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Miss Dorothy Driscoll, Center Schools
64 40
Miss Mary E. Shea, Center Schools
180 00
Miss Ellen Harlow, Center Schools
97 50
Miss Annie M. Salmon, Center Schools
310 50
Miss Marguerite McPartland, Center Schools 182 00
Miss Elizabeth Savage, Center Schools 394 00
Miss Annie E. Deery, Center Schools
75 00
Miss Alice M. Conolly, Center Schools
244 75
Miss Rachel Ballou, Center Schools
30 00
Miss Susie C. O'Connor, Substitute
35 00
Miss Beryl T. Walcott, Substitute
7 50
Miss Harriet A. Allen, Substitute
20 00
Miss Mary Derry, Substitute
18 50
Miss Kathyrine Plunkett, Substitute
12 00
Miss Clara Anderson, North Rutland
312 40
Miss Orpha Coburn, North Rutland
61 60
Miss Eleanor Upham, Substitute
2 00
Miss Dorothy Doon, West Rutland
216 60
Miss Catherine O'Leary, West Rutland
143 00
$4,448 25
TRANSPORTATION
Matthew J. Cullen
$323 13
Wm. H. Hammond
312 40
Deller Laton
117 40
W. R. Upham
249 60
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Merrill Wheeler Julia L. Davis Wallace Seger A. L. Potter
247 50
184 20
20 00
3 00
17 00
$1,474 23
SUPERVISION
James E. Childs, Superintendent
$262 50
George E. Caswell, Superintendent
215 61
Louis M. Hanff, School Committee
25 00
William C. Temple, School Committee
15 00
C. H. Risley, school census 15 00
Louis M. Hanff, postage and telephone
7 75
James E. Childs, office supplies and postage
14 52
George E. Caswell, office supplies and postage 6 26
Edw. H. Tripp, printing school reports
11 75
$573 39
BOOKS
Edw. E. Babb & Co.
$73 56
Ginn & Co.
3 80
D. C. Heath & Co.
33 69
Oliver Ditson Co.
3 62
World Book Co.
2 47
Silver-Burdett Co.
10 02
Macmillan Co.
11 50
A. A. Palmer Co.
3 98
Hinds, Noble Co.
10 16
Hines, Hayden & Eldridge
1 26
American Book Co.
4 96
$159 02
G. E. Caswell
60
SUPPLIES
J. L. Hammell Co.
$52 99
B. N. Parker Co.
11 70
Willis Knight
20 30
Wright & Potter Co.
52
Central Supply Co.
2 50
George H. Miles
6 80
C. H. Risley
75
Town of Holden
1 00
James E. Childs
5 60
C. H. Wellsby
3 21
Lord & Stone
3 00
E. H. Tripp, printing
15 50
Clara Bascom
2 00
George E. Caswell
6 26
$132 13
JANITORS AND FUEL
Center Schools
$951 40
West Rutland, janitor
15 00
North Rutland, janitor
16 00
H. W. Calkins, wood
61 00
$1,043 40
SCHOOL CALENDAR
Spring Term-Mar. 31, 1919, to June 20, 1919. Grades, 12 weeks. High School, to June 27, 1919, 13 weeks.
Fall Term-Sept. 2, 1919, to Nov. 21, 1919, 12 weeks.
Winter Term-Dec. 1, 1919, to Dec. 19, 1919. 3 weeks. Dec. 29, 1919, to Feb. 20, 1920. Grades, 7 weeks. High School, to Mar. 20. 12 weeks.
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GRADUATING CLASS, 1918, RUTLAND HIGH SCHOOL
Albina Beatrice Celle, Salutatory Windsor Bigelow Griffin Eva Mae Hatstat, Historian Hymie Solomon Pontinovitz Elizabeth Annabel Wheeler, Rufus Dodge Putnam*
Valedictory
Enlisted in United States Army.
Respectfully submitted, WILLIAM C. TEMPLE, GEORGE N. LAPHAM, LOUIS M. HANFF, School Committee.
Rutland, January 1, 1919.
