Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1858-11-20
ORGAN of the GRANT co. TEACHERS ASSOCIATION
DAVID PARSONS. of TaftOn, Editor.
Absent soholars.-G Continued.
''She was detained for reasons known to
myself which | think sufficient

| III Sell WHICH L tUlHk SUFFICIENT.
To this we gave the following reply:
Union School, We'd p. M.
SIR:-We are sorry to be obliged to sus
pend your girl. But your line to the
teacher to-day evidently proclaim that we
are not to expec: your cooperation in max
! ing your school what your citizens desire
that it shall be. No school can be good
81 hool and especially model school unless
all the scholars are punclual and steady il
their attendance; and the school is made
no better by scholars being excused by
their parents whenever said scholars are
abs mt from school.
Sec. 6, chap. II of your By flaws states
that if parents wilfuly neglect to cooper
ate with the Superintendent and teachers
in enforcing the rules of school in relation
to absence, hardness, government, or any
thing else pertaining to the school, &c, the
Superintendent shall suspend their child
rem. Thus you see parents are required to
co operate with the teachers. The teach
ers also are required 10 enforce the regula
tons The Board contracts with the
teacher to teach all scholars that are teach
able and steady in their attendance. No
good teacher would contract to teach schol-
ars that are not teachable or scholars thai
are at school only once in while. Nov
so long as the contract to teach is binding
upon the teacher, the parent is strongly
bound to fulfil his part Of the contract -
Your OBTAINING your child does nothing
more or less than break your part of
the contract; and because you id Jetain
the child, there is no reason why the teach
er should still live up to the contract, whilst
you are gbreaking it. But, after break
ing the contract, if you desire it renewed,
the Board has given th@teacher in certain
leases permission to renew it on condition
that the parent gi3es satisfactory reason
for the breaking offs important contrsci
But II. the renewal Of it,sshould be ex-
pected that a longer .ime for fulfilling the
contract will be given. the teacher. This
understanding, and the enforcement of
these rules prevent the great abuse Of priv
eleges which many parents claim, in de-
tanning children from school even for
thousands of trifiing causes when al the
same time the teacher is held none the
less responsible for the rapid progress Of
| the pupil. These facts no doubt will be
satisfactory.
Yours very Respectfully,
DAVID PARSONS.
To the above the guardian refused to
reply: but after his child had been suspan
ded from school few days lie saw fit to
give the true rea Cd, and make the proper
Explanation to the President of the Board,
whereupon he directed that the child be
suspended no longer; it was therefore re-
admitted
| We have, preceding this given spec
linen of some of what we call had reasons
for The absence of children from school =
We would not, however, be misunderstood
Should The cause Of the scholars absence,
be tru ancy, Encouragement, laziness,o or any
Iolher, no, matter how trifling, let the fact
I be stated on the returned absent card
Let the parent be determined to do this,
and although it will not relieve the school,
from embarrassment, yet there is kind Of
lpower in the act, to make the child more
careful, his absence less frequent, the rales
Of the school more highly appreciated, and
to prompt the teacher and the parent TO
work together in preventing the frequent
causes for such triiing apologies. The
following replies from parents, show not
only their honesty, but their wisdom, and
disposition to co.operate
ale played truant this forenoon. 1t is
the first time ! ever knew him to do the
Hike. He thought he could escape detec-
zion, but the absent card caught him, and
| have punished him severely. l don't
think be will do it again. Thanks to the
absent card rule"
REMARK: This parent did al he could
do. His child has never played truant
since, and his absence from school has been
Very lttleif any. He has also been good
boy and studious scholar. But, had the
parent written to us instead of the above.
I"None Of your business, detained for reas-
ions best known to myselfde' ained by me;
necessarily detained; pleas excu-e,or like
replies; the scholar to this day, would, no
doubt, have been not only truant, but
many other things contemplate and dis
graceful. 4iss i
81 regret that by UNAVOIDABLE work at
home, my daughter has been unable to
comply with her portion of the contract"
II am aware Of my duty, and my obliea-
tions to the school,, and should have Oh
tanned your consent before taking my boy
out to help me kill hogs; but ] could not
send word to you, and could !. 1T kill the
hogs alone. and rather than 60 withoutithe
ne edful, ] broke my part of the contract,
and will request that 1t be renewed, and !