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Teachers came for a
brief time, and upon its expiration, or for other cause, returned home,
leaving the schools to be broken up. It was not until October or
November that the educational arrangements were put into much shape; and
they are still but imperfectly organized. In some localities there is as
yet no teacher, and this because the associations have not had the funds
wherewith to provide one.
I visited ten of the schools, and conversed with the teachers of others.
There were, it may be noted, some mixed bloods in the schools of the
town of Beaufort,--ten in a school of ninety, thirteen in another of
sixty-four, and twenty in another of seventy. In the schools on the
plantations there were never more than half a dozen in one school, in
some cases but two or three, and in others none.
The advanced classes were reading simple stories and didactic passages
in the ordinary school-books, as Hillard's Second Primary Reader,
Willson's Second Reader, and others of similar grade.


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