Report of Committee on school inquiry, Board of estimate an apportionment, city of New York .. . letters belonging elsewhere, 107 referring to clerical information,and 27 concerning teachers absences, purely a routine matter, 264 outof 613, or Further, it is seen that the matter of clerical infor-mation is very prominent in the correspondence of this office, amount-ing to The classifications into which the letters are grouped in these tablesare determined entirely by the character of the correspondence. Sincethis varies greatly, from office to office, no attempt has been made to
Report of Committee on school inquiry, Board of estimate an apportionment, city of New York .. . letters belonging elsewhere, 107 referring to clerical information,and 27 concerning teachers absences, purely a routine matter, 264 outof 613, or Further, it is seen that the matter of clerical infor-mation is very prominent in the correspondence of this office, amount-ing to The classifications into which the letters are grouped in these tablesare determined entirely by the character of the correspondence. Sincethis varies greatly, from office to office, no attempt has been made tomake the letters in one file fit a preconceived grouping, and the fact thatthe items of Tables 8. 9 and 10 are all different bears out this point. The distribution of the 613 letters in the classes listed in the tablewas made wnth the hearty cooperation of Mr. Stevens, who feels very Sent Received. Out. Total. 40 198 80 50 130 60 47 107 55 34 34 34 21 21 6 II 17 15 12 27 7 6 13 ID I II 8oo EDUCATIONAL INVESTIGATION One months correspondence of an associate city superintendent of schools. Figure for Table 9 The entire circle represents 613 letters. Shaded segments show work which should never come to this officeintendent? wo?k! ^^^ *^^ ^ ^^^ interpretation of what should constitute a super- riVE HUNDRED RECOMMENDATIONS 8oi keenly that his office is flooded with correspondence of a purely clericalnature, seriously menacing the progress of his supervisory work. Hisrepeated statements corroborate at the present writing his standpcjintexpressed in a letter to the City Superintendent four years ago, in whichhe says: I have been kept at my desk so much and have been obliged to take so much timein work of a purely clerical nature, that I feel that I have lost touch with the highschools. This officer states that he has no time to read or study the reports ofvisits made b}^ teachers to classes other than their own. The third office in which correspondence was examined in detail isth
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