Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1872-02-09
TEACHERS COLUMN
( C. PIERCE, EDITOR.
Educational Items.


her teachers of any State or Territorya lin
the LISBON; the average monthly sal6fS
OF male teachers being $118.75 in coin,
and Of female teachers $92.1e; Louisiana
pays male teachers $112, and female
teachers SIS per month; New York
averages to all- her teachers $63. SO
monthly salary; North Carolina pays
males $40 so, and females SIS so; Nebras-
ka pays males and females nearly the
same wages-$34S2 and 1885,. .sf:A
=. The Louisville Courier Journal says:
up with the school house and down
with KuKluk, is the word; and If it be
spoken in time, and with proper spirit
and emphasis, it will prove. word Of
enchantment."
Little Massachusetts one-scv.
enth as large as Iowa-has four Normal
Schools and is about to establish another,
at Worcester. This State, with her ster-
lie soil, cold climate and rock.bound
coast, supports population greater in
proportion to her size than any other
State. And this is how-"She lives by
her public free schools" educated brain
being the commodity with which she
completes with the other States.
A bill now before the Iowa Senate, in
troduced by DR.. Beardsley, provides for
Compulsory Attendance in this wise:-
"Any person having under his control q
child, between the ages of six and four
teen years, shall annually, during such
control, send such child to school at least
sixteen weeks, eight weeks Of which
time shall be consecutive; and for every
neglect Of such duty the party offending
shall forfeit to the use Of the school fund
sum not exceeding twenty dollars; but
if it shall appear upon inquiry of school
officers Of any district, or upon trial OF
any prosecution, that the party so neg.
Letting was not able by reason Of power
ty to send such child to school, or that
the child has been otherwise furnished
with the means of education for a like
period of time, or has already acquired
the ordinary branches of learning taught
in the public schools, or has been pre-
vented from attending school by bad
health or other satisfactory cause, the
penalty shall not be incurred" Such a
faltering halfstep, though in the RICH,
direction, would do little to check the
alarming increase of ignorance, pauper
ism and crime And in advance of any
law to enforce attendance, we need q lit
tie friendly legislation to render oul
common schools porthy Of patronage
We need normal facilities for the profes
sional training of our twelve Thousand
teachers, longer school years, fixed ant
more comprehensive course of studies
graded common schools, uniformity o
text books, district libraries and more Of
ficicnt local supervision. When these
wants have been met, if our schools still
fail to attract the school population o
the State, then give us stringent law t.
compel attendance. 4] a.s.
In striking contrast with this proposed
law is the law recently enacted by thu
Assembly of the Province of Rio de ia
metro, which makes it obligatory on pa
rents and guardians to send their chill
dren to school, either public or private
from the age Of seven to fourteen. Chill
dren whose parents are unable to cloth'
them decently are to be clad at the ex
pense of the government, and sent t.
school. st u.s..
The Boston School Committee has re
fused to prohibit coporeal punishment il
the schools of that city. The best teach
ers are said to testify that it is not Otter
necessary, and the right to infict it il
seldom abused. ...f
| tits a gratifying evidence of the i'm
portance which the educational problem
is assuming that large number of thu
better class of public journals, religious
and secular, are regularly devoting {
part of their space TO the interests o
education. Why should not every coun
ty paper in Iowa have its Educational, al
well as its Agricultural department?