Equipment
614.75
Materials
1,406.98
Total Snow Roads
8,199.13
Unexpended Balance
.87
$8,200.00
Bridges
Town Appropriation
$500.00
Reserve Fund Transfer
74.30
$574.30
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Expenditures:
Labor
$175.40
Workmen's Compensation Insurance 8.77
Rental from town owned equipment credited to Machinery Account
4.80
Materials
385.33
Total Bridges
$574.30
Railings
Town Appropriation
$500.00
Reserve Fund Transfer
302.65
$802.65
Expenditures:
Labor
$323.70
Workmen's Compensation Insurance
16.19
Rental from town owned equipment credited to Machinery Account
23.00
Materials
439.76
Total Railings
$802.65
Special Highways
Appropriation
$2,275.00
$2,275.00
Expenditures:
Retroactive Pay
$447.33
Labor
395.13
Dump Maintenance
277.47
Lights
265.25
Telephone
209.18
Equipment and Supplies
313.84
C. I. P. Sleeve
44.70
Carter Square
189.50
Town Garage Maintenance
30.00
All Other
43.87
Unexpended Balance
$2,216.27
58.73
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Machinery Rental Receipts
$3,620.05
Chapter 81 Highways
2,146.55
Chapter 90 Construction
365.90
Chapter 90 Maintenance
1,837.18
Snow Roads
4.80
Bridges
23.00
Railings
88.80
Special Highways
97.50
Water Department
246.75
School Department
652.49
All Other
$9,083.02
Payments from Maintenance Fund
$267.26
Automotive Distributors Inc .- Parts
1.50
Bek's Welding
36.21
Billiel's Mobilgas Sta .- Gas
33.39
Geo. F. Blake, Inc .- Parts
1.00
J. D. Bousquet & Sons
24.67
Builders Equipment & Supplies Co.
85.83
The Burton Saw Co.
89.04
Andrew Cencak
180.17
Christie & Thomson, Inc .- Parts
189.47
City Auto Parts-Parts
150.44
Commodore Steel Co.
22.47
Construction Equipment
712.05
C & R Tire Co.
225.15
Carter's Auto Service-Repairs
291.76
Carter's Shell Service-Gas
44.99
H. F. Davis Tractor Co.
53.00
Demars-Truda Co.
813.90
Douglas Motor Sales-Gas & Repairs
72.89
M. Doyon
937.92
Eastern Equipment Sales, Inc.
543.31
E. F. Edson Co., Inc.
1.80
Emmott-Valley Transportation Co., Inc.
98.83
Empire Steel & Tool Co.
208.57
Equipment Service Co.
8.20
Farrar Co.
24.00
Anthony Furno
3.13
The Goodness Store
15.90
Haskins-Haire Wire Works
19.25
The Harr Motor Co .- Parts
7.96
Hayward-Schuster Woolen Mills Inc.
2.50
Holland's Express
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Industrial Supplies
32.68
Jenkins & Robinson, Inc.
9.14
Geo. H. Jewett Co.
17.41
Johnson Motors-Gas & Repairs
886.14
Louis Jussaume-Gas
501.21
Edward Jussaume-Gas
121.02
Andrew Kocur
154.01
Maurice Lavergne
4.00
Charles Manoog, Inc.
195.76
Morrissey Bros. Tractor Co.
56.62
Mowry's Auto Service-Gas
53.09
Mumford Motor Sales Inc .- Parts
375.09
Railway Express Agency
7.34
Sandberg Equipment Co.
19.97
Irving Schultz-Oil
223.06
Silcraft Corp.
244.19
John Searles
5.00
H. A. Suddard, Inc.
11.92
Theroux Bros.
1.40
Vasar's Auto Service
1.85
Voutours Express
5.31
P. Wajer & Sons Express Co., Inc.
3.90
Worcester Oxy-Acetylene Supply Co.
