Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1859-10-26
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From these foOtings it will be seen that
the largest number in attendance was Sc
cured in the Fall Term. This is due in part
to the very liberal patronage given to to our
Academic Department, by the public abroad.
The sickness amoug smaller children will
account for the slight falling off in the per
cent of attendance in some of the Primary
schools. Still on comparing this with the
rates varying from 62 to rs per cent of for
mer years, there is certainly evidence Of de-
cided improvement. 1t is still to be Ia
mented that we have some truants, who
find older associates to instruct them in
vice, and encourage them in evading their
teachers and deceiving their parents. Such
instructions require very small wages for
very dear lessons. We often censure the
children for recreancy which would be en-
tirely averted, if idle proAigates Of few
years older growth, did not so frequently
eutrap the inquisitive child, and decOy him
to vicious entertainments The force of
example thus placed before the little boy.
from s to II years of age, makes him as
sumo the air of refined gentitty, as he
talks of 1.-The old man. swears about the
.school mistress and utters second hand
obscenity between the whiffs OF his stump
of a cigar. Would that there were some
agency in cur public school system through
which these children could be saved. Some
times social position and parental influence
seem entirely inadequate to counteract some
downward tendency in the child. We are
nevertheless assured in the opinion, that
parents are too negligent of their children
at most important age. even before their
school DAYS commence. Vicious domestics,
apprentices, and office students, often give
the first lessons, after the child leaves its
mothers arms. Not long since, young
Office student, having in charge little son
of his preceptor, under five years of age.
was teaching the little fellow to talk, and
was heard to say to his infantile prote9e,
"There goes minister, no1 sacedr, put
ting the words into the ears of the child,
to defle his heart, and addlc his head
While parents cannot be too critical in choos-
ing school teachers who shall be models
for their children, they should be no less
vigilant in securing the right kind of fami-
ly associates. have no doubt but that many
parent, grieving over the duplicity. reok-
lessness, or disrospectful department of a
child, might trace the child S viciousness
to little lessons, given perhaps in secret by
some unworthy menial. Again parents
should themselves be models of what they
desire in their children. Uneharitable re-
marks made at home about teachers, very
often lead to collisions between teachers
and scholars in the school room. The
teacher not aware of the cause, has no adj
equate remedy, if indeed such remedy ex'
ist
I Taking sides with children. when diff
culties arise in school, especially before
careful measures have been taken to fully
understand the whole matter in dispute, L
disastrous policy for any parent to pur
sue. Even though the teacher may some
timas be indiscreet in administering disci
plinc, it is frequently better for the school
the child. and all others concerned, to with
hold all acrimonious denunciations Of tn
faulty discipline. and discSuntenaHce ever,