The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1871-09-14
THE PUBLIC sCa00Is.

| Inc cniiuren OiLe1venWOrtn are unml6tdk
ably dissatisfied with the one session DAY
plan adopted by the School Board, to-day
tried for the first time.
The editor of The TINES made this state.
ment grsfuitOusly, without consulting proba
bly, single child. The children could no,
be consistently dissatisfied with anything un-
til they had tried it, and when the TINES N
ticle was written the experiment had not vel
been tried, even for a single day.-C0mmer.
cial.
The lines article was published Tuesday
morning. The schools opened the previous
day, and the editor of The TIxEs saw and
covered with dozen children and their
parents about the one session policy. The
Commercial is therefore itself mistaken, and
consequently its assertion amounts to moth
ing.
The article of The TINES is constructed in
such spirit of unfairness. no devoid of any
thing in the way Of argument against the one
session system, that it can have no possible
weight with that small and select portion of
the community who are habitual readers of
The TINEs.-COmmercial.
Ifthere was any incorrect statement or un-
fair argument made by The TINES, why
don't you act fairly, and point it out ? Is
not this evidence that The TINES was
right ?
We would gently remind the Commercial
that The TINES has a circulation through
the various postofices of this county and Of.
fees Immediately adjoining, TEN TINES
LARGER than the Commercial, and We are
very happy to assure the Commercial that the
readers of The Tunes are the most "select"
and intelligent class Of people in the county,
which fact is demonstrated in the sound
judgement manifested BY them in taking
The TINES in preference to any other paper
in the city.
The assertion that it was adopted without
consideration is untrue, and such a statement
is evidence either of gross ignorance or viii
full misrepresentation on the part of the
TINEs.-Commercial.
1t is matter o. opinion whether the one
session system was adopted without due con-
sideration. 1t il, We believe, true that the
system was put through BY one or two MEM
bers Of the board and that only two or three
editorials written BY members of the board
or At their suggestion have been printed.
We think We are right in saving that there
has been no general discussion of this ques-
ton by the paper, and certainly the question
has not been agitated among the people.
There can be no ''groe ignorance or vilful
interpretation" in this.
The TINES suggests that the schools for
small children, for whom it speaks exclu-
sively, open At nine, with recess every Eve
minutes. 1t needs nothing more to prove
how little there il of practical sense in any,
thing the TINES has to urge aeainat the one
session system, than this suggestion.-C6m.
MerciGL
HE TINES said no such thing. 1t did
say open schools at q. M, and have . |
recess of Eve minutes every half hour,
not recess to leave the school room, but q |
breathing spell, q few moments Of relaxation
from the strict rules to keep silent and pay
attention to your studies," and then have
recess of fifteen minutes during the morning
and afternoon session for children to exercise
in the public pl.y ground.
Will the Commercial now tell o. Who Il
guilty of "sros ignorance and wilfnl mis-
What this has 10 do with the one sessioo
system, except inasmuch - il involves the
abolition Of play ground, Ne fail to 80.
Nobody sends his children to the public
schools for any purpose but to learn, and that
d the only object to be suhsezved.-Csmmer-
mol.
We think the play ground Is - much =
part and i - essential to our common scAool
,ystem = the school room itselG Children
ne not only sent to school 70 learn their A.
B, c. but to be educated physically and
and the teacher Who hih in TIN
ais in al. Indeed, Ne are Of he opinion.
be Ob..ye;ai to the contrary Dosvithsaa.d-
n, that the teacher Who teaches ssyuk for
be salasy, Who doss not love % teaeA, Who
loo soe love IL scholan. Who i NJ inARI!.
~ i. II hold md inpsovsasne Al ~ ,
dho3an II aDs a1naA - ~ fuHh9 Ill