57.13
Worcester Chemical Distributors
45.18
Worcester Rim & Wheel Co.
16.75
Whitinsville Tractor Co.
11.25
W. R. Wallis Lumber Co.
121.80
Axle Assembly
1,011.61
$9,360.39
Respectfully submitted,
EDWARD A. THERRIEN, Highway Superintendent
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COMPARISON OF DEPARTMENTAL EXPENDITURES
1936-1952 (Inclusive)
General
Government
Protection of
Persons and
Property
Health and
Sanitation
Highways
Charities and
Soldiers'
Schools and
Recreation and
Unclassified
Enterprise and
Cemeteries
State and
County Tax
1936
7,630.41
6,249.46
1,085.22
35,962.08
17,873.54
39,645.95
2,829.89
4,635.10
9,124.97
1937
6,791.05
7,657.12
1,194.12
30,538.22
28,495.60
39,532.57
3,643.52
3,869.85
10,103.16
1938
6,565.15
7,473.57
1,022.18
36,027.25
41,061.43
39,110.86
5,167.25
3,809.77
12,358.30
1939
7,018.12
7,806.69
748.11
31,193.23
27,752.52
41,473.41
2,497.61
4,501.61
12,485.77
1940
8,659.08
8,433.26
761.54
32,420.94
26,456.58
41,003.21
4,664.72
4,300.96
11,622.57
1941
8,899.37
8,956.32
1,981.55
35,133.42
23,748.62
43,034.20
3,703.57
14,361.58
13,323.05
1942
8,465.48
11,013.66
1,910.09
27,674.00
24,584.04
44,607.85
2,529.25
6,721.83
12,199.23
1943
11,762.79
9,012.35
3,072.72
32,743.96
24,029.30
47,298.26
4,443.89
7,199.02
8,289.11
1944
9,689.35
10,860.05
3,247.55
30,511.60
24,914.40
46,024.11
3,597.81
4,571.88
11,810.76
1945
8,779.85
9,519.05
3,519.65
32,200.80
25,312.44
53,189.47
2,845.18
6,386.75
10,535.32
1946
14,768.04
10,742.17
2,808.78
49,099.96
28,382.02
58,756.78
2,603.36
6,052.39
8,253.17
1947
10,407.57
15,131.13
2,728.25
46,995.73
33,207.86
67,141.92
1,572.36
6,608.63
8,555.76
1948
12,564.50
13,232.84
2,304.21
52,125.50
36,797.91
71,967.16
3,092.21
9,887.95
8,387.61
1949
11,705.78
12,617.16
2,386.53
51,604.91
48,233.83
76,201.21
2,514.91
11,726.28
9,926.20
1950
16,595.38
14,436.23
2,415.38
69,242.75
49,418.91
80,797.28
2,232.51
78,639.82
10,352.16
1951
12,629.09
18,429.30
2,621.98
71,666.31
47,832.81
91,155.04
2,746.04
18,825.63
12,160.42
1952
15,097.85
19,016.53
3,182.66
72,252.00
53,805.18 108,519.22
2,293.66
22,052.41
13,370.78
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Benefits
Libraries
ANNUAL REPORTS
OF THE
SCHOOL COMMITTEE
AND
SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS
OF THE
TOWN OF DOUGLAS
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FOR THE YEAR ENDING
December 31, 1952
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REPORT OF THE SCHOOL COMMITTEE
The School Committee submits the following report for the fi- nancial year ending December 31, 1952.
