Burt Community School - Bears / Roundup Yearbook (Burt, IA)

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time put in by tzachers - Extra-curricular activities require much time, particularly of the high school teachers. Much of the work of coaching, directing, or instructing in these activities must be done after school hours or after dinner at night. Some individuals work faster than others and thus require less time to do the school work, Oth:r teachers really try to do a superior Job of teaching and are very conscientious in the matter of correction of papers, making out of lesson plans , tabulation of grades etc. Some teaching positions require more preparation than others. 'I I Ic-rade or TIME IN MINUTES PUT IN BY HIGH SCHOOL TEACHERS IN FIVE KOSSUTH COUNTY SCHOOLS WEEK OF November 9,1931. [Position Burt . Lone Rock Luverne ! Prin, 2 0 240 I Coach 2940 2920 150 3000 150 Ehglish . • 3170 2325 2730 Home Ec .397 5 2430 2810 540 Music 2910- 130 3420 90 Supt, 3100 3120 3120 Average 3019 2 9 M Lakota 270 2S2° 2420 300 2435 Swea City 250 2605 215 2905 110 2395 I I i I ,i i In the above chart the smaller figures represent home work, while the larger ones represent total number of minutes put in on school work. It will be noticed that Burt teachers do practically all of theirs at the school house, while the amount of heme work in some of the other schools runs several hundreds of minutes a week. Averaging the time put in by all of the teachers in each school and converting it into hours gives an interesting tabulation. During t is particular week, Burt teachers put in an average of ten hours and six minutes ; Lone Rock teacher averaged eight hours and thirty-six minutes; Luverne teachers averaged nine hours and twenty-five minutes; Lakota teachers h d an average of eight hours and twenty minutes, and Swea City teachers averaged eight hours and fifty minutes. Again it nothinv3!tr£n l'0 emPhasize the fact that a single weelcfe figures mean a an. The amount of entertaining varies from week to week, ue actual teaching load varies from week to week and certainly the activities load tf ries. The point that '■•snould bo made is that all teachers in these five schools seem to be working long hours. Whereas,the formal school day is six or seven hours in length- teachers are actually working from eight .to more than ten hours a day. No check was made of the time spent on school work over the week end. Undoubtedly many teachers do a consideiable qua ntity of work on Saturday and Sunday, It must be conceded that teachers have e. genuine interest in their work and a desire to do the very best kind of work when on the average they serve more hour than any organized union permits. It speaks well oi ofie piofessional attitude of our teachers - 11 -

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PART III - THE PUPILS Part III of the report is concerned with information about the pupils of the school. This information includes charts showing enrollments and census enumerations over a period of moro than twenty years. Charts are tactvrtiich show -comparative enrollments Y ith other schools. The Number of tuition pupils in Burt and in other Kossuth County Schools for moro than tv enty years arc included for the information of the reader. The number of high school graduates by years is showft by a graph and a picture of the class of 1932 is included. The location or occupation of the graduates of he last four years yields some interesting information relative to the number who go directly into vocational occupations after high school graduation. The last two pagos in the section are concerned with a discussion of the merit system of government v hich is in use this year. 12