The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-03-05
A REFRACTORY PUPIL.
Row I'm a BinghamtOn IN. W school
House.

A Row I'm a BinghamtOn IN NJ schoOi-
HOuse.
School No. 8, of B.nghamton, N. Y, has of
late been the scene OF considerable tumult.
The Principal being obliged by sickness to
resign active duty, the Committee on Teachers
employed one Kellogg to complete the term. four
week.. The course of Mr.. kellogg seems to
have been unwlse from the start. The smaller
scholars feared, and the older despised him.
The result was an attempt to expel the teacher.
He resisted, he fought, he Knocked heads
together, he "spanked"- in short, as near we
can Judge from his own testimony, he sho wed
himself totally unit TO have under his care
school of children. We quo:e portion OIL Mr.;
Kelogg's statement, made before the Board OF
Education:-
"I told the boy would give him his
choice in being punished that night, or ask my
forgiveness before the school next morning.
The boy said he wanted to be punished. l
consulted with the assistant teacher about the
mode OF punishment, and l suggested spanking
him. / went back and took the handle OF
PpPeT %aea ons saa se bs vaa anS mot so
If every bone in his body was broken: scuf1ed
with him, and he got down on the floor, aud
spanked him. The boy promised h to des,st @ from
brushed his clothes, washed him, and advised
with him. l told him ] did not like to
punish pupils. He asked my forgiveness.
invited him to come to school, and
told him he would always receive a kind word
from me. The next morning went into the
school-rOom and pulled of my coat. A lad OF
twelve summers came forward, and pinned a
paper upon the blackboard with the words
'TuIn him OUT written upon IT.. l asked him
who sent him 10 do 1t, and he told me. called
up the boy who sent him, and ordered them both
to 60 into another room. Some other boys al
tempted to go 10 there but | kept them out.
After roll call proceeded to offer an extemoo-
raneous invocation, and repeat the Lords
| Prayer. This had been the custom, aud all the
| pupils had been IN the habit OF joining in the
| Lords Prayer. But two or three sentences OF
the invocation had been pronounced when
heard voices that i knew groan Amen That
| made gtgglng about the school ro om. We
went on with the Lords Prayer, but there was
agood deal OF uproar. At the close OF deVo-
assistant teacher about re.orting to punish
Hent as means of maintaining order
she said she saw no other way. then
S@nS SooTo apS swS OF the boys into another
noY mad pinned the paper on the board. and
they said Tor fun. proceeded to slao nm with
tne cornpopper, when another boy jumped uD
ana pulled something out of his pocket. +
thought 1t was q elung-shot I turned unon
MIN and knocked him down three or four times
heard rush from the school room, and In re u
open @ the door; Several large boys were on the
moor, and / heard them say:-'There he is =
down with him. One or two were knocSed
uoWh IN lhe school room. l struck them with
my hst and uttered vehement exDressions. /
spankeu iouf boys, and brought hem out into
the school room They asked nv tOreiyeness
before the whole school, When waa eneaoad
~ pouleDing Inc boys, two boys slipped onf M
the school room and went for a policemap.s "
What we nave quoted is O fair specimen of the
ehuIe statement, which occupies nearly two
COLUMNS OF local paper In ihe face ~ IN
ana OF the testimony of the assistant teachar
the Board adopted resolution sustainin@ NJ
heTe Ssd TeacbS ana AN ,ahTR%ng that the reports which
information, and were not iustided bv The taet,
as now Iepresented.n The adontins oS Hi.
resolution sustajns the teacher. y