The appropriation for the Schools amounted to
97,499.74
The expenditures amounted to
We received the following reimbursements:
$19,918.51
Chapter 70 as amended
5,344.13
School Transportation
418.86
Tuition from other towns
635.20
Tuition for State Wards
253.01
Transportation of State Wards
3.41
Sale of supplies
26,573.12
$70,926.62
EXPENDITURES OF THE SCHOOL DEPARTMENT For the Period Ending December 31, 1952
1952
1952 1953
EXPEND- BUDGET ITURES BUDGET
GENERAL EXPENSES:
Secretary to Superintendending
School Committee
Miscellaneous School Committee
Superintendent's Salary
$4,360.00
$4,307.78
$4,350.00
EXPENSES FOR INSTRUCTION:
22,200.00
21,798.49
22,350.00
Teachers, High School
35,000.00
35,305.77
37,600.00
Teachers, Elementary
600.00
600.00
475.00
Substitute Teachers
2,350.00
2,358.39
Special Teachers
700.00
849.51
860.00
850.00
Text Books, High
980.00
Text Books, Elementary
1,000.00
Supplies, High
1,000.00
932.79
1,000.00
Supplies, Elementary
300.00
283.38
300.00
Visual Education
2,440.00
454.00
500.00
Home Instruction
1,000.00
1,385.27
1,000.00
980.34
64,980.00 64,822.94 67,650.00
$97,500.00
This reduces the Net Cost of the Schools to
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1952
1952
1953
EXPEND-
BUDGET ITURES
BUDGET
EXPENSES FOR OPERATION:
Janitor, High
Janitor, Elementary
Janitor, Douglas Center
7,035.00
7,091.96
7,092.00
Fuel, High
Fuel, Elementary
Fuel, Douglas Center
2,750.00
2,123.37
2,800.00
Lights and Power, High
Lights and Power, Elementary
450.00
466.98
585.00
Telephone, High
Telephone, Elementary
300.00
317.86
350.00
Janitors' Supplies, High
Janitors' Supplies, Elementary
429.00
424.55
437.00
Water Department, High
Water Department, Elementary
36.00
36.00
36.00
11,000.00
10,460.72
11,300.00
MAINTENANCE AND REPAIRS:
High School
Elementary Schools
5,000.00
6,119.33
5,000.00
AUXILIARY AGENCIES:
Health, High
Health, Elementary
1,730.00
1,757.47
1,810.00
Transportation, High
Transportation, Elementary
8,880.00
8,652.30
11,320.00
Tuition
350.00
280.00
200.00
Athletics
300.00
309.20
600.00
Miscellaneous
240.00
11,260.00
10,998.97
14,170.00
INSURANCE
100.00
94.10
100.00
NEW EQUIPMENT
800.00
695.90
800.00
$97,500.00 $97,499.74 $103,370.00
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1952 SUPPLEMENTARY BUDGET-ELECTRICAL
$2,500.00 4,500.00
Appropriation
Loan to Town
$7,000.00
Total
$6,669.05
Expenditures by School Committee
3.25
Interest on loan paid by town
6,672.30
Total
$327.70
Balance in Supplementary Budget
SCHOOL COMMITTEE:
Louis Callahan, 1953
Andrew Cncak, 1953
Anthony H. Coppola, 1954, Secretary
William J. Dunleavy, 1954
Joseph T. Roch, 1955
Howard P. Lekberg, 1955, Chairman
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SCHOOL CALENDAR
DAYS
September
20 Schools open September 3
October
22 October 13-Columbus Day Holiday
November
16
November 7-Teacher's Convention November 11-Armistice Day November 27-Dec. 1-Thanksgiving Recess
December
17
December 23-January 5 - Christmas Recess
January
20
February
15
February 20-March 2-Mid-winter vacation
March
22
April
16
April 3-Good Friday
April 17-April 27 Spring Vacation
May
21
June
15
Schools close June 19
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NO SCHOOL SIGNALS
7:15 A.M .- 3 blasts of the Hayward Mill whistle, repeated- No school in all schools-All day
11:30 A.M .- 3 blasts of the Hayward Mill whistle, repeated- One session, in which case schools will close at 12:15 P.M.
