Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1866-08-31
PUBLIC SCHOOLS.

Mr. Editor:
In reply to many inquiries, permit me- to state
through your paper that the Fall Term of the
Public Schools of Fremont will commence on
Monday, the 18th day of September, 1866.
Teachers are notified that the first teachers
meeting will be held at o'clock P. NJ, on the
Saturday Immediately preceding the commence
ment of school. No teacher should fail to be
present.
Pupils are requested not to purchase books
until after the commencement of school.
The attention. of young men is called to the
following resolution adopted at the last State
Teachers Association:
aResolued, That we deprecste, and will strive
to counteract, the influences which cause so
many young men to leave prematurely the
Colleges, the High and Grammar Schools, and
even the District School, to enter upon COM
mercial and other pursuits.
Believing that the highest interests of our
Young men, and we may add, our young ladies
too. demand that they should remain longer in
attendance upon school than the majority Of
them in our towns and cities arc accustomed to
do, we urge upon the members of our High and
Grammar Schools for the past year, that they dc
not permit tTifling opportunities of temporary
gain to draw them from the school-room, but
that they persevere in the completion OF the full
High School, course unless extraordinary emer.
gencies prevent.
Young ladies of the High School, ambitious
to become teachers, as general thing will find
it to their advantage not to apply for situations
in the schools of the town until they shall have
completed their course of studies.
They can teach summer schools in the coun-
try without interfering with their school course
When they shall have graduated. their claims
will be preferred by the Board of Education to
those of others.
They will then be able to secure desirable
situations as teachers with little difficulty, will
be less liable to failures from inexperience and
will be possessed of such qualifications as will
entitle them, when successful, to promotions
from the lower to the higher grades Of school
such qualifications as will afford them posi-
tive guaranty that they will not in few year.
become so Indifferent in scholarship as to pass
the Examining Board only by favor or suffer
ance.
They will have obtained an education tha
will enable them to secure to themselves ensur'
ance as teachers and employment as long al
they may desire.
The attention of citizens is called to the fac
that there are from twelve to fifteen colorec
children in the town-not sufficient number
to warrant the Board in maintaining separate
school throughout the year.
These colored children for several years have
been deprived of attending the common schools
The Board, therefore, have been obliged tt
maintain separate school for them during va
cation.
This, however, whilst it necessitates an addi
tional expense to the corporation CT nearly 1Ot
dollars per year is but mockery of justice.
inasmuch as colored children receive but ter
weeks schooling, whilst white children receive
thirty-six.
The interests of society require that these
| colored children should receive an education al
well as white children. If they should attent
the several schools, there would not be NOR
than two or three in any one school, and in cas-
they should do SO another year, it is trusted tina
no one will be SO fastidious and unreasonable
as to object to such attendance.
Foreign scholars will be received into tn
High and Grammar Schools at reasonable rates
| VIM. WALLACE ROSS, Supt