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Title: Public documents of the State of Connecticut
Year: 1886 (1880s)
Authors: Connecticut Connecticut. General Assembly
Subjects: Administrative agencies Public administration Public records
Publisher: Hartford : Printed by order of the General Assembly
Contributing Library: University of Connecticut Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: LYRASIS Members and Sloan Foundation

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rooms in the High School building, two roomsin Germania Hall for Germans, two rooms in the old Fair StreetSchool building, and two rooms on Wallace Street for Italians;one room in each of the Jewish Synagogues on Temple andFactory streets, for Russians; in St. Louis Church, Chapelstreet, for French, and in two rooms in the Woolsey Schoolbuilding, Fair Haven. In these schools there were pupils fromthirteen to forty-five years of age. Those who could speakEnglish were well arranged in classes and, for the most part,instructed in the common branches taught in the public dayschools. I heard one small class reciting Latin. Some wereinstructed in mechanical drawing. In the schools where weregathered those who could not speak English, the efforts of theteachers seemed to be to teach them to speak and read English.All the teachers of these classes spoke the languages of thelearners as well as English, and the methods pursued seemedto be much the same as those used in teaching English-speaking
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KINDERGARTENS. I 23 pupils another language. There was no disorder in any ofthese schools, and the pupils generally seemed to be interestedin their studies. Some of the scholars were reported as havingmade excellent advancement. KINDERGARTENS. The following tables show the kindergartens of theState in the years 1892-3 and 1893-4. 124 REPORT OF THE SECRETARY. TABLE XXVII. I i .w \. Bridgeport : Froebel Kindergarten Park City Kindergarten,.... Myrtle Avenue KindergartenBristol : District No. 2, North Side,. South Side, Hill School Danbury East Haven, Glastonbury : Glastonbury Kindergarten,..Greenwich, Public School Kindergarten,Hartford : 1 Arsenal School, Brown School, North East School, Second North School, South School and CharterOak Avenue School, West Middle School, Washington Street School, Meriden, Middletown, New Britain : Burritt School, High School Building,... . Rockwell School, State Normal School,....New Haven : Edwards Street School,... Fair Street School, Hamilton School,

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