ROLL OF HONOR
The following were neither absent nor tardy during the year 1917-1918: Earl Santiman Doris Prescott Edward Prescott Bertha Oliver
ENROLLMENT BY GRADES, DECEMBER 31, 1918
SCHOOL
I BG
II BG
III BG
IV B G
V B G
VI BG
VII B G
VIII BG
TOTALS B G
Center
8
3
3
7
5
4
4
10
6
7
1
4
9
9 7
11
53
45
North
2
3
3
3
2
2
3
2
5
1
2
2
1
2
0
1
18
16
West
2
1
3
0
2
1
3
1
2
3
1
2
-
-
-
13
8
Totals 153
12
7
9
10
9
7
10
13
13
11
4
8
10
11
7
12
84
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HIGH SCHOOL
FRESHMEN
SOPHOMORES
JUNIORS
SENIOR
Boys, 5
Boys, 1
Boys, 3
Boys, 0
Total: 20
Girls 4
Girls 1
Girls, 3
Girls, 3
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REPORT OF THE SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS
Holden, Mass., January 1, 1919.
To the School Committee of the Town of Rutland:
Gentlemen :- I submit herewith my first report as your superintendent of schools, covering the period of August 1 to December 31, 1918, inclusive.
High School
The high school reopened in the early fall under the principal- ship of R. E. Shepard, a graduate of Oberlin College with several years' teaching experience. The enrollment for the present year is twenty, and it was decided by the Committee to fill the vacancy caused by the unexpected resignation of Miss Nellie McKnight with the appointment of a junior high teacher who could carry on the regular high school courses as well as instruct the upper elementary grades. This plan has worked out well for both schools. It has raised the standard of the grammar grades and has closed the break which has hitherto existed between the grammar work and secondary courses. Financially, it has reduced by a large sum the annual cost for teaching service.
I would suggest means for further increasing the school efficiency and reducing the yearly cost for school maintenance. By eliminating the last three years' work in the Rutland High School and by transporting the sophomores, juniors, and seniors in automobile barge to the Holden High School, it would be possible to carry out the aims mentioned above. By having only one year of secondary teaching, it would not require two high- salaried instructors, but only a junior high teacher who would carry on successfully the courses of the seventh, eighth, and
64
ninth year requirements. This would save the Committee at least $2,100 for teachers' salaries.
Estimating the cost per pupil for tuition at about $60, the total expenditure for eleven pupils to receive instruction in Hol- den would be $660. Figuring $1,000 for automobile transporta- tion and a saving of $700 or more for fuel and school supplies, it would leave a balance of $1,000 or more to be saved for other town expenditures or for the reduction of the tax rate. With the cost of school maintenance rising higher every year, there is now an opportunity to consider a plan which would not only benefit the high school pupils, but would solve a problem of town finances.
The advantages that would accrue to Rutland High School students would be as follows: more efficient instruction under higher-salaried teachers than the town can afford to hire and find boarding places for; better school plant and equipment for imparting secondary instruction; contact with a larger member- ship of pupils, with its competitive influences; larger school activi- ties, such as sports, debates, musical clubs, and plays.
In order to conform to increasing demands for the enrich- ment of high school courses of study and the equipment to carry out the same it will require higher salaries for teachers and more costly expenditures for books, papers, etc. It would be far more practical and business-like to consolidate the last three years of high school work at Holden than to attempt to meet the increas- ing school competition of to-day. Consolidation of high schools in nearby towns into one big school is the demand of to-day and the cure for increasing financial school maintenance.
Elementary Schools
We have had the regular number of changes in our grade teaching corps, but we have been unusually fortunate to obtain competent teachers to fill their places when the supply of teach- ers has been reduced to a minimum on account of war conditions. At the present time, their aim is to overcome the handicap of the unexpected five weeks' vacation; and if we can secure good attendance from our pupils for the balance of the year, it is
65
hoped to have accomplished a fair year's work. Will the parents please do their part in order to help the teacher and also in order to promote the welfare of our future citizens? Courses in hygiene, civics, and physical training should be introduced in all of the upper grades in order to conform to the best universal school standards.
At North Rutland, the children have organized a "Civic League," the pupils drawing up the resolutions, electing the officers, and carrying on the meetings.
At West Rutland, a play was presented by the children on short notice before an audience of over fifty grown folks, and the interest shown by the parents in the presentation pleased the school very much. The seventh and eighth grades have been sent to the Center building; and as a result of the change, better work has been accomplished.
