A Rapid Survey of the Massachusetts Educational System
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School reports render- ed by the school committees were first required in 1838. For that year returns from 298 towns, and reports from 170 towns were received. This was the period when female teachers were hired for winter schools as an experiment, in con- sequence of which many schools could be kept six and one half months instead of two and one half months ; when the larger scholars of a district * 'have been accustomed to turn upon their heels and go home, whenever, upon approaching the scho...ol- house , they have seen the chaise of the committee- man in the yard" ; when a multiplicity of text-books was the rule ; when prudential committees vied with the town committees and vice versa ; when there was a total lack of apparatus ; when there was an almost utter indifference on the part of the parents ; when the cheapest teachers were sought ; when expenditure upon private schools often exceeded that upon the public schools ; when monitorial schools flourished ; when schools were closed on ac- count of the incompetency of the teachers ; when 64 SCHOOL RETURNS OF 1838-39 the length of the school year differed greatly hi different places ; when schools were sometimes kept in basements of private houses, and so forth, and so forth.
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