7:00 A.M .- 7:28 A.M .- 7:45 A.M .- 8:15 A.M .- WTAG broadcast of "no school" bulletins
Since weather reports are not always reliable, and because the school department wishes to render maximum educational service by having schools open the greatest number of days, storm signals will not be used when there is reasonable doubt. Weather conditions may warrant the non-attendance of certain pupils who at the mo- ment lack normal health. This would tend to make it advisable for parents to keep the child at home.
Good health is essential to sound education. Care for your child's health by keeping him at home when in your opinion as a parent his health interest would be best served.
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REPORT OF THE SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS
To the School Committee and Citizens of Douglas:
It is with pleasure that I submit this, my sixth annual report as Superintendent of Douglas public schools. Each year the making of this report involves a different approach, dealing as it does with dif- ferent situations. School studies change because people change. They change their way of making a living; they change their way of living. It is utterly impossible for the school to remain the same year after year. Indeed, the school must always endeavor to discover the "shape of things to come", because it is preparing youth for the future as well as for the present.
1/ Human nature often resists change. A person's ability to learn is determined by various influences; mental capacity, quality and quantity of past experiences, interest in the problem, degree of con- fidence in one's ability to solve the problem, physical well-being. People are born with the capacity for growth and development. Out- side forces cannot prevent growth, nor are they responsible for it. Nonetheless, the course of development is influenced by the envir- onment through direct and indirect methods.
Increased understanding of how children learn has brought marked improvement to the teaching of our school studies. Instruc- tion has advanced most in the "fundamentals"-reading, writing, and arithmetic. To these we might add spelling and oral expres- sion. All of them are essential tools in acquiring knowledge and passing it on to others.
Positive evidence of the effectiveness of teaching reading is on every hand. In 1896, books loaned to the public from libraries and lending societies totaled 35,000,000. Fifty years later, in 1946, read- ers borrowed 356,000,000 books from public libraries. Readership is extended still more by hundreds of school and college libraries, by the bookstores found literally everywhere, and by the book clubs which fill home shelves to overflowing.
The growing literacy of the American people is dramatically il- lustrated by the change in a routine question of the United States Bureau of the Census. For one hundred years the census-taker asked at each home, "How many people residing here cannot read and write?" The percentage of illiterates had so declined by 1940 that the enumerator was instructed to substitute the question "How many years have you attended school?"
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Children read more books. They read more rapidly. They read with greater understanding. In the schools of our grandfathers, one basic reader was often the only reading text. It is not unusual in the better schools of today for a pupil to read 25 or 30 books during his first year.
Children are ready to begin reading at different ages-on the average, at about six and one-half years. A few may begin as early as the age of three or four. Reading readiness is based upon mental, physical, emotional, and social maturity. These qualities develop at varying rates in different children. Early and late readers may be equally intelligent. To force children to read earlier than they are able to do so with interest and understanding may result in habits that retard reading skill or produce an emotional distaste for it.
Modern instruction in arithmetic also conforms to the basic laws of acquiring knowledge and putting it effectively to use. The content is adapted to the actual needs of children to solve problems. Standard tests discover the "mistake habits" of students in the operations with numbers. Special exercises help correct these faults.
Penmanship is stressed particularly in early school years. It is taught as one of the essential skills which every individual should possess. Legibility and speed are the important goals.
Spelling is a practical art in the modern school. Spelling lists are compiled on the basis of many surveys of the words which stu- dents use, hear, and read at the respective grade levels. Spelling "demonds", except those which bedevil the average person, are left to the proofreaders of technical manuscripts. The real test of a pupil's ability to spell is in the actual writing he does.
Speaking-and listening-are skills once left largely to chance. The modern school refines these skills, and aids the processes through radio and photographic recordings.
The amount of time spent in today's school on the "three R's" is more than four times as great as it was a hundred years ago. Stu- dents who can advance rapidly are given the opportunity to do so. Special difficulties hampering the advance of some students are diag- nosed and eliminated through instruction adjusted to individual needs. The same "three R's" are still the foundation of our school studies.
