Report of Committee on school inquiry, Board of estimate an apportionment, city of New York .. . small part of the let-ters sent out appear to have been written on the City Superintendentsown initiative—29 out of 316, or It is to be expected that anyofficer in a supervisory school position would receive a flood of corre-spondence, and that a large part of his own letter-writing would be con-cerned in answering letters of others: however, it would seem that thechief executive officer should initiate more than one-tenth of the lettershe writes. The items of the table are further explained
Report of Committee on school inquiry, Board of estimate an apportionment, city of New York .. . small part of the let-ters sent out appear to have been written on the City Superintendentsown initiative—29 out of 316, or It is to be expected that anyofficer in a supervisory school position would receive a flood of corre-spondence, and that a large part of his own letter-writing would be con-cerned in answering letters of others: however, it would seem that thechief executive officer should initiate more than one-tenth of the lettershe writes. The items of the table are further explained and illustratedin the following classification: CLASSIFICATION OF LETTERS THAT COULD BE DISPOSED OF BY SUBORDINATES That part of the correspondence of the main office of the City Su-perintendent, to which subordinates could and should attend, can begrouped in eight subdivisions: Sent Received. Out. Total. lOI 7S 176 87 74 161 72 72 144 83 55 138 105 •• 105 40 40 29 29 10 9 19 3 2 5 FIVE HUNDRED RECOMMENDATIONS 793 Character of a second group of 817 letters in city superintendents file. Figure for Table 8 i^i^Ts^r^i? rioi??.?Af^„ru^^^^^^^^^ superintendent. 794 EDUCATIONAL INVESTIGATION 1. Matter of supervision belonging properly to high-salaried officers subordinate to the City Superintendent, such as Associate CitySuperintendents, District Superintendents, and the Directorsof Special Branches. 2. Complaints about circumstances affecting individual pupils. From this irate parent class of complaints are excluded thosewhich would concern the conditions of any number of pupils,the right or wrong of any general state of affairs, or gravecharges against teachers and principals. 3. Appeals for reversal of decisions adverse to the individual re- questing such action. (a) From teachers. (b) From pupils or their parents. 4. Requests for the permission of the City Superintendent, generally to visit another school, or to have a speaker address the pupilsat the morning exercises
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