The daily gazette., 1874-10-13
FIRST EDITION!
OUR school. BOARD.
SHALL SCHOLARS be WHIPPED
The Board Says Yes"
BO1RD OF EDUC1TION.

The Board of Education met at the
usual hour last evening, President Short
ledge inithe chair. l.tI -.r
The Committee on Books rccommen-
del that Nichols Chemistry and
"Shaw's History Of English and Ameri-
can Literature be placed on the list
Of books. Adopted. ~A
The Printing Committee reported
that the printed copies of the rules
and the names of the teachers would
soon be ready. 20
The resolution offered by Mr.. Baird
at the last meeting, abolishing corporal
punishment in the public schools, came
up for consideration.
Mr.. Moor thoughtful the whipping
was abolished Some substitute should
be established.
MIR. Zebley thought the adjustment
of whipping would have Il terrible eff
feet on the scholars. II suspension is
substituted IL will be just what many
scholars desire.
1t was proposed to ask the Superin-
PENDENT to give his views on the sub
ject; and a motion to this effect was
adopted.
Superintendent Harlan said it was
unpleasant for teachers to infiict cor
poral punishment, and too great an in
Fiction always caused much trouble
But it would be unwisc for the Board
to pass the resolution, as il would take
the power of enforcing the rules out of
the hands of the teachers and eneour-
age INSTRUMENTATION. 1t would lead to
n great amount of suspension. He was
not in favor nf nroniocnnno HAupipr
but favored the teachers having the
power to whip children when they
deemed it necessary.
Mr.. johnson said that whipping I'M
der the laws of the State, was assault
and battery, and it was wrong to legal
izc our teachers to violate the laws
He thought the parents alone should
whip the children.
Mr.. Roberts favored judicious APP
plication of the rod. A. promiscuous
suspension would result in much
harm.
Mr., Baird thought if the Visiting
Committees would but do their duty,
there would be no trouble in keeping
order in the schools. If child is sus-
dended, and the Committee sends it
back, the suspension has no effect. He
said it was reported that tho teacher
complained Of at last meeting had un.
mercifully whipped another boy.
Messrs. Lynch and Moore-'Its not
so! It's not sol"
Mr.. III. Nj. Jenkins made few re-
marks, justifylng the conduct of the
teacher alluded to in the case complain
ed of. He did not favor substituting ex-
pulsion for corporal punishment, as it
would only add numbers of recruits to
the already large army of street boys,
who are now growing up in idleness ig-
norance and vice. One teacher alone
had told him that she would have to
dismiss thirty or forty scholars il the
resolution passed.
Mr., Speakman was opposed in toto
to corporal punishment in our public
| schools. lie related his experience rs
teacher Of a school in Pennsylvania,
composed of most turbulent characters
which he governed easily, without once
using the rod.
Col. Grimshaw thought that in schools
where there the most disorder cx-
listed. He was opposed to corporal
punishment in the schools.
Mr. Bird thought no child could be
benefited by being dashed. Kindness
and persuasion, he considered more po-
tent than corporal punishment, He
thought it better to abolish the whip
ping ut once than to have one child
unmercifully whipped land that he was
of the opinion that the schools could be
more evenly regulated and governed
by kindness and persuasion, than by
whipping.
Mr.. Pierce said that from the tenor q
/ some of the remarks made, it might be
thought our teachers were inhuman,
| and undeserving of their position. lie
thought our teachers were kind and
faithful, 10th to whip, but capable of
whipping judiciously when punishment
was necessary. lie was of the opinion
that the passage of the resolution would
seriously affect our schools.
| w. Vernon said he heard there were
some boys in one of the schools whom
the teacher was afraid to whip, and
| wanted toknow how she get along with
them.
to (Mrs. Slocomb, of No. 10, had been
threatened by bad boy who refused
to obey, her, and declared he would
| cut her gus out. Inc DoyS III tnls
school were exceedingly bad, and on
account of the foolish fuss made over
the last boy she whipped, they had
grown bold and defiant.
Mr.. Rigging in few earnest remarks
| referred to the great difficulties con
| tanned in this whole problem of whip
ping, but favored the teachers having
the power to punish when they deemed
necessary Tor the purpose ofprcserving
discipline.
| After some further discussion, the
resolutian was lost, by the following
vote:
l. Ayes Messrs. Baird, Bird, Ferris,
| Grimshaw, Heisler, johnson, Mclntire,
Spcakman, Vernon, Wolley-10.
Nays-Mcssrs. Curry, Frock, Hasson
Higgins, /. j. jenkins, II. NJ. jenkins,
| Lynch, j. &. Morrow, w. j. Morrow,
Moore, Palmer, Pierce, Roberts, Zeb-
ley, Shortledge-15.
The PrintingC ommitteere reported that
300 copies of the Superintendent Re
port could be printed and bound for
$S7. A motion to have $50 copies
| printed was adopted.