The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1868-10-29
s. Il 81 ED. Cow
To District School Boards.

1t is certainly high time that School
Boards had perfected arrangements for
winter schools in tneir7arlous localities
The time for their COMMENCEMENT is close
at hand, and longer delay cannot but
work injAriously to the interests of any
school, in tie almost positive certainty
that desirable teachers will have been Sc
cured elsewhere by men more alive to ed
ucational necessities. Securing suitable
teaeheRis ofstoo weighty Importance to
be reduced to matter simply of dollars
and cents, yet how often is it that for the
purpose of saving a few dollars to dis
trict, or to crafty propensity for "beat-
ing down. good teacher is turned a side
to give place to one of cheaper. -qualifca-
ton in every respect, and miserable
good nothing school is often the re-
suit. is this the boosted economy of
School Boards? Is it profitable thus to in
vest school funds The advantages of
such school are few ifany, while the posi-
tive evils are too numerous for our space.
A poor teacher, by careless negligence or
want of thoroughness for single term,
may undo completely the high and earn
est tone which it has been the careful la.
Dor of good teacher to infuse into a
school for several previous terms. Too
great stress cannot be laid upon the ur-
gent Importance of employing only such,
for the responsible position of instructors
of youth, as are earnest, energetic, and
otherwise competently qualified If a
district has been accustomed tosecure such,
by all means the practice ought to be con,
tinued even though it should cost five or
ten dollars extra per month to do so. The
result will tenfold repay the outlay, in
the evils averted alone. If school has
always been under charge of those whose
endeaVors have only proved their incom-
potency, a reform should be instituted, no
matter what the expense. 1t is the height
Of folly to leave matter Of so momentous
concern as the proper training of children
at such loose ends as has been the case in
many districts. There is no calculating
the impetus whicha few terms attendance
at a good, thorough going school, will
give to whole community of youth.
Look at any neighborhood where it has
been a special aim for series of years, to
permit only the best of schools, and the
superiority of the young people as a class,
in their general intelligence and culture,
in noble purposes in life, and in all things
that tend to make life useful and what it
should be, will be clearly discernible. If
it be said that such teachers as we recon-
mend cannot be found in sufficient num-
bers to supply all the schools, we reply
that there must first be demand, before
proper supply can be expected This
demand will be brought about, when the |
first question Of School Boards seeking a |
teacher, is not for how small wages he will |
teach, butwhat is his character as teach
er and a man, and his adaptation to the
work in hand. In conclusion we repeat
that top great care cantot be shown in
the selection of teacher
In what has been said, no reflection is
intended upon the earnest working teachers
of the county,an the number is not small
Of those who are eminently fitted for the
profession, but rather to stimulate those
who are lacking, to greater thoroughness
Of preparation, both of heart and mind
GUS
Ex. SUPT. GRAHAM for some weeks mast
1as been deYoting his time to attendance
lsbn Teachers Institutes in various DOR
ions Of the State, under appointment of
he State Supt. to aid in conducting them.
Those who are acquainted with his labors
n this County, will readily concede the
wisdom and appropriateness of the an.
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