New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-08-09
SCHOOL AND COLLEGE.

EVILS OF TIE PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM.
THE EXPERIENCE OF CoHsCIESTioCs TEACHER.
10 the Edttor Of The Tribune.
SIR: At last, after many years OF ANXIOUS
vaifrg see righteous journal Opelng is columns to
a discussion Of the faults fthe Public School system
Your correspondent Xpcrienee" touches upon sud
i.ct about which many a n0bc-hearted teacher has
gricvcd. The public primary schools OF Philadelphia
.u,ffr from The same aou.es those OF New iorkan
oyercrowding OF pupils and inexperienced t"hiAcia'
Years a-o / toilci in some of she most oVcrcrowded
schools ana then vowed that never should child of
nine enter Il public school until the whole system was
changed 1t has not been reformed but only modified IN
lev unimportDt particu as and have KEPT my word
hayo many cliTcB hat none have entered the portals
OF q public school. THIS nation has hunE away lac
health aud moral. of it's little ones though tiic most
prcc.Ols Of gifts geF~ OF account How icW
parents ever entc- ID sch0ol-hoase door! How
few realize what are the forced surroundings Of
their Children, particularly IN primary school! Not
one teacher in hundred can maintain her LealHi Al
them. How, then cn tender little children! They ere
cnphatcaly Tie great ychcles FOR ell contagious DIS
eases. TDey inOcIat, with slow Ioson The blood o
otherwise healthy children, by their having 10 sit IA
crowded oouiac, vi Il un:oriuna;e Eitc beings Tho>c
bodies reservoir 9: Inherited dis a; and who ~ a"
conscience should be admitted to no school bat
boz ptal.
Then the moral at,nos phcrc! shuld"r when think
Of it, Has IL ever come hGnc 10 vi the WorspeTs of
the ranc school System that they cannot hinder nlo-
cent babes from ing ~ -iGe the child Of prostitute
Have tcy eyer thought that lie children OF ickp0chctS
a.d thieves cannot be ard not excluded from TIE
pubic 50 n0ol. 10 they know thai more than bare
mai irity II thc IN ~ some n"cib"ftD0d' arr rom
tn. loves. order 70; Humanity. sic - 'ESY N"ul s'd-
der t. come ~ cotc gitI ANA yet hcir babes i'in' II
side bv size with thClI tlc sC!OOlOoin-ta ny wan
th'm!
AIany times while teaching made known the troubles
oi cor ci. ii1, t,araars a. re late Dr. J+s,s Eus!I vi
pul,rIpiia. H. a. stern patriot W1s ferny me. e.
c,ted in I'll things bcaring tnc welfare ~ the HdD-
lie He "a Id many ar .slips cone IIiln@ The WORKING
W tc cnUul -ys'rl f. rad IFS origin ~ Prnn'YlyhliH
and TINT lar. added III, interest IL i, lie confirmed
my irebr. g and saw Eit." bet disaster III IT. IL dl
"na. he vii he could not be.i to tsihh HiEI !oWciSa
the ii Ia'ri ne middle Ci,.e. while hcpIl- 10 maze
kIav. the ,!"iOus IdS VIII Appear nlrl - many
Int Lie tl,y ha.c been sior rg TIC ENs moral dhd III
tciccDt c.tz5 e. Pcmnsj wanna NAV" lCn% been oNa@'
All this AID hit. provided a AOsi ainirdDe school
system of their Oyl. inf+n the Friends They stIil,
Slt.oUt nunnur. pay pgyhc school taxes bat theif
OAn children provided Tor elsewhere. IG& tv T. ID
lie cons ichre ncht sometimes awake - tirNe GYMS LdS
been NY earnest nope bn whcn my sOs,!!c'i prJudNe'
have laughed 80 b. thc uoDsc All aud ic III
my llint, have said, tt,. u = dead Bat now lc
cJrh tYlc Icri II 81, Kind vur. for reform, no nc
cause i uu>t FOR - pay taxes ior the prn III
o. another ham children, but because the innocent ana
hr.plts~ n9H .ui.,r. d.
IHia0cr Aid, July 20, 1870.