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REPAIRS ON SCHOOL HOUSES.
The school-house at the Common needs shingling and new front steps. The ventilation, in the school-room for the large number of pupils attending, is deficient and while the roof is being repaired could be remedied at less
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expense than at any other time. The cost would be tri- fling compared with the results obtained.
The school-room at Myricks needs new desks, as the present ones have been in use some forty years and should be excused from further service after resisting the assaults of the inevitable jack-knife. for that period of time, and should be replaced by modern ones more in conformity with the laws of Hygiene. Other repairs are required in the school room, if the building is to be continued for school purposes, but your Committee unanimously are of the opinion that the building should be disposed of and a more suitable one provided, as the extra expense of main- taining such a large building would soon build a more convenient school-house, without water in the cellar a part of the year, to the detriment of the health of teacher and pupils.
Shade trees around our school-houses would soon add to the beauty of the surroundings.
The School buildings at No. 5 and 6 should be painted.
In making the appropriation for school purpose for the coming year, your Committee would respectfully call attention to several considerations to be taken into ac- count, to attain our present educational position, viz :
That as the profession of a teacher increases in impor- tance, the market price of teachers advances from year to year ; the increasing cost of supplies, owing to the great- er number of studies pursued ; and the additional num- ber of pupils that will probably attend High Schools, (under the provisions of the law of 1891), whice must be provided for. The pupils attending our public schools in town should not be defrauded, or in other words, the many should not suffer for the few. There are at present six pupils attending the High School at Taunton and one at Fall River, at an annual cost of $340. Some five or six others are expecting to enter a High School the com-
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ing year. The following are the names of pupils attend- ing High Schools, from this town.
Fanny A. Hatch, Lillie Blinn, Carrie F. Macomber. Miriam Babbitt, Fred A. Boardman, and Percy L. Ashley at Taunton and Lucy Ashley at Fall River.
ROLL OF HONOR.
Lillian Gedmark not tardy or absent during the year.
The following pupils were not tardy during the past year.
Addie C. Bowen,
Susie M. Allen.
A. Louise Allen,
Fannie M. Wellman,
Clarence E. Burt. George Hatch,
Clarence D. Lincoln,
Harry B, Lincoln,
Charley F. Lincoln.
John Powers,
Thomas Powers,
Ralph W. Thrasher.
Harry E. Whittaker,
Linneas C. Whittaker,
Lucy F. Smith,
May Whittaker,
Carrie Babbitt,
Eva Strange,
George Terry,
Ada Strange,
Mabel Phillips,
Frank Ried,
Chester A. Ried,
Lawrence A. Ried,
Florence W. Hathaway, Maud Turcot.
Whole number of pupils enrolled in all our schools with- in the year, 150
The town is just beginning to feel the burden of the High School Law of 1891, as will be seen by the follow- ing:
Tuition of pupils at High School to Feb. 5, 1892, $22 00
from Feb. 5 to Sept. 1892, 95 00
from Sept. 1892 to Feb. 4, 1893, 170 00
66 paid in advance, 25 00
Total,
$312 00
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RECEIPTS FOR SCHOOL PURPOSES.
Town Appropriation, 1892,
School Fund from State,
Dog Fund,
$1,800 00 443 31 121 99
2,365 30
For expenditures of the same, see Treasurer's report.
CALVIN T. CRANE, HELEN R. STRANGE, MARY L. COREY.
Berkley, February 23, 1893.
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DISTRICT SUPERVISION.
At the annual March meeting in 1891, the Town voted in favor of " District Supervision " and appropriated a sum of money sufficient to in part pay the salary of a superintendent. But as no further progress has been made in the matter and the towns nearest us do not favor such union the future in regard to it is uncertain.
CHANGES RECOMMENDED.
Your Committee are unanimous in their opinion in regard to the consolidation of the schools in Districts 5 and 6 and are convinced that, if the children attending those two schools could be placed in one, a saving of money and an increased advantage to the pupils would be the result.
Your Committee would therefore recommend an appro- priation sufficient to pay for the conveyance of children in District No. 5 to school-house in District No. 6 or some other school.
One of the best reasons for uniting these schools may be found in the fact that while the average cost per scholar last year for schooling throughout the town was twelve dollars, the cost per scholar in District No. 5 was thirty-three dollars or nearly three times as much as it cost on an average throughout the town. This should be a strong argument in favor of an " appropriation " for conveyance.
CARE OF SCHOOL PROPERTY.
Three of the school-houses in Town have been painted during the year, a wood-house has been built at Assonet Neck, and a school-yard fence at Myricks.
FLAG RAISING.
During the past year, by the well directed efforts of the teachers and schools aided by contributions from
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generous citizens, flags have been raised upon three of our school-houses. May the work so nobly begun, continue, until over every school-house in Town shall that banner float of which it is said, "Oh, long may it wave, o'er the land of the free, and the home of the brave."
" RECENT LAW RELATING TO HIGH SCHOOLS."
Before closing this report we would call the attention of the Town to the Act of the Legislature approved April 30, 1891, of which the following is a copy.