BUDGET MAKING
The responsibility for drawing the school budget rests with the superintendent of schools. The finished product should reflect the operation of the school system in all its ramifications.
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In examining the Douglas school budget for 1953 it might be well to trace the entire procedure of making up this budget.
The school committe determines the policy of the school system. In November the superintendent draws up a preliminary budget based on the policies of long standing established by the school committee. This budget is presented and explained to the school committee by its chairman. Upon the committee's approval, it is presented to the finance committee.
The finance committee scrutinizes the budget and compares it with expenditures for former years. Both committees should then discuss the budget at a joint meeting.
Finally, the finance committee publishes a report and its recom- mendations. In this report are listed the expenditures for the preced- ing year, the amount requested by the school committee for the pres- ent year, and the recommendations of the finance committee for the present year.
The final step takes place at the annual town meeting. The recommendations of the finance committee are usually, but not ne- cessarily, voted upon favorably by the town meeting. However, if its recommendations are at variance with the final request of the school committee, such recommendations may be contested. The school appropriation becomes effective upon the formal vote of the town meeting. Should inadequate appropriations to operate the schools be voted, the committee has redress to the courts under ex- isting legislation.
PERSONNEL
The superintending school committee was fortunate to secure the services of the following:
Matthew H. Towle of Lynn, Massachusetts, a graduate of Boston College with an A.B. degree in English, who is working on his Mas- ter's degree, was hired to teach English and Latin in the place of Miss Tabea Sweinberger, who terminated her employment after twenty years of faithful service to the schools of Douglas.
Lawrence J. Meehan of Worcester, Massachusetts, a graduate of Holy Cross with a B.S. degree cum laude and an A.M. degree in edu- cation from Clark University, was appointed to the social studies position in the place of Mr. Albert Sharps.
Miss Jean Kelliher of Springfield, Massachusetts, a graduate of Regis College with a B.S.C. and a Master of Education degree from Springfield College, was appointed to teach commercial subjects in the place of Mr. Waldren Lojko, who has accepted a more lucrative
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position in the Hopedale schools. Miss Kelliher has six years' teach- ing exprience.
Mr. Vito J. Selvaggio of Haverhill, Massachusetts, a graduate of Lowell State Tachers' College with a B.S.E., was assigned to grades five and six in the elementary school.
IMPROVEMENTS
The following repairs and improvements have been completed through the year:
In the high school, two classrooms were redecorated and the downstairs hall was refinished. The locks on the doors were re- placed. The walk in front of the building was resurfaced.
In the elementary school, the hot water tank was replaced. Two classrooms were redecorated. The roof was reconditioned. A com- plete new lighting system was installed, including the rewiring of the building. The playground was leveled and the hot-top drive completed.
At the Douglas Center school, the porch roof was reconditioned. The fire escape steps were painted. The basements, floors, and toilets were painted. The oil furnace was cleaned and repaired. The playground was filled and leveled ,and a new driveway com- pleted.
The need to improve the facilities in the Douglas schools is ever present in the minds of the superintending school committee. The moderator at the annual town meeting in February, 1952, appointed a committee of three to work in conjunction with the school com- mittee to make a preliminary survey ascertaining the school build- ing needs of the town of Douglas. The committee has held several meetings, and has set machinery in motion eventually to complete its mission.
NEW EQUIPMENT
The usual number of typewriters, three, was replaced in the commercial department. A film strip library was set up for the use of all schools. New sets of Compton's Encyclopedia and the En- cyclopedia Britannica were furnished for the junior and senior high school grades together with a new graphic health chart. Histories and geographies were replaced in the junior high school grades, and several sets of books for the elementary grades. The average life of a text book is six years.
A contract was signed with the Visual Education Curriculum Center in Brookline, providing the schools with more than sixty films during the school year.
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A contract was entered into with the Marsh Program Service Agency of Newton which provides for four special assemblies during the school year:
"Across America on Foot"-October 22, 1952.
