1874-1875 School Committee Report

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S g for a short distance at the corner, and further trespass for To sum up, we need for the current year and ask you to gravel be prevented. approhr iate:— At the beginning of the school year in September, we anticipate the size of the High School to be such as to re- For instruction, fuel and care of rooms $10,750 .00 quire about twenty additional desks, which we must now schcrcrl i;;cicleutals and small repairs 500 00 provide for. Y furniture for High School 125 00 rhe•une hundred dollars appropriated last year for books repairs at Franklin School . . 125 UU of reference was fully expended, but made only a beginning � We recommend and strongly urge you to ap- i of a library which every school of such grade requires. propriate Our chemical apparatus also is sadly deficient, and we For repairs at the Bowditch School 250 00 strongly urge a small appropriation fjr each of these pur- furniture for Hancock School 300 00 poses. books and apparatus for High School 200 00 In our last report we referred to,the school furniture in — — some of our houses and recommended its removal. As ; $12,250 00 before stated; we have improved some of it by refinishing, While the aggregate of the amounts we have above.asked but we only regard this as temporary. We are still strongly for is less than that of last year, we are aware it is very of the opinion that the carved, uncomfortable, disgracefully large, yet we see no way in which the first four of the above dilapidated double desks should -be removed from all our items can be reduced a single dollar, and rur svhool5 con- ii school-rooms and replaced with comfortable single desks. time in their present condition, or in afar) manner satisfLc- We hardly expect all this to be done at once,—but gradually, tong to our people while the whole appropriation, and even and we, recommend a beginning at the Hancock Grammar more, will be a wise investment. School. We are sure that this would go very far toward trr' It will he remembered that for the last t',nee'years weJ proving the gnorale of that school and doubly= repay the town' have had only three classes in the High School, no class every year for the expense. being admitted in 1871, and 'yet the teachers have been It will be seen above that the expense of fuel and care,of l unable to do the work for the three classes, or, at least, in a houses f'or the year exceeded our estimates, and an increase ii manner satisfirctory to themselves. At the close of the of at least one hundred dollars for the former and of fifty "" present year in June no class will graduate, while a large dollars f>r the latter will be uecessar_Y• class will enter, filling the school'to its complement of four I We feel that the salaries of our teachers now enable us to classes, and adding one-third more to the school work. compete fairly with adjoining towns, and are quite aS large as When this takes place we do not see how it is passible for the town can well afford. We ask nothing therefore for two teachers to do the work even in an ordinary manner. In their increase., but it will be remembered that by vote of the our last report we called-your attention to this, and also sug- town, a new school has just been established, and, in con- '" gested that with another teacher we could so enlarge and sequence, another teacher employed. This adds to the ex- frame the course of instruction in that school that, to a eer- pense of instruction five hundred dollars. tain extent, each scholar might select such studies as con- formed to his circumstances and-intended career in life. As