Electric lights should be installed in this schoolhouse, as the lighting facilities are extremely poor. The expense for providing artificial light is nothing to be compared with the physical dam- age to the eye vision of twenty-four children.
Repairs
The walls and ceiling of the West rural school need repainting and the floor oiled. The heating plant requires immediate clean- ing, and a jacket placed around it.
New seats and desks for the North Rutland school are needed at once. The attendance has been reduced by the present double-seating plan. The present conditions are unsanitary and constantly work against school efficiency. Discipline is difficult to maintain under the present arrangement.
Music
At the present time, we have no music supervision under a trained director or a systematic course of musical development. It is a "hit or miss" plan. All grade teachers do not possess musical talent, and we have this defect in our present teaching corps. We have a sad defect to remedy in the Rutland schools.
66
Fortunately in the Center building, there is a teacher of the intermediate grade who is a graduate of the New England Con- servatory of Music, and who is especially equipped to promote a course of music. By changing with the different teachers on the departmental plan, it is possible to begin a progressive course, starting with the first grade and ending with the high school. Music is just as essential in promoting good citizenship and efficiency as any other subject taught in our public schools to-day. If a special appropriation of $100 could be obtained this year, the work can be started at once. I am willing to carry the music teacher to North Rutland and West Rutland in my machine, twice a month, without any expense to the citizens. I hope that the community will not fail to provide a proper, necessary musi- cal education for the future citizens of Rutland.
With sincere appreciation for the kindness which has been accorded me on every hand, this report is
Respectfully submitted,
GEORGE E. CASWELL, Superintendent of Schools.
HIS11US, 1917-1910
SCHOOL
TEACHER
TRAINING
BEGAN HERE
AVERAGE
MEMBERSHIP
AVERAGE
ATTENDANCE
PER CENT. OF
ATTENDANCE
TARDY
MARK
ENROLLED
DEC. 1918
High
Raymond E. Shepard Vera E. Arnold
Oberlin College Boston University Middlebury College
Sept. 1918
20
16.65
83.25
8
20
Sept. 1918
Grammar
Ellen Harlow
Junior H. S. Course, Salem Normal
Sept. 1918
28
22.1
78.8
12
28
Grammar
Anne E. Deery Mary E. Shea
Worcester Normal Worcester Normal
Sept. 1918 Sept. 1918
20
17.9
89.5
1
20
Intermediate
Anna M. Salmon Rachel Ballou
Worcester Normal N. E. Conservatory of Music
Mar. 1918
Nov. 1918
23
19.92
86.60
18
23
Primary
Elizabeth Savage
Framingham
April 1917
20
15.31
75.02
0
21
North
Orpha H. Coburn
Student Teacher, Lowell Normal
April 1918
32
22.76
70.44
17
36
West
Catherine O'Leary
Worcester Normal
Sept. 1918
21
18
85.70
2
24
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REPORT OF THE HIGH SCHOOL PRINCIPAL
Rutland, Mass., January 3, 1919.
To the Superintendent of Schools,
Dear Sir :- Owing to the epidemic of influenza, the school was closed for five weeks in the fall term, and for about two weeks in November the attendance was very poor. This condition was regretted but unavoidable. We were fortunate in securing able substitutes when the regular teachers were not present.
We have attempted to meet this interruption by a faithful emphasis upon the essentials of our class-room work. We are not unmindful of the many enriching variations of our regular school courses, but under the present conditions we aim to make first things first.
With the present small enrollment in the high school it seemed unnecessary to secure a successor to Miss McKnight, who resigned in October. Miss Arnold, the remaining assistant, has an excellent equipment of scholarship and experience for the work. In order to meet this change two high school classes are taken by Miss Harlow, the teacher of the seventh and eighth grades. We are fortunate to be able to conform the instruction in the two last grades more nearly to the plan of junior high school methods.
In a small high school where there are few teachers and these frequently changed, it seems advisable to revise the course of study each year in order to meet most effectively the needs of the students. It should be remembered in this connection that fre- quently the easy studies are those of least permanent value. The future aims of each student should be well considered before his year's program is decided upon.
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The teacher of our third and fourth grades, Miss Ballou, is especially well fitted to give instruction in music. We hope to emphasize this work in the high school this year.
It is probable that, without added expense to the town, special classes can be provided in both domestic arts and agriculture.
