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Historic leaves, volume 5, April, 1906 - January, 1907, Charlestown schools after 1825 (search)
hat the trustees supply Mr. Fairbanks' school with three dozen slates; that all lady teachers in the primary schools be allowed nine afternoons in the course of the year to visit all the other primary schools; and that children may enter from the primary to the other schools at the age of seven, instead of eight, at the discretion of the teacher. Among the bills approved is one for $40.80 to Martin Draper. He may have finished out the winter term at the Russell school, as Mr. Hastings, January 28, requested to be discharged from the same, with reasons. At the final examinations in April there were enrolled in the ten primary schools 1610 scholars; in the five grammar schools, 639; in the four schools without the peninsula, 280; making a total of 1,529. The lamentable number of absences is :commented upon. These absentees hang like a dead weight about the school; the course of instruction is greatly interrupted, and those who are punctual and constant are retarded in their pro