Book excerpt: Excerpt from Review of the Reports of the Annual Visiting Committees of the Public Schools of the City of Boston, for 1845 A city document of no ordinary character was, early in the last Autumn, distributed to the good people of this Metropolis. It is entitled, Reports of the Annual Visit ing Commillees of the Public Schools of the City of Boston, Oh the expediency of making public such a doc ument, there has, doubtless, arisen some difference of Opinion in the community, as, it is reported, there was in the Committee. Much that may properly come before the constituted authorities and give shape to their proceedings, is not suitable to lay before the people to prejudice their Opinions - especially when, as in this case, the course of the Authorities has been in one direction, and their pub lisheci papers point in another. For, in fact, the tendency of this document is to create utter distrust in the school system of the city, and in nearly all the teachers by whom it is administered, While the Committee Which put it forth, left the system unchanged, and re-elected all the Masters, save four. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.