Cymbals-Paul Benzaquin-January 29, 1953.
"Strange Tales of the Atlantic Coast"-Edgar Rowe Snow- March 26, 1953.
"Live Animals"-Walter Brent-April 16, 1953.
TRANSPORTATION
The continual increase in the enrollment of the Douglas Center school made it imperative for the school committee to transport grade five to the East Douglas elementary school. This necessitated the opening of a room in this school that had been vacant for a number of years, and the employment of an additional teacher. Two new buses have been added to the transportation facilities, one to improve the service to South and West Douglas, the other to replace obsolete equipment. The equipment now employed by the school committee to transport school pupils in Douglas is more up to date than can be found in many communities of the common- wealth.
These three school buses now carry a total of one hundred thirty-five pupils and travel a total of one hundred miles per day.
Comparative figures on transportation cost are interesting; in nineteen towns of the Worcester County area, in which school trans- portation is obtained by contract with private owners, Douglas en- joys a relatively favorable position.
HEALTH SERVICES TO THE DOUGLAS SCHOOLS
There must be a place in the modern school for the practical application of all we have learned about public school health in the past two decades. In Douglas, the school department employs one physician part time and one part time nurse in order to provide health service for each pupil. Periodic physical examinations are given by the school doctor, assisted by the nurse. A careful record is kept, and the nurse follows up the cases where defects are found in order to urge remedial measures. The nurse is also acquainted with the general growth and condition of each child by weighing and measuring.
In the control of communicable disease, the teachers, the school nurse, the school physician, and the health department all co- operate. Constant vigilance operates as a check to the spread of these diseases.
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Whenever a child becomes ill or is injured at school, the services of the school nurse are generally available for emergency treatment. If the case requires the attention of the school physician he is called.
The home visit by the nurse is an important health service. The visits are made for the correction of defects, history taking, and to establish a closer link between the home and school.
It is important that the children learn cleanliness. The nurse should make inspection and advise the pupil, besides making records, for exclusion where cases of scabies, ringworm, impetigo, and pedi- culosis are found. Over a period of years constant attention to these matters has in many cases considerably improved the personal hy- giene of school pupils.
The school health program enlists many forces in its attempts to guard the health of the pupils. Teachers diligently carry on sup- plementary work in health conservation, nutrition, community health and sanitation, together with disease control. The board of health and service agencies willingly cooperate with schools in main- taining health service for pupils.
Objectives associated with the public school health program as prescribed by the General Court, 1951, may demand a fresh approach to our school health problems here in Douglas, as elsewhere in the commonwealth.
HOME AND SCHOOL RELATIONS
The annual report of the superintendent of schools in 1949 stressed the need for greater emphasis on home and school relations. In that year, the schools afforded an opportunity for parents and teachers to meet together with the superintendent of schools and the school principals and discuss freely matters relating to the progress of pupils in the public schools. More than sixteen topics were discussed and nearly ninety-seven per cent of the homes rep- resented by students in the schools attended these meetings. Dur- ing the spring of that year a town-wide school exhibit was held at the Town Hall. About six hundred people visited the exhibit. The superintending school committee was greatly encouraged by the in- terest shown, and school personnel felt a distinct impetus as a result.
A Parent-Teacher association is an auxiliary agency to the schools, and as such it should be attached to the school unit and function within the school environment. This assures the organ- ization of the professional leadership and direction of the teachers and principal of the unit to which it is attached. It should fulfill a felt need of the school and the community. A well-organized, pro- fessionally directed Parent-Teacher association can be a real stim-
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ANNUAL SCHOOL REPORT
ulus to the public schools. The home and the school must form an active partnership if the educational program in your schools is to be effective and meaningful.
RECOMMENDATIONS
The following are recommended:
A more extended guidance program in the high school.
Reorganization of the administration of the high school.
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