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Title: Report of Committee on school inquiry, Board of estimate an apportionment, city of New York ..
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: New York (N.Y.). Board of Estimate and Apportionment. Committee on School Inquiry
Subjects: School organization and management
Publisher: City of New York
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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ed to those classes to work out their salvationas best they may. The difficulty here is the difficulty that we alwaysmeet when we encounter anything like a civil service examination ora fixed examination of people for these positions. No one has yetdiscovered any sure way of selecting the right person by means of afixed examination. The result is that we have found certified teachersin these classes who are in no way fitted for the work. On the otherhand, we have found people who are teaching as substitutes, having failedin their examination, who are nevertheless doing excellent work. Itshould be said that the teachers are, as a rule, faithful, conscientious,interested in their problem and very largely more or less cognizant ofthe problem. The most hopeful sign is that nearly all of them are pain-fully aware of their own lack of training and their own inability to dofor the children what they feel might be done. A few teachers areutterly incompetent, and some of these are substitutes.
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< & z ■„ X 1 UNGRADED CLASSES 367 Who Supervises Ungraded Classes? This is the next great difficulty. There is little or no supervision ofthese classes. The inspector of ungraded classes has other duties abso-lutely incumbent upon her which require so much of her time that littleis left for visiting classes and helping the teachers. The inadequacy ofthe present plan of supervision will be realized when it is rememberedthat the principal of a school with no more than thirty to sixty classesis considered to have enough to do, and usually more than enough.But his classes are all under one roof. The inspector of ungradedclasses has one hundred and thirty-one classes scattered all overGreater New York—some of them requiring a great deal of time toreach by the usual means of transportation. Would it not be a matter ofsimple economy to furnish the inspector of ungraded classes with anautomobile which could take her in the least possible time to the variousschools ? The principal

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