Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1869-02-09
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school discipline.
We certainly have never heard OF SO
much insubordination in schools IN this
county, in any .onc season, as has come to
our knowledge this winter. We can think
of at least seven Districts, where the
schools have either been broken up, or
rendered nearly, 1--WE should say qulte)
valueless by the insubOrdination OF the pu-
pills, or the ineficiency of. the teachers.
Indeed, without question, inefficient teach
ers make insubordinate and disrespectful
scholars, just as bad fences make breechy
cattle. We hear of one or two instances
of heroic female teachers in the county,
there are undoubtedly more, of whom we
have not heard) whose names ought to be
embalmed. One Of these is the Miss
Raymore, who teaches in the District in
Eden, when the affair took place which
we have alluded to once or twice before.
She recognizes, it is said, the fact that
aGFi hisv1H "ayGosGa f Whisper IS allowed in
her school. If a scholar has occasion to
leave the seat, the movement is made in
quiet and orderly way. No marking
or cutting benches, doors or furniture of
the house. The house is always kept
clean and orderly in all respects. AT
night, every book which is not taken home
by the scholars, is put up in the most or
derby manner in designated place, and
when the school is dismissed, every schol-
ar goes quietly out of the house and I'm
mediateZy home, without lingering, halloo-
ing or hooting or playing on the way.
With this perfect order, she has her time
to devote to teaching her scholars, and
does not have to spend one half the hours
of school in reading them lectures for their
i'll behavior. Children know almost in
stinctivelyswhen they have teacher with
whom it will answer to trihe; and when
they know that the person placed over
them as teacher has the power to COM
mand, as a general rule, they submit with
excellent grace. Teachers endowed with
the faculty to govern, seldom have to pun
ish their pupils; and person who is not
SO endowed is unfit to teach, except per-
haps in a subordinate capacity A teach
er ftly endowed will usually have no
trouble with the great majority of pupils.
But usually each school furnishes one or
two, sometimes more, scholars who are
exceptions to all rules. Deprived Of
wholesome discipline at home, never hav-
ing been made to subordinate their unruly
wills even to parental control, they 60 to
school with almost as little idea Of their
proper relations to their teacher as if they
had been born outside the pale of civilized
society. OF course, any attempt on the
part of the teacher to reduce these sub
iocts, is followed by prompt interposition
of the parent on the part Of the injured
child. Injured, do we say? Yes. But
who has injured the child who is allowed
to talk impudently to its father or mother,
and, as consequence, becomes disres-
pectful and -ill-manncrly to teachers and
every body else? Ask reason, ask reve-
lation, ask common sense, and the response
is the same-the parent. Children must
be subject to discipline at home, and the
teachers should have-and do have by
our laval the power Of the parent del
egated to them while the pupil is under
their charge. Parents who are not willing
to delegate this authority to the teacher,
or who wish special exceptions made in
favor of their children, should not have
the benefit of our schools-or at least be
made to submit for the common good.
But here is the article from the Coledo-
MAN, which we have too long delayed.
SCHOOL DISCIPLINE.
"There has been considerable unpleas- {
antness and dissatisfaction, not to say dis '
turbance, in several of the district schools I
in this section the present winter, and it Q
seems pretty evident there is growing $
lack of proper discipline on the part OF
teachers or lamentablc prevalence Of
characterization in pupils at the bottom
IF it. The apathy and indifference of pa
rents in regard to the educational interests
IF their children may have something to !
10 with the state Of things, and it be- 5
iooves all good citizens to wake up at
once and see that an evil which SO threa-
tens the vital interests Of society be at 9
'nce and effectually checked. A little !
thoughtful consideration and prompt ac-
ion in this matter, will pretty surely set
Kings right and we shall find it is true
n more senses than one that an ounce of
is worth pound of cure, and
hat it certainly costs less"
We copy the above from the Montpeli-