Identifier: reportofsu00tren (find matches)
Title: Annual report of the Superintendent of Parish Schools of the Diocese of Trenton
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Trenton (N.J). Diocesan School Board (Catholic)
Subjects: Religious education Schools
Publisher: (Trenton, N.J.) Diocesan School Board
Contributing Library: New Jersey State Library
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hat convention, the question whether the Bibleshould be read in the public schools should rest with the several schoolboards of the state, where it had rested under the Constitutions of1818 and 1848. While it is true this court may construe the Constitu-tion, it has not the power, and it should not, under a pretext to con-strue the Constitution, amend it, and certainly not in a case like this,where the effect of the amendment will be to deprive many thousandsof children living in this state of any knowledge of the princplestaught in the Bible, as the Bible is not taught in all the homes of the 54 SCHOOL REPORT state, and the only knowledge which a large number of children in thisstate will ever gain of the Bible must be through the public schools,and if they do not get such knowledge there it will be lost to thementirely. We therefore most respectfully dissent from the majorityopinion, and earnestly protest against a result which excludes the Biblefrom the public schools of the state.
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REV. WILLIAM J. McCONNELL Superintendent of Parish Schools, Diocese of Trenton STATISTICS AND DIRECTORY OF SCHOOLS DIOCESE OF TRENTON 57 ST. MARYS CATHEDRAL SCHOOL Trenton (founded 1871) Sisters of Mercy Rt. Rev. J. H. Fox, V. G., Rector. Boys at the beginning of the year 363 Boys at the end of the year 413 Girls at the beginning of the year 423 Girls at the end of the year 458 Average daily attendance of boys and g.rls 641 Teachers (religious) 13 Teachers (lay) 4 Teachers (special) 5 Boys entered Catholic High School or College 1 Girls entered Catholic Hgh School or Academy Boys en ered Public High School 1 Girls entered Publc High School 1 Pupils at the end of the year, by grades: Kindergarten 132 First grade 62 Second grade 147 Third grade 162 Fourth grade 120 Fifth grade 58 Sixth grade 53 Seventh grade 33 Eighth grade 35 Commercial 20 First year high 31 Second year high 13 Third year high 5 Fourth year high ST. FRANCIS SCHOOL Trenton (founded 1879) Sisters of St. Francis Rev. Jose

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