Our school has gained an enviable record in its contribution to the United War Work Fund and in its purchase of War Savings and Thrift Stamps. We hope to emphasize, persistently, the spirit of patriotism in all our school work.
A vital and active interest on the part of every parent of students in school can do more to improve the school than any other factor. With most constant and conscientious effort the teachers can only give the students the opportunity to gain an education.
I wish to express my gratitude for the co-operation of parents and teachers that has contributed to the success of the present year.
Respectfully submitted,
R. E. SHEPHERD,
Principal.
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REPORT OF SALES OF WAR SAVINGS AND THRIFT STAMPS DECEMBER 31, 1918
School
Grades
Enrollment
No. of Pupils Owning Stamps
Total Value (both kinds) in dollars and cents
High
9-12
20
14
$188 59
Center
7,8
29
26
385 00
Center
5, 6
18
5
38 23
Center
3, 4
23
10
44 50
Center
1, 2
21
5
10 46
North
1- 8
36
7
27 50
West
1- 6
21
17
77 50
Totals
1-12
168
74
$771 78
Per cent. of ownership for school enrollment : 44%.
Average per capita of onwership: $10.43.
REPORTS
OF THE
Schools of the Town OF
RUTLAND
DED
FEB.
23, 17/3
ETTS.S
HOME OF ... Vi RUFUS PUTNAM . 1781-1788
FOR THE YEAR 1918
ANNUAL REPORTS
OF THE
School Committee and Super- intendent of Schools
FOR THE YEAR ENDING DECEMBER 31 1918
DED
FEB. 23, 17/3
*
ETTS.SI
HOME OF RUFUS PUTNAM . 1781-1788
Printed by THE COMMONWEALTH PRESS WORCESTER, MASS. 1919
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REPORT OF THE SCHOOL COMMITTEE For the Year Ending December 31, 1918
For the attendance by schools and terms, see statistical table in the Superintendent's report.
FINANCIAL STATEMENT
Town appropriation
$5,800 00
State, Superintendent's salary
312 50
State, for High School
500 00
State, Income Massachusetts School Fund 1,015 99 State, tuition 105 00
Town of Hubbardston, tuition
50 00
Promotion of health
25 00
Balance from 1917
82 21
$7,890 70
TOTAL EXPENSE OF MAINTAINING SCHOOLS
Salaries of teachers
$4,448 25
Transportation
1,474 23
Supervision
573 39
Books and supplies
291 15
Janitors and fuel, North and West Rutland
92 00
Center schools and janitor and fuel
951 40
Unexpended balance
$7,830 42
60 28
$7,890 70
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SALARIES OF TEACHERS
C. Harold Risley, Principal, High School $698 75 Raymond E. Shepherd, Principal, High School 455 00
Miss Vivien M. Lewis, Assistant, High School 323 75 Miss Nellie E. McKnight, Assistant, High School 383 75
Miss Vera E. Arnold, Assistant, High School 101 50
Mrs. Helen Potter, Substitute, High School 82 75
Miss Dorothy Driscoll, Center Schools
64 40
Miss Mary E. Shea, Center Schools
180 00
Miss Ellen Harlow, Center Schools
97 50
Miss Annie M. Salmon, Center Schools
310 50
Miss Marguerite McPartland, Center Schools 182 00
Miss Elizabeth Savage, Center Schools
394 00
Miss Annie E. Deery, Center Schools
75 00
Miss Alice M. Conolly, Center Schools
244 75
Miss Rachel Ballou, Center Schools
30 00
Miss Susie C. O'Connor, Substitute
35 00
Miss Beryl T. Walcott, Substitute
7 50
Miss Harriet A. Allen, Substitute
20 00
Miss Mary Derry, Substitute
18 50
Miss Kathyrine Plunkett, Substitute
12 00
Miss Clara Anderson, North Rutland
312 40
Miss Orpha Coburn, North Rutland
61 60
Miss Eleanor Upham, Substitute
2 00
Miss Dorothy Doon, West Rutland
216 60
Miss Catherine O'Leary, West Rutland
143 00
$4,448 25
TRANSPORTATION
Matthew J. Cullen
$323 13
Wm. H. Hammond
312 40
Deller Laton
117 40
W. R. Upham
249 60
5
Merrill Wheeler Julia L. Davis Wallace Seger A. L. Potter
247 50
184 20
20 00
3 00
G. E. Caswell
17 00
$1,474 23
SUPERVISION
James E. Childs, Superintendent
$262 50
George E. Caswell, Superintendent
215 61
Louis M. Hanff, School Committee
25 00
William C. Temple, School Committee
15 00
C. H. Risley, school census 15 00
Louis M. Hanff, postage and telephone
7 75
James E. Childs, office supplies and postage
14 52
George E. Caswell, office supplies and postage 6 26
Edw. H. Tripp, printing school reports
11 75
$573 39
BOOKS
Edw. E. Babb & Co.
