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SUGGESTIONS.

1. The importance of regular, accurate, and full reports is not easily overestimated.

2. The report is to cover the school month of the district in which the teacher is employed, when this does not coincide with the calendar month. In all other cases, it will cover the calendar month, or fractional part of a month, ending with the last calendar day.

3. Each report is to be made in triplicate; the first copy to be sent to the office at which the teacher was appointed; the second to J.M. McKIM, Secretary of the Eastern Department, 69 Nassau street, New York; the third to JACOB R. SHIPHERD, General Secretary, 444 Fourteenth street, Washington, D.C.

4. The report will not be considered regular, unless it is finished and mailed within five days after the expiration of the month reported upon.

5. Every subdivision of the reports is to be attended to. Every space is to be filled with a cypher, if not with significant figures. A blank signifies a defective report, and nothing more.

☞ The Report should always be forwarded in a LARGE ENVELOPE, without unnecessary folding.

Forwarded Jan 4th 1866.
Received  186 .

American Freedmen's Aid Commission.

EASTERN DEPARTMENT.

TEACHER'S MONTHLY REPORT.

Louisa Colored School, at Louisa C. Ne. Va for the month ending Dec 31st 1865.

Geo. A. Proell,
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6. When precise data are not at hand. approximate figures should be entered, and noted in the margin as such.

7. It is evident that an accurate report can only be derived from an accurate Daily Register.

8. The formal report is not to take the place of familiar correspondence, but to serve as the text which the correspondence shall explain and illustrate. The teacher should regularly discuss the general progress of the school, the chief obstacles encountered, and the method of meeting them ; adding observations bearing upon the welfare of the school, and information in regard to the condition of the freed people at large in the vicinity.

9. The usefulness of the Commission is in the keeping of its representatives. Too conscientious a regard for one's own prudence of behavior can hardly be entertained.

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3. Looks like it should be JACOB R. SHIPHERD not SHIPHEED ---------- Reopened for Editing 2024-05-16 16:46:51 ---------- Reopened for Editing 2024-05-16 20:40:06