Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1852-06-24
No 81

strous, greatly, if not fatally. Let parent
in order to show the interset they feel
that their children should be successful in
their studies, and their sympathy with
the teacher in his labors to impart instruc-
ton to his pupils as he should, as fire.
quently as possible, visit the school and
listen to the recitations of the scholars
1t is to be feared that in respect to the
studies of the pupil, there is, in many
cases, but little, if any, sympathy between
the parents and the teacher. Sometimes
the parents find fault with the teacher,
because, as they think, their child is not
put forward as rapidly as he should be,
and sometimes because he is required to
study beyond his abilities. Most children
are not fond of study, and with their
wishes and views many parents sympa-
thize, rather than with wishes and views
of teacher. Not unfrequently in reference
to the studies of the pupil, the teacher is
Obliged to contend for the highest good
Of the scholar, against the wishes and de-
mands as much of the unreasonable pa
rents, as the indolent, reckless child.
There should be a right understanding
and sympathy between the parents and
the teacher, in reference to the govern
ment of the child at school. The govern
ment of the child should be essentially
the same in the family and in the school.
No pupil can study well at school unless
he is governed well. Let the parents as
well as the teacher understand this
Generally children at home and at school
are restiVe under restraints, and feel that
they are competent to be their own mas
ters. If the teacher cannot maintain or
der or good government in his school, he
had better, at once, abandon his profess
sion. 1t is difficult thing, in many in
stances, for the teacher to govern his pu-
pills as they ought to be governed for
their highest good. Let the parents bear
this in mind, and give the teacher their
sympathies. The teacher may, in a Civ
en- instance, be worthy of censure for his
treatment of his pupil, but in such case,
let the parents be careful, lest they injure
their child, by taking sides with him, and
giving him their sympathy too directly
and vehemently. The writer of this ar
ticle has had the difficult honor of ac-
ting in the capacity of school commit
tee-man He may be allowed to insert
the following from his memoranda of
school incidents The mother
Of lad, from eleven to thirteen years of
age, entered a complaint against the
teacher for mal-government of her boy.
The teacher had punished the child for
falsehood. The mothers anger was
kindled against the teacher, and she
knew that he was to blame. The COM
mittee-man promised that he would in
vestigate the case, and let her know the
results, at an appointed time, and that
Justice should be done to her and the
lad. Upon a faithful examination, the
committee man found that the teacher
had pursued very wise and proper
course in respect to the child. At the
appointed hour, the father, instead of the
mother, with the boy, called upon the
committee man to ascertain the results of !
his investigation. Immediately the faith
er, in the presence of his son, flew into
passion, and while praising the child es
incapable of doing a wrong, denounced
the teacher as unworthy to remain day
longer at the head of the school, and cal
led him by all the hard names no was a.
Bile to command. At length said the F
committeeman to him, Sir, as father,
do you know what you are doing to your
child? Here he is listening to these your
groundless and abusive remarks. You
are teaching him lesson for which,
sooner or later, you will, | doubt not,
be very sorry Sir, your son has deser-
we'd the correction he has at the hands of
the teacher, and most heartily sustain
his teacher in his treatment of him.
The subject of this brief article is one
of vast Importance. Let it engage the
attention of able writer's.