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5. The minimum salary of principals of the Pond and Union Primary schools shall be $500 per school year of forty weeks and their maximum salary shall be $560.
6. The annual increase of salary of teachers enumerated in sections 3, 4 and 5 shall be $20 for each teacher until the max- imum salary is reached, provided such increase be voted by the School Committee.
7. The minimum salary of assistant teachers in the High
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school shall be $500 per school year of forty weeks and the maximum salary of such teachers shall be $750. The annual increase in the, salary of the High school assistants, shall be $40 ' provided such increase be voted by the school committee.
8. The salary of teachers of the district schools, shall be: $400 per school year of forty weeks.
9. The salary of trainers in kindergartens shall be $60 per school year of forty weeks.
10. Experience in teaching, whether in or out of town, may be considered in fixing the salaries of teachers.
11. The salary of a temporary substitute teacher in any grade of the elementary schools shall be two-thirds of the minimum salary of a regular assistant teacher in such grade.
TEACHERS' TRAINING SCHOOL.
The following regulations control the admission of students,. as trainers for teachers, to the Braintrees schools :
1. No more than eight students may be admitted to the public schools of Braintree to prepare for the service of teach- ing.
2. To be admitted to this preparatory class the students shall have been residents of Braintree at least one year, and shall be graduates of a High School of approved standard, or give satisfactory evidence of education of a corresponding grade and shall posses superior scholarship, good moral character, and shall give indications of personal force, and refinement of speech and manners,-in short, "a happy native endowment, including physique, presence, health, temper, scholarly power,. tact, patience, ambition, moral spirit, lovableness."
3. Students can be admitted to this class regularly during the first month of the school year. They may be admitted at. other times only by special vote of the School Committee. All. admissions must meet the approval of the School Committee .. Members of this class may be notified by the School Committee. that their connections with the public schools have ceased,. when in the judgment of said committee such students are dis- qualified for the service of teaching.
4. Students who enter this class must sign a pledge to perform faithfully all work reasonably required of them, to remain in the class until the end of the school year in June, to be constant and punctual in attendance, and to be present at all teachers' meetings of which they are notified, if not excused. They shall also sign an agreement not to become an applicant for a posi- tion as teacher in the public schools of Braintree until they have taught successfully in other schools at least one year.
5. They shall pursue courses, as outlined by the Superinten- dent of Schools ; [1] in educational psychology, the history of education and the general principles of pedagogics ; [2] in school organization and management ; [3] in school discipline-
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and hygiene; and [4] in methods of teaching the different. branches of the school curriculum.
6. They shall observe and practice in the schools under the general direction of the Superintendent and the special direc- tion of the principal of the school in which they are placed.
7. During the first five months of their membership in the class, they shall not be given the independent control of a class of pupils, except as substitutes to supply temporary vacancies in the regular teaching force. At no time shall their teaching practice be permitted to be detrimental to the pupils.
8. The regular substitutes shall, as far as possible, be chosen from the students who have been members of this class more than five months. No one who has not been a member of the class five months, shall substitute in the same vacancy more than five days at a time unless such substituting is perfectly sat- isfactory to the School Committee and Superintendent.
9. The pay of the students of this class, while substituting,. shall be the same as of all regular substitutes.
10. A certificate will be granted to all students who com- plete satisfactorily the year's course.
Although a teachers' training school had been under consider- ation since September, 1898, the above regulations were not ap- proved until November 18, 1899. This was too late to permit applicants to take the regular course during the present school year. Miss Ethel M. Brooks and Miss Edith P. Lawson are. members of this class during the present school year.
Perhaps it ought to be said that educational people do not generally consider preparation for teaching in such a training class as is indicated above a satisfactory substitute for normal or college training. The class has been established with a de- sire to help our worthy young men and women who do not wish to attend a normal school or college, to study and practice teach- ing at home.
An increasing number of our best teachers have accepted more attractive positions, elsewhere. While our salaries are low in comparison with the standard that we are striving to reach, many other considerations, such as a congenial social life, official encouragement and sympathy, and opportunity to do one's best, have done much to retain good teachers; and some tempting offers have been declined. We are under continued obligations to Mr. Thomas A. Watson for paying extra salaries of superior teachers, in one case at the rate of one hundred and fifty dollars a year, to keep them from accepting other positions.
Miss Annie E. Crowell has gone to Haverhill ; Miss Ethel E. Roberts and Miss Emily A. Lapham to Brockton; and Miss 1 Theresa G. O'Rouke to Brookline.
The standard of work in our schools is constantly improving. The pupils of the grammar schools have been given two tests in spelling during the past year, on the same basis as the test
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given to the schools in 1879, by Mr. G. A. Walton, State In- spector, one by the Superintendent and the other by Dr. John T. Prince, State Inspector. Both tests revealed substantially the same condition - an improvement of about fifty per cent. of the earlier standard. While this represents a fair average of improvement in all other forms of mechanical drill, the greatest improvements have been in the development of rational thought and vital human interests, and of a higher ethical and æsthetic emotional life.
Our one great need is a more complete system of manual or industrial training. Our girls should be taught all forms of domestic service in accordance with the best standards, and our boys should be given a thorough training in wood and metal work in connection with industrial drawing. With this train- ing to take the place of some of the less practical things that are taught at present, our young people will be far more ser- viceable to society, will possess a higher intelligence, and will be able to enjoy life more fully. Can we not unite to do some- thing along these lines during the coming year ?