$73 56
Ginn & Co.
3 80
D. C. Heath & Co.
33 69
Oliver Ditson Co.
3 62
World Book Co.
2 47
Silver-Burdett Co.
10 02
Macmillan Co.
11 50
A. A. Palmer Co.
3 98
Hinds, Noble Co.
10 16
Hines, Hayden & Eldridge
1 26
American Book Co.
4 96
$159 02
6
SUPPLIES
J. L. Hammell Co.
$52 99
B. N. Parker Co.
11 70
Willis Knight
20 30
Wright & Potter Co.
52
Central Supply Co.
2 50
George H. Miles
6 80
C. H. Risley
75
Town of Holden
1 00
James E. Childs
5 60
C. H. Wellsby
3 21
Lord & Stone
3 00
E. H. Tripp, printing
15 50
Clara Bascom
2 00
George E. Caswell
6 26
$132 13
JANITORS AND FUEL
Center Schools
$951 40
West Rutland, janitor
15 00
North Rutland, janitor
16 00
H. W. Calkins, wood
61 00
$1,043 40
SCHOOL CALENDAR
Spring Term-Mar. 31, 1919, to June 20, 1919. Grades, 12 weeks. High School, to June 27, 1919, 13 weeks.
Fall Term-Sept. 2, 1919, to Nov. 21, 1919, 12 weeks.
Winter Term-Dec. 1, 1919, to Dec. 19, 1919. 3 weeks. Dec. 29, 1919, to Feb. 20, 1920. Grades, 7 weeks. High School, to Mar. 20. 12 weeks.
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GRADUATING CLASS, 1918, RUTLAND HIGH SCHOOL
Albina Beatrice Celle, Salutatory Windsor Bigelow Griffin Eva Mae Hatstat, Historian Hymie Solomon Pontinovitz Elizabeth Annabel Wheeler, Rufus Dodge Putnam*
Valedictory
*Enlisted in United States Army.
Respectfully submitted, WILLIAM C. TEMPLE, GEORGE N. LAPHAM, LOUIS M. HANFF,
School Committee.
Rutland, January 1, 1919.
ROLL OF HONOR
The following were neither absent nor tardy during the year 1917-1918: Earl Santiman Doris Prescott Edward Prescott Bertha Oliver
ENROLLMENT BY GRADES, DECEMBER 31, 1918
SCHOOL
I II BGBG
III BG
IV BG
V BG
VI BG
VII
VIII B G
TOTALS B G
Center
8
3
3
7
5
4
4
10
6
7
1
4
9
9
7
11
53
45
North
2
3
3
3
2
2
3
2
5
1
2
2
1
2
0
1
18
16
West
2
1
3
0
2
1
3
1
2
3
1
2
-
-
-
-
13
8
Totals 153
12
7
9
10
9
7
10
13
13
11
4
8
10
11
7
12
84
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HIGH SCHOOL
FRESHMEN
SOPHOMORES
JUNIORS
SENIOR
Boys, 5
Boys, 1
Boys, 3
Boys, 0
Total: 20
Girls 4
Girls 1
Girls, 3
Girls, 3
B G
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REPORT OF THE SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS
Holden, Mass., January 1, 1919.
To the School Committee of the Town of Rutland :
Gentlemen :- I submit herewith my first report as your superintendent of schools, covering the period of August 1 to December 31, 1918, inclusive.
High School
The high school reopened in the early fall under the principal- ship of R. E. Shepard, a graduate of Oberlin College with several years' teaching experience. The enrollment for the present year is twenty, and it was decided by the Committee to fill the vacancy caused by the unexpected resignation of Miss Nellie McKnight with the appointment of a junior high teacher who could carry on the regular high school courses as well as instruct the upper elementary grades. This plan has worked out well for both schools. It has raised the standard of the grammar grades and has closed the break which has hitherto existed between the grammar work and secondary courses. Financially, it has reduced by a large sum the annual cost for teaching service.
