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FROM Jlf Frultaflves IsufFrn ball of Female and I had of tho bod hate bo ope rati a M this medic I me of all a the Co what is t it Fruit -a- Wo box Oil trial siioloo At dealers postpaid by lbs a account Is It going to be gt of saved for it will account The and which knowledge something lit will tor building it up BRANCH day of FRANK by hi Ill it Can Save You Days a Year You from at least an pumping water for Stop losing this a Toronto Windmill and em how ill pay for Toronto Windmills Cost nothing to run Require f N ROGERS No grounds of adultery and di Dated Toronto In I of Ontario thU lay of usee Solicitor for Hie of a of Divorce from her Alexander Dillon of ihe lige of lit the Count ia the Province of On Miner on the ground of adultery Dated at the City of Ottawa I of Fifth day of MAY the honour lo submit to of North York for the year This Inspectorate included the north half of the containing the five townships of Georgia and East Whitchurch and King together wit towns and villages included therein There are in all and urban schools All the rural schools except are oneteacher schools During the year little change has occurred in the number of teachers or pupils except in the towns where the number of children lias increased beyond the limits of the school accommoda tions Receipts Balance from 1920 County Grants Legislative Grants Section Levies Temporary Loans Clergy Res Ac FINANCIAL STATEMENTS I Rural Schools il00000 Paid Teachers Improvements Maps Libraries Temporary 253338 23888110 11 Towns RECEIPTS NEWMARKET from Legislative Grant 37213 Town Levy 1800000 Loan Other Soulcos 11185 Payments Paid Teachers Improvements Libraries Ac Fuel Ac Balance III Villages RECEIPTS SUTTON HOLLAND LANDING from Legislative Giant 11350 School Tax Other PAYMENTS Paid Teachers Fuel Care o 30069 Balance on hand l Continuation Schools Receipts BUTTON from 1920 Legislative Grant Fund 1917 County Grant Township Grant 100000 village other sources Payments Paid Teachers Other expenses 30261 Balance on 132885 During ho early years of the war little increase was made in salaries and there was great difficulty in obtaining qualified teachers In the Department began giving to rural schools a special or sup plementary grant on all salary over a minimum sum This grant ranged from to per cent according lo the assessment of section ami salary paid This if the assessment was over less than grant on a salary of was on 30 on on This made it almost as to as to pay and a gain of to pay instead of Attendance Classification Cost pet Pupil Geo mil Gwiliimbury Whitchurch Gwiliimbury King Sutton Holland Landing II III Total 3107417 Continuation Schools in rural sections and unincorporated vil lages are easily maintained The grants from Legislature County and Townships are about equal In of maintenance In incor porated villages the cost of maintenance falls chiefly upon the village Fifth The following Schools conducted Fifth Class work and received extra grants from Legislature and County Legislature County S King King S S 19 King 7807 Agriculture Household Libraries Household Science was taught in one rural school at Jersey by Miss Olive Terry and liberal grants were paid by tho Department Agriculture is tiiughl in nearly all schools but only about twenty applied for the special grant Boards should be reminded that any reason tide in promoting Ibis work wilt be repaid in full by Hie Department Improvement of school grounds by planting of trees shrubs etc will come under this head The teacher also receives a special grant to the level of rural schools At present towns are finding of their sluools a verv heavy burden I hope the Department will by able lo increase the Lt The average attendance of the cent The Town of Newmarket stands easily first with an average at tendance of OS per cent average cost per pupil enrolled varies to de pending chiefly upon the number of pupils per teacher Supply of Teachers Salaries At The supply of qualified teachers during was greater than Formerly School Boards in nearly all cases in the summer holidays were able to secure regularly qualified teachers and in some in reply lo advertisements large numbers of applications were re ceived The reason for litis is marked increase in salaries of teachers both rural and urban Rural Boards pay good salaries because of large grants thus secured All are now paying the minimum necessary to secure the per cent in Supplementary grant and some schools have gone above ho minimum In rural schools little distinction in salary is made between male and female teachers or between experienced and The average salary in the rural schools is Male- Female The towns deserve greater credit for they have paid even higher salaries than rural boards without Ihe inducement of increased grant During the last half year the fall in prices of Agricultural pro ducts the general depression and lack of employment together with the high rate of taxation have made the question of school mainten ance a more serious problem Although here has been no general move towards reduction in salaries there has been little or no in crease If the depression continues teachers must expect lo see a demand for decrease in salaries during the coining year Buildings Improvements Ac During the year many schools received needed repairs and im provements The schools generally are well kepi neatly painted or decorated many of them a credit their sections A fine new tworoomed school was built in replace the one burned early in year Newmarket Board would have had a new sixroom school but for the rejection of Bylaw for raising the necessary money This fortunate but when we consider the lack of employment and the hardships in towns we cannot be surprised that tho Bylaw was defeated At present the rooms in both Newmarket and Aurora are crowded and children below six years of age are not admitted A large temporary school was built