Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1875-01-15
OJTR PUBLIC SCHOOLS.

JUN L UDLlO pObOOLJs
INTERESTING DESCRIPTION OF OUR PUB
Lie sCuooLs-WHAT THEY ARE DOING
TO-DAY-THEIR Observation-Disclosures
ECONoMY-ADDITION TO OUR POPULA-
TIoN ON THEIR ACCOUNT,
&C. &c. &c.
Our public schools are steadily winning
their way to the confidence and approval
of all classes of our society. Although ut
tended with somewhat Of expense and la
Dor, their returns are altogether ample to
the people to the people, for what they
have as yet cost. Every dollar which is
expended reaches at once the people and
remains where it is expended. We have
already larger demands for accommoda-
ton for pupils than as yet been hitherto
estimated. We have now
GRADED SCHOOL, NO. l.
Academy Building, six grades, each fol-
lowing an exact and systematic course of
study. There are now in these schools six
teachers and three hundred scholars The
building, although it has until quite re-
Gently held about four hundred scholars,
presents the same unimpaired neatness as
when it was first opened. The discipline
is of a kind, firm, and parental character.
| Those who have made special visits to the
various rooms allow that in every respect
| it is model school. Thepupils are taught
to cultivate self respect, heightened cul-
| ture, kindness to associates, faithfulness
| to duty, moral manners out of school as
well as in. The teachers exercise equal
solicitude for the conduct of pupils out Of
| the study room and within. This school
and school property will bear the closest
| inspection. The teachers desire visitors
| to sit at their recitations, and judge for
| themselves. Inthis school good number
| Of pupils are from out Of the Corporation,
and pay tuition as follows:
| TUITION FEES FOR OUTSIDERS.
| High school $3.50 per month, middle
class OF High School, the same, Grammar
School, $500 per month, the first inter
mediate $3.50 per month; the second in
| termediate, 81 80 per month; the first pri-
mary 81 90 per month.
The monthly expenses to all the scholars,
enrolled, is 81 20.
Much credit is due to the Board of
Trustees for their commendabie interest
in these schools; also the Board of Coun-
cilmen for their open-heartedness to the
wants of the young and rising generation
now in their midst, through very trying
and pressing times There are hundreds
of youth coming forward who will
rise up to call them blessed who assisted
them to become wise and noble, competent
to take the places Of those who must soon
pass off the stage of action. 1t has been
said that ''He who plants tree is ma
TONS benefactor' How much more so
is he who helps to raise the poor, unaided,
untutored youth into an intelligent and
noble manhood.
GRADED SCHOOL NO. 2.
is now in working condition. 1t is estab-
lished in the building known as the Meth
odst Institute, ON Main st. This school
is also thoroughly graded, and is truly a
! gem in the crown of our school prosperity.
| AS you enter the front door, by turning to
| the left on the second floor you find the
| Head Mistress with nearly fifty little boys
| and girls just entering upon their scho u
| life; not one has seen more than six sum-
mers. They are mostly learning to read
| and count, and the tender restraints of
school life. Everything is tidy and neat;
little seats and desks; blackboards to make
their ''marks,'' little india-rubber states
upon which they are printing some words
they are soon to learn and call. They will
Using to you if you desire, and tell you how
much they are learning about good
4 morals and gentle manners; they will tell
you how important it is that little children
| SHOULD love one another and that s'kind
words can never die" They are comfort
| ably seated upon seats adapted to the form.
| and neat are their little desks, that to mar
OF scratch, OF abuse, would nearly break
| their hearts.
Now turn to your right on the same
floor and you are invited to the
| SECOND PRIMARY
a shade older, learning to read in the first
and second reader, learning to write on
the slate and spell. This is pleasant
sight, about forty little men and women
like busy bees, ever cleaning something
| good and useful. They are not intimida-
ted by your visit nor are they ashamed of
| their sitting room, for the floors are clean,
and the desks beautiful and easy. Now
| go on and you find happy group in high
| Ell seats, studying the third reader, begin
ming the geography, calculations in men-
| tai arithmetic, and some slate work in the
| same. These, now can read quite
| well, and are commencing to use
| pen, and are becoming quite clever in spell
| ing. These will sing to you, or say the
| multiplication table, Or add and subtract
| on the blackboard OIL in the mind.
AT half-past ten in the morning they all
run out and
BREATHE THE FRESH AIR
for ten minutes. run and frolic; when the
big bell rings they all form line in the
yard under the direction of a commander
appointed from among them by their
teacher, and in this way they enter the
building, and after hats and coats are dis
posed of they walk one by one to their
desks, and soon are at work again. Their
teacher speaks in quiet voice, and they
answer in the same manner with great
respect.
Now turn across the wide hall, and you
enter still larger class, all alike, save
gradual increase in the rate of study.
Here is the Fourth Reader, Elements of
Arithmetic, Intellectual Arithmetic, &C.
ography continued, Map Drawing, and
better Reading and Spelling, Writing, &c.
This is a
SECOND INTERMEDIATE,
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