The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-04-15

u WIG DOdIu a0 q uUHllndl rent, ana an
incorporating Of their schools into the
city system, under the same general
regulations which governed all the rest.
The Roman Catholic clergy Of the city,
being men Of an intelligent and liberal
stamp, the plan met with no opposition
except from so-callcd Protestant sources,
and that hinged quite extensively upon
sort Of class hue and cry relative to
the Bible in the public schools, resulting
however, only in a temporary newspaper
conflict, long since consigned to the
tomb Of the Capulets,'
"The results, seemingly by the ex-
perience thus far assured, are these -
Schools Nos II and 10 heretofore ex-
Iclusively Roman Catholics, are now in
tegral parts of the school system, are
under the control Of the Board, and in
the direct charge of its subcommittee;
their teachers are employed and paid by
The Board, new teachers being examined
and appointed like those in the other
hools; the. text books used are the
same; the pupils are advanced to the
grammar schools and the High School
in the same way; teachers--the sisters as
well as the others-havO been mem ber5
of the City Teachers Institute and Its
most regular and earnest attendants, as
well as among the most anxious 10 seize
upon improved methods of instruction;
the Roman Catholic pupils are among
the most ambitious to reach the High
School, as well as the most ord erly,
manageable and studious when there;
and all this without any, SO far, dis
coYerabo clash or complication.
GAS to any difficulties which might
have been counted upon they have been
easily obviated. So far as any fear on
The part of the Roman Catholics of the
perversion Of their children, it has dis
appeared under the desire to avail
themselves Of the common means Of
support, the securing Of higher educa-
tional advantages and the confidence
that those rightly taught by other agen-
cle5 in their religion will in few cases
worth retaining be subVerted in their
filth. Tho question Of religious in
struction in the schools has been easily
adjusted by the simple requirements
that all such instruction shall be given
outside Of the regular hours Of school
session and shall be wholly matter of
voluntary attention On the part of both
teachers and pupils. And as to the
preference OF pupils for connection with
schools Nos. II and 10, and the prefer.
ence of those schools for teachers Of the
Roman Catholic faith, both have been
J provided for without trouble, the for
mer by constituting the city che school
district, leaving ali pupils free to attend
the school of their choise so long as
there might be room for them in it, and
the latter by allowing those schools the
teachers of their own choice, so long as
the candidates sustain themselves equal
~ under examination and submit to the
same system Of appointment and abide
by tho common regulations, The same
privilege being as freely accorded to the
other schools which apply to the rest.
"From all this there has resulted a
better harmony between both classes in
the schools and nearer approach to a
unitication Of the school system. There
has also been curiously developed The
fact that the supposed popular demand
among so-cailed Professionals for the
Bible in the SCHOOLS, is rather fanc:ed
chan not, only the merest fraction Of the
pupils being willing to remain in school
for the religious exercises when made
voluntary matter and held outside of the
legal school session. In other words, it
appears TO have been made clear that
there is no necessary barrier between
Roman Catholics and Protestants in the
public school system, and that both,
when simply left to themselves have
more faith in the religious education of
their children in the home and the
church than in that of the public
school,"
Observation-Disclosures may never
come to us. We do not live in to-mor.
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