in November in Newmarket to relieve the pressure upon the other class-rooms- School Attendance The School Attendance Act of 1019 has had good effect in im proving the attendance The average attendance of pupils enrolled try much better over 80 per cent in the majority of rural higher in towns in poor localities where properly clothed or where their help is needed in rage attendance remain has been regarded as a graduation or But pupils whose I Q is below rarely rise beyond Ihe Third Form and become large physically for their classes Al fourteen they are conspicuous for their size and their slowness both to teachers and fellow pupils School lessons are uninteresting and more and more distasteful o them and school becomes a prison To confine such pupils for long hours at mental asks beyond their capacity and deny them Ihe opportunity to exercise their hands and their minai through their hands in some kind of manual work is little short of criminal treatment- The Normal Schools Motto faciendo learn to do by doing has small application in our present Public Schools During the childs first year at school he is taught objec tively and through his hands and his activities but after that he ab stract predominates and the objective and he practical are neglected Two things are required viz Special classes for retarded pu pils in the urban centres and manual training in all schools The great lack in my schools is this absence of Manual training All pu pils need it and most of all hose pupils whose mental intelligence is below he average and there are more of these than is generally sup posed At leasl out of every hundred can never be successful in purely intellectual work and their mental requires raining through the hand as well as through the mind A rue ed ucation includes both Fifth Classes class regulations of and decreased the num ber of schools taking upFifth Class work Schools not able lo qualify for grants dropped the work The Adolescent Act has caused an in crease in the number of Fifth Classes but many will still he unable to qualify for grants- Some modification might now be made in the amount of science equipment required Many schools will in future bo able to follow the new regulation as to P S Graduation and Lower School subjects Grants should be allowed to even if the min imum equipment in Science is not fully provided Toxt Books A very annoying feature during the past few years has been lack of text books New books were authorized but were not to had in quantities for the needs of the schools This has caused considerable dissatisfaction of teachers pupils and parents Summer Course Agriculture Ac I am pleased to report a much larger number of teachers availing themselves of the various Summer School Courses The majority have taken Agriculture and as a result a larger number of schools now teaching his subject Interest in the Schools Fair is well maintained Most succsss- ful Fairs were held this year in all townships in which nearly all schools participated The Handicap or the Rural School The rural schools continue to suffer from the lack of per manency of the teacher Quite 50 per cent rural schools change teachers every year and many Besides this the great majority of the rural teachers are beginners or have short and often little knowledge of rural life No teacher can truly promote ftf ar j know the conditions and Ihe en- i pupils A fundamental principal of teaob- terms oi his environment the cause of educatic of he life of his is that the child should be educated His daily life is to be the guide for he school Points of Improvement The importance of Physical education and the value of play io this connection is being more recognized Boards are beginning supply playground equipment and to encourage school games in recognition A good many schools ha organ or piano and singing is taught nearly all formed in a few Rural schools bid Iher I Clubs have object should be for education not be mere dancing Clubs Consolidation of Schools several and their well as amusement were held in different meetings were in dillere places to discuss Consolidation while feeling is growing in f vor of consolidation no material progress has been made to the movement appear to be the efficiency of lie pi sent Public schools Ihe fear of the increased cost of consolidalh and the lack of desire on the pari many greater educational sed tious mid support of On the whole attendance between sight and thirteen or tisfactory in the case pupils those of average under he Adolescent Act f so as to practical bearing- I of Agriculture this subject- urse of study and the course in I The courses in Geography and- In should be placed upon the regula t and made practical tin all towns impossible to provide Training and Household Science of school Is no teach a hoy him lo think these practical subjects lace lb in Ihe Its elusion Mr Warden and Gentlemen let mo ask you not only Under presentcondition for Ma real fiuiclio to read and write but tlcsorvo perhaps a ability or better Such succeed in school and parents to have them the High Sell hi lJiliance which in a great continue the liberal aid which through your several you have always given to our hut in addition to give votlr best In the whole emotion of education both in town and I should like to ask ourselves such these What kind of education and what amount of it should wo provide for the youth in both town and country Does the present Public School give a sufficient education for average boy or girl Ho our present High Schools furnish a suitable to those who are nut looking forward a professional career If not Elemental The a an what solution h our country to 0 question its Meat natural assets forest field or the character more interesting of the Act schools in apportionment of legislative grant icon to such places Salaries were immediately do you propose for the proper training of the physical people elfbe ARCHIVES OF ONTARIO TORONTO