It seems enough to say that our High School membership has increased from one hundred three to one hundred thirty-six pupils. A strong corps of teachers is doing good work along all lines, but it must be apparent to all that an ideal High School cannot be had in cramped apartments on the third floor of a grammar school building. The results of the commercial training are beginning to be manifest. A number of girls have taken first-class positions and are doing their work with much credit. In short, the school has been unable to supply the de- mand for service in this direction.
I cannot help feeling deeply grateful to the people of Brain- tree for their kindly indulgence and continued loyalty and support. A growing cordial and sympathetic co-operation of parents and teachers is apparent. The aims and purposes of both are the same. Good schools must be made by us all work- ing unitedly together. I wish our citizens to know how much I appreciate kindly criticism. I have striven with all my power to help make our schools most highly serviceable to the chil- dren, and I am sure that no one has a keener appreciation than I have of their defects.
Our schools owe much to the fidelity, high purpose, intelli- gence and watchful e s of the School Committee. The harmony and good will that have prevailed in the school department during the past year have been due largely to the fairness of your Board. I am deeply grateful to you for uniform kindly consideration. I am under deep obligations to our teachers for their loyalty and faithfulness.
Respectfully, IRVING W. HORNE, Superintendent of Schools.
BRAINTREE, MASS., February 14, 1900.
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REPORT OF PROGRESS OF THE BUILDING COM- MITTEE OF THE PENNIMAN SCHOOLHOUSE.
c. Mitchell. Architect WLi Gerry
As the Penniman schoolhouse is nearly completed and a final report cannot be made to the town until the next annual report is published, the Building Committee has thought it wise to make a general report of progress.
The accompanying cuts of the building and the first and second floors give a better idea of the general appearance and the plan of the building than any description in words can give. As will be seen, there are two class rooms of the regular size, a large recitation room and a spacious corridor and pupils' ward- robe on each floor. The basement contains three large Smith &. Anthony schoolhouse furnaces, a coal room of about forty tons capacity, two play rooms, bicycle rooms, a janitor's room and the water closets and sanitaries. A cesspool receiving the drainage from the building, is placed three or, four hundred feet below the building on the edge of the meadow, the donor
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of the land, Mr. N. E. Hollis, having deeded his cesspool right to the town.
The house is built of brick, the class rooms are double windowed, and the roof is covered with slate. The roof is so framed as to give an unfinished. room on the third floor of suf- ficient size to be finished into a hall capable of seating about 600 people, or of being adapted to any other use. The rooms are equippod with closets for books etc., and toilet rooms are con- nected with the recitation room on the second floor.
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The building is so designed as to admit of economical exten- sion to an eight-room schoolhouse.
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The work thus far done gives promise of a building of neat, substantial and economical construction. The Building Com- mittee feel under great obligations to Mr. Hollis for donating the lot, because it seemed impossible to pay for a lot and build a house worthy of the town within the appropriation.
Mr. George H. Arnold and Mr. George H. Holbrook of the Building Committee are a special committee on construction.
For the Building Committee,
GEORGE H. ARNOLD, Chairman. IRVING W. HORNE, Secretary.
BRAINTREE, MASS., January 27, 1900.
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INDEX.
PAGE.
Abatement of Taxes
2
.
.
.
. 33
Aggregates, Table of .
.
.
.
54
Assessors' Account
39
Assets of Town
47
Appropriations of 1899
4
Auditor's Report
54
Births of 1899 .
74
Braintree Poor Department .
11
Braintree School Fund, Treasurer's report
50
Court fees and expenses
33
Deaths of 1899
82
Electric Light Department, Report of Manager Town Appropriation
57
Financial Statement .
46
Fire Department, Report of Engineer
69
Pay of Menibers .
35
Inciden al Expenses
36
Hydrant Service Account ·
38
Grand Army Account .
34
Highways Account .
24
Hospital Account ·
17
Incidental Expenses . .
19
Inmates of Almshouse
13
Insurance Account
48
Jury List of 1900
130
Liabilities of Town
44
Marriages of 1899
78
Night Police
33
Poor out of Alinshonse Accounts
13
Recapitulation
38
Schools, Report of School Committee Members of Board.
138
Report of Superintendent .
141
Pay of Teachers ·
.
5
Pay of Janitors . ·
.
.
17
Fuel Account .
.
7
.
.
57
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
137
.
168
Conveyance of Pupils Account
7
Salary of Superintendent .
·
7
Text Books and Supplies
7
Incidentals for Schools .
8
School House Repairs and Incidentals
Selectmen and Assessors, Overseers of Poor, and Highway Sur- .
veyors, Report of
3
Sinking Fund Accounts
.
.
51
Soidiers' Relief Account
17
State Aid Account ·
.
18 49
Thayer Public Library, Report of Trustees .
127
Report of Librarian
Financial Account
129
Report of Treasurer
129
Town Hall Account .
32
Town Lands .
34
Town Officers of 1899, List of Pay of
2
Town Records
86 41
Warrant for Annual Town Meeting of 1899 .
132
Water Commissioners, Report of
112
Report of Treasurer
.
·
126
Financial .
.
.
115
Reports of Collections
·
.
119
Sinking Fund Account,
51
Superintendent's Report
120
.
.
.
.
.
.
·
23
Town Treasurer's Report
·
.
.
8
Taxes, Report of Collector
.
127
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