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Book Title: The History Of Education In West Virginia
Revised Edition, Prepared under the direction of the State Superintendent of Schools, 1907

Marion County. By Carter L. Faust, Superintendent
Pages 122-123

Marion County is doing her full share in the noble effort of the State to 
provide for the free education of the whole people. Her 244 teachers are 
progressive and show a desire to bring credit upon their profession by 
improving the work of the schools.

The county has 151 school buildings. The old buildings are fast being replaced 
by attractive modern houses. There are 32 buildings in which are employed two or
more teachers. At Seven Pines, in Mannington District, the Board of Education, 
in harmony with the tendency of the times, has consolidated the schools of three 
sub-districts into one graded school. This is the first consolidated country 
school in West Virginia. Mannington District employs a District Superintendent 
who devotes his entire time to the supervision of the district schools.

According to the County Superintendent's report for 1906, the value of all 
school property in the county is $439,529.00. This includes houses, lands, 
furniture, apparatus and libraries. The maximum salaries paid school teachers 
is $50.00, $45.00 and $35.00, respectively for the three grades of certificates. 
The length of the term is six months. About one-fifth of our teachers are Normal
School and University graduates.

All of the rural schools are supplied with some apparatus, as charts, globes, 
maps, slate blackboards, etc. The earnest work of teachers and pupils, through 
the School Improvement League, has done much towards improving and beautifying 
school property. In 1906 there were 11,776 volumes in the school libraries of 
Marion County. 

There are at present 7,918 pupils enrolled in the schools of the county. 
Of these, 103 are colored, for which we have two schools, one a four-room brick
building in Fairmont, the other a one-room building at Monongah, in Grant District.

Realizing that education should last through life, and that it should not be a 
mere matter of grammar and of words, but should include some training of the 
hand and eye, this year the boys in one district, are being organized into a 
club for the study of elementary agriculture. This will be followed later by 
sewing and cooking clubs for the girls.

Marion County with nearly half a million dollars invested in school property, 
244 schools in operation, 8,000 children under intellectual training, has 
reason to be proud of her showing.


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