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[Ed. Form, No. 3.]
TEACHER'S MONTHLY SCHOOL REPORT
For the Month of September, 1869.

☞ To contain one entire calendar month, and to be forwarded as soon as possible after the close of the month.
☞ A School under the distinct control of one Teacher, or a Teacher with one Assistant, is to be reported as one School.

[Answers placed here.]
Name of your School? Emmanuel
Location (town, county, or district)? Rock Dale District.
Is it a Day or Night School?  
Of what grade? Intermediate
When did your present session commence?   
When to close? Not determined.
Is your School supported by an Educational Society? No 
What Society? -
Is your School supported wholly by local School Board?* No
Name of Board or Com.? -  
Am't pd. this month? -
Is your School supported in part by local School Board?* No
Name of Board or Com.? -
Am't pd. this month? -
Is your School supported wholly by Freedmen? No 
Amount paid this month? -
Is your School supported in part by Freedmen? Yes
Amount paid this month? Two dollars and fifty cents
Have you had Bureau transportation this term? No
Who owns the School-building? An unsettled estate of whites.
Is rent paid by Freedmen's Bureau? No.
How much per month? By the teacher; fifty cents.
What number of Teachers and Assistants in your School? -  
White? -
Colored? -
Total enrolment for the month?† Eleven
Male? Three.
Female? Eight.

Number enrolled last report? Thirty-three 
Number left school this month? Ten.
Number new Scholars this month? Three.
{Number enrolled last report, by adding new scholars and subtracting those left school, must equal the present total enrolment.}

{Schools are to be kept five days per week and six hours each day.}
How many hours have you taught per day? Six.
How many days have you taught this month? Twenty-one.
{Give reasons for deficiency of time, (if any,) in teaching.
I spent one day visiting the school at Union Grove Church, Brick Stove District. It was spend by myself - I taught there four months.} 

What is the average attendance? Ten.
Number of Pupils for whom tuition is paid? Four
Number of White Pupils? -
Number always present? -
Number always punctual? One.
Number over 16 years of age? Two.
Number in Alphabet? -
Number who spell, and read easy lessons? Eight.
Number in advanced readers? Three
Number in Geography? -
Number in Arithmetic? Three
Number in higher branches? - 
Number in Writing? Three
Number in Needle-work? -
Number free before the war? -
Have you a Sabbath-School? Yes
How many Teachers? Three
How many Pupils? Twenty.
Have you an Industrial School? No.
How many Teachers? -
How many Pupils? -
State the kind of work done? -

☞ To the following questions give exact or approximate answers, prefixing to the latter the word "about."
1. Do you know of any Schools for Refugees or Freedmen not reported to the State Superintendent? -  
How many? -
2. Give (estimated) whole number of pupils in all such Schools?  - 
No. of Teachers, -
White, -
Colored, -
3. Do you know of Sabbath Schools not reported to the State Superintendent?  - 
How many? -
4. Give (estimated) whole number of pupils in all such Schools?  - 
No. of Teachers, -
White, -
Colored, -
5. State the public sentiment towards Colored Schools, Unfavorable in the extreme, - not over half a day exception.
6. How many pupils in your School are members of a Temperance Society? None.
Name of the Society? -
Remarks. The parents are not willing that their children should join a Temperance Society; many of them "love", and use Whiskey, (that is the parents;) and the whites are influences in that direction, also their example.

(Signed) James Fitz Allen Sisson.
Teacher. 

* Or School Committee, either District, Town, City, County, or State?
† A pupil is not to be REPORTED as enrolled until after five days' attendance.

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