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<br /> ino,, so as to give us two recitation rooms, —one to be Howard, 49 6 21 4-3 parents.
<br /> fitted fir an apparatus' room, ante-rooms for boys and girls, Warren, 52 5 21 4 1
<br /> uid. water-closets aifd other conveniences in the basement• Hancock,- Grammar, 70 8 34 40
<br /> We have a plan by which this can be done at a reasonable 96 Intermediate, 57 13 33 25
<br /> cost, but without further sua;estions prefer to ask the iG Primary, 115 38 31 35
<br /> town to appoint a committee to examine into the matter, high School, ,59 17 24 75
<br /> Obtain plans and estimates, and report at the April meeting. --- -- --
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<br /> REVIEW OF TSE YEAR.
<br /> When it is considered that many of the visits by the,coin-
<br /> The annual exaninatiOns seemed for the most part to give mittee have not been mere,calls, but have continued from
<br /> satisf+ction to the people, and 'pelhaps the schools appeared the beginning to the close of a session, and that many hours
<br /> as well is we could reasoirably expect, yet -we must confess have been devoted to the schools outside of the school-roorn,
<br /> we are,tiot fully satisfied with the results of the year. it will be seen that we have given quite as much time to the
<br /> We have been even more earnest in our work and have work as can be reasonably asked, and yet out- schools are
<br /> devoted quite as much time to it as in former years, yet we are _ suffer•iug from lack of supervision. Frequent visits ley par-
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<br /> couscious that our schools would be much benefited by a A ents, their encouragement and honest criticism, will-be of
<br /> more extended supervision than we axe able to give them. t` great benefit to the schools, teachers, and even committee,
<br /> Such supervision as is needed the town is hardly able :at and we hope to be able to make a better record in this re-
<br /> present to afford. But the efforts of the committee may be Bard next year.
<br /> made more effective by the encouragement and assistance of We have llrad changes of teachers during the year in the
<br /> the parents.. The apparent apathy of a large portion of the Warren and Howard Schools.
<br /> parents for' the work of the school is lamentable. It is At the close of the first term the teacher of the Warren re-
<br /> hardly to be conceived that a parent generally careful in re- signed, to seek a more lucrative position elsewhere, giving
<br /> gard to-the welfare of the child should allow year afterus little time to fill 'the vacancy. The school was large stud
<br /> year to go by without approaching the school-room. somewhat difficult, and we felt 'the rzecep ty of appointing a
<br /> Our teachers have kept a careful record ,of all the visits teacher of experience known to us. With much hesitation,
<br /> m ide by the committee, parents, and others, which we ;rive ' oil account of the loss to the Howard School, we transf'errecl
<br /> below ;-- Miss Jackson to the Warren, and appointed Miss Harriugrton,
<br /> Whole No. Visits-of Visits of At one of otir High School (graduates,, and more recently a pupil
<br /> of visits. parents. committee. examinations, in the Boston Normal School, to the vacancy in the Howard.
<br /> Adams, Grammar, 42 7 19 35 Again, when the Hancock Primary School was. divided, we
<br /> i{ Intermediate:, 71 16 22 40 ` - felt that Miss Harringtou'S services were. we rth more to the
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<br /> << Primary, 79 30 19 35 town in one of these divisions than at the Howard, and von-
<br /> • Bowditch,- 58 18 24 11.-5 parents. turgid to make the transfer. We appointed Miss M. A.
<br /> Franklin, 20 1 16 4- 1
<br /> Gustiu, of Woburn, a teacher of considerable experience, to
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