AN ACT RELATING TO THE PAYMENT OF TUITION IN HIGH SCHOOLS BY CERTAIN TOWNS. " Be it enacted as follows :
SECTION 1. Any town not required by law to main- tain a high school shall pay for the tuition of any child who with the parent or guardian resides in said town, and who attends the high school of another town or city, pro- vided the parent or guardian of such child before such attendance obtains the approval of the School Committee of the Town in which the child and parent or guardian reside.
SEC. 2. If any town not required by law to maintain a high school neglects, or refuses to pay for tuition as provided in the preceding Section, such town shall be liable therefor to the parent or guardian of the child furnished with such tuition if the parent or guardian has paid the same or to the town or city furnishing the same in an action of contract."
(Approved April 30, 1891.)
SCHOOL CENSUS.
The number of children between the ages of five and fifteen years as found in the town the first of May, 1891, was one hundred and fifty-one (151). Between the ages of eight and fourteen was one hundred and two (102).
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FINANCIAL STATEMENT.
RECEIPTS.
EXPENDITURES.
Town Appropria-
tion, $1,600 00
State School
Fund, 387 73
Dog Fund, 118 86
Teachers' wages, Care of School- houses and for Wood, $1,936 40 Charts and Books, 177 28
Total, $2,106 59
$2,113 68
ROLLIN H. BABBITT, School Com. MARY L. COREY, of CALVIN T. CRANE, Berkley.
No. of Schools.
TEACHERS' NAMES.
Number of Terms.
Enrollment.
Average Membership.
Average Attendance.
No. of Pupils Not Absent.
No. of Pupils Not Tardy.
Times of Tardiness.
No. of Visits of Citizens.
No. of Visits of Committee
Pupils Over 15 Years.
Pupils Between S and 15 Years.
Pupils Under 5 Years.
Length of Terms in Wks.
Montlı Wages of Teachers.
Average Yearly Cost of
Education Pupils.
Julia R. Burt,
1
31
27
24
2
27
17
2
15
0
10
32
10%
2
27
27
25
7
23
7
35
5
1
15
0
11
34
1.
66
3
30
29
26
5
15
49
3
17
0
12
34
Lillian Darling,
1
22
19
16
2
5
97
2.
Nella Luther,
2
26
26
24
6
26
43
5
0
15
0
11
30
112
( C. O. Abell,
3
29
28
22
2
12
Lucy A. Hayes,
1
19
18
17
2
16
54
23
9
0
11
0
11
30
16
3.
Ida G. Goldthwait,
2
18
16
12
1
3
21
17
14
1
2
139
1
14
1
12
30
Ada D. Anthony,
1
13
0
7
2
11
10
4.
Minerva E. Dean, Mary K. Pope,
2
14
13
11
0
2
130
00
10
0
0
11
30
19
3
24
21
17
0
1
290
2
00
0
12
30
Lizzie A. Cook,
2
5
5
4
00
5
0
10
5
0
3
0
11
24
36
5.
Eudora M. Allen,
3
7
7
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1
7
0
1
21
19
16
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13
13
Alton W. Reed,
2
18
18
16
6
10
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3
20
18
14
2
14
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1
26
26
22
5
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53
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116
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12
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0
10
32
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1
5
5
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3
5
0
0
1
0
10
24
0
5
0
10
24
2
10
28
1
11
28
14
0
5
1
12
28
4
10
0
10
34
Nellie M. Fewkes,
2
24
24
22
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0
15
0
10
32
12
32
0
00
1
10
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TOWN WARRANT.
ARTICLES IN THE WARRANT FOR THE ANNUAL TOWN MEETING, MARCH 14th, 1892, AT 12 O'CLOCK, M.
1. To choose a Moderator to preside in said meeting.
2. To vote the pay of the Treasurer and Collector for his serviecs the ensuing year.
3. To choose all necessary Town Officers for the ensuing year as fol- lows : One Town Clerk, one Treasurer and Collector, three Selectmen, three Assessors, one School Committec for 3 years, one Road Commisioner for 2 years, one Road Commissioner for 3 years, seven Constables, three Fish Wardens, three Oyster Wardens, Field Drivers, Fence Viewers, Measurers of wood and lumber, Pound-keeper, etc., etc.
4. To hear the reports of any Town Officers or Committees.
5. To raise such sums of money as may be necessary to defray the expenses of the Town for the ensuing year, and to determine in what way, and how it shall be appropriated.
6. To determine in what way the highways and bridges shall be re- paired the ensuing year.
7. To take action of the Juror List as prepared by the Selectmen.
8. To see what sum of money the Town will vote to expend on Memorial Day.
9. To see if the Town will reconsider its acceptance of Sections 74, 75, 76 and 77, of Chapter 27 of the Public Statutes, agreeable to a petition of J. W. Thrasher and nine others.
10. To bring in their votes, Yes or No, in answer to the question, "Shall Licenses be granted to this Town, for the sale of In- toxicating Liquors."
11. To see if the Town will authorize the Treasurer to hire moncy in anticipation of taxes for the present year.
12. To see if the Town will vote to repair the buildings at the Town Farm, and appropriate money for the same.
13. To see what action the Town will take towards providing a Pub- lic Library according to Chapter 347, Acts of 1890, and appro- priate money for the same.
14. To see if the Town will approriate money for building a vault for the preservation of Town Records, and Town Books, accord- ing to a report of the Committee chosen to investigate the same.
15. To transact any other business that may legally come before the meeting.
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