The Cadiz Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1854-1864, 1856-02-20
For the Cadiz Sentinel
IrTeguiarity in Attending school.

For the Cadiz Sentinel.
IrTegularity in Attending school.
No. 4.
Perhaps no one evil is more destructive
TO the vitality and efficiency of school ex-
ercises than the one at The head OF this
article.
This arises chiefly from two causes
FIRST, because in It's nature, It's tendency
is disastrous-and second, because Ot It's
upiversaiIty. Ii seems 10 be the cry ing
sin OF the age. lie baletu Influence Is
not only felt in the school room, but the
habit once formed, here OF elsewhere, is
sure 10 carry itself into whatever depart
ment of business the pupil may engage in
alter life. 1t clings TO him like a purld
cascass, and infect, more or less, what
ever he may lay his hand to.
The grand secret OF success among
men, in any business whatever, may, al
most without an exception, be trared d.
recty TO attention ~reguIarily and pune
lualily, while their failures and diasters
may as often be traced 10 an opposite
cause. This may not be apparent to
casual observer; Dat 10 one VINO examines
and weighs the remote as we'll as. the re-
cent causes, the problem is not difficult OF
solution.
Because the penalty does not follow the
transgreSSion Immediately, we are apt 10
overlook the real cause and attribute our
suffering to something else; but because
II. does not, We have no right TO inter that
il will not In due time oVerIake the ofien.
der though it may be deferred for many
years.
If parents, therefore. knew and fell
when they we're, tor tiiiiing excuses, keep
ing their children out OF school for lew
days in week. or permitting them to be
tardy or out OF season in their daily at
dance, that they were gendering those ha-
bits in their children that woaId render
them unsuccessful in business and mise
rable, perhaps, in their whole course OF
life, they would, at once, adopt measures
10 arrest this dangerous tendency. They
would say at once that the experiment
WAS TOO dangerous TO risk in matters SO
weighly
Now, why cannot parents see this?-
Simply BECAUSE they do not reflect upon
the subject. They would readily take
cognlzAnce Of any evil inflicted upon the
person OF their children. Suppose, Tor
instance, that a neignbor had been guilty
OF maFleating a little boy or girl, and
that ln so doing an arm or leg had baen
broken; would the offence be lightly look
ed over? No, no. Speedy recourse
would be had TO the law, and the courts OF
Justice would be impleaded for the ad.
justment Of grievances. The poor neigh
Dor would smart dearly for his impru.
dence, and perhaps justly too; but does
that parent act less cuipable-less un-
kindly to his offspring VINO thus suffers
them to form habits in early life that will
curse them as long as they live2 tell
you nay. Rather give me the maltreated
the manned - tie cripple, and will en-
gage to make better-a more useful
and more successful man Of him, than
can be made of that boy that has been
'hus abused by parental induIg gence or
neglect. The evil in the first case is only
a physical one; in the second it is a men
tai and moral one. aad likely too to result
in all the physical evils of the first, and
which is ofinfntely more consequences,
TO entail untold e7ls upon the sufferer
both for time and for eternity. = And yet
parents cannot or will not see tfjisl They
elem to shut their eyes against the very
sight that would reveal to them the true
policy In relation to these matters.
But the evil stops not alone with the
individual sufferer. 1t inlects all the
sehool-sI with whom the pupil may as.
sociage. He is not only discouraged, dis
heartened and demoralzed from falling
behind his class, aud thus paving the
way for subsequent course OF idleness
and crime, (for this is sure to follow, for
the mind unoccupied will seek employ
ment of some kind, it not educated in
virtue, IL will be in vice, but the evils
are not less apparent and pernicious
throughout the whole school where such
scholars attead. This arises not only
from the example and infinence, but the
late or irregular appearance Of a scholar
at school always interrupts the exercises
more or less. and thus imposes upon and
wrongs the whole school. Now. is it
right and just that every member of the
school should be made to suffer in conse-
quence Of the faults of one or two? Should
one scholar be permitted thus to destroy
the real benefits Of the school and to rob,
directly. his fellows Of their legitimate
rights? No more than it would be right
Tor bim, sneakingly. to put his hand into
your pocket and abstract money there
froml Time is money under these cir
cumstances, and be who takes it thus un-
necessarily is guilty Of robbery.
o2 ]. OGDEN. Hopedale, o.
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