I would suggest means for further increasing the school efficiency and reducing the yearly cost for school maintenance. By eliminating the last three years' work in the Rutland High School and by transporting the sophomores, juniors, and seniors in automobile barge to the Holden High School, it would be possible to carry out the aims mentioned above. By having only one year of secondary teaching, it would not require two high- salaried instructors, but only a junior high teacher who would carry on successfully the courses of the seventh, eighth, and
10
ninth year requirements. This would save the Committee at least $2,100 for teachers' salaries.
Estimating the cost per pupil for tuition at about $60, the total expenditure for eleven pupils to receive instruction in Hol- den would be $660. Figuring $1,000 for automobile transporta- tion and a saving of $700 or more for fuel and school supplies, it would leave a balance of $1,000 or more to be saved for other town expenditures or for the reduction of the tax rate. With the cost of school maintenance rising higher every year, there is now an opportunity to consider a plan which would not only benefit the high school pupils, but would solve a problem of town finances.
The advantages that would accrue to Rutland High School students would be as follows: more efficient instruction under higher-salaried teachers than the town can afford to hire and find boarding places for; better school plant and equipment for imparting secondary instruction; contact with a larger member- ship of pupils, with its competitive influences; larger school activi- ties, such as sports, debates, musical clubs, and plays.
In order to conform to increasing demands for the enrich- ment of high school courses of study and the equipment to carry out the same it will require higher salaries for teachers and more costly expenditures for books, papers, etc. It would be far more practical and business-like to consolidate the last three years of high school work at Holden than to attempt to meet the increas- ing school competition of to-day. Consolidation of high schools in nearby towns into one big school is the demand of to-day and the cure for increasing financial school maintenance.
Elementary Schools
We have had the regular number of changes in our grade teaching corps, but we have been unusually fortunate to obtain competent teachers to fill their places when the supply of teach- ers has been reduced to a minimum on account of war conditions. At the present time, their aim is to overcome the handicap of the unexpected five weeks' vacation; and if we can secure good attendance from our pupils for the balance of the year, it is
11
hoped to have accomplished a fair year's work. Will the parents please do their part in order to help the teacher and also in order to promote the welfare of our future citizens? Courses in hygiene, civics, and physical training should be introduced in all of the upper grades in order to conform to the best universal school standards.
At North Rutland, the children have organized a "Civic League," the pupils drawing up the resolutions, electing the officers, and carrying on the meetings.
At West Rutland, a play was presented by the children on short notice before an audience of over fifty grown folks, and the interest shown by the parents in the presentation pleased the school very much. The seventh and eighth grades have been sent to the Center building; and as a result of the change, better work has been accomplished.
Electric lights should be installed in this schoolhouse, as the lighting facilities are extremely poor. The expense for providing artificial light is nothing to be compared with the physical dam- age to the eye vision of twenty-four children.
Repairs
The walls and ceiling of the West rural school need repainting and the floor oiled. The heating plant requires immediate clean- ing, and a jacket placed around it.
New seats and desks for the North Rutland school are needed at once. The attendance has been reduced by the present double-seating plan. The present conditions are unsanitary and constantly work against school efficiency. Discipline is difficult to maintain under the present arrangement.
Music
At the present time, we have no music supervision under a trained director or a systematic course of musical development. It is a "hit or miss" plan. All grade teachers do not possess musical talent, and we have this defect in our present teaching corps. We have a sad defect to remedy in the Rutland schools.
12
Fortunately in the Center building, there is a teacher of the intermediate grade who is a graduate of the New England Con- servatory of Music, and who is especially equipped to promote a course of music. By changing with the different teachers on the departmental plan, it is possible to begin a progressive course, starting with the first grade and ending with the high school. Music is just as essential in promoting good citizenship and efficiency as any other subject taught in our public schools to-day. If a special appropriation of $100 could be obtained this year, the work can be started at once. I am willing to carry the music teacher to North Rutland and West Rutland in my machine, twice a month, without any expense to the citizens. I hope that the community will not fail to provide a proper, necessary musi- cal education for the future